FEM object types

[HarryvL]

Bernd, I have a little practical project in mind where I need to mix elements (pedestrian bridge). It will test the practical "modal" vibration capabilities of FC and CCX. Do I need to "branch" and compile the whole FreeCAD suite in your above post or can I just copy some of your python files into my active FC working directories? This is new territory for me. I have managed to fork, download and fully compile FreeCAD as a test before, but this may not be required for what I want? Thanks. Harry

[Jee-Bee]

As what i remember python files can just copied to the freecad/mod/fem/ folder as long as they don't have C++ references.

[bernd]

https://github.com/berndhahnebach/FreeC ... ixedmeshes rebased it on master. The problem is the mesh viewprovider to display the mixed meshes has C++ changes. Means to view the mixed mesh you would need to compile my branch. To run the mixed meshes you only need the changes from the last two commits.

bernd

[HarryvL]

Thanks. I will give it a try.

[HarryvL]

Compiling your branch at the moment. Only 34% at 45 minutes Is there a way to selectively compile and link only those files that are updated? I guess I show my ignorance of git branching principle here

[bernd]

there is only one C++ file different. Means if you start from a compiled FreeCAD master, fetch my repo check out the femmixedmeshes, recompile, it will take around 20 seconds, may be 10 s or 30, depending on your machine

[bernd]

nevermind we all had to learn git. We all did sooner or later, we all have been trying to ignore git because it is difficault if you gone start, but once you got it you will never ever give it back

[HarryvL]

Urrrrrrr ... "fetch my repo check out the femmixedmeshes," ???

I did: git clone https://github.com/berndhahnebach/FreeCAD_bhb.git FC_MM

How do I "fetch your repo" and "check-out the femmixedmeshes"?

[kkremitzki]

Urrrrrrr ... "fetch my repo check out the femmixedmeshes," ???

I did: git clone https://github.com/berndhahnebach/FreeCAD_bhb.git FC_MM

How do I "fetch your repo" and "check-out the femmixedmeshes"?

Fetching the repo is just what you did, 'git clone ...'. The 'check out' part means to check out a branch - you can do that with 'git checkout <branch name>' and show the branches with 'git branch --list' (or just view them on Github.) By default you're on the master branch, so when you're done just do 'git checkout master' again to get back.

[HarryvL]

Thanks @kkremitzki

@Bernd, I looked at your vol_shell_edge--fem-force_vertex.fcstd case study and see that you manage to combine the various "primitives" in a BooleanFragments object (by the way: you leave Mode to Standard?). When I try this on a simple example (below and attached) I get

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Computing the result failed with an error: 

{'swhat': 'GFA is available only in OCC 6.9.0 and up.', 'sfunction': '', 'btranslatable': False, 'sfile': '', 'sclassname': 'N4Base14AttributeErrorE', 'breported': True, 'sErrMsg': 'GFA is available only in OCC 6.9.0 and up.', 'iline': 0}

Click 'Continue' to create the feature anyway, or 'Abort' to cancel.

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Could you please share the workflow for your example in a few bullet points?

Thanks, Harry

OS: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.17.13470 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 656a669cb0dc3d2d3becf20a5330531233b56834
Python version: 2.7.12
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17
Locale: English/UnitedStates (en_US)