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# FieldCraft
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An open-source, clean-room CAE application in pure Rust: from a parametric SolidCraft part to a
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verified finite element analysis, with tetrahedral and hexahedral meshing, its own implicit,
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explicit, thermal and lattice Boltzmann solvers, and decks for Abaqus, Nastran and LS-DYNA. The
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desktop app, the command line and AI agents (over MCP) drive the same commands.
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**Status:** early but working end to end — open a part, mesh it, define the analysis, solve,
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see the results. Hex meshing is the centre of gravity; the next large step is the nonlinear
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implicit solver that contact, elastomers and composites need. See [ROADMAP.md](ROADMAP.md).
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An AI agent drives FieldCraft over [MCP](docs/mcp.md), each stage captioned with the tool it
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calls: it opens an I-beam, hex meshes it, defines the material, the clamp and a 1000 N tip load,
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solves, and shows the von Mises stress and the deformed shape (tip deflection 0.176 mm; beam
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theory with shear 0.177 mm).
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[MP4](docs/media/ibeam-analysis.mp4) · regenerated by [tools/demo-video](tools/demo-video/README.md).
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## What it does today
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- **Geometry in:** SolidCraft designs (`.solidcraft`) with persistent face, edge and body names,
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and face-tagged 3MF meshes; surface checks (weld, manifold, orientation, self-intersection).
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- **Meshing:** constrained Delaunay tetrahedra (tet4, tet10) with exact predicates and a
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certified validity gate; structured hex by sweeping, revolving and mapping (hex8, hex20; 16 of
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the 21 corpus parts mesh all-hex); 2D quad and tri meshes; quality metrics per element and set.
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- **Elements:** solids (tet4, tet10, wedge6, hex8 with incompatible modes, hex20 full and
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reduced, hybrid u–p for near-incompressible materials), plane stress, plane strain and
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axisymmetric, trusses, Timoshenko beams, MITC3/MITC4 shells, springs, dashpots and point masses.
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- **Model:** sets bound to geometry names, so they survive remeshing; isotropic and orthotropic
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elasticity, J2 plasticity, Johnson–Cook damage, thermal properties; fixed, displacement,
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symmetry and temperature conditions; forces, moments, pressure, gravity, centrifugal and heat
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loads; reference points with kinematic and distributing couplings; undo, redo and a
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text-diffable `.fieldcraft` file.
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- **Solvers:** linear static and frequency (supernodal Cholesky, block Lanczos); steady and
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transient heat transfer and coupled thermal stress; explicit dynamics with plasticity, damage,
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erosion and rigid walls; D3Q19 lattice Boltzmann flow with forces on the part's faces. Results
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never depend on the thread count.
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- **Decks:** Abaqus, Nastran and LS-DYNA writers, each refusing by name what it cannot express.
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- **Results:** contours of stress, strain and displacement with a legend, deformed shapes, mode
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shapes, explicit frames, probes and reaction sums; the analysis setup drawn in the viewport.
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- **Verification:** every capability is checked against closed forms and published benchmarks
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(NAFEMS, MacNeal–Harder, Scordelis–Lo) in [`tests/oracle`](tests/oracle), with results frozen
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so they cannot drift: [docs/oracle.md](docs/oracle.md).
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- **Driving it:** a desktop app in the Craft family's layout, a CLI, a JSON control channel and an
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MCP server; every capability is a command ([docs/features.md](docs/features.md)).
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## Build
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```sh
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cargo xtask ci # fmt, assets, licences, layers, clippy, tests, wasm
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cargo xtask test --heavy # the heavy (ignored) tests and the doc tests
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cargo run -p fieldcraft-cli -- commands # every command and its parameters
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cargo run -p fieldcraft-cli -- run script.json # run a command script
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cargo run -p fieldcraft-cli -- mcp # MCP server on stdio for AI agents (docs/mcp.md)
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```
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Rust 1.95 or later, with the `wasm32-unknown-unknown` target for `cargo xtask ci`.
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## Documentation
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- [Architecture](docs/architecture.md): crates, layers and the meshing pipeline
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- [Element library](docs/elements.md) and [verification and validation](docs/verification.md)
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- [Capability checklist](docs/parity.md) and [roadmap](ROADMAP.md)
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- [Libraries and licences](docs/adr/0001-libraries.md)
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- [AI agents (MCP)](docs/mcp.md): `claude mcp add fieldcraft -- /path/to/fieldcraft-cli mcp`
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- [Control protocol](docs/control-protocol.md): driving the desktop app
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- [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md) and [agent instructions](AGENTS.md)
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## License
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Dual-licensed under [MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or [Apache-2.0](LICENSE-APACHE), at your option. Notices
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are in [NOTICE](NOTICE); third-party licences in [THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt](THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt).
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FieldCraft is an independent project, not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Dassault
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Systèmes, MSC Software, Siemens or Ansys. Abaqus, Nastran, MSC Nastran, Simcenter Nastran and
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LS-DYNA are trademarks of their owners and are named only to describe file compatibility.
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