[Help] Need contributors for 'Onboarding FEM Devs' wiki page

[bernd]

But seems Equation only has meaning for Elmer, not for other solver like Calculix. So maybe just keep it as one and change it to 'Add Elmer Equation Tutorial'.

exactly, only Elmer uses Equations. I do not know about solvers in external Workbenches. It is on my TODO to implement Equations for CalculiX too, but I have not even started with this and it is not near the top of my TODO ATM.

[Kunda1]

Anyone care to work on the Onboarding_FEM_Devs#Adding_New_FEM_Solvers ?

[Kunda1]

bump

[johnwang]

Anyone care to work on the Onboarding_FEM_Devs#Adding_New_FEM_Solvers ?

Only Bernd can do and he just added mystran solver.

[bernd]

IMHO it makes sense to these two linkse ...

adding Mystran Solver to FreeCAD master: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/comp ... 01ec949525

a branch which adds OOFEM solver: https://github.com/berndhahnebach/FreeC ... s/femoofem

They will help moste developers more than a huge wikipage which is very difficault to keep track with development.

[bernd]

another helpful information.

A new solver mainly needs the following small steps ...

- mesh exporter
- results importer
- solver object (needs changes in solver settings, unit tests, ObjectsFem modules as well)
- task and writer module (here is where the main solver input writing happens)
- Gui tool to create a solver
- Gui preference tab to set the solver binary path
- a solver input writing unit test. Best to take the ccx cantilever. This is available for all mesh element types
- having one or two beers

[johnwang]

Anyone care to work on the Onboarding_FEM_Devs#Adding_New_FEM_Solvers ?

A bit duplicated with this page [wiki]https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Extend_FEM_Module[/wiki]
Under that page, Solver section, could add a link to a new page: Add FEM Solver Tutorial.

[johnwang]

A new solver mainly needs the following small steps ...

A good start. Then can list what new file to create and what to edit.
The example and testing could on a separated page.

[bernd]

Ahh we do not need duplicates. This makes no sense.

[bernd]

A new solver mainly needs the following small steps ...

A good start. Then can list what new file to create and what to edit.
The example and testing could on a separated page.

see commit history of my femoofem branch. This branch is rebased on a regular basis on master and thus updatodate. I even merge new development inside the history of femoofem to keep this branch uptodate.