Implementing a new FEM solver (MoFEM)

[Helios113]

Hi,

MoFEM can handle higher order geometry if it is created by cubit. For gmsh meshes it currently only handles 1st order geometry. Before I PR the modules officially it will work with higher order geometry.

Regards,
Preslav

[bernd]

Ahh good to know.

BTW: if you add a new files to the source code, you can put yourself into the copyright on modules copyright.

[Helios113]

Yeah, I haven’t sorted that out just yet. I’ve been playing with the code primarily .

[Gimbal]

This sounds great and I just want to say that I'm following this thread closely.
Keep up the good work!

[aerospaceweeb]

Following this thread. MoFEM seems promising.

Seeing you putting in work to add MoFEM to FreeCAD gives me hope that it may not be as daunting as I had feared.

I work with the Mystran project. Any chance you'd be willing to collaborate? We've made some strides in private and I feel we may be able to assist eachother.

EDIT_01: We have several fully supported shell elements, NAFEMS compliant bar elements with unit checks against MSC nastran, and our source code is extremely easy to rip stuff out of and understand. You can find our corner of the Elmer discord server, here. https://discord.gg/6eUpWD76

EDIT_02: Here's our github: https://github.com/dr-bill-c/MYSTRAN and here's our home https://mystran.com/

[Helios113]

Hello there,

Implementing a solver can be as simple or as difficult as you want due to the great flexibility FreeCAD offers.

I'm happy to collaborate and share some of my know-how.

Regards

[Helios113]

Hello,

A question for more experienced developers.

How can I save a user's settings? I am working on a UI element which will allow a user to read a config file and edit it.
On reloading the project, I want the previously used configuration file to be loaded automatically.

So once a file path selected from the GUI I need to save it somewhere. In my head this will not be part of the preferences menu but will be part of a boundary condition in the FEM module.

I haven't coded up anything yet, just thinking how this can be done.

[Kunda1]

We usually save setting in the user config files

[saso]

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MoFEM An open source, parallel finite element library
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