v7.11.0

[7.11.0] - 2023-10-22

Added

• Add cell-type argument to Mesh.add_midpoints_volumes(cell_type=None) and its variants for edges and faces.
• Add element.Element.view(), element.Element.plot() and element.Element.screenshot(). This enables an interactive plot of the element in the reference configuration with its point ids, e.g. Hexahedron().plot().show().

Changed

• Change function signature and enhance dof.biaxial(field, lefts=(None, None), rights=(None, None), moves=(0.2, 0.2), axes=(0, 1), clampes=(False, False), sym=True). Now with a full-featured docstring including an example. The old-style input move defaults to None, is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release.
• Change function signature and enhance dof.shear(field, bottom=None, top=None, moves=(0.2, 0.0, 0.0), axes=(0, 1), sym=True). Now with a full-featured docstring including an example. The old-style move, axis_compression, axis_shear and compression all default to None, are deprecated and will be removed in the next major relase.
• Merge keyword-arguments for the dual-regions with hard-coded arguments in FieldsMixed(region, **kwargs).
• Replace np.product() (will be removed in NumPy 2.0) with the equivalent np.prod().

Fixed

• Fix FieldsMixed() for regions with MINI-element formulations: Disable the disconnection of the dual mesh.
• Fix dof.shear(sym=True) which was previously ignored due to a wrong setup of the symmetry boundaries.
• Fix the install command on Python 3.12 by adding an extra-index-url for VTK wheels if they are not yet available on PyPI (the extra index is provided by Kitware).
• Fix a warning because the timings of the Newton-Rhapson solver are printed from a one-dimensional array. Take the first item of the runtime-array to resolve this warning.

Removed

• Remove the undocumented dof.planar() because this is a special case of the biaxial load case dof.biaxial(field, clampes=(True, False), moves=(0.2, 0), sym=False, axes=(0, 1)).

What's Changed

• Enhance loadcase biaxial by @adtzlr in #534
• Remove planar load case by @adtzlr in #535
• Fix FieldsMixed() for MINI-elements by @adtzlr in #538
• Fix dof.shear(sym=True) by @adtzlr in #540
• FieldsMixed(region, **kwargs): Merge kwargs for the dual region by @adtzlr in #541
• Add support for Python 3.12 by @adtzlr in #543
• Add element methods view, plot and screenshot by @adtzlr in #551
• Deprecate old-style args of load cases by @adtzlr in #553

Full Changelog: v7.10.0...v7.11.0