Window captures (light theme, 1400 x 860) of every sample solved on the current UI; the
thumbnails that were viewport crops are now clean ui.render images like the others; the drop
test's figure at 0.1 ms reads 129 MPa.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
Four field kinds in the schema, each checked and described in JSON Schema: labels (nodes or
elements, typed as 1-5, 8 with Use selection taking the viewport's picks), points (rows of
x, y, z, added and removed), multi (checkboxes: coupling DOFs, step output) and number or
auto (the deformed scale). Node and element lists, probe and Delaunay points and block
corners use them; the remaining JSON fields hold geometry-specific shapes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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.
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
results.contour takes range {min?, max?} (or "auto"), kept until the field changes: a
singular peak no longer squeezes the field into the bottom bands. Values above a clamped
maximum go to an extra band drawn in the over colour, split exactly at the clamp; the legend
shows that band up to the true maximum and says it is clamped. The results panel has Legend
max/min (Auto or a value), the MCP show_results tool a range argument, and headless pictures
follow the clamp too.
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
The README video's model as a sample: the corpus cantilever-i-beam design opened as geometry,
swept all-hex, clamped at F2:start, 1 kN on F2:top through a kinematic coupling; static step
Load. It has a Start-card thumbnail and a gallery capture; a test checks its tip deflection
against beam theory with shear.
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
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)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
- 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).
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
Meshes that do not tag their element edges with the design's edge names
(tet, hex, blocks) left a selected edge with no highlight while the mesh
was shown. The edge is now marked along its own polyline, which the scene
already draws over the mesh.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
- 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).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
The setup checklist marks the mesh Outdated (a warm ⚠ in the browser, with
what changed and where to remesh) when seeds, partitions or datum planes
changed after the last mesher ran, and model.check warns (#342). Replacing
a mesh asks with the element type change it makes, such as tet10 → tet4 (#343).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
solve.heat's reply and the results report give heat_flows: each convection,
flux and source load's heat into the body, the prescribed temperatures'
total and their sum; the results panel lists them for a heat step.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
A checkbox whose key is unset shows the field's default (#353). An empty JSON
field shows its format hint (#340). Vector components share a line only when
each fits a value such as -12000, else take a line each (#339). A space typed
in a definition name becomes _ and the form says why (#320).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
A non-zero prescribed displacement is an arrow leaving the nodes along the
motion (its held degrees of freedom stay supports); a prescribed temperature
is a thermometer, convection a wave off the faces, a heat flux an arrow onto
them. In the tree, thermal conditions carry the heat icon and a moving
boundary condition a motion arrow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
- 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.
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
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
All six docs/media/examples images at 1400 x 860 in the light theme, the
solved sample in the home view (the crank mirror from below, as its text
says), with the wireframe symbols, no SETUP card and the crank's planes
hidden; the Start card thumbnails cropped to the model from them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
geometry.partition hides the plane it cuts by (view state, saved with the
model): the cut shows as edges on the cells. The eye or selecting it in
the browser shows it again. The crank samples so open without their
planes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
