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9/7/2006
FEMPRO
- Updated international language versions
- Added capability to import nodal and element constraints from ASCII text files
- Improved feedback for licensing and installation
Stress Analysis with Linear Material Models
- Added ability to specify twisting coefficient for plate elements
- Added support for user-specified number of processors for sparse solver
- Improved feedback during thermal stress analysis
Superview Results Environment
- Improved load case combination utility
8/1/2006
Stress Analysis with Linear Material Models
- Improved support for element loads on warped plate elements
6/30/2006
FEMPRO- Added ability to select a group of vertices and project them onto a plane for alignment
- Added capability for CSV file import/export of beam cross-section data
- Added mesh seed points for specifying locations of nodes (e.g., to apply loads and constraints)
- Improved handling of invisible parts
- Improved speed of user input dialogs
- Improved support for custom material libraries
Report Wizard and Environment - Added user control of font styles, sizes and colors
- Added user control of image sizes
- Added capability to specify the title page image
Stress Analysis with Linear Material Models - Added faster, industry-standard sparse solver
- Added distributed memory processing for 32- and 64-bit Linux (Red Hat)
- Added ability to display part number for reaction and stress results of beams and trusses
- Added anisotropic temperature-dependent general piezoelectric material models
- Improved the formulation of plate elements for industry-standard NASTRAN compatibility
- Improved support for beam end releases
Superview IV Results Environment - Added capability to display the results of user-supplied functions operating on calculated results, user-supplied constraints and material properties
- Added additional color contour options
- Added options for surface-based selection and display
- Improved inquiry functionality
4/3/2006
CAD Support (Universal)- Improved CAD support for 2-D and 3-D wireframe geometry in the DXF file format
FEMPRO - Added capability to select a surface or part and then apply nodal-based loads and constraints to all the nodes
- Added capability to create fillets between non-intersecting lines
- Added capability to extend to construction lines, arcs and other sketch entities
- Added capability to snap to vertices on filtered parts or hidden sketches
- Added user-specified minimum number of elements through thin cross section
- Improved user interface ease-of-use including user interaction with the tree view and input dialogs as well as consistency between all menu and toolbar commands
- Improved selection tools including global and chain methods
- Improved dynamic viewing options including zoom and enclose methods
- Improved surface-to-surface contact support involving local coordinate systems
- Improved capability to modify part numbers while creating and updating structured meshes
- Improved capability to modify multiple refinement points at the same time
Material Library Manager - Improved handling of custom material libraries
Report Wizard and Environment - Added capability to publish reports to the PDF file format
- Added capability to automatically include the Superview result images in reports
- Added support for additional custom logo options including watermarks
Stress Analysis with Linear Material Models - Added 64-bit HP-UX support
- Improved linear contact
- Improved support for warped plate and composite elements
Superview IV Results Environment - Added capability to display stresses calculated from average stress tensors
- Added beam offset visualization
- Improved capability to save and restore animation settings
1/16/2006
Documentation- Updated ALGOR User's Guide for international languages including Chinese
FEMPRO - Added ability to run analysis on remote computer
- Completed implementation of Superdraw III sketching functionality in FEMPRO
- Improved support for units
- Improved overall feedback provided by messages, cursor and more
License Management - Improved installation dialogs for easier determination of what to install
- Improved warning/error messages when a license server is not available
Stress Analysis with Linear Material Models - Added 32-bit and 64-bit Linux (Red Hat) support
- Improved element formulation
- Improved composite capabilities
Superview IV Results Environment - Added 2-D stress linearization utility (including axisymmetric models) for evaluating a design's compliance with industry standards such as the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC)
- Added non-time-dependent graphs
- Added export capability to OpenHSF
- Improved 3-D beam visualization including making it the default
- Improved robustness of presentations
- Improved probe behavior with slice planes
- Improved zoom level persistence
- Improved part selection tools
- Improved robustness of boundary elements
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