Energy/Magnetic/Flow views: frame the between-layer field automatically

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John Lauer · 26d ago ·closed by John Lauer

The Energy, Magnetic and Flow views draw the field between (or just above) the copper layers, but the default iso camera with the stack together and the part bodies on hides it under the top copper and parts. In a film of a 2-layer buck (adom-fields 0.8.1) the magnetic sheet read as a haze over the board and the energy flow was invisible until the view was set by hand with explode 0.8 and parts off.

Ask: when one of these views is selected (UI or ui view --quantity), pick a camera and stack separation that make the field itself visible: pull the layers apart enough to see between them, hide or ghost the part bodies, and choose an angle low and to the side rather than from above. A flag to keep the current camera is fine for anyone who wants it.

Seen while filming john/tps54202-12v-5v-buck-20261018 (owner request, 2026-10-19).

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John Lauer · 26d ago

Fixed in adom-fields 0.8.6. Entering the Energy, Flow or Magnetic view, from the app or with ui view --quantity, now frames the field:

Energy: the stack opens to 0.8, the parts go off, and the camera turns to a low front view, so the flow between the layers shows.
Flow: the stack opens to 0.6, the parts are ghosted, and the camera goes low and to the side.
Magnetic: the parts go off and the camera goes low and to the side, so the sheet above the board reads.

Anything the command sets itself (explode, parts, camera) wins, and ui view --keep-camera keeps all three as they are. Leaving one of these views for another puts back the stack, parts and camera that were there before. There's also a new --camera low preset.

Update with adom-wiki pkg install adom/adom-fields. Closing; reopen if a view still hides its field.

John Lauer closed this · 26d ago