textopt - optimization of cutting parameters based on fast topography simulation

Dependencies:

• SFML
• yaml-cpp
• Eigen

Contains code from jdumas/mma.

Installation

The code can be built using CMake. Cloning it into your computer, and provided you have the required dependencies and CMake can find them, it's just a matter of running:

mkdir build 
cd build 
cmake ..  
make
make install

The executable is by default installed to the folder from where it was built.

Provided you have access to a terminal. Binaries are also distributed here on GitHub via the right sidebar, under releases. The Windows binaries are distributed with the required DLLs. For Linux, it's better to obtain them using your distribution's package manager. This also applies for WSL.

Usage

textopt can currently only be run via a command line interface, being supplied with a configuration file, like so (for a UNIX-like shell):

./build/textopt ./examples/v0.1.0/opt.yaml

The YAML files contain all the necessary parameters to run the tests. There are three kinds of tests available:

• opt: cutting parameter optimization
• single: generates a topography and related information from the cutting parameters used as input
• plot: generates plot information of superficial area and roughness for a range of parameters. It creates a plot_*.txt file inside the folder from where it was called, which can be plotted using the /scripts/plot.py script

For more information, see the example files inside the /examples/ subfolders.