Material Editor in FEM

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Material Editor in FEM

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FC material editor stopped working for me. Any values changed in the FC material editor (invoked from FEM material object dialogue) are not transferred to the material object. This worked OK until recently.

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OS: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.15780 (Git)
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Python version: 2.7.12
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.1.0
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FreeCAD rules, because bugs gets fixed before they even will be found git commit eba3b95 :mrgreen:
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Marvelous :D
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Thanks again. I can confirm it works now for me.

PS did you know that input pressures lower than 1Pa are rounded down to 0 ?

If this is a bug then it may be low priority but worth a fix.

However, if this is intended (after all, its an extremely low pressure, right?) then I would say ... “it all depends”, because one day somebody may find an application for this. My suggestion here; https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=33814 also relates. I am all for maximum freedom and a minimum of (well intended) intervention or patronizing.
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HarryvL wrote: Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:54 pm PS did you know that input pressures lower than 1Pa are rounded down to 0 ?
btw
Similar situation is in case of elastic modulus when writing ccx input - decimals of MPa are rounded. (Checking e.g. structural foams this is still relatively ok for my potential usage.)
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob ... er.py#L604

I see it as a more general question, not only about pressure or modulus.
One way could be to warn a user when entering input properties which are bellow some precision. But it depends on how numbers are passed to the specific solver.
Or, numbers would be written as precisely as they are allowed to be entered.
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good points guys. This will for sure be needed if someone trys to analyse such geometry https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 30#p154209
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