Getting started#

This section gets you from a fresh Python environment to a rendered mode shape. Pick the page that matches what you need.

Overview

What femorph-solver is, what it isn’t, and where the MAPDL-compatibility layer stops.

Overview
Installation

pip / uv instructions, optional extras for CHOLMOD / PARDISO / UMFPACK backends, and the MAPDL interop extra.

Installation
Quickstart

One script: read a CDB, solve for the first 10 modes, plot.

Quickstart
MAPDL interop

What reads and writes, KEYOPT parity, known gaps.

MAPDL interop
Roadmap

What’s done, what’s in progress, what’s planned — capabilities, analyses, interop, verification, docs.

Roadmap
Known limitations

Honest list of what femorph-solver does not do today and what produces silent-wrong-answer failure modes.

Known limitations
FAQ

Frequently asked questions distilled from the issue tracker — install gotchas, modal-solve quirks, cross-solver discrepancies, performance tuning.

Frequently asked questions