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MICpad

MICpad is a driving (input) file editor specialized on MICRESS. Additionally to input modification, it provides one comprehensive view on a MICRESS simulation and its results in one graphical user interface.

Main features

  • Easy navigation through the driving file is possible with a navigation pane using bookmarks, i.e. headlines in the file.
  • Starting, pausing and stopping simulations can be done directly.
  • A list of available results allows easy monitoring of generated tabular data which can also be plotted in separate windows.
  • Field data can be visualized by the 2D viewer Display MICRESS using the Display button.
  • Examples for various simulation setups can be easily browsed and copied from the example dialog.

New in this release

  • Display all and Plot all feature allow to display results from multiple simulations at once (all checked results) or plot data columns from different tables together (all selected columns). A right-click on a plot will open a property dialog. Pressing escape will disable zoom.
  • A prototype of a primary solidification wizard designed for being used with Thermo-Calc's thermo-dynamic databases
  • Database choice
  • Alloy definition, phase selection
  • Generation of respective Thermo-Calc macro for GES5 file generation. These macros can be run by calling Thermo-Calc console from MICpad.
  • Driving file generation for a solidification setup for the primary solid phase
  • Jupyter notebooks can be loaded read-only and started in your default browser using any configured Python environment. Default is the internal Python distribution provided (see app configuration). Available notebooks for specific MICRESS® examples can be found in the examples list.
  • Python scripts can be run directly with standard output displayed.
  • A method to execute MICRESS simulations on a remote machine, e.g. submitting a cluster job file (see run configuration->submit).

Removed features

  • Conversion of 6.4 driving files. It is recommended to use an older version of MICpad to lift files from that old input structure.

Most of the MICpad functionalities should be self-explanatory. Some of the main concepts are explained in the following sections.