Changelog

v1.2.0 (unreleased)

v1.1.2 (2024-12-02)

Bug fixes

• Add pytest package to documentation build (MERGE-239). By Kyle Brindley.

v1.1.1 (2024-12-02)

Bug fixes

• Fix internal import paths for docs and fetch subcommands (MERGE-238). By Kyle Brindley.

v1.1.0 (2024-12-02)

Documentation

• Package internal HTML documentation for internal Conda package distribution (ISSUE-235, MERGE-230). By Kyle Brindley.

• Change Sphinx theme to sphinx-book-theme (ISSUE-228, MERGE-234). By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Run the unit tests against a matrix of Abaqus and Cubit versions (ISSUE-141, MERGE-224). By Kyle Brindley.

• Run both unit and system tests against a matrix of Abaqus and Cubit versions during scheduled CI tests (ISSUE-233, MERGE-225, MERGE-227). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add a scheduled CI job to test all support Python versions (ISSUE-236, MERGE-229). By Kyle Brindley.

• Remove the experimental, semi-private API builders in favor of the public CLI builder design (ISSUE-234, MERGE-231). By Kyle Brindley.

• Autoformat and perform style checks with black and flake8 together (ISSUE-231, MERGE-235). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Update docs subcommand implementation for more robust error messages (ISSUE-232, MERGE-232). By Kyle Brindley.

v1.0.0 (2024-10-21)

New Features

• Work-in-progress Gmsh cylinder subcommand implementation (ISSUE-208, MERGE-208). By Kyle Brindley.

• Work-in-progress Gmsh geometry subcommand implementation (ISSUE-209, MERGE-210). By Kyle Brindley.

• Work-in-progress Gmsh sphere subcommand implementation. Incorrect pre-existing, --input-file, model handling. Solid spheres do not revolve correctly (ISSUE-210, MERGE-211). By Kyle Brindley.

• Work-in-progress Gmsh image subcommand implementation. Missing model name, part name, and image size behavior (ISSUE-214, MERGE-212). By Kyle Brindley.

• Work-in-progress Gmsh mesh subcommand implementation. Missing model name, part name, element type, and edge seed behaviors. Performs global tri- and tet-meshing globally to all models and parts. (ISSUE-214, MERGE-212). By Kyle Brindley.

Bug fixes

• Fix temporary file handling for Windows (ISSUE-224, MERGE-214). By Kyle Brindley.

• Partition 2D models with Abaqus backend (ISSUE-181, MERGE-217). By Thomas Roberts.

Internal Changes

• Add Gmsh Python API to CI environment (MERGE-207). By Kyle Brindley.

• Update system tests and example scons extensions to use WAVES v0.11.0 syntax (ISSUE-225, MERGE-215). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add missing package to GitHub-CI environments (ISSUE-226, MERGE-219). By Kyle Brindley.

• Drop Python 3.8 support as end-of-life by the end of October, 2024 (ISSUE-211, MERGE-220). By Kyle Brindley.

• Set maximum sphinx_rtd_theme version because v3 removed the display version in sidebar support unless the documentation is actually hosted on Read the Docs. Temporary solution to finding a new documentation theme (MERGE-221). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.12.12 (2024-09-26)

Documentation

• Add GitHub shields to HTML documentation (ISSUE-198, MERGE-197). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add GitHub-Pages documentation URL to README and documentation (ISSUE-199, MERGE-198). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add Zenodo DOI shields and citations (ISSUE-168, MERGE-199). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add conda-forge installation instructions and shields (ISSUE-167, MERGE-205). By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Multi-OS compatible Conda package build and test scripts (ISSUE-168, MERGE-199). By Kyle Brindley.

• Test the external recipe during Gitlab-CI jobs (ISSUE-168, MERGE-199). By Kyle Brindley.

• Update setuptools version specs to match current setuptools_scm documentation (ISSUE-201, MERGE-200). By Kyle Brindley.

• Update recipes to match conda-forge recommendations (ISSUE-202, MERGE-201). By Kyle Brindley.

• Remove unnecessary fast test job from CI deployment pipelines (ISSUE-203, MERGE-202). By Kyle Brindley.

• Clean up PIP and Conda package builds to exclude project version control files (ISSUE-204, MERGE-203). By Kyle Brindley.

• Separate system tests that require third-party software from those that do not. Run external recipe builds with a single pytest command instead of hardcoding the CLI tests in the recipe test script (ISSUE-205, MERGE-206). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Bundle built HTML and man page documentation with Gitlab PyPI registry package (ISSUE-207, MERGE-204). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.12.11 (2024-09-12)

Bug fixes

• Better unit test patch for missing Cubit package, e.g. on conda-forge CI servers (MERGE-196). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.12.10 (2024-09-11)

Bug fixes

• Fix package manifest for builds with newer conda-build/setuptools packages (ISSUE-192, MERGE-188). By Kyle Brindley.

• Remove system tests from external recipe(s) because they can not pass on CI servers without Abaqus and Cubit installed (ISSUE-193, MERGE-189). By Kyle Brindley.

• Fix the conda package entry points (ISSUE-195, MERGE-190). By Kyle Brindley.

• Better OS (Windows) path handling in test expectations (ISSUE-197, MERGE-192). By Kyle Brindley.

• Mock Cubit module during pytesting when Cubit is not available (ISSUE-194, MERGE-193). By Kyle Brindley.

Documentation

• Point the README shields to the open-source release (ISSUE-191, MERGE-194). By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Add Windows compatible build script for external conda package recipes (ISSUE-196, MERGE-191). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add GitHub-CI Windows build/test workflow (ISSUE-196, MERGE-191). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.12.9 (2024-09-11)

Documentation

• Add the LANL software release number to the README (MERGE-187). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.12.8 (2024-09-11)

Bug fixes

• Fix the GitHub pages build environment (ISSUE-190, MERGE-186). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.12.7 (2024-08-27)

Bug fixes

• Handle the first target emitter name change for WAVES v0.10/v0.11 (ISSUE-189, MERGE-184). By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Use common AEA Conda channel downstream deployment pipeline (ISSUE-188, MERGE-183). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.12.6 (2024-07-11)

Internal Changes

• Add twine package for Gitlab PyPI registry deployment (MERGE-182). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.12.5 (2024-07-11)

Internal Changes

• Experimental Gitlab PyPI registry deployment (ISSUE-187, MERGE-181). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.12.4 (2024-07-10)

Bug fixes

• Preserve white space in set masks of Abaqus pass-through wrapper of the sets subcommand (ISSUE-185, MERGE-179). By Kyle Brindley.

Documentation

• Edge seeds are implemented in Cubit. Remove “not yet implemented” statement from CLI usage help (ISSUE-179, MERGE-175). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add developer notes about package structure and interface designs (ISSUE-135, MERGE-178). By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Remove indexing of the shared conda channel from CI deployment job. Can’t use a project specific CI environment and manage the shared conda channel (ISSUE-184, MERGE-176). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.12.3 (2024-06-26)

Bug fixes

• Match revolution direction of Abaqus and Cubit to the +Y axis (ISSUE-183, MERGE-174). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Accept negative revolution angles to change revolution direction in Abaqus implementation (ISSUE-183, MERGE-174). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.12.2 (2024-06-20)

New Features

• Abaqus partitioning algorithm for 2D-axisymmetric parts (ISSUE-181, MERGE-217). By Thomas Roberts.

• Abaqus implementation of a sets subcommand for programmatic set creation (ISSUE-164, MERGE-161). By Kyle Brindley.

• Abaqus implementation of an edge seed option in the mesh subcommand (ISSUE-173, MERGE-164). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add sets subcommand CLI builder (ISSUE-171, MERGE-165). By Kyle Brindley.

• Cubit implementation of a sets subcommand and --edge-sets mesh option (ISSUE-170, MERGE-166). Kyle Brindley.

Bug fixes

• Sphere module was missing an if statement that protected GUI execution from hitting the sys.exit(main(...)) statement and crashing the GUI session (ISSUE-176, MERGE-169). By Thomas Roberts.

Documentation

• Break long API function signatures into multiple lines for better readability (ISSUE-178, MERGE-172) By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Work-in-progress support for Abaqus CAE GUI export capability (ISSUE-154, MERGE-171). By Thomas Roberts.

• Work-in-progress support for Abaqus CAE GUI image capability (ISSUE-155, MERGE-170). By Thomas Roberts.

• Internal utility for constructing string delimited lists (MERGE-162). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add system tests for Abaqus implementation of sets subcommand (ISSUE-172, MERGE-163). By Kyle Brindley.

• Begin converting internal API error handling to exceptions. Limit conversion to system exit and error codes to the main implementation (ISSUE-175, MERGE-167). By Kyle Brindley.

• Activate project CI environment directly. Fixes errors related to conda-build/boa/mambabuild during packaging (MERGE-168). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Collect and report specific set name/mask failures in the sets subcommand (ISSUE-182, MERGE-173). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.12.1 (2024-04-30)

Documentation

• Add BSD-3 license text and files. Add placeholder citation files (ISSUE-166, MERGE-159). By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Add GitHub actions and external conda package build recipe (ISSUE-169, MERGE-160). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.12.0 (2024-04-30)

Breaking changes

• Remove the deprecated CLI builders prefixed with turbo_turtle_. Replaced by more general builders in v0.11.0 (2024-02-15) (ISSUE-127, MERGE-156). By Kyle Brindley.

• Remove the deprecated --cubit CLI option. Replaced by --backend in v0.11.0 (2024-02-15) (ISSUE-130, MERGE-157). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.11.3 (2024-04-29)

New Features

• Expose the geometry-xyplot matplotlib figure generation function to the public API (ISSUE-148, MERGE-139). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add a fetch subcommand to retrieve user manual and tutorial files (ISSUE-145, MERGE-143). By Kyle Brindley.

• Lazy import of submodules (MERGE-152). By Kyle Brindley.

Bug fixes

• Call to the main function in mesh_module.py needs to be in the except statement so the GUI-wrapper does not execute main (ISSUE-165, MERGE-154). By Thomas Roberts.

• Match the coordinate transformations of geometry subcommand in the geometry-xyplot subcommand (ISSUE-156, MERGE-134). By Kyle Brindley.

• Python 3.8 compatible type annotations (ISSUE-162, MERGE-149). By Kyle Brindley.

Documentation

• Add a bibiliography and references section (ISSUE-139, MERGE-136). By Kyle Brindley.

• Update SCons example in user manual to build both available backends: Abaqus and Cubit (ISSUE-158, MERGE-142). By Kyle Brindley.

• Update man page and documentation to include full subcommand and API (MERGE-148). By Kyle Brindley.

• Update the GUI documentation describing how to run and get more information about a plug-in (ISSUE-149, MERGE-131). By Thomas Roberts.

Internal Changes

• Work-in-progress support for Abaqus CAE GUI meshing capability (ISSUE-153, MERGE-140). By Thomas Roberts.

• Work-in-progress support for Abaqus CAE GUI sphere capability (ISSUE-152, MERGE-133). By Thomas Roberts.

• Improved unit tests for the CLI builders (ISSUE-151, MERGE-135). By Kyle Brindley.

• Work-in-progress support for Abaqus CAE GUI cylinder capability (ISSUE-150, MERGE-132). By Thomas Roberts.

• Add the user manual SCons demo to the system tests (ISSUE-144, MERGE-141). By Kyle Brindley.

• Use the full Abaqus session object namespace (ISSUE-140, MERGE-144). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add PEP-8 partial style guide checks to CI jobs (ISSUE-160, MERGE-145). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add flake8 configuration file for easier consistency between developer checks and CI checks (ISSUE-161, MERGE-146). By Kyle Brindley.

• Use SCons task for flake8 style guide checks (MERGE-147). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add a draft SCons task for project profiling (MERGE-150). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add lazy loader package to CI environment (ISSUE-163, MERGE-151). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add partial submodule imports to cProfile SCons task (MERGE-153). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Add an option to use equally scaled X and Y axes in geometry-xyplot subcommand (ISSUE-157, MERGE-138). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.11.2 (2024-03-29)

Documentation

• Use built-in Abaqus/CAE plug-in documentation features to display GUI plug-in help messages and link to documentation in the Abaqus/CAE GUI (ISSUE-142, MERGE-129). By Thomas Roberts.

• Improve Abaqus geometry error message (MERGE-124). By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Reduce duplicate logic in geometry and cylinder subcommand implementations (ISSUE-123, MERGE-126). By Kyle Brindley.

• Make the Abaqus python package importable and change the GUI behavior to be a plug-in rather than direct execution on a python module (ISSUE-137, MERGE-127). By Thomas Roberts.

• Work-in-progress support for Abaqus CAE GUI geometry capability (ISSUE-138, MERGE-128). By Thomas Roberts.

Enhancements

• Implement the numpy tolerance checks for the Cubit geometry and geometery-xyplot subcommands (ISSUE-123, MERGE-126). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add an option to add vertex index annotations to the geometery-xyplot subcommand (ISSUE-147, MERGE-130). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.11.1 (2024-03-01)

Internal Changes

• Work-in-progress support for Abaqus CAE GUI partitioning capability (ISSUE-133, MERGE-122). By Thomas Roberts.

• Dedicated Cubit imprint and merge function (ISSUE-76, MERGE-110). By Kyle Brindley.

• Dedicated Cubit local coordinate primary plane webcutting function (ISSUE-77, MERGE-111). By Kyle Brindley.

• Dedicated Cubit pyramidal volume creation and partitioning functions (ISSUE-131, MERGE-112). By Kyle Brindley.

• Unit test the pass through Abaqus Python CLI construction (ISSUE-58, MERGE-113). By Kyle Brindley.

• Unit test the pass through Cubit Python API unpacking (ISSUE-91, MERGE-114). By Kyle Brindley.

• Unit test the default argument values in the subcommand argparse parsers (ISSUE-55, MERGE-115). By Kyle Brindley.

• Report unit test coverage in Gitlab-CI pipelines (MERGE-116). By Kyle Brindley.

• Refact and unit test the coordinate modification performed by geometry subcommand (ISSUE-102, MERGE-117). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add a missing unit test for the Abaqus Python CLI merge construction (MERGE-118). By Kyle Brindley.

• Unit tests for Cubit curve and surface creation from coordinates (MERGE-119, MERGE-120). By Kyle Brindley.

• Build coverage artifacts in build directory (MERGE-121). By Kyle Brindley.

• Fix the docs and print abaqus module unit tests (ISSUE-136, MERGE-123). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Enforce positive floats and integers for CLI options requiring a positive value (ISSUE-55, MERGE-115). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.11.0 (2024-02-15)

Breaking changes

• Replace the --cubit flag with a --backend option that defaults to Abaqus (ISSUE-126, MERGE-108). By Kyle Brindley.

New Features

• SCons CLI builders for every subcommand (ISSUE-125, MERGE-107). By Kyle Brindley.

Documentation

• Consistent required option formatting in CLI usage (ISSUE-124, MERGE-105). By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Add a draft, general purpose SCons builder. Considered draft implementations in the internal interface until final design interface and behavior are stabilized(MERGE-106). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Allow users to turn off vertex markers in the geometry-xyplot subcommand output (MERGE-104). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.10.2 (2024-02-14)

New Features

• geometry-xyplot subcommand to plot lines-and-splines coordinate breaks (ISSUE-122, MERGE-102). By Kyle Brindley.

Bug fixes

• Only partition the requested part name(s) in the Cubit partition implementation (ISSUE-110, MERGE-88). By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Remove duplication in CI environment creation logic (ISSUE-121, MERGE-101). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Partition multiple parts found in a single input file in the partition subcommand (ISSUE-110, MERGE-88). By Thomas Roberts and Kyle Brindley.

v0.10.1 (2024-02-12)

Bug fixes

• Pass the color map option from the image subcommand Python 3 CLI to the Abaqus Python CLI (ISSUE-120, MERGE-100). By Kyle Brindley.

Documentation

• Document the re-git manual tag release step (ISSUE-117, MERGE-96). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add re-git badges (ISSUE-116, MERGE-95). By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Update CLI description for the image subcommand to be consistent with changes from ISSUE-92 (ISSUE-111, MERGE-89). By Thomas Roberts.

• Duplicate vertices Python 3 unit tests in Abaqus Python 2 (ISSUE-60, MERGE-90). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add boa to the CI environment for faster mambabuild packaging (ISSUE-118, MERGE-97). By Kyle Brindley.

• Build the package with boa and run the fast-test and conda-build jobs in parallel (ISSUE-119, MERGE-99). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Allow for assembly image generation by optionally excluding --part-name when using the image subcommand (ISSUE-92, MERGE-74). By Thomas Roberts.

v0.10.0 (2024-01-24)

Enhancements

• Improved Abaqus partitioning algorithm for handling pre-existing features (ISSUE-70, MERGE-86). By Kyle Brindley and Thomas Roberts.

v0.9.1 (2024-01-24)

Bug fixes

• Fix a part name variable in the image subcommand Abaqus implementation (ISSUE-105, MERGE-82). By Kyle Brindley.

Documentation

• Match user manual export subcommand options to implementation (ISSUE-109, MERGE-84). By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Draft SCons extensions for subcommand builders. Considered draft implementations in the internal interface until final design interface and behavior are stabilized (ISSUE-103, MERGE-80). By Kyle Brindley.

• Updated cubit partition scheme to identify surfaces relative to local coordinate system and principal planes (ISSUE-104, MERGE-81). By Paula Rutherford.

• Expose the SCons builders as part of the (future) public API (ISSUE-106, MERGE-83). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Add capability for a solid sphere geometry generation (ISSUE-97, MERGE-79). By Paula Rutherford.

v0.9.0 (2024-01-02)

Breaking changes

• Cylinder subcommand generates a cylinder with a centroid on the global coordinate system origin for consistency with sphere subcommand (ISSUE-93, MERGE-76). By Kyle Brindley.

• Replace sphere subcommand center movement argument with a vertical offset movement for consistency with cylinder subcommand and the Abaqus axisymmetric compatible geometry generation design (ISSUE-94, MERGE-77). By Kyle Brindley.

Documentation

• Clarify which image subcommand options are unused by Cubit implementation (ISSUE-85, MERGE-75). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Add a vertical offset option to the cylinder subcommand (ISSUE-93, MERGE-76). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add a vertical offset option to the geometry subcommand (ISSUE-95, MERGE-78). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.8.0 (2023-11-28)

Breaking changes

• Exclude the opening/closing assembly scope keywords in the --assembly option of the export subcommand. More consistent with the orphan mesh export behavior, which excludes the part/instance scope keywords. Allows users to more easily modify the assembly scope without post-facto text file modification and with straight-forward *include keywords. (ISSUE-90, MERGE-73). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.7.2 (2023-11-28)

New Features

• Draft implementation of image subcommand with Cubit (ISSUE-81, MERGE-68). By Kyle Brindley.

• Draft implementation of export subcommand with Cubit (ISSUE-79, ISSUE-88, MERGE-69, merge:70). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add ability to export Genesis files from export subcommand with Cubit (ISSUE-87, MERGE-71). By Kyle Brindley.

• Draft implementation of merge subcommand with Cubit (ISSUE-82, merge:72). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.7.1 (2023-11-27)

New Features

• Draft implementation of cylinder subcommand with Cubit (ISSUE-63, MERGE-61). By Kyle Brindley.

• Draft implementation of sphere subcommand with Cubit (ISSUE-71, MERGE-62). By Kyle Brindley.

• Draft implementation of partition subcommand with Cubit (ISSUE-72, MERGE-66). By Kyle Brindley.

• Draft implementation of mesh subcommand with Cubit (ISSUE-78, MERGE-67). By Kyle Brindley.

Bug fixes

• Fix pass through of rtol and atol arguments in geometry subcommand (MERGE-60). By Kyle Brindley.

• Fix Cubit bin search and PYTHONPATH append behavior on MacOS (MERGE-63). By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Separate the sphere arc point calculation from the abaqus python specific sphere module (ISSUE-62, MERGE-63). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Regularize revolved solids in Cubit to remove the sketch seam in 360 degree revolutions (MERGE-63). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.7.0 (2023-11-20)

Breaking changes

• Partition refactor for reduction in duplicate code and interface updates to match implementation. Replaces --[xz]point with --[xz]vector. Removes the various partition options in favor of user defined local xz plane from --center and --[xz]vector (ISSUE-66, MERGE-59). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Expose numpy tolerance to geometry subcommand interface to control the vertical/horizontal line check precision (ISSUE-68, MERGE-58). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.6.1 (2023-11-15)

New Features

• Draft implementation of geometry subcommand with Cubit (ISSUE-44, MERGE-50). By Kyle Brindley.

Bug fixes

• Fix the --euclidean-distance option of the geometry subcommand (ISSUE-67, MERGE-56). By Kyle Brindley.

Documentation

• Developer documentation for the mixed Python 2/3 modules and testing with both Python 3 and Abaqus Python (ISSUE-51, MERGE-48). By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Move export subcommand Python 2/3 compatible functions to a Python 3 re-usable module and unit test in both Python 3 and Abaqus Python (ISSUE-51, MERGE-48). By Kyle Brindley.

• Move merge subcommand Python 2/3 compatible functions to a Python 3 re-usable module and unit test in both Python 3 and Abaqus Python (ISSUE-53, MERGE-49). By Kyle Brindley.

• Drive the system tests with pytest to reduce hardcoded duplication in test definitions between repository and conda-build recipe (ISSUE-61, MERGE-52). By Kyle Brindley.

• Move the element type substitution function to a common Python 2/3 compatible module (ISSUE-59, MERGE-55). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Support MacOS Cubit execution (ISSUE-64, MERGE-53). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.6.0 (2023-11-13)

Breaking changes

• Consistent angle of revolution command line argument between subcommands: sphere now accepts --revolution-angle instead of --angle. (ISSUE-57, MERGE-47). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.5.2 (2023-11-13)

New Features

• Draft assembly keyword block exporter in export subcommand (ISSUE-38, MERGE-36). By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Separate the splines logic from the geometry Abaqus Python script and unit test it (ISSUE-41, MERGE-37). By Kyle Brindley.

• Unit test the coordinate generation for the axisymmetric cylinder subcommand (ISSUE-50, MERGE-39). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add a version controlled CI and development environment (ISSUE-13, MERGE-38). By Kyle Brindley.

• Python 2/3 compatible 2D polar coordinate to 2D XY coordinate converter. By Kyle Brindley.

• Move Abaqus Python geometry functions that are Python 3 compatible to a dedicated Python 2/3 compatible utilities module (ISSUE-52, MERGE-43). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Raise an error if the provided Abaqus command is not found (ISSUE-48, MERGE-40). By Kyle Brindley.

• Better error reporting on STDERR when running Abaqus Python scripts (ISSUE-52, MERGE-43). By Kyle Brindley.

• Enforce positive floats in the CLI when they are expected (MERGE-44). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.5.1 (2023-11-09)

New Features

• Add a cylinder subcommand (ISSUE-40, MERGE-31). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add a merge subcommand to combine multiple Abaqus models together (ISSUE-37, MERGE-26). By Thomas Roberts and Kyle Brindley.

Documentation

• Update project description and scope (ISSUE-36, MERGE-32). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add the Abaqus Python parsers to the internal API (ISSUE-47, MERGE-34). By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Replace duplicate Python 2/3 parsers with shared parsers compatible with both Abaqus Python and Python 3 (ISSUE-4, MERGE-28). By Kyle Brindley.

• Move the Python 3 wrapper functions to a dedicated module for re-use in SCons builders (ISSUE-35, MERGE-30). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Add color map argument to the image subcommand (ISSUE-45, MERGE-35). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.5.0 (2023-11-07)

Breaking changes

• Update the export subcommand to allow for multiple orphan mesh files to be exported from the same Abaqus model and also allow for element type changes. This change removed the output_file command line argument in favor of naming orphan mesh files after the part names (ISSUE-23, MERGE-24). By Thomas Roberts.

New Features

• Add a geometry subcommand to draw 2D planar, 2D axisymmetric, or 3D bodies of revolution from a text file of x-y points (ISSUE-16, MERGE-25). By Thomas Roberts.

Bug fixes

• Call the correct Abaqus Python script with the export subcommand (ISSUE-25, MERGE-22). By Kyle Brindley.

Documentation

• Add a PDF build of the documentation (ISSUE-31, MERGE-20). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add a higher resolution PNG image for the Turbo Turtle logo (ISSUE-32, MERGE-23). By Thomas Roberts.

Internal Changes

• Reduce hardcoded duplication and use Python built-ins for coordinate handling in sphere subcommand implementation (MERGE-21). By Kyle Brindley and Matthew Fister.

• Run the pytests with the regression suite (ISSUE-25, MERGE-22). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Fail with a non-zero exit code on Abaqus Python CLI errors (ISSUE-25, MERGE-22). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.4.3 (2023-10-24)

New Features

• Add a subcommand to mesh parts with a global seed (ISSUE-30, MERGE-19). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add a subcommand to export a part as an orphan mesh (ISSUE-29, MERGE-18). By Kyle Brindley.

Documentation

• Add two of the system tests to the user manual as examples (ISSUE-24, MERGE-17). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.4.2 (2023-10-24)

New Features

• Add a subcommand to open the package’s installed documentation (ISSUE-15, MERGE-11). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add a subcommand to create hollow sphere geometry (ISSUE-8, MERGE-13). By Kyle Brindley.

• Add a subcommand to create assembly image (ISSUE-18, MERGE-16). By Kyle Brindley.

Documentation

• Package HTML documentation and man page (ISSUE-11, MERGE-8). By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Consolidate in-repository system tests with the regression alias (ISSUE-15, MERGE-11). By Kyle Brindley.

• Reduce duplication in system test geometry creation (ISSUE-17, MERGE-12). By Kyle Brindley.

• Improved file handling for sphere and partition creation (ISSUE-6, MERGE-15). By Kyle Brindley.

Enhancements

• Create 2D axisymmetric part when provided a revolution angle of zero (ISSUE-21, MERGE-14). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.4.1 (2023-10-20)

Bug fixes

• Fix partition abaqus CAE command construction (ISSUE-9, MERGE-7). By Kyle Brindley.

Internal Changes

• Move abaqus imports internal to the partition function to allow future re-use of the parser (ISSUE-9, MERGE-7). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.4.0 (2023-10-20)

Breaking changes

• Move existing behavior to the partition subcommand to make room for additional common utilities (ISSUE-14, MERGE-5). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.3.0 (2023-10-20)

Documentation

• Gitlab-Pages hosted HTML documentation (ISSUE-1, ;merge:4). By Kyle Brindley.

v0.2.0 (2023-10-19)

New Features

• Package with Conda. By Kyle Brindley.

v0.1.0 (2023-10-19)

Breaking changes

New Features

Bug fixes

Documentation

Internal Changes

Enhancements