SMTK: Simulation Modeling Tool Kit

Version: 23.04.0

Contents:

• SMTK User’s Guide
  • Obtaining, Building, and Installing
  • An Overview of SMTK’s Subsytems
  • SMTK Common
    • Factory
    • Instances
    • Generator
    • Links
    • Observers
      • Observer parameters
      • Observing state
      • Registering an observer
      • Early exit
      • Mutating observations and thread safety
      • Example
    • Thread Pool
    • Type Container
    • Type Map
    • Update factory
  • SMTK’s Resource System
    • Key Concepts
    • Filtering and Searching
  • SMTK’s Geometry System
    • Key Concepts
      • Writing a geometry object for a resource
      • Consuming geometry from a resource
      • Geometric queries
  • SMTK’s Attribute Resource
    • General Description
      • Key Concepts
      • Interfaces to the attribute resource
      • Example Workflow
      • Migration to newer schema
      • Template File Syntax (Reference) for Version 6 XML Attribute Files
      • Filtering, Searching and Reference Item Rules
      • Evaluators
      • Attribute Builder (Python, experimental)
  • SMTK’s Operation System
    • Operators
      • Inputs and Outputs
    • Operation support
      • Sideband information
      • Groups
      • Registration
      • Launching operations
      • Observing operations
      • Operation Hints
  • SMTK’s Geometric Model Resource
    • Key Concepts
    • Model Entities
      • Implementation
      • Organizing Principles
    • Filtering and Searching
    • Sessions
      • Registration and initialization of Sessions and Operators
    • Model Property System
      • Reserved model properties
      • Model properties of sessions
    • Operators
      • Inputs and Outputs
      • Registration
    • Presenting models in a user interface
    • Session: Discrete
    • Session: Exodus
    • Session: Polygon
      • Meshing Boost.polygon models
    • PPG File Format
      • PPG Features
      • File Format
  • SMTK’s Graph-based Model Resource
    • Key Concepts
    • Nodes and Arcs
      • Nodes
      • Arcs
      • Arc-trait properties
      • Arc-trait decoration
      • Arc endpoints
      • Arc direction and indexing
    • Filtering and Searching
    • Serialization
      • What SMTK provides
      • The order of operations
      • Example
  • SMTK’s Markup (Annotation) Resource
    • Key Concepts
      • Node types
      • Arc types
  • SMTK’s Mesh Resource
    • Key Concepts
    • IO
      • Serialization
  • SMTK’s Project System
    • Key Concepts
  • SMTK’s Task System
    • Key Concepts
    • Guide to task classes
      • Task
      • FillOutAttributes
      • Group
      • GatherResources
    • Guide to adaptor classes
      • Adaptor
      • ResourceAndRole
    • Serialization and deserialization
  • SMTK’s Simulation System
  • SMTK’s View System
    • Key Concepts
    • Views
      • Attribute views
      • Phrase views
    • Hierarchical Phrases
      • Phrase Models
      • Phrase Content Types
      • Subphrase Generators
      • Badges
  • SMTK’s Extensions
    • Qt
    • Visualization Tool Kit
    • ParaView
      • Anatomy of ParaView
      • Integration with SMTK
      • Plugins
      • Lifecycle
      • Representations
      • Integrating ParaView and SMTK Selection
      • Panels
      • Widgets
  • SMTK’s Bindings
    • Python overview
      • Python plugins in modelbuilder
    • Generating pybind11 bindings
    • Customizing pybind11 bindings
  • SMTK’s Plugin System
    • Plugins
  • String token utilities
    • Motivation
    • Concepts
    • Switch statements
    • String source data
    • Token hashing algorithm
  • Debugging tips and tricks
    • Debugging observers
  • Administering SMTK
    • End-user tool installation
    • Developer installation
    • Configuration as a modeling and meshing server
      • Worker file search paths
      • Creating a Remus worker file for solid modeling
  • Contributing to SMTK
    • Source code organization
    • Adding data to SMTK
      • Data in the repository
      • Embedding data in SMTK targets
    • Extending SMTK
    • Exposing SMTK for use in external projects
    • Code style
    • Documentation style
    • Testing
      • Unit tests
      • Build-failure tests
      • Contract tests
    • To-do list
• Tutorials
  • First steps in C++
    • Including SMTK headers and calling methods
    • Compiling the example
  • First steps in Python
    • Setup
    • Problem Definition
    • Simulation Preparation
  • Bridge a new modeling kernel
    • Adding Entity UUIDs
      • Adding UUIDs by either technique
      • Adding UUIDs as attributes
      • Adding UUIDs as sequences
      • Summary
    • Creating a session subclass
    • Transcribing model entities
    • Providing operators
  • Implementing an STMK operator
    • Subclassing smtk::model::Operator
    • Defining operator input parameters
    • Defining operator output parameters
    • Implementing the actual operation
  • Create a basic project
    • Initialize SMTK Managers
    • Register and Create “basic” Project
    • Create Attribute Resource
    • Add Attribute Resource to Project
    • Write Project Resource
    • Open in modelbuilder Application
    • Going Further
• Release notes
  • SMTK 23.04 Release Notes
    • SMTK Common Related Changes
      • Common Directory Utility
      • Expanding String token API
    • SMTK UI Related Changes
      • Adding ID Support to Instanced Views
      • Allow qtOperationDialog to be non-modal
    • Changes to SMTK’s Task Subsystem
      • User Interface for Task-based Workflows (Preview)
      • Operation Hint for Switching the Active Task
      • Task Management Changes
  • SMTK 23.01 Release Notes
    • SMTK Platform and Software Process Changes
      • CMake string encoding
    • SMTK Common Changes
      • More path helper functions
    • SMTK General Resource Related Changes
    • SMTK Attribute Resource Changes
    • SMTK Graph Resource Changes
    • SMTK I/O Changes
      • Added the ability to “Export” ItemBlocks in Attribute Template Files
    • SMTK Operation Changes
    • SMTK Markup Resource Changes
      • Markup resource ontology support
      • Resource read bugs
      • Finding markup components by name
    • SMTK ParaView Related Changes
      • ParaView Pipeline Sources
      • ParaView plugins reorganized
    • SMTK Python Related Changes
    • SMTK 3D Widget Changes
    • SMTK UI Related Changes
      • Tab order in extensible group items
      • Improvements for operation views
    • Removal of Deprecated Code
    • Important Bug Fixes
      • Fixing qtGroupItem::updateItemData Method
      • Fixes for ReferenceItem widgets
      • Sort newly-created phrases
  • SMTK 22.11 Release Notes
    • SMTK Platform and Software Process Changes
      • Type-name now reported consistently across platforms
      • Regex header wrapper
    • SMTK Common Changes
      • Type container now uses string tokens as keys
      • String tokens are now constexpr
    • SMTK General Resource Related Changes
      • Extended resource locking
      • Extended resource locking
    • SMTK Attribute Resource Changes
      • Changes to Copying Attributes and Assigning Attributes and Items
      • Attribute update manager
      • Reference item API addition
      • Reference Item
      • Changes to ValueItem’s Expressions
    • SMTK Markup Resource
    • SMTK Graph Resource Changes
      • Graph resource arc-evaluators
      • Graph-resource Filter Grammar
    • SMTK Operation Changes
      • Operation-system Changes
      • Operation Hints
      • Coordinate transform editor
      • Assign colors operation
      • New Operation Groups for Grouping and Ungrouping
      • Property editor operation
    • SMTK ParaView Related Changes
      • ParaView Group and Ungroup Menu Items
      • Automated panel-switching fixed
      • Pipeline Source Signals
      • Resource Representation Color Fix
      • Resource Representation Color Fix
    • SMTK Python Related Changes
      • Python operations as modelbuilder plugins
    • SMTK 3D Widget Changes
      • 3-D ParaView Widget API Change
      • Cone-widget
    • SMTK UI Related Changes
      • Qt File Item Changes
      • Qt UI for extensible file items
  • SMTK 22.08 Release Notes
    • SMTK Operation Changes
      • Remove Resources via Operation
      • Deprecate ResourceManagerOperation
    • SMTK Software Process Changes
      • Continuous integration
  • SMTK 22.07 Release Notes
    • SMTK Common Changes
      • RGBA color conversion
    • SMTK Attribute Resource Changes
      • Expanding SMTK Attribute Category Mechanism
    • SMTK QT Changes
      • Attribute items have a “Reset to Default” context menu item
      • qtItem changes
      • Changes to qtInputsItem
    • SMTK ParaView Extensions Changes
      • Panels separated from DockWidgets
      • ParaView resource panel
      • Coloring renderable geometry
      • Resource panel search bar
      • Selection filtering for graph resources
    • SMTK Graph Session Changes
      • Graph-resource Dump improvements
  • SMTK 22.05 Release Notes
    • SMTK Resource Changes
      • New methods on smtk::resource::Resource
    • SMTK Attribute Resource Changes
      • Allowing Designers to Set the Default Name Separator for Attribute Resources
      • Attribute itemPath Method
    • SMTK View Changes
      • Descriptive Phrase Model Change in Subphrase Generation
    • SMTK QT Changes
      • Saving Collapsible Group View Box State
      • Qt subsystem: badge click actions
      • Added onDefinitionChange Signal to qtAttributeView
      • qtGroupItem’s Modified Children
      • qtInputsItem children displayed on right
    • SMTK ParaView Extensions Changes
      • Reorganization of extensions/paraview/appcomponents
    • SMTK VTK Related Changes
      • Dataset information operation for VTK backend
      • VTK resource multi-block source changes
    • SMTK Graph Session Changes
      • Breaking changes to graph-resource arcs
    • Python Related Changes
      • Python bindings for smtk.common
    • Plugin Changes
      • Make QT_NO_KEYWORDS optional for external plugins
    • General Build Changes
      • Support for old hash namespace conventions dropped
  • SMTK 22.04 Release Notes
    • SMTK Common Changes
      • Factory API for shared pointers
    • SMTK QT Changes
      • Enable QT_NO_KEYWORDS builds
      • Added names to qt UI objects to allow for more repeatable automatic testing
    • SMTK ParaView Extensions Changes
      • Added a Mechanism to hide labels for pqSMTKAttributeItemWidget
      • 3D Widget Visibility
      • SMTK Representation Changes
      • Added the Ability to Render Geometry with Solid Cells
    • SMTK Project Changes
      • Made projects portable between different file systems and paths
    • SMTK Resource Changes
      • Expanded SMTK Properties to include sets of ints
      • Resource subclasses and the move constructor
      • Improved smtk::resource::Metadata
      • Coordinate Frame Property
    • SMTK Graph Session Changes
      • Graph Arcs now support inverse relationships
    • SMTK View Changes
      • Fix Editing Descriptive Phrase Titles
    • Python Related Changes
      • Make PyOperations execute on the main thread by default
      • Python API changes
      • Removal of Python2 support
    • Plugin Changes
      • ParaView Plugins
  • SMTK 22.02 Release Notes
    • SMTK Attribute Resource Changes
      • Added API to Disable Category Inheritance for Definitions
      • Attribute itemAtPath() extended for groups
    • SMTK QT Changes
      • Base attribute view
      • Qt attribute class
      • Qt attribute item-information
      • New reference-tree item widget
      • Removal of qtActiveObjects
    • SMTK ParaView Extensions Changes
      • ParaView and Qt operation panels and views
      • Fixed Crash when loading in multiple attribute resources
      • Added the ability to set the View and Attribute Resource
      • 3-D widgets
    • SMTK VTK Extension Changes
      • Mesh inspection operation
    • SMTK StringUtils Changes
      • Added toBoolean to StringUtils
    • SMTK Graph Session Changes
      • Graph Arcs/OrderedArcs use WeakReferenceWrapper
      • GraphTraits allows customized NodeContainer
    • SMTK I/O Changes
      • Logger severity rename
      • Adding Property Support in Attribute XML Files
    • SMTK View Changes
      • Eliminating the need to call repopulateRoot
      • Resource lock badge
      • Membership badge
    • Python Related Changes
      • Attribute Builder (Python)
    • Other Changes
      • Plugin initialization based on ParaView version
  • SMTK 21.12 Release Notes
    • SMTK Common Changes
      • Changes to smtk::common::Instances
    • SMTK Attribute Resource Changes
      • Added Definition::isRevelvant Method
      • Expanded attribute’s Signal Operation to include category changes
      • Change to Attribute::isRelevant Method
    • SMTK Qt Changes
      • qtAttributeView now uses smtk::attribute::Definition::isRelevant method
    • SMTK View Changes
      • Changes to Descriptive Phrase Functionality
    • SMTK Task Changes
      • Changed FillOutAttribute JSON Logic
      • Task now supports Instance criteria
      • Task now processes category changes on resources
      • Fixed Task State Calculations
      • Added the following methods
      • Added smtk::tasks::Instances::findByTitle method
      • Improved TestTaskGroup
    • Python Related Changes
      • Operation python tracing with config
    • Other Changes
      • GDAL dependency has been removed
  • SMTK 21.11 Release Notes
    • SMTK Attribute Resource Changes
      • Display hint for attribute resources
      • Attribute writer now has exclusions
      • Changing the default behavior of smtk::attribute::ReferenceItem::appendValue()
    • Python Related Changes
      • Updated Python bindings
      • Operation Tracing
  • SMTK 21.10 Release Notes
    • SMTK Common Changes
      • Observers and debugging
    • Attribute Resource Changes
      • Expanding Attribute Resource’s Query Grammar
    • Qt UI Changes
      • New qtComponentAttributeView Replacing qtModelEntityAttributeView
      • Improving qtAssociation2ColumnWidget’s Operation Handler
    • SMTK’s New String Token Support
      • String token classes
    • SMTK Software Process Changes
      • Dynamic initialization in plugins
  • SMTK 21.09 Release Notes
    • SMTK Resource and Component Changes
      • Supporting MarkedForRemoval
    • Attribute Resource Changes
      • Changing Expression Format
      • Supporting “External” Expressions
    • Qt UI Changes
      • Changes to qtBaseAttributeView
      • Deprecation of qtUIManager::attResource() method
      • Added qtItem::attributeResource() method
      • Fixing qtAttributeView handling of Operations
      • Added qtAttributeView::matchesDefinitions
      • Replacing qtBaseView::getObject()
      • Added Ability to Set Attribute Editor Panel’s Title
    • SMTK Task Subsystem (Preview)
      • New Task Classes
      • Task serialization/deserialization
    • Other SMTK Core Changes
      • Allow connecting to remote server using multi-servers
      • Using TypeContainers instead of ViewInfo
      • Visibility badge improvements
  • SMTK 21.07 Release Notes
    • Registration Changes
      • Manager/registry tracking
    • SMTK Resource and Component Changes
      • Expanding Default Property Types on SMTK Resources/Components
    • Attribute Resource Changes
      • Preserve State Information
      • Fix isValid Check w/r to an Attribute’s Associations
    • Added the ability to ignore an item
      • Changes to Attribute and Item isRelevant Methods
      • Added hasRelevantChildren method to GroupItem
      • Changing ReferenceItem::AppendValue to Support Append Non-Unique
    • Model Resource Changes
      • Model resource transcription
    • SMTK Project Changes
      • Changes to smtk::project::ResourceContainer API
    • Other SMTK Core Changes
      • Visitors
      • Task subsystem
    • Qt UI Changes
      • Removing Empty Frames in qtGroupItem
      • Filter Advance Attribute Definitions
      • Hide disabled attribute resources
      • Improving UI handling of Signal Operations
      • Supporting smtk.extensions.attribute_view.name_read_only in qtAttributeViews
      • Observing Operations
    • Changes to Polygon Session
      • ImportPPG Operation
    • Removed Previously Deprecated API
    • Software Process Changes
      • CMake Policies
      • Deprecate Python 2.x support
  • SMTK 21.05 Release Notes
    • Changes to Project Subsystem
    • ParaView Related Changes
      • ParaView-extension pipeline-creation changes
    • Graph Resource Changes
      • Graph-resource ArcMap
    • Software Process Changes
      • CMake package directory

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