Faces and bodies under a size control are tinted, a box drawn as its
edges and a sphere as a translucent ball, each labelled with its name
and size. The Local Size form takes the selected faces.
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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.
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Use selection puts the selected design faces in the form as faces, in
place of a sphere; Shift/Ctrl-click picks faces while the form is open,
and every click does once the form lists faces.
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engine::view::build (Style, Show, Palette) is the viewport's builder,
moved from ui-egui; ui-egui maps theme::Tokens onto a Palette and calls
it. Palette::LIGHT now equals the light theme's tokens. Test: the app's
scene and engine::view::frame's are identical for the same session.
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The app keeps a capturer on its own device; ui.render draws with the
viewport's pipelines there, on the CPU with the reason otherwise, and
the reply names the renderer.
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XY Plot opens a section in the results panel: a quantity picker, the
series from results.xy plotted against the step's own axis with the
frame or mode shown marked (a click shows the nearest), nodal fields
read at the probed node, and Export CSV through results.xy. The energy
plot and the XY plot share one line-plot function.
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geometry.check keeps its findings on the session (not an edit: not journalled,
saved or undone) while the checked design stays open; the picture and the app's
viewport draw the faces of small, sliver and near faces in the marker colour,
short edges as thick lines and a dot at each finding over everything. `mark:
false` or a clean check clears them.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
The context panel reads mesh.quality's reply as the counts (an area only for a surface mesh),
each metric's min, mean and max over its histogram (the bad end warm), and its worst element: a
click selects and frames it. Invalid and undetermined elements have a button that selects
and frames them.
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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.
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One formatter (four significant digits, thousands separators, round-off as
0) and the model's units through every results readout:
- legend title with its unit, a mode shape normalised; Max/Min with units,
clickable to show and probe the node; markers at both in the viewport
(#321, #330)
- the deformation scale field shows the scale Deformed would use, never 0,
in the shared format; true scale named (#325, #326)
- setup symbols off over results by default (Show › Loads & BCs), and then
only the shown step's (#327)
- reaction sums in the results panel however they are run: per set and in
all, force and moment with units, applied beside reacted (#328)
- the probe: U [mm], |U|, Mises, stresses and principals with units, the
label kept inside the viewport, rows in the results panel (#329)
- hiding the mesh over a plot hides the element edges, not the contours
(#317); a hidden body's contours go with it, the range follows what is
shown (#365)
- the solve summary: peaks with units, n/a rows left out, counts grouped,
internals under Details (#321, #319)
- the energies plot: axes with units, a cursor at the frame (click or drag
to move it), hover to read (#331)
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- Select: Vertices picks the design's B-rep vertices (meshed or not), and
a selected vertex is marked (#346).
- Use selection on Datum Point (vertex, edge, face, or a hole's centre)
and Reference Point (geometry.centre: a hole's centre, a vertex, nodes)
(#346, #351).
- Partitioned Mesh: Use selection takes the picked bodies as cells; the
cell list has All, None and Invert; hovering a cell's row (or its method
row) highlights the cell in the viewport (#344).
- Rigid Wall's form takes its set from the selection; the Interactions
branch lists the explicit steps' rigid walls, each opening its step
(#350).
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- A solve or a mesher runs as a job with one progress mechanism: the overlay
shows the step, stage, count and elapsed time with a bar when bounded, OK
waits while it runs, and the status sums it up (elements, smallest angle,
time) (#322, #357).
- Over the control channel such a command is a job too: answered when it
ends however long it runs, or at once with wait: false, then job.status,
job.wait, job.cancel; ui.inspect gives job; MCP waits for it (#367).
- A command that cannot run yet lists what it misses in the context panel,
each with a button to the command that provides it (#323).
- A cancelled or refused solve stays in its workspace (#324, test).
- A mesher form starts from the parameters of the mesh it would replace (#343).
- Seed Edges and edge/vertex/face datum points switch the selection filter
while open and restore it (#341).
- Datum forms draw the datum live, the Partition form shows its datum, and
new datums and partitions get the next free name (#347).
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- describe.rs: a definition's fields in its form's labels and units (sets by
members and what they resolve to), for the context panel.
- reply::done: status lines that say what changed ("Showing Load deformed",
"Mode 2: 1637 Hz", "Added material Al").
- The context panel puts the form and the selection above reports; opening
another document clears both; what a form makes is selected.
- Use selection reuses a set with the same members, otherwise names one made
on OK; Cancel leaves the model unchanged. The Target's set row is labelled.
- The browser's state marks sit in one column at its left edge; a right click
selects the row its menu acts on.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
Every half hour the page fetches its own address past the browser's cache; when it loads
another content-hashed build of the app than the running one, the status bar offers "Reload
to update" (the page's unsaved-changes question still guards the reload). Rust only, no
service worker: the browser build has no other update path and none of the desktop's
download code.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
The window checks at start-up at most once a day when automatic checks are on (Settings and
the first run's question), never while that question is open and never without a host, so the
browser and tests make no network call. A newer release shows a quiet notice in the status bar
("FieldCraft X is available — What's new · Install · Skip"); Install downloads and verifies
through the host, then asks to restart, saving or asking about unsaved changes first, and the
host swaps the release in after the window closes. A .deb/.rpm install offers the system's
installer and the command instead. Skip this version is kept in the preferences.
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The first run asks whether to share anonymous usage (only when the host
says this run may), the answer and a random install id are kept in the
preferences, and Help › Settings… changes it. Commands are counted by
where they came from (ui, palette, script; mcp when the MCP server says
so), and cancelled forms and clicks on commands that cannot run yet are
recorded. The preferences go through a PrefsStore (a file, or the
browser's storage). Control channel: ui.settings, ui.prompt answers.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
A datum plane is drawn as the model's extent within it (where it cuts the
model's box, in the plane's axes) plus a 5 % margin, a datum axis along the
model's extent plus the margin, instead of squares 1.2 diagonals wide.
Fit, Home, the standard views and headless pictures frame the model
without the datums (they stay inside the clipping radius). The datum
selected in the browser is drawn highlighted and on top, even when hidden.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
The desktop app installs the crash reporter and a log file at start
(both in a temporary folder in --control and CI runs, #266), journals
the window's commands (background jobs included) and every control
request's method, and ends the journal on a clean exit. A start after a
crash asks: "FieldCraft closed unexpectedly", Report It… or Not Now.
Help › Report a Bug (also Tools › Help and ui.start
diagnostics.bug_report) shows exactly what the GitHub bug form will be
filled with: the version, the OS, the last error, and for a crash where
it happened. Share my session adds the replayable commands, Include the
model file the model. Open GitHub Issue opens the form in the browser
through the system's opener; files to attach are saved to
bug-reports/<time>/ and a long session goes on the clipboard. Nothing is
sent without that click and the user's submit on GitHub.
The control channel answers the new prompts (crashed: report, close;
report_bug: set, close) and ui.inspect shows the draft; it never opens
the browser.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
The Start card and File › Samples show a grid of sample cards (thumbnail, name,
one-line description, the full text on hover) in a scroll area with a solid
scrollbar; Help › Samples keeps rows in the same order. The card stays clear of
the view cube and the navigation bar.
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Right-click on any browser item (body, surface, datum, partition, set,
material, section, step, boundary condition, load, reference point,
coupling, contact, fluid domain) opens its menu: Edit…, Hide/Show,
Isolate, Show All, Active in step (boundary conditions and loads) and
Delete…. A right click on a datum or a partition's cut face in the
viewport opens the same menu. Each item the viewport draws on its own
has an eye; hidden items are neither drawn nor picked. Datums and
partitions are selectable with properties. Delete… and the Delete key
ask first (the prompt lists what uses the item: a datum's partitions
are deleted with it, other definitions in use are refused); ui.prompt
answers it. Every entry runs the same command as the ribbon and forms.
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Boundary condition, load and interaction symbols are wireframes (thin lines,
no shaded cones), so they never hide the mesh or a contour plot:
- a crossed wire triangle per constrained translation, tip on the node,
coming from outside the part where the set's faces say which side that is;
a held rotation adds a smaller triangle behind it (the double mark); fixed
shows all three axes, a symmetry plane only its normal;
- forces as open-headed arrows ending on the node, as long as four support
units at one place and 2.5 over a set, so loads and supports stay in
proportion (#78); moments as an axis line and a right-handed curved arrow
(#79); contact and tie surfaces as small squares on their faces;
- a constant size on screen at any zoom (#80): the symbol unit is the size
setting (View > Symbol size, `ui.set {symbol_size}`, 14 pt by default)
times the model length a pixel spans, rounded to a quarter of a doubling;
- spread evenly on a grid a few symbol units across, so their density follows
the screen, never more than 400 per definition;
- a layer of their own on the desktop (GPU and CPU): zooming rebuilds and
uploads the symbols only, never the mesh's scene; framing leaves them out;
- colour per kind from the theme's tokens (a new contact colour), and the
definition selected in the browser drawn in the selection colour, wider;
- depth-tested against the model with the line bias that keeps them on their
own surface; a load at a reference point or a single node and a reference
point's cross are drawn over the part (#78).
Headless pictures (MCP screenshot, `ui.render`) frame the camera first and
draw the symbols at the default size for it.
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A scene's `on_top` lines are drawn after every depth-tested layer, over the
model, so a concentrated load at a point inside the part can be seen from any
side (#78). `render_layers` takes a list of overlays (the setup's symbols and
the selection highlight become separate layers), and draws every layer's
labels. `Camera::length_per_pixel` is the model length a pixel spans at the
target: the scale symbols of a fixed screen size are drawn at.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
An orbit turns about the model point under the press (the pick ray's
first hit on the plot, the mesh or the design), or the centre of what is
drawn when it starts on empty space, keeps that point still on screen and
marks it while orbiting. The wheel and a pinch zoom toward the point
under the cursor; the wheel's delta is read as it arrives, so a notch
zooms in full in orthographic and perspective views alike (#273).
Mouse presets and reverse zoom come from SolidCraft (prefs.rs NavPreset,
NAV_PRESETS; MIT OR Apache-2.0): FieldCraft's own (left drag per the
navigation bar) stays the default, Ctrl + left drag from empty space
orbits in every preset. They are chosen in the display menu, settable
with ui.set and kept in prefs.json beside recent.json (the browser build
keeps them for the page's run); an older prefs.json still loads.
Fixes#262, fixes#273.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
The setup checklist card (#265), its show_setup view setting, the View
menu checkbox and the preferences file that only remembered it go; the
tree's marks and ghost rows replace them. Session::progress and
model.check's progress stay for agents. An old prefs.json is no longer
read.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
The ~40 parameter checks give a ProblemKind instead of text; Session::execute looks the problem
up in the command's form (a group's missing field becomes that field's own path). Replies still
name keys; forms phrase the same problem by label. A test refuses every field of every form and
checks each refusal names a field of that form.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
Every fit frames what is drawn (the deformed shape and the setup's symbols
included) with Camera::fit_in in the part of the viewport the overlays
leave free: the results legend, the selection bar, the gizmo and the
navigation bar (framing::free_part). Standard views fit too, so a long
beam's front view keeps both ends (#147); fit and home leave the legend
clear (#76). The view frames itself in the home view when another model,
sample or design is opened (Session::opened; the same design opened again
after an edit keeps the camera) (#233), and when results come up with part
of the model out of sight (#223). ui.inspect's layout reports the legend.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
The first look at a solved static step draws the von Mises contours on the
true geometry; the deformed shape comes when asked for (Deformed,
results.deformed, results.animate), at the automatic scale. Frequency steps
still open on mode 1 deformed and explicit steps at true scale, as the
owner's notes in #77 ask; a 0.24 mm deflection drawn as 10 mm no longer
reads as a failed part.
Fixes#77
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Once a model has geometry or a mesh, the browser shows the analysis stages from the engine's
checklist, each ticked, next, dashed (optional) or open; a click starts the stage's command and a
blocked stage's hover says what it waits for. The × hides it and View › Setup checklist shows it
again; the choice is kept in the per-user prefs.json.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
schema::Problem now holds the &'static Field it is about and a ProblemKind
(Required, NotANumber, Below, Above, NotAChoice, UnknownVariant, ...).
Problem::for_form phrases it by the field's label, Problem::for_agents by
its JSON path, from the same data. The form no longer rewrites problem
text by string matching or re-walks the field tree; field_at moves to
schema.rs for the engine's own Param errors. The forms test matches
EngineError::Param { key, .. } directly.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
Every problem reads with the field's label ("Material: choose a material")
beside its field, once it was edited or OK was tried; a click on the greyed
OK shows them all, and its tooltip lists them. A parameter the command
refuses shows beside its field, by its label, in the form and status bar.
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A seed draws a tick at each node it puts on its edge, so a bias shows as ticks
crowding toward an end. The browser lists the seeds under Mesh; a click
selects the seeded edge. The Seed Edges form takes the selected edges with
Use selection. The toolbar entry is ready (its icon renamed with it).
Part of #230.
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The viewport keeps each drawn body's B-rep edges; with Select: Edges a click
picks the nearest visible one (before and after meshing), hover and the
selection draw it wide, and multi-select works as for faces.
Part of #230.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
A reference field (a material, set, step…) with no items was a free-text box; it is now a greyed
drop-down ("No materials yet") with a button that opens the command making one (the
collection's requirement provider). That form comes back to this one on OK, with the new item
picked, or as it was on Cancel. A required reference with one candidate, or with the browser's
selection of its kind, starts picked when the form opens, so the fields and the JSON view agree.
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Commands run from the UI whose reply had no `summary` printed their raw
JSON into the status bar (Check Model, Step Table, Model Info, Bodies,
Find Contacts, the solve steps...). The status bar now gets one sentence
for every reply, and a reply with more to it opens in the context panel:
Check Model as its diagnostics with severity marks and a button to each
fix, the Step Table as a grid of loads and BCs against steps, any other
reply as labelled rows and tables. Check Model and the Step Table follow
the model as it changes. Programmatic replies stay JSON.
Fixes#217
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