ESP: The Engineering Sketch Pad Rev 1.24 -- January 2024 https://acdl.mit.edu/ESP/ 1. Prerequisites The major prerequisite is a WebGL/Websocket capable Browser. In general these include Mozilla's FireFox and Google Chrome. Internet Explorer or Edge are NOT supported because of a problem in Microsoft's Websockets. Edge Chromium does not display this problem. The setup scripts examines the default locations for Edge Chromium, FireFox and Chrome, and if found, uses one of these browsers when required. Note that this was built on a Windows 11 x64 machine using Visual Studio 2017. 1.1 Distribution Layout README.txt - this file EngSketchPad - the source and built ESP components esp_logo.ico - the ESP logo icon OpenCASCADE-7.7.0 - the version of OpenCASCADE used Python-3.11.6 - the version of Python used in the build vcredist15_x64.exe - Visual Studio redistribution package (for ESP) setup.cmd - the ESP setup script 2.0 Installation Double click on "ESP124-win-x64.exe" and extract to the desired location. Spaces in the path must be avoided. Double click on "setup.cmd" in the extracted location. This will create 2 desktop shortcuts to a command prompt that should be used for all ESP execution. These command prompts should start up in the bin directory of ESP unless the install location is on a UNC path. If this is the case the "start in" location on the shortcut property must be manually edited. You can disregard any output that looks like: WARNING: Value for scheme.headers does not match. Please report this to distutils: %PYTHONHOME%\Include\UNKNOWN sysconfig: %PYTHONHOME%\Include WARNING: Additional context: user = False home = None root = None prefix = None The desktop command prompt (labeled "ESP124") when double-clicked starts up the appropriate shell and sets the environment, then leaves the shell open so that you can freely execute (at the command line) any ESP/CAPS application. The command prompt labeled "runESP124" starts up "serveESP" directly and terminates when the ESP browser session completes. 3.0 Running ESP If there are complaints about VCRUNTIME150.dll is missing, please install vcredist15_x64 included with this distribution. Note: the above may require administrative privileges. 3.1 serveESP To run the program, either just double click on runESP124 or ESP124 desktop shortcut and use: > serveESP ..\data\tutorial1 Once the ESP GUI is functional, press the "help" button in the upper left if you want to execute the tutorial. 3.2 egads2cart This example takes an input geometry file and generates a Cart3D "tri" file. The acceptable input is STEP, EGADS or OpenCASCADE BRep files (which can all be generated from an OpenCSM "dump" command). > egads2cart geomFilePath [angle relSide relSag] 3.3 vTess and wvClient vTess allows for the examination of geometry through its discrete representation. Like egads2cart, the acceptable geometric input is STEP, EGADS or OpenCASCADE BRep files. vTess acts like serveESP. > vTess geomFilePath [angle maxlen sag] 4.0 CAPS (Computational Aircraft Prototype Syntheses) Note that CAPS has been built with the version of Python in this pre-built distribution. If you wish to use ESP in a larger Python environment it is strongly suggested that you build ESP. 4.1 Documentation The CAPS documentation can be seen in PDF form from within the directory %ESP_ROOT%\doc\CAPSdoc. Or in html by %ESP_ROOT%\doc\CAPSdoc\html\index.html. 4.2 Executing CAPS through Python > python pyCAPSscript.py (Note: many example Python scripts can be found in %ESP_ROOT%\CAPSexamples\pyCAPS)