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Changelog

Changelog

All notable changes to Elementa are documented here.
Format follows Keep a Changelog.
Versioning follows Semantic Versioning.

[1.0.0] — 2026

Added

  • Initial public release.
  • Parametric 2-D and 3-D CAD geometry builder (rectangle, disk, polygon, box, sphere, cylinder).
  • Boolean operations: union, difference, intersection.
  • Automatic triangular (2-D) and tetrahedral (3-D) meshing via gmsh.
  • Physics plugin registry with two built-in solvers:
  • Electrostatics — Poisson equation for electric potential.
  • Heat Transfer — stationary and transient heat equation with backward-Euler time stepping.
  • Supported boundary conditions per physics module.
  • Parametric expression evaluator with dependency resolution.
  • Built-in material library (Air, Vacuum, Water, Silicon, Copper).
  • Interactive 2-D/3-D graphics canvas for geometry and mesh visualisation.
  • Post-processing: surface plots, arrow/vector plots, point and line probes.
  • Portable .elem project file format (ZIP archive: JSON state + .msh mesh + .npz results).
  • PyQt6-based GUI with ribbon toolbar, dockable panels, and welcome wizard.
  • elementa console script entry point.
  • GPL v3 licence.