Help · 0.2.0-beta.87

Keep your design moving

Start with the quick start, follow a guided exercise, or use the recovery steps below. To work through your existing chat, see Connect your assistant.

If you are blocked

• A disabled action: read the prerequisite beside it. Import geometry, create a tooling group, then create a region before adding plies.
• An invalid edit: correct the field and Apply again. A refused command leaves the applied design intact. Revert discards that form’s draft.
• Changes not saved: name the project under Model and press Save project. Wait for Saved. Export project… gives you a portable backup.
• Local storage unavailable: export the applied design before leaving. A failed local save is not a backup.
• A project conflict or recovery offer: follow the workspace’s saved-revision or keep-separately choices. Avoid clearing browser data while recovering.
• STALE summary: open Export → Summary… and Regenerate. Exact measurements that became stale must also be measured again.
• HDF5 or AddPath export refused: declared stacking rules cannot round-trip through the current exchange schemas. Keep the rules and use Export project… to preserve your complete design.

Current boundaries

• Supplier material cards cite typical published data; example layups and templates require engineering review before use on your own part.
• Declared ply angles remain intent until a hosted drape study computes a field. Kinematic draping covers smooth single-valued supports; it does not predict wrinkles, compaction or contact.
• Native 3D draping processes one selected ply on its saved native faces or exact CAD contour, including vertical faces and CAD holes. Constant preceding coverage uses analytic CAD-normal contact offsets. Saved complete-laminate intent reconstructs base, patch and cover contact with explicit cubic perimeter ramps and fill on a regular graph support. Directed cut planning traces these actual contacts and retains original-facet endpoints, cuts and candidate origins through saved layouts. Refined contacts retain original-facet origins, declared slit/butt cuts and result weights. Failed fields remain inspectable. Complete charts have flattened previews; Current selected-ply pattern exports require a declared shear screen and checked chart contours, CAD holes and source-bound slit banks. Optional finished SVG/DXF retains net contours, sourced allowances and grain/face markers. Positive allowances use the hosted Shapely worker; topology changes and conflicts refuse, and output precision and sampled screening limits are recorded. Sharp offset intersections, drawn holes/islands, protected regions and cut-joint analysis need integration. Native shell analysis supports uncut nominal stacks. Saved base/patch/cover ramps and explicit fill can use actual quadratic solid volumes with current physical ply drapes and sourced elastic laws; all six material stress components and actual supports/loads remain in the project. Draping imposes full contact and does not predict physical forming.
• Drape-derived patterns use saved net/extended cut regions and independent origins for directed butt pieces on sampled single-valued tooling. Incomplete/ambiguous coverage and exceeded sourced roll width block cutting exports. Overlap joints, two-stage draping and manufacturing qualification remain unresolved.
• The explicitly selected experimental cut inverse uses saved slit/V darts under assumed full contact. Inspect actual bank coordinates, removed net, retained covers and added/missing thickness. Current numerically valid sets can export actual-size SVG/JSON with source evidence and slit-bank cuts; failed or unresolved requirements block the complete set. It has no FEA, measured forming law, bridging/tearing prediction or repair approval. Failed original-net direction coverage remains unresolved even if a cover fills the gap.
• Full cut fields distinguish shear, warp deviation and weft deviation. Deviation uses tangent-projected seed axes, not general curved rosettes; conservative cell-corner bounds are pitch dependent. Explicit regional limits preserve sources. No bridging, tearing or wrinkle acceptance is inferred.
• Native source-bound pattern sets and independently verified feasible stock layouts are available through MCP. All current stocks and copies export as actual-size SVG/DXF with original patterns and verification evidence. Stock/reference and marking layers require explicit cutter setup; kerf compensation and machine programs are not generated. Layouts are not optimal or manufacturing-approved. Changed source data blocks export.
• Saved seam restrictions and stagger limits use sampled tool polylines. Spacing is minimum 3D Euclidean separation, not surface geodesic spacing or qualified joint strength. Failed or unresolved requirements block cutting exports.
• Butt-spliced manufacturing definitions cannot run structural analysis until seam-conforming geometry and a joint-transfer model are implemented. Engineering net coverage and nominal ply thickness remain separate from cut pieces.
• Hosted FEA uses linear perfectly bonded orthotropic shells or actual nominal ply/fill solids with sourced cured elastic data and named physical load cases. Optional solid maximum-stress screening checks all four integration points and six components using separate tension, compression and shear limits. Ply strength cards must cover actual signed drape shear; fill limits use global axes. Missing/inapplicable strengths stay unresolved. No fatigue, buckling, delamination prediction or manufacturing acceptance.
• Typical strength data is not a guaranteed minimum. Missing directional strengths keep the maximum-stress assessment unresolved; no damage interaction or progressive failure is modeled.
• Review targets screen calculated displacement and drape shear. A target met result is not engineering approval; assumptions and unresolved requirements still need review.
• Complete-laminate intent also supports a separately selected first-order discrete shear-gap shell. Each actual native ply chart and ramp-fill phase retains its volume, through-thickness and shape moments; actual bag loads retain force and moment. Full row stress extrema, nodal rotations and reactions are saved. Plane-stress shell kinematics impose sigma33=0. This is a linear bonded approximation, not interlaminar stress, physical consolidation, cut-joint transfer or qualified drop-edge failure analysis. Missing directional strengths remain unresolved.
• Cutout outlines are stored, but exact viewport clipping and measured material usage remain limited.
• Projects are stored in this browser; download a project backup to move or protect your work.
• Assistant actions require an OAuth-capable remote MCP client, a connected Addcomposites account and an open AddPly tab. Pending operations require completed browser receipts.

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Contact Addcomposites

For product help, use the contact route on the Addcomposites website. Describe the blocking step and release version. You decide whether to share the local report below; downloading it does not send it to support.

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