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• Posibility to hide/unhide individual boundary conditions
• Option to open the files with all the branches of the tree colapsed (could be in the Options/Default model)
• Store the solver log in a new branch in the solution tree
• Add text branchs in the model (below analysis, geometry, components) and solution tree (below components) to store custom model info and conclusions
• An option to take snapshots and store in the model tree (again, separated in geometry, boundary conditions and solution). This and the new notes could help to create automated reports in the future, or by means of some script.
• Add more info in the result screen, as:
Program name
Solver/Analysis type
File Name / Configuration Name
Date / Hour
- X-angle rotation about X axis
- Y-angle rotation about Y axis
- Z-angle rotation about Z axis
- Zoom factor
This would allow exactly the same view to be again invoked which would be especially useful in preparing reports. Otherwise, much mouse fidgeting is required and the views are never reproduced exactly.If the mouse were first used to get an approximate view, then invoking the view dialog box should pre-populate the fields with the current view parameters so that the view could be tweaked.
Preferably multiple such user-defined views could be saved with the model (although only having one would be a big improvement).
There are two menus where an Apply button would be helpful. This would save the (small) frustration of having to re-access the menu if the initial results weren't as expected.
Perhaps there are other menus that would also benefit.
That said, I am otherwise rather enjoying version 15.
I'm wondering if a FROM ==>TO node selection subroutine could autofill the distance deltas in the Copy/Move dialog box?
Edit 7/18/22: Realize this is sounding greedy, but also would be nice if Rotate, Mirror, & Scale could have the Origin coordinates populate with a screen (node) pick.
If Geometry can't find a geometry file (e.g., a stp file), then the file name of the missing file is displayed in red under Geometry.
Right clicking on the missing file's name and then "What's wrong" shows "File not found". Again right clicking on the missing file's name, the last option is "Change file location". That brings up an input box which requires "Full path to file".
If only the file name is entered (assuming that Mecway would look in the current model's folder), then an error message is generated, "Path must be rooted". However, if instead the liml file is directly edited then the full path isn't needed; only the file name is needed if the required file is located in the current model's folder.
Two suggestions --
Now that we have this wonderful shell elements and that their usage will probably be extended more and more, would be nice if the edge detecting selection tool could be extended also to the shell faces as it works on solids. Not sure if it was just missing or if it would be hard to code.
There is one reference about this on post : https://mecway.com/forum/discussion/890/2d-analysis-named-selection-line-edge-selection/p1
but never know how that ended.
Another different, when working in models with several parts, adding material and color to each one takes time, could you add a shortcut to this, like the actual F2 Rename, F3 add/select material, F4 select color...????
Maybe the actual F2 could open a bigger window to edit name, color and material all in one step.
It would be nice if we could automatically output results where positive results are blue, negative results are red, and null results are white (or grey for visualization purposes). It can be done with Mecway if I manually set the min (resp. max) value of the color scale to -max (reps. -min). Below is an example.
Red-white-blue color scale, default output by mecway
Red-white-blue color scale, output after user set max=-min so that the color scale is symetric (and white - greyish - color correspond to 0)
In my opinion, the second figure is much clearer : it shows for instance that the extremities of the lower beam are in compression (blue in 2nd figure, red in 1st figure), that the little diagonal struts below the upper beams are in compression (blue in 2nd figure, greyish in 1st figure).
Could this feature in a future release of Mecway ?
Also, if the named selections then would tell which part they originated on.
I would like, if possible, that :
Components&Materials
Load&Constrains
Named Selections
to be properly sorted when they are renamed with numbers.
> is there a way to add an option to the importing of UNVs meshes from Salome to convert the groups of elements in components?
Script here https://mecway.com/forum/discussion/comment/6377/#Comment_6377
Is it possible to include two Mouse Pick buttons, similar to the other copy functions, so that nodes/elements can more easily be moved/copied from one point to another?