Added ability to vary display of mesh and results on individual parts
Improved ability to save presentations with a model
Improved ability to import presentations from a model
9/18/2003
Superview IV Results Environment
Improved ability to quickly smooth result contours
6/30/2003
General
Improved parallel sparse solver robustness for very large electrostatic models
Superview IV Results Environment
Added ability to display results in an arbitrary orientation using any of the user-defined coordinate systems
Added ability to save annotations with presentations
Improved speed of all dynamic viewing commands by hiding the display of load and constraint symbols during viewing operations
Improved controls for setting the result smoothing options
Improved controls for defining and working with slice planes
Improved ability to display the maximum value (without smoothing) when displaying result contours
4/7/2003
Superview IV Results Environment
Improved default settings for legend box range to provide a wider band of values
Improved ability to display models using feature lines
Improved ability to output inquired results to text files
2/6/2003
Superview IV Results Environment
Added ability to display element quality contours before an analysis
Improved display of element quality contours
Improved ability to modify plot settings
Improved ability to inquire on results at multiple locations and use the summary option
12/20/2002
Superview IV Results Environment
Added display of part names in the tree view
Added support for saving the lighting settings used with a presentation
12/6/2002
Superview IV Results Environment
Updated to an all-new, integrated environment for model visualization and results evaluation (electrostatic analyses)
Added docking toolbars to provide quick access to the most common commands (electrostatic analyses)
Added tree view that provides summary information about model data and quick access to visualization and results evaluation options (electrostatic analyses)
Added right-click menus for quick access from the graphics window and tree view to common commands (electrostatic analyses)
Provides ability to simultaneously view a model and varying result types through multiple view windows (electrostatic analyses)
Provides fast dynamic viewing options and rich colors through OpenGL-based displays (electrostatic analyses)
Provides dynamic clipping planes for slicing models to view various profiles (electrostatic analyses)
Provides quick access to a variety of pre-defined color palettes or a user-defined palette when displaying results (electrostatic analyses)
Provides dynamic controls for positioning the results legend, annotations and background images (electrostatic analyses)
Provides a display of the units related to the display in the results legend (electrostatic analyses)
Provides mixed display options to show results only on specified parts while other parts are illustrated in their respective part colors (electrostatic analyses)
Provides ability to save all settings for a specific presentation and view that same display at any time or use those settings with a different model (electrostatic analyses)
Provides various methods for selecting parts or elements in order to hide areas of the model in a display (electrostatic analyses)
Provides ability to use TrueType fonts and control all related attributes for use in annotations and the results legend (electrostatic analyses)
Provides quick and complete access to the display attributes and controls for the results legend (electrostatic analyses)
Provides an inquire mode where results from selected objects or load data is displayed and available for copy and paste operations to other applications (electrostatic analyses)
Provides a slider to control the display of elements based on a lower or upper result limit (electrostatic analyses)
7/17/2002
Electrostatic Analysis
Improved support for models that contain over 256 unique parts
Improved support for models that contain parts consisting of over 256 unique surfaces
5/3/2002
Electrostatic Analysis
Added an all-new fast sparse solver as the default solver
Added ability for sparse solver to perform parallel processing by utilizing multiple processors
Improved ability to dynamically perform memory allocation when using the sparse solver
Improved support for memory allocation and management on systems with a large amount of RAM memory
Improved support for specifying a location where temporary files are created during an analysis
Improved support for disk space feedback on systems with large hard drives
11/1/2001
Superview
Improved help messages for various menu commands
Provides direct access to the ALGOR User's Guide from the HELP pull-down menu
Provides direct access to the "Getting Started with ALGOR" video from the HELP pull-down menu
Provides direct access to important areas of the ALGOR web site for additional product and service information
Provides direct access to the tutorials from the HELP pull-down menu
9/6/2001
Superview
Improved display of selection indicators when using the mixed display option or when working with selected element groups
Improved support for creating graphic images of models that are located near the edge of the viewing window
Added support for overlaying contour line plots over light or material shading
Added support for the usage of up to 240 colors when defining contour plots
Improved ability to display models using only the feature lines
Added and updated various help messages to reflect the latest software updates
Improved ability to output Superdraw geometry files with proper group numbers for any model
Improved ability to save contours or other images to bitmap files that can be used within a wide range of third-party graphic applications
7/23/2001
Electrostatic Analysis
Improved printout of the total number of element groups to the analysis log file
Improved ability to output electrostatic forces due to surface charges on 3-D brick elements
5/25/2001
Electrostatic Analysis
Added ability to calculate and display force flow lines for a field strength and voltage analysis
Improved ability to generate flow line output from any analysis
Added a new global permittivity constant input that simplifies specification of the dielectric constant for field strength and voltage analyses
Added ability to output electrostatic forces due to surface charges on 3-D brick elements by specifying the surfaces of interest on the conductor
Improved support for the out-of-core skyline solver which allows for the analysis of larger models
Improved printout of model description and user-specified options in log files
Improved support for the default skyline solver
Improved ability to allocate larger amounts of memory under Windows 98
Improved disk space reporting for large hard drives
