K_σ = ∫ (∇N_a · σ ∇N_b) I dV for a stress state at the stiffness points (solids, plane and
axisymmetric elements with the hoop term), for linear buckling. Checked: uᵀK_σu = σ V for a
uniform stress on a distorted hex20 and a plane strain quad8, rigid translations in its null space.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
CommandSpec::listing gives id, label, the parameter doc and the schema; MCP
list_commands, the control channel's engine.commands and the new
fieldcraft-cli commands --json use it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
The context panel's form shows typed fields instead of the JSON text: numbers
with the model's units, drop-downs of choices and of the model's sets,
materials, steps and bodies, checkboxes, vectors, groups and one-of variants
(a load's type switches its fields), lists of rows. Defaults are filled in,
required fields are marked, a value the schema finds wrong is noted under its
field, and OK waits while a field holds text that is not a value. The JSON
text stays as the Advanced view. fields.rs holds the generic widgets (row,
number, drop-down, text), adapted from SolidCraft's dialog rows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
cmd/forms.rs describes each command's parameters: model definitions (sets,
materials with elasticity, plasticity, hyperelasticity, damage, thermal and fluid
options, sections, reference points, couplings, masses, springs, boundary
conditions, loads, fluid domains, steps including nonlinear and explicit),
meshers, solvers, deck export, files and results. Tests check that every command
has a form and that a form's defaults are accepted or refused only for the
required fields left empty.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
Field, Kind, Dim and Collection describe a command's JSON parameters: numbers with
unit dimensions, choices, vectors, references to model items, groups, one-of
variants and rows. prefill, switch_variant and problems serve forms; json_schema
gives the same as JSON Schema. No command is described yet (form: None).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Segment-to-segment penalty contact between element faces: each secondary
face and each main face facing it are projected onto the secondary face's
plane, split into triangles, clipped (Sutherland–Hodgman) and integrated
with a three-point rule per sub-triangle (Puso–Laursen segmentation, the
penalty at the integration points as Fischer–Wriggers), so a uniform
pressure gives the consistent nodal forces on both meshes and the contact
patch test passes on non-matching meshes. Every contact runs both ways at
half the penalty: pairs with each surface as the secondary, general and
self contact face against face. A bucket grid of face boxes every
increment, faces integrated in parallel and their forces added in face
order: the same numbers on any thread count.
The penalty per area ε = s γ min(m/A)/Δt² comes from the lumped masses,
each node's directional area and the stable increment, bounded by
Gershgorin's row sums so contact never shortens the increment. Coulomb
friction with exponential decay by a regularised return map at the
secondary nodes; rigid walls take Coulomb impulses. Contact work and
friction dissipation join the energy balance; each contact reports its
peak force, first and last contact, deepest penetration, friction and the
nodes adjusted at the start (initial penetrations adjusted strain-free or
refused with the node, face and depth); a cap on contact faces.
Verified (crates/explicit/tests/contact.rs, tests/oracle/explicit-*):
colliding bars (2L/c +1.2%, ρcAv₀/2, KE kept to 0.005%, contact energy
back to 8e-5 of it), blocks sliding to a stop on a rigid wall and on a
plate under constant and decaying friction (0.005–0.2%), the patch test
(σ_zz uniform to 0.06%), two spheres colliding against Hertz (peak +2.3%,
duration −0.4%; the oracle case waits for a graded sphere mesher), a free
body untouched by general contact, determinism across threads. Oracle
measures gain `over` (ratios). Existing fixtures do not move.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
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
A tangent that is not positive definite is factored by LDLᵀ (Cholesky first, one symbolic
factorization) instead of cutting the increment back; each iteration records the tangent's
negative eigenvalues and the summary warns when a converged state keeps some. A model that can
move freely is still an error at its first tangent, located by the undeformed Cholesky factor;
a singular tangent later is a cutback. Nearly incompressible hybrid hex8, hex20 and tet10 at
ν = 0.4999 under prescribed displacement now converge to the closed form.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A supernodal LDLᵀ on the Cholesky factor's symbolic factorization (ordering, supernodes, fill,
cap and parallel subtree tasks shared through a Symbolic and a generic driver; the Cholesky
numerics are unchanged bit for bit). Pivots by the bounded Bunch–Kaufman (rook) search of
Ashcraft, Grimes & Lewis among each supernode's columns (Schenk & Gärtner's supernode
Bunch–Kaufman), 1 × 1 and 2 × 2, right-looking panels whose trailing update reuses the tiled
Cholesky kernels with L D formed on the fly. Reports the inertia; a column without a pivot above
round-off is a located Singular error; NaN is refused. Symmetric::new picks Cholesky, LDLᵀ, or
Cholesky with an LDLᵀ fallback; solve_refined adds iterative refinement. 1.1–1.2× the Cholesky
time on a 140 000-equation hex8 pattern.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
The mark is now a hex-meshed cube in isometric view whose faces carry a
banded colour fringe (blue to red, hottest at the front corner), with three
tapered streamlines wrapping around it. The small variant keeps the fringe
cube and one bolder streamline. Icon Composer gets four groups (floor, flow
behind, cube with mesh, flow in front), its maximum. The title-bar mark is
redrawn as the fringe cube.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The browser build has no threads, so a background job (opening a file,
meshing from a form, solving) ran inline in the click and the page froze
before it said what it was doing. Now the work waits until the window
has drawn the job's progress, then runs on the window thread in the
next frame. Native jobs still start on a worker thread at once.
Part of #119
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
file.open, geometry.open, geometry.import.mesh and reopening a model's
geometry read through the io crate's file edge instead of SolidCraft's
vfs, so in the browser they see the files the page holds (the same
store saves write to). Natively it is the same capped regular-file read.
fieldcraft-geometry drops its path-based readers (read_file,
open_design_file, read_3mf_file): it works on bytes, and reading files
is the io crate's job.
Part of #119
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
The browser has no file system a page can call synchronously. On wasm32,
fieldcraft_io::fs now reads and writes files kept in memory (memory.rs,
after SolidCraft's vfs): the web host puts picked and dropped files in
and takes out what commands wrote. The recovery folder works over the
same calls (list, remove, is_file), with in-memory entry locks and a
host-provided clock on wasm, so autosave and File > Recover work in the
browser as on the desktop. Native behaviour is unchanged.
Part of #119
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
Quality from the ribbon printed its whole JSON report into the status
bar, cut off after the first metric's histogram, so a user saw braces
and no answer. The report now carries a `summary` line ("30676 elements,
all valid; scaled Jacobian min 0.305, mean 0.963", with the invalid and
undetermined counts when there are any), and the status bar shows a
reply's summary instead of its JSON whenever it has one. The CLI and MCP
get the same line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
OK on a mesher's form ran the command on the window thread: octree hex
on the bolted assembly froze the window for over a minute, with no
progress and no way to stop it. The tet and hex meshers' forms now run
their command as a background job on a copy of the session, as opening
a file and solving do: the window keeps drawing with the job's name and
Cancel, the form closes when the mesh is in and shows the error when it
is not. ui.dialog {run} stays synchronous for programmatic callers.
The new test walks a first-time user's path: Open picks a SolidCraft
design, Tet Mesh opens its form, OK with the defaults meshes the part,
and a mapped hex mesh of a holed plate says why it does not fit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
The Open dialog is a native picker the control channel cannot click, so
nothing could walk a person's open path end to end: ui.start file.open
opens the command's JSON form instead. ui.drop {paths} hands the paths
to the next frame with the window system's drops, which open them
through the same route a picked file takes (open_path: by type, in the
background, the unsaved-changes prompt, the recent list). At most 16
paths of at most 4096 bytes each.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
The Tet Mesh form opened with {} and failed with "give either body (with
tolerance) or surface", so a first-time user could not mesh a part
without knowing its body name and a chordal tolerance. The tet mesher
now takes its bodies as the hex meshers do: every body of the open
design by default, one named body, or an imported surface, with the
tessellation tolerance defaulting to 1e-3 of each body's diagonal. With
several bodies an error names the body it is about. The reply keeps its
totals (kind, counts, first labels, volumes) and lists each body's
counts, size and quality report under `bodies`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
The bracket's tet mesh is not bit-identical across platforms (#115): its fillet peak is 213.31 MPa
on macOS and 212.42 on Linux CI, which turned the oracle job red after #110. Those two quantities
are no longer frozen; the page names them mesh-dependent instead of printing one platform's value.
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
ui.select now also drives the viewport's selection: the filter, box
mode, items by name and label as model.set.create takes them, a pick at
a window point or the visible items in a box, changed by a mode
(replace, add, remove, toggle). ui.selection reads it back with its set
members and the hover; ui.dialog takes use_selection (the form's Target
row). Selection stays in the window: no engine command. Documented in
docs/control-protocol.md, with a test that picks the cantilever's free
end by a simulated click and a box, makes sets of it and resolves them,
and hostile-input tests (bad points and boxes, labels, huge lists).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
A click in the viewport picks what is under the pointer through the
selection filter (the selection bar, top centre): geometry faces, edges,
vertices and bodies, or mesh nodes, element faces and elements. Shift
adds, Cmd/Ctrl adds or removes, a click on nothing clears, Escape
clears; with Box on, a left drag selects the visible nodes, element
faces or elements inside the box. What a click would pick is
highlighted under the pointer with its name beside it.
The selection is kept in the model's persistent terms: geometry by name
(GeometryRef, named through the mesh's geometry tags or the drawn
bodies' face names), so it survives a remesh, and the mesh by label
(labels the model loses drop out). It reads as a set's members.
Picking runs on the CPU against the triangles both renderers draw. The
selection and the hover are drawn as an overlay in the theme's new
pick_selected and pick_hover colours (light and dark), outlined; the GPU
draws it as a second small layer, so a hover change uploads only that.
Command forms that apply to part of the model (sets, boundary
conditions, loads, sections, couplings) get a Target row whose Use
selection fills the members, or makes a set of the selection and names
it. A right click offers Create set from selection.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
The pick module tests rays against triangles with the watertight
ray-triangle intersection of Woop, Benthin and Wald (JCGT 2013): a ray
through an edge or vertex two triangles share hits one of them, the
nearest hit wins and ties go to the lower index, so picks are
deterministic. A Projector holds the camera's projection for
screen-space picks (Camera::to_screen and the CPU renderer use it too),
and a DepthMap of the drawn faces, rasterised by the renderer's own
triangle routine, tells which points are in front (box selection).
Display triangles now carry their element and face number (numbered as
ElementKind::faces numbers them; seen_face gives a shell's bottom side
from behind), line elements their element, and geometry surface
triangles their face tag, so a hit names what a set refers to.
DisplayMesh::pick (results probing) uses the new test.
render_layers draws a second scene over the first: its faces over the
scene faces they repeat (a small depth allowance), then its lines and
points. The viewport draws selection and hover highlights with it
without rebuilding the model's scene.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
The corpus runs mesh.hex.octree's mesher on every part at 1/25 of its diagonal (the size of
the structured hex column) and reports hexahedra, the smallest and mean scaled Jacobian, the
mesh volume against SolidCraft's and the time; a part it cannot mesh gets the reason. The
column caps the elements at 500 000 so a part whose grid explodes is refused in seconds.
Loaded parts carry their bounding-box diagonal for the stages. docs/meshing/corpus.md
regenerated: 15 of 21 parts mesh, including filleted-bracket, rounded-box, sphere-on-plate
and the analytic sphere.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
Replaces the mesh with the octree all-hex mesh of a body, an imported surface or every body
of the open design, and tags boundary element faces with their B-rep faces so sets by
geometry resolve. Size, tolerance, refinement depth, element cap, attempts and optimiser
sweeps are validated and capped; the element cap defaults to the session limit
(`Limits::max_hex_elements`), which the hostile-params test keeps small. Body input and face
tagging are shared with mesh.hex.generate. The catalogue's Automatic Hex entry is ready.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
`fieldcraft_mesh::octree::octree_hex_mesh` meshes any closed part with hex8 only:
- an adaptive 3-refinement grid (27-tree) with strong balance and closure, filled with
conforming node-marking transition templates (Schneiders; checked over all 48 symmetries);
- a core of grid cells kept clear of the boundary (the HybridOctree buffer rule), with
non-manifold cleanup and a genus check against the part;
- a feature graph from the B-rep (corners, curves, patches) and a partition-first map of the
core's boundary onto it, then two boundary layers: a padding layer and a pillow per patch,
so every face boundary and sharp edge is captured by element edges;
- a Garanzha-type untangling and fitting energy (shape term |J|^3/chi, a volume term and a
soft fitting term, deterministic across platforms), a compass search on the worst
elements and a certified repair; failures refine the grid near them and rebuild, within
bounded attempts and growth.
The output passes the certified Jacobian check of every element and a gate that the
boundary encloses the elements' volume; boundary quads carry their B-rep faces. Quality is
reported with the same scaled Jacobian as mesh.quality. Literature notes for each step are in
docs/meshing/literature.md (B1.6-B1.10).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
Temperatures now strain the material in nonlinear steps instead of being
refused. At finite strain the deformation gradient splits multiplicatively,
F = F_m F_theta with F_theta = diag(1 + alpha_i dT) at each point: the material
sees F_m and the loops run on the thermally expanded volume J_theta dV0 (mixed
elements project det F_m), so the tangent stays consistent. At small strain the
split is additive, and elements on their linear stiffness take the equivalent
nodal forces as a dead load. The step's temperatures are its temperature loads,
or the steady conduction of its temperature conditions and heat loads (one-way
coupling, as the linear coupled step); both at once are refused. They ramp with
the load factor from each material's reference temperature. Johnson-Cook
plasticity softens at the point's temperature. Verified: free expansion and a
fully constrained neo-Hookean block at 20 % thermal stretch, full and hybrid
(exact); a bar held at its ends heated past yield (exact); the linear limit and
the conducted temperatures against the linear solvers; tangents by central
differences with a temperature field.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
Two more large-strain options on the isotropic constants, decoupled like
neo-Hookean with the volume kappa/2 (J - 1)^2: Mooney-Rivlin with C10 = mu/2 - C01
(0 <= C01 <= mu/2) and Yeoh with C10 = mu/2 and the higher terms C20, C30, so the
small-strain material is the elastic one everywhere. MaterialModel::Polynomial
gives the isochoric stress and tangent from Holzapfel's fictitious quantities
(eqs. 6.168, 6.193), consistent by central differences, equal to neo-Hookean
with C10 alone; hybrid elements take it. Abaqus writes *HYPERELASTIC,
MOONEY-RIVLIN and YEOH; LS-DYNA keeps refusing hyperelastic materials in
nonlinear steps by name. Verified in uniaxial and equibiaxial tension and pure
shear against the compressible closed form (exact).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
Elements of a plastic material take the J2 material point: total Lagrangian
with nonlinear geometry, the small-strain loops without (elastic elements keep
their linear stiffness, so elastic results do not move). The plastic history is
committed per converged increment. Increments follow the step's load path,
ending at its points, the extrapolated predictor scaled by the change of the
load factor. Steps with path-dependent materials start an increment without a
predictor from the tangent predictor (the prescribed motion spread through the
converged tangent), and a first tangent that is not positive definite is a
cutback when the undeformed model's is. Refused by name: the Johnson-Cook rate
term (a static step has no time) and kinematic hardening at finite strain;
damage, erosion and adiabatic heating are left out with a warning. Results
carry the equivalent plastic strain at the integration points (solve.probe,
the step summary). LS-DYNA writes a load path as the step's curve; Abaqus
refuses it and a plastic deck of several general steps (Abaqus carries the
plastic state between them).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
NonlinearStatic::load_path gives the load factor against the step fraction,
piecewise linear from [0, 0] to fraction 1, so a step can unload or reverse
its loads and prescribed displacements (cyclic loading of path-dependent
materials). Validated (2 to 1000 finite points, increasing fractions), with
load_factor and next_turn for the solver's increments.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
The radial return of the explicit update is now J2::radial_return, called by
both solvers, with the consistent tangent J2::tangent (Simo & Hughes 1998,
Box 3.2). The new elastoplastic module gives the implicit material point:
Simo's multiplicative plasticity with the exponential return map in the
principal logarithmic strains (CMAME 99, 1992) and its spatial tangent through
the Daleckii-Krein divided differences of the logarithm, and the additive
radial return of small strain with kinematic hardening. MaterialModel::Plastic
carries it, decoupled (deviatoric return, Hencky volume) so hybrid elements
take it. The element loops of finite.rs gain small-strain kinematics for
inelastic materials and pass history through the mixed path. Every tangent is
checked against central differences, element by element, from a plastic
history.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
filleted-bracket-blocks splits the bracket with SolidCraft's Split Body
into three slabs across its width, the fillet corner halved along its
diagonal and a four-cell O-grid round each hole; the corpus runner meshes
partitioned parts as one conforming block mesh. A heavy test clamps the
upright, loads the foot and checks hex8 and hex20 converge (hex20 tip
deflection within 0.1 % of a fine tet10 solution). Roadmap M5:
conforming interfaces done.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
Geometry triangles remember their surface (body); the viewport and the
headless pictures draw each body of a multi-body design, such as the
cells of a partitioned part, in its own colour from the theme (eight in
turn), and a single body in the geometry colour as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
Meshes the open design's bodies (or the listed ones) as the cells of one
conforming all-hex mesh with one size and tessellation tolerance for all;
elements carry their cell's body, boundary faces its B-rep faces. A cell
that is no block, or cells that touch without sharing whole faces, is an
error naming the bodies. Catalogue entry with its VectorCraft icon, the
MCP mesh tool's hex_blocks method, docs/features.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
hex_mesh_cells meshes cells that meet face to face (SolidCraft split
bodies) as one conforming all-hex mesh: each cell a mapped block after
smoothly meeting faces are joined (virtual topology: the halves of a hole,
a plane running into a fillet), vertices, edges and faces shared by
identity, interval assignment over all cells, each shared face meshed
once, radial edges graded off curved faces. finish spans several cells:
tags per cell, hex20 mid-edge nodes shared across cells, a closed
2-manifold boundary and no free internal face.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
solve.nonlinear follows a nonlinear static step in load increments: dead
loads and prescribed displacements ramp with the load factor, a pressure
follows the deformed faces (its load stiffness symmetrised so the
supernodal Cholesky stays), the consistent tangent is refactored every
iteration with an optional line search, and an increment converges on
force, displacement and energy together. Increments start from the
extrapolated last one, grow after fast convergence and are cut back on
inversion, a non-finite or growing residual, an indefinite tangent or too
many iterations; the step stops cleanly at the minimum increment, the
increment cap or the Newton iteration limit. Elements are assembled in
parallel in label order (same bits on any thread count). Results carry
Cauchy stress, logarithmic strain, the increment history and a displacement
frame per increment, which results.frame and the results panel show.
Trusses, shells, beams, plane stress, incompatible modes, temperature and
centrifugal loads are refused by name; couplings warn that they stay
linear.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
The material point interface returns the Kirchhoff stress and the spatial
tangent of its Lie derivative from the deformation gradient, with per-point
history committed by the solver: St Venant–Kirchhoff (pushed forward from
S = D E) and the decoupled compressible neo-Hookean with its isochoric and
volumetric parts. Total Lagrangian solids (tet4, tet10, wedge6, hex8, hex20
full and reduced) and plane strain and axisymmetric elements give internal
forces and the consistent tangent with its geometric stiffness; hybrid
solids use the Simo–Taylor–Pister three-field formulation on the existing
pressure fields. Incompatible modes and plane stress are refused by name.
Follower pressure on faces and 2D edges with its load stiffness. Every
tangent is checked against central differences of its forces.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
A nonlinear_static procedure (nonlinear geometry, initial/min/max increments,
increment and iteration caps, force/displacement/energy tolerances, line
search), validated with caps against hostile values. Materials gain an
explicit hyperelastic option (decoupled compressible neo-Hookean on the
isotropic constants). Abaqus writes *STEP, NLGEOM, INC / *STATIC with the
increments and *HYPERELASTIC, NEO HOOKE; LS-DYNA writes the ramped implicit
run with full Newton and *CONTROL_IMPLICIT_AUTO; Nastran refuses SOL 400 by
name, as LS-DYNA does hyperelastic materials in nonlinear steps. Explicit
dynamics refuses hyperelastic materials by name; solve.run names the solver
still to come.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
The setup's symbols (fieldcraft_render::glyphs) are built with the display
data and drawn over the model in every style, at the drawn nodes (a results
plot's deformed shape), muted over results; the clipping radius holds them.
Theme tokens give their colours in light and dark. The browser's Loads & BCs
and Interactions rows get eye toggles (ui.set show_loads, show_interactions),
also in the view menu. The GPU viewport draws reference point names with the
interface's font; the bottom left says which definitions are sampled.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
view::scene draws the boundary conditions, loads and interactions as the
viewport does (muted over a results plot) and frames them; Shown.sampled and
the MCP picture info's sampled_symbols list definitions drawn with a sample.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
glyphs::Glyphs picks where a model's setup symbols go (resolving its sets
once, thinning them on a grid, capping each definition and sampling large
ones with a note) and draws them into a Scene at the nodes' current
positions: cones for constrained translations (and rotations where nodes
rotate), arrows for forces, double-headed arrows for moments, arrows normal
to pressure faces, one arrow for gravity and body forces, a curved arrow for
centrifugal loads, crosses with names for reference points, lines for
couplings, hatched squares for rigid walls. Colours come from the caller by
role, muted over results.
Scene gains labels, drawn by the CPU rasterizer with a small bitmap font of
its own.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
resolve_set_partial resolves the members of a set that are on the mesh, for
display: a set with a missing member still shows what it has, where
resolve_set refuses it. rotational_nodes is the check's rule for which nodes
have rotations (shell and beam nodes, not those of 2D sections), so the
viewport's symbols and the check agree.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
A command run by a script, the control channel, MCP, the command search
or the browser left the ribbon on whatever tab it showed, so an agent's
session never showed the stage it was at. `catalogue::stage_tab` is the
rule, from the catalogue: a command's entry tab, none for the Tools tab
(files, history, the model summary). The app follows it after a command
that changed the model or the results display (queries leave the ribbon
alone); a script follows its last command with a stage. A ribbon click
runs a command of the tab shown, so it never moves the ribbon: a test
checks every entry and drop-down command against its tab.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
A factor of 0 was refused, so a picture sequence swinging the deformation
out from the undeformed shape had to start at a small factor or switch
`show` off. 0 is now a factor like any other (the view stays deformed), and
the results panel no longer works around the refusal. The MCP show_results
docs say so, beside `deformed: false`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
`ui.view` and the MCP `screenshot` tool only turned to the named views, so
a picture sequence could only cut between them. `Orientation` (render) is a
camera orientation in degrees, {yaw, pitch, distance?}, checked as hostile
input: angles finite, distance finite and above 0, yaw wrapped, pitch
clamped to ±90, distance to 0.001–1e9. `modelcraft_engine::view::orientation`
parses it from JSON for both callers:
- control channel `ui.camera {yaw, pitch, distance?}` turns the app's camera;
- MCP `screenshot {camera}` turns it first (bridged through `ui.camera`,
headless in the CPU render, framed unless a distance is given). `view` and
`camera` are not given together.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
Crates fieldcraft-*, binaries fieldcraft and fieldcraft-cli, the .fieldcraft file (format tag
fieldcraft/1, manifest fieldcraft.json), FIELDCRAFT_* environment variables, the MCP server
name, egui widget ids (fc_*), the app icon document FieldCraft.icon and its generated family,
docs and licences. No compatibility shim: no files of the earlier name exist.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
Main's oracle job failed at 8cba3a7: scordelis-lo-roof-solid u_z moved from
-0.3014029226397275 (blessed before #50) beyond its 1e-9 band. The case is a
thin shell (R/t = 100) of one layer of hex20R solids, ill-conditioned, so
rounding alone moves u_z by about 1e-9 relative: on macOS #50's multithreaded
supernodal factorisation moved it by 8.2e-10 (to -0.3014029223929), #52's
interpolation order by a further 1.3e-10 (to -0.3014029223541), and Linux
CI by slightly more, past the band. #52 kept the lattice geometry the same.
The result itself is unchanged at the 1e-9 level (0.33% from the
reference).
A quantity may now set `fixture_relative` (with a required
`fixture_reason`) for a wider fixture band; Scordelis-Lo uses 1e-7 and is
re-blessed. Moved-fixture messages print full precision.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
* mesh: one transfinite interpolation for mapped hex and mesh.block; stable oracle report
mesh.block's lattice is now built from the structured hex mesher's
transfinite code: faces by quad::transfinite_grid, the interior by the new
quad::transfinite_volume (Gordon-Thiel, blended by the block's graded
parameters), which hex::mapped now calls too. 2D patches are the
transfinite_grid of their sides. Edge curves return their corners exactly.
Oracle: a zero-reference quantity (rounding noise) keeps its absolute
tolerance as its fixture band, and docs/oracle.md shows such noise and
relative errors inside the fixture band as bounds, so the report no longer
changes with the order of floating-point operations (it failed the
'docs/oracle.md is current' check on main after #50). Scordelis-Lo moved by
1.4e-9 relative (an ill-conditioned thin shell of solids: sub-ulp node
changes) and is re-blessed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
* simplify: shared face filling and lattice index; faces blended like the volume; exact ends for every edge
quad::transfinite_faces fills a block's six faces (with a per-face hook
that hex::mapped uses to project onto its B-rep faces) and
quad::lattice_index fixes the lattice layout for all three users.
transfinite_grid_blended blends faces by the block's graded parameters, so
faces and interior use one parametrisation and mesh.block reproduces its
earlier Gordon-Hall lattice (the Scordelis-Lo fixture is back to its
blessed value). Straight edges also return their corners exactly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
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Co-authored-by: jyviko <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
