David Wells

I want to get back to this soon but I think changing the CI set up might cause some problems with mostly-done PRs - I'll finish getting those in before...

We do have `mkDirRecursive` or some other similarly named utility function to make directories - that can be done automatically. However - we specify restart directories on the command line....

The advantage of the encoding is that "Mechanics/Fiber Model" is a valid object name (from our point of view) but will not work as part of a filename - encoding...

I am not crazy about the obfuscated file names either - my underlying preference is to find a solution which does not require users to need to supply extra arguments...

An easy partial fix is to exchange the loop order: we can make the loop over dimensions the innermost one to cut the amount of work by 2/3rds.

Do one of you want to try to turn this into a patch?

Now would be a good time to add some more VC tests to make sure we don't break anything inside the library - I'll take a look at that (and...

There's a lot of duplicated code in the second commit. Is there a straightforward way to generalize the error checks to a single place?

I don't think its possible to automatically update this but I'd prefer to at least not add more duplicated code and instead move new things into a separate checking routine.

@boyceg do you have time to clean this up or should I do it? Some of our projects (Jordan's and Marshall's) need nodal pressure, and we need this before we...