Referencing FemDesign.Core from GitHub

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how to use the development branch

  1. Navitgate to GitHub - strusoft/femdesign-api: FEM-Design API

  2. Click on Code and Open with GitHub Desktop

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  3. Open the .sln file with Visual Studio

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  4. you can now choose a different branch(master is always the latest. The development branch follow the number of the milestone. The current one is 23.9.0)

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  5. You can then reference this repository in your program so that you can get the WIP features :slight_smile:

Theoretically, the same procedure can be done with a FORK.
https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/working-with-forks/fork-a-repo

If you manage to work in this way, you will be able to also create pull request and we would consider merging them in our repository :slight_smile:

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I am currently using master.
I can change to 23.9.0 dev but then I need to remake .csproj

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Can I add something to my local FemDesign.Core?
Example if I want to try adding a method overload to ConcreteMaterialProperties that changes mass.

In FemDesign.Materials.Material.cs

           public static Material ConcreteMaterialProperties(Material material, double mass)

    {
        if (material.Concrete != null)
        {
            // deep clone. downstreams objs will have contain changes made in this method, upstream objs will not.
            Material newMaterial = material.DeepClone();

            // downstream and uppstream objs will NOT share guid.
            newMaterial.EntityCreated();

            // set parameters
            newMaterial.Concrete.SetMaterialParameters(mass);
            newMaterial.EntityModified();

            // return
            return newMaterial;
        }
        else
        {
            throw new System.ArgumentException("Material must be concrete!");
        }
    }

In FemDesign.Materials.Concrete.cs

internal void SetMaterialParameters(double mass)
{
this.Mass = mass;
}

As the FemDesign.Core is locked I can’t add my code and test if it works?
Would be nice before a pull request :slight_smile:

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ehi @KPN

Have a look at the following blog post. I try to explain how to develop/collaborate on a project :slight_smile:
I hope is clear. If not, let me know and I will modify it with some additional comments.

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I read the post and I think it gives a good overview of a lot of the questions I have had :slight_smile:
Maybe one point could be to recommend commit (save) before switching branch?
I have manage to lose some work not doing that :sweat_smile:
My understanding is that stash dosent includes untracked files that ex. new files are.

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In reality, Stash is not deleting. They should still be in the branch where you stash them. Moving back to the branch, should make them reapper.

i.e. from A you move to B and you stash the changes (they will remain in A). If you then move from B to A, you should be able to unstash the changes.

I hope you can find your work again :slight_smile:

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