Route saved temperature through slices, obstacle surfaces, streamlines and both result views, with availability and model units shared by commands and the UI. Show signed obstacle heat histories per complete face area at the selected frame, leaving unrecorded times uncoloured and retaining the saved slice settings.
Part of #157.
The grabbed nodes (listed, on B-rep faces, or a sphere's) move; the nodes
within the radius follow by a falloff or harmonically; nodes stay on the
geometry as Relax Nodes moves them; the move is scaled back until no element
inverts. The reply gives the region's scaled Jacobian before and after and the
elements that got worse and better. One undo step. Toolbar entry Move Nodes
(Mesh, Improve) with its own icon.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
A fluid domain takes `thermal` settings (the initial temperature, a
thermal condition per box face and per obstacle face, gravity with the
expansion coefficient for buoyancy) in model.fluid_domain.create and
.edit, and model.fluid_domain.thermal_boundary sets one boundary's
condition as model.fluid_domain.boundary does for the flow. A material
a domain with heat uses keeps needing its conductivity and specific
heat when it is replaced.
solve.fluid's summary adds the thermal relaxation time, the fluid's
temperature range and the heat into every wall (final and the mean
over the last quarter of the history); solve.probe gives the
temperature in the cells at points and, with `heat`, the walls' heat
histories. The form, the catalogue and docs/features.md follow.
Part of #157.
After solve.fluid the results view had nothing to draw: a fluid step's
fields are per cell, the view only knew nodal fields, and the deformed
display it built dropped the geometry surfaces, so even the part
vanished.
A fluid step now has its own display (`engine::flow`, on render's
flow display data), shared by the headless pictures and the window:
the part drawn as it is, its faces coloured by the field in the fluid
beside them, the field on a slice through the domain and streamlines
seeded on the inlet face upstream of the obstacles, coloured by speed
when the legend shows velocity. It is first shown with velocity
magnitude on a slice through the middle, normal to the horizontal axis
across the flow.
New commands: results.slice {step, field: velocity|pressure, axis:
x|y|z|none, position, frame}, results.surface {step, show} and
results.streamlines {step, show, count, max_steps, seeds | line,
frame}, which replies with what it traced. results.contour takes
velocity and pressure for fluid steps (a new `pressure` field) with
the usual bands and legend clamp, and results.frame walks a fluid
step's frames. Streamlines leave the coming-soon list. Hostile
parameters are refused, and the counts are capped.
Part of #193.
Holes by diameter, fillets by radius, chamfers by distance and bosses by height below
thresholds, or under a geometry.check finding; the reply panel switches each feature
off and on (geometry.defeature) and defeatures the whole proposal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
Suppresses the SolidCraft features named (holes filled, fillets and chamfers back to
their sharp edges, bosses removed) and rebuilds the design; a feature that cannot be
suppressed alone is merged into its neighbour for meshing only. Kept in the model,
replayed on open, undoable; geometry.defeature.delete turns them back on.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
mesh.size.set adds a size control on faces, bodies, a box or a sphere;
mesh.size.growth sets the growth rate; mesh.size.clear and
mesh.size.list. The tet mesher bakes the controls into its graded field,
the hex meshers, cells and the octree take the graded RegionSize, and
the block projection and mesh plans divide their edges by it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
geometry.face.split {name, face, datum} records a face split; it is
applied after the merges whenever the design is opened or cut again,
follows its datum (which it holds), undoes, and is saved with the
model. geometry.face.split.delete removes it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
For a body with features the sweep cannot mesh, mesh.plan replies a
decomposition: the cuts that box those features into one cell, the region,
and the commands that make the cuts and mesh the cells with pyramids. A plate
with a joined dome: 5 cuts, 17 hex cells swept together, the dome cell tet,
valid and conforming, end displacement in tension within 0.4% of all-tet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
geometry.stitch {name, surface, tolerance} records a stitch; the
surfaces keep what was read (TaggedSurface::original) and are stitched
again from it whenever a surface is imported, the model opened, or a
stitch added or deleted (geometry.stitch.delete). Opening a model also
warns about merges that no longer apply.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
A face merge may keep one of its faces' names (Merge::into, model
FaceMerge::into): absorbing a tiny face leaves the neighbour by its own
name, so sets on it still select it. Shape::absorbing_neighbour finds
the face a tiny one shares the longest edges with. geometry.face.absorb
absorbs one face (into a named or the best neighbour) or, from_check,
every small and sliver face the last geometry.check marked; check marks
now carry the small face they found.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
geometry.faces.merge {name, faces} records a face merge in the model;
it is applied after the partitions whenever the design is opened or cut
again, undoes through the journal and is saved with the model. Meshers,
mesh.plan (features and rings see merge:<name>; a merged face is
prismatic when its B-rep faces are), checks and the viewport see one
face, drawn in the warm colour. geometry.faces.merge.delete removes it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
A nodal field at a node per frame (nonlinear static displacements from
load factor 0, explicit frames, heat temperatures) or per mode, the
explicit energies and histories, history nodes, and the frequencies or
buckling load factors; capped at 100000 points with `every`; stale
results refused; `path` writes a two-column CSV. XY Plot is ready.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
Static, frequency (per mode), nonlinear and explicit (per frame, with a
.pvd collection) and heat results; fluid steps are refused. Wedges keep
the model's node order: VTK 9's wedge has the same orientation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
The section comes from a set (a 2D mesh or element faces), the mesh already
on the source faces (tagged, or a neighbouring body's boundary lying on
them, whose nodes are shared so the meshes conform), or a fresh quad mesh
of one planar face. Target and side faces project through the tet mesher's
B-rep projection. Replaces the body's mesh like the other meshers, tags the
body's own source, target and side faces, and is on the MCP mesh tool as
hex_extrude.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
Deleting, suppressing or editing a partition (or its datum), or cutting a
meshed body, removes the meshes of the bodies that are gone, reported as
replaced, in the same undo step. model.check lists meshes of partition
cells the open design no longer has (a model saved before the cut
changed), and mesh.clear removes them, or the meshes of named bodies.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
results.export.csv runs solve.probe or results.reactions and writes their reply as an RFC 4180
CSV: a row per node (node, x, y, z and the quantities the step has, columns it does not have
left out) or per set with the total and the applied load; numbers in shortest round-trip form,
so they read back bit for bit. A stale result is refused. The results panel has Export CSV…
beside Reaction sums and under the probed node: the save picker, or the form without one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
diagnostics.crash_reports.delete deletes one report or all. The window lists each report
(when, what, how many times) with Report…, Copy Path and Delete, and Delete All; ui.prompt
answers it over the control channel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
file.new replaces the session with an empty one: no design, mesh, definitions, results or
journal, nothing to save, the undo history empty. The File menu and Cmd/Ctrl+N run it, asking
first over unsaved changes. A sample name the app does not know (a typo, an old ?sample= link)
opens the samples to choose from, and the status names it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
- geometry.bodies lists each body's vertices; geometry.datum.point by
vertex takes the design's vertex names (labelled Vertex, not Mesh
vertex) (#346).
- geometry.centre: the point for what is picked: a vertex, nodes, a
hole's centre (cylindrical faces or circular edges), else a centroid
(#351).
- mesh.cells' form: the cells first, and a method drop-down per cell
(schema kind RefChoices) instead of JSON (#344).
- interaction.rigid_wall(.delete): rigid walls of an explicit step from
the Interactions tab, no longer coming soon (#350).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
examples.md and mcp.md tell the one-datum workflow and its numbers; the
crank gallery captures and Start card thumbnails are taken again on this
build; ROADMAP marks the automatic blocks of extruded cross-sections done,
and features.md's Decompose entry says what is left (3D parts).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
The same check as the app's Help › Check for Updates and fieldcraft-cli update --check: the
latest release, whether it is newer, its page, whether it is signed and the asset this install
would download. It only reports. Checking reaches the network, so only the desktop app and the
CLI switch it on; tests, scratch sessions and the browser build refuse without asking.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
crash: a panic hook and a locked per-run command journal (adapted from
SolidCraft's crash reports). A panic in a command becomes a report with
the model from before it and the command; one outside commands, or an
unclean exit found at the next start (abort, segfault, a crash in a
graphics driver, a kill: what #248 needs), a report with the model the
journal starts from (autosave, file or a copy) and the commands since,
the last control request and the dead run's log lines. Reports are
bounded, deduplicated by signature and replayable (crash::replay, with
writes confined to a scratch folder). The crash folder follows the
automation temp area in --control and CI runs.
logfile: a small size-rotated file logger behind the log facade.
bug_report: GitHub bug-form drafts. Version, OS and what happened by
default, home folder shown as ~; the command journal only with Share my
session, the model only with Include the model as well; a session too
long for the link becomes a file to attach and the clipboard text.
Commands: diagnostics.crash_reports, diagnostics.crash_report,
diagnostics.bug_report (Tools › Help, with its icon) and
diagnostics.crash_test (FIELDCRAFT_CRASH_TEST=1 only).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
view.hide, view.show, view.isolate and view.show_all change which
bodies, surfaces, datums, boundary conditions, loads, reference points
and couplings the viewport draws. The hidden items are view state: the
manifest's `view` keeps them, a change marks the model unsaved, but it
is neither journalled nor undone and leaves results current. Items that
go away are forgotten. Headless pictures leave hidden items out; the
glyph builders take a filter. Tools > View > Show All claims the
commands.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
A datum point by coordinates, at a mesh vertex, a fraction along a
design edge, at a face's centre, or where a datum axis crosses a datum
plane. Datum planes take three datum points or a normal to a datum axis;
axes take two datum points. geometry.datum.edit, .axis.edit and
.point.edit redefine a datum of their kind (partitions cut again);
geometry.datum.delete with cascade also deletes the partitions that cut
by it. The ribbon shows Datum Plane, Datum Axis, Datum Point and
Partition, each with its own icon; edit and delete leave the ribbon
(still commands, claimed by their entries).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
Seed design edges by their persistent names with a count or a size, a bias
and a constraint; one undo step each, saved with the model. Seeds on edges a
reopened design lacks are reported as stale.
Part of #230.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
A symmetry condition (zero normal displacement, zero rotation about the
in-plane axes) on a datum plane normal to X, Y or Z, with its set given or made
of the open design's faces on the plane (a partition's cut faces), so half a
symmetric part is solved as a half. Half a 40 mm bar cut at its mid-width, with
the condition and half the load, bends as the whole bar to 2e-12 with half the
reaction. Inclined planes are refused as not supported yet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
The bodies' elements are reflected across a datum plane (or a point and
normal) with fieldcraft_mesh::mirror and joined on it. The image is tagged as
the design's body at the reflected place (found by volume and centroid, or
named in `as`), its faces with that body's faces under them, so sets by face
name reach both halves. Half a bar meshed hex8 or hex20 and mirrored has the
whole bar's node and element counts and volume, and its bending deflection to
1e-12; tet4 and tet10 mirror valid and conforming.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
Each cell (a body of the open design) gets its own method: structured hex where
one fits (auto falls back to tet and says why), or tet. All go into one mesh.
Cells on either side of a partition are joined: where their element faces
match node for node the nodes are merged; otherwise (hex next to tet, or
different divisions) the two partition faces get a set each and a dual mortar
tie, the reported hex-tet transition. A 40 mm bar cut in half, one half hex,
the other tet, stretches F L / (E A) to 1e-6.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
Datum planes by principal plane and offset, three points, or point and
normal; datum axes by principal axis, two points, or point and direction.
geometry.partition cuts the open design by a datum plane and keeps the
partition in the model, so geometry.open, file.open and undo cut the design
again. Requirements, forms and the Prepare entries are wired; features.md
lists them as ready.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
solve.nonlinear counts the slipping nodes, solve.probe gives a secondary node's shear traction
and slip, and the results display draws contact_shear and contact_slip, contact_status coding
stick and slip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
solve.nonlinear summarises each contact (normal force, largest pressure, closed nodes, deepest
penetration, augmentations), solve.probe gives a secondary node's pressure, gap and status per
contact, and the results display draws contact_pressure, contact_gap and contact_status. The
contact commands, the catalogue and the model docs say what nonlinear static steps do with a
pair.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
Procedure::Buckle {modes, shift}: the step's loads as a linear preload, K_σ from its stresses,
and (K + λ K_σ) φ = 0 by block Lanczos in the K inner product: K⁻¹(−K_σ) on Cholesky without a
shift, the buckling transformation (K + σ K_σ)⁻¹ K on LDLᵀ with one, whose inertia counts the
load factors below σ (Grimes–Lewis–Simon 1994). Lanczos gains an operand and an eigenvalue map
(defaults keep frequency steps bit for bit) and reports converged negative eigenvalues. Results
are frequency results with a `buckling` part; modes display with their load factor.
solve.buckle (in the Static drop-down); Abaqus *BUCKLE, Nastran SOL 105 and LS-DYNA refuse it by
name. Euler columns of hex20 within 0.18 % of Engesser's load.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
Contact definitions on face sets: a pair (each surface's nodes against the
other's faces), general contact on a surface (self contact) or on every
exterior face of the solids; Coulomb friction with static and kinetic
coefficients and an exponential decay, a penalty scale and the choice to
adjust or refuse initially penetrating nodes, validated with caps. Rigid
walls of explicit steps gain friction. The check wants solid faces on
contact surfaces; sets used by a contact cannot be deleted.
fem::contact: the closest point of a triangle (Ericson) or a bilinear
quadrilateral (projected Newton) to a point, and a bucket grid of face
boxes for the global search, deterministic and bounded.
Commands interaction.contact.pair, .general, .edit, .delete and .find
(the touching parts of the mesh, with face sets and pairs made of them);
contacts in the model browser. Abaqus writes *SURFACE INTERACTION with
*FRICTION (exponential decay), *CONTACT PAIR and general *CONTACT; LS-DYNA
*CONTACT_AUTOMATIC_SURFACE_TO_SURFACE and _SINGLE_SURFACE with FS, FD, DC;
Nastran refuses contact by name. The implicit solver refuses contact by
name (M7); the explicit solver refuses it until the next commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
The end-to-end demo met a raw-CDT sliver that the validity gate accepted (exactly positive) and
the solver refused. Now:
- One validity criterion, `fieldcraft_model::admissible_jacobian` (normalized Jacobian above
1e-12), used by the implicit solver (fem `positive_inverse`), the explicit tet4/hex8
kinematics and the mesh gate, which proves it on the whole element (tet4: the solvers' own
Jacobian; curved kinds: a Bernstein floor), so whatever passes the gate passes the solvers.
- CDT rounding repaired by flips on the rounded mesh (Diazzi et al. 2023 §5.1) instead of the
±2-ulp nudge.
- `fieldcraft-mesh::tet`: a mutable tetrahedral complex whose every change is a checked
replacement (positive and admissible tetrahedra, faces matched with opposite orientation) with
an exact undo log; edge removal (Klincsek), multi-face removal, Delaunay insertion with
boundary faces, edge collapse; a curvature- and thickness-graded size field; constrained
Delaunay refinement with encroachment splits; ODT smoothing; the Klingner–Shewchuk schedule;
boundary vertices moved onto the exact B-rep surfaces at the end; tet10 with mid-edge nodes on
the geometry.
- `mesh.tet.generate` gains size, order, quality, quality_target, curvature_angle, grading,
max_passes, max_points and reports the CDT's and the mesh's quality; `solve.probe` takes a set
and reports its largest von Mises stress.
- Oracle cases filleted-bracket-fillet-stress(-coarse): the fillet's peak von Mises stress on
tet10 meshes of 2k and 13.5k elements, 213.3 MPa (a four-level study stays within 1.8%); the
CDT cases keep the raw tetrahedralization.
- Corpus quality columns: all 20 valid parts mesh and pass the gate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
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