stable Release v1.0.2

Adaptive, Lightweight Finite Element Tool (ALF) Version v1.0.2

The following release contains a few QoL adjustments.

Adjustments

• Dependency installation via UI (ffmpeg)
• faster OS interactions for release (native process emulation for windows)
• Metadata synchronization bridging option for model cache loading in UI
• few minor QoL adjustments
• compiled with OpenGL 4.3
• made compatibel with LLVM (Compilation with LLVM disabled by default, can be enabled with the USE_LLVM=TRUE flag)

Structure and execution

The release contains the following precompiled binary files

• UI program
• Debug environment for UI program
• API
• C++ library

The ALF.zip folder contains the windows executables for the UI, the environment, and the API. The ALFLib.zip folder contains the precompiled static libraries. There is a debug and a release build for each program/library. The debug build can be identified by the suffix _d. The executables can be found in the extracted files under /tmp/build.

First Use

You can run the main application by executing ALF.exe. For the debug build, wich is running a debug console in the background start ALF_d.exe. Then you can directily import and simulate one of nine sample models, wich are included under Import.
By selecting File->Open or using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + O, a file dialog can be opened through which the sample models can be imported.

For the computationally intensive example 3DNonLinearExample.model (20 minutes to several hours calculation time, depending on the computer), a cache file with the calculation results is included. However, in order for this to be loaded despite the cache metadata check when opening the model, the checkbox Settings->StartUp->Ignore Cache Validation Dates must be set to True before opening.

After opening the side panel (<- button on the right side or LeftArrow key), the appearance and visualization of the results can be controlled under the Rendering tab.