FTools “Prod” (V4)

https://ftools.aero-sonix.com/index

Current FTools development (V5)

A 2-years investment !

FTools V5 Main expected Features:

• Graphical composition of the layout
• Items (Seats and Others) Data and IFL database
• Less (if not “No”) excel interactions
• ⮱ therefore, it’s worth it even for A350

FTools V5 breakdown

FTools V5 can be decomposed into 5 main modules :

• ACPitcher: Geometry kernel and Graphical interface for layouting
• ACLcids: Seats and generic items IFL management (scale, interpolation, alignment)
• SeatsDB: Items (seats and others) data and IFLs storage.
• FTools: Calculation kernel
• Ftools Wapp: graphical interface wrapping all that stuff

For now (V5+), ACPitcher is fully independant from FTools:

IFLs handling

Module in charge of scaling, interpolating and aligning IFLs according to Aircraft Loads.

SeatsDB is a ACLcids’s sub-module.

A database containing already used items.

For now: 256 Items (inc. Seats and Shells) - (Recaro, Safran and BE-Aerospace)

All the items in DB are the ones found in:

• COI
• Shadow
• 28J
• 48J
• A350

Format

Items are stored as Excel files, in an extended V5 format, featuring 4 tabs:

• item: item’s metadata
• acc: Accelerations labels
• item_loads: well… item loads
• item_geom_points: item’s geometry

item - item’s metadata

acc - Accelerations label

item_loads

item_geom_points

SeatsDB CLI

the DB features A CLI :

% seatsdb --help                                                                                                                                                          
Usage: seatsdb [OPTIONS] ACCOUNT [DB] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  seatsdb interacts with Seats Database. Several commands are provided.

Options:
  -l, --log-level [debug|info|warning|error|critical]
                                  [default: info]
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  check-ifls     Check provided IFLs against mass and accelerations
  clear          clear (delete) data for provided options
  collect        parse S2 sources for provided options and ensure that S3...
  open-folder    open S2 source efolder for provided options
  rebuild-index  rebuild Database cache
  search         search seats for provided options
  stats          a few statistics

IFLs checks

A native IFLs checker is included in database. It compares theoretical reactions against input IFLS.

Expected reactions are calculated (Imp. units):

• F_x = A_x ⋅ (IFLw+170ω+20ρ)
• F_y = A_y ⋅ (IFLw+170ω+20ρ)
• F_z = A_z ⋅ (IFLw+170ω+20ρH)

where:

• ω: actual seat occupency
• ρ: maximum seat occupency
• H: 0 if accelerations are downward, else 1

IFLs checks summary

ACLcids Metrics

coverage

Coverage report : 73% (inc. SeatsDB)

Testing

86 test-cases

Lopa creator

Module in charge of providing a handy interface to user for building a lopa

Row Numberer

ACPitcher Metrics

coverage

Coverage report : 84%

Testing

70 test-cases

• ACPitcher (Layout Composer): 95%
• ACLcids (Loads scaling and interpolation): 100%
• ACLcids (Affectaction): 50% (miss gui!)
• ACLcids (Export V4): 100%

COI

SHADOW

48J

28J

A350

Historics

V5 development started with ACLcids 17th of June, 2024

A full time job

It can be considered that NC worked full time on ACLcids / ACPitcher for 2 years.

2years ⋅ 220days ⋅ 8hours = 3′520hours

Applying a 0.75 factor:

V5 _{spent time} = 3′520 ⋅ 0.75 = 2′640hours

Summary

Feature

Mainly work on:

• Feature#640 : “loading graphical affectation”
• Feature#639: “Add Zoning affectation criteria”

Logged hours

Logged hours: 70.5 hours