Historical Software Updates
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9/30/2005
Superview IV Results Environment- Added isosurface display of results
- Added ability to specify default display settings for new models
- Added ability to show node numbers for minimum and maximum values
- Added export capability to VRML
6/30/2005
Heat Transfer Analysis- Added body-to-body radiation for combined steady fluid flow and heat transfer analysis
- Added body-to-body radiation for transparent bodies
- Added ability to specify equations for heat generation loads
- Improved robustness of Joule heating
- Improved heat flux calculation for 2-D axisymmetric models
- Improved support for large models
Superview IV Results Environment - Added stand-alone animation player
- Improved display of impact and slice planes
- Improved ease of use and robustness
4/1/2005
Superview IV Results Environment- Added capability to view graphs in same window as contours
- Added ability to save probes and Min/Max annotations
- Added ruler to display scale when viewing models
- Improved overall ease-of-use and robustness based on customer feedback
- Improved support for large models
12/22/2004
Heat Transfer Analysis
- Added support for parallel processors for body-to-body radiation
- Added support for multiple surface-based loads
Superview IV Results Environment
- Added ability to display sliced models using transparency
- Improved performance of slice planes by automatically capping element faces
- Improved ability to save and delete presentations
11/9/2004
Heat Transfer Analysis
- Added support for multiple edge-based loads on 2-D elements
9/30/2004
Heat Transfer Analysis
- Added support for 2-D axisymmetric body-to-body radiation
7/30/2004
Superview IV Results Environment
- Added support for user-defined result types
- Improved ability to select multiple nodes
7/7/2004
Heat Transfer Analysis
- Added body-to-body radiation support for transient analyses
- Added ability for a time-varying ambient temperature in radiation loads for transient analyses
- Improved forced convection analysis by allowing the results from multiple fluids to be considered
4/13/2004
Superview IV Results Environment
- Added ability to define graphs based on the addition/subtraction of results
- Added ability to graph face-based results
- Added ability to display X- and Y-axis labels
- Improved support for calculating and graphing the derivative of results
3/30/2004
Heat Transfer Analysis
- Added viscous-heating capability for applications such as extrusion, compounding and injection and transfer molding
- Added support for forced convection effects in a transient heat transfer analysis
- Added option to use an all-new iterative solver that provides a significant speed increase for mid- to large-size models
- Improved ability to specify the fluid flow analysis time step to be used for velocity loads when considering convection effects
- Improved ability to define specified temperatures for a transient heat transfer analysis through right-click menus
Monitor
- Introduced built-in, virtual instrumentation through an all-new Monitor for time-dependent result graphs
- Added ability to graph all available result types for all analysis types such as strains, maximum stress, heat flux and velocities
- Added support for results relative to local coordinate systems
- Added ability to display grid lines on graphs
Superview IV Results Environment
- Added annotations to highlight the location of minimum and maximum results
- Added ability to define result probes at desired locations
- Added embedded animation player
- Added ability to specify the size of vector arrows
- Improved tools for selecting parts, elements, faces, loads and constraints
12/17/2003
Heat Transfer Analysis
- Added coupled heat transfer and fluid flow analysis to accurately simulate natural, forced or mixed convection
Superview IV Results Environment
- Added ability to include the mini-axis in image files, animations and printouts
- Improved support for user-specified thresholds for result contour ranges
- Improved display of feature lines for hand-built models
11/4/2003
Heat Transfer Analysis
- Added a thermal brick element with midside nodes for improved multiphysics modeling
- Improved sparse solver to provide better performance for large models
Superview IV Results Environment
- Added transparent display capabilities (translucency)
- Added ability to vary display of mesh and results on individual parts
- Improved support for generating animations of time-dependent analyses
- Improved ability to save presentations with a model
- Improved ability to import presentations from a model
9/18/2003
Heat Transfer Analysis
- Added support for thermal contact for steady-state and transient heat transfer analyses that can be used to model the resistance from a thin layer such as a gasket or epoxy between parts
- Added an implicit backward Euler time integration method which allows larger time steps to be used in transient analyses
- Improved support for load curves with sudden or rapid magnitude changes in transient analyses
Superview IV Results Environment
- Improved ability to quickly smooth result contours
6/30/2003
Heat Transfer Analysis
- Added support for temperature-dependent convection coefficients and temperature-dependent internal heat generation loads
- Improved parallel sparse solver robustness for very large 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
1/13/2003
Heat Transfer Analysis
- Improved robustness of transient heat transfer analyses of large models
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
11/1/2002
Superview IV Results Environment
- Added ability to specify user-defined model views and then save, modify, delete or restore them
- Added ability to choose a user-defined center of rotation either on the model or by specifying arbitrary XYZ coordinates
- Added ability to use keyboard modifier keys to constrain rotation about only the global X, Y or Z axis or the view's Z axis when using the arrow keys
- Added ability to define the angle of rotation in degrees as the incremental value for model rotations using the cursor keys
8/23/2002
Superview IV Results Environment
- Updated to an all-new, integrated environment for model visualization and results evaluation (heat transfer analyses)
- Added docking toolbars to provide quick access to the most common commands (heat transfer analyses)
- Added tree view that provides summary information about model data and quick access to visualization and results evaluation options (heat transfer analyses)
- Added right-click menus for quick access from the graphics window and tree view to common commands (heat transfer analyses)
- Provides ability to simultaneously view a model and varying result types through multiple view windows (heat transfer analyses)
- Provides fast dynamic viewing options and rich colors through OpenGL-based displays (heat transfer analyses)
- Provides dynamic clipping planes for slicing models to view various profiles (heat transfer analyses)
- Provides quick access to a variety of pre-defined color palettes or a user-defined palette when displaying results (heat transfer analyses)
- Provides dynamic controls for positioning the results legend, annotations and background images (heat transfer analyses)
- Provides a display of the units related to the display in the results legend (heat transfer analyses)
- Provides mixed display options to show results only on specified parts while other parts
are illustrated in their respective part colors (heat transfer 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 (heat transfer analyses)
- Provides various methods for selecting parts or elements in order to hide areas of the model in a display (heat transfer analyses)
- Provides ability to use TrueType fonts and control all related attributes for use in annotations and the results legend (heat transfer analyses)
- Provides quick and complete access to the display attributes and controls for the results legend (heat transfer 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 (heat transfer analyses)
- Provides a slider to control the display of elements based on a lower or upper result limit (heat transfer analyses)
7/17/2002
Heat Transfer Analysis
- Improved support for steady-state heat transfer models that contain over 256 unique parts
- Improved support for transient heat transfer models that contain over 256 unique parts
- Improved support for steady-state heat transfer models that contain parts consisting of over 256 unique surfaces
- Improved support for transient heat transfer models that contain parts consisting of over 256 unique surfaces
5/24/2002
Heat Transfer Analysis
- Improved support for specifying an alternative location for temporary files during a steady-state analysis
- Added support for automatically determining which solver is best suited for problems that include body-to-body radiation and forced convection
- Improved ability to dynamically perform memory allocation when using the sparse solver for steady-state analyses
- Added ability for sparse solver to perform parallel processing by utilizing multiple processors for steady-state analyses
- Improved ability to dynamically perform memory allocation when using the sparse solver for transient analyses
- Added ability for sparse solver to perform parallel processing by utilizing multiple processors for transient analyses
- Added an all-new fast sparse solver as the default solver for transient analyses
12/21/2001
Heat Transfer Analysis
- Added an all-new, fast unsymmetric sparse solver to allow for improved analysis performance with models that contain body-to-body radiation or forced convection loads
- Improved support for reading fluid flow velocity results from a model filename that contains an embedded period
- Added the Streamline Upwind Petrov-Galerkin (SUPG) formulation in order to improve the solution stability and accuracy for models where the convection heat transfer dominates the conduction heat transfer
- Improved error handling and support for cases where the specified fluid flow velocity results file does not exist
- Added an all-new, fast symmetric sparse solver for use in conduction analyses
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
- Improved support for displaying the results of a steady-state heat transfer analysis
10/25/2001
Heat Transfer Analysis
- Added all-new sequential multiphysics capabilities that combine fluid and thermal effects allowing for the forced convection effects due to previously-calculated fluid flow velocity results to be automatically included in the heat transfer analysis
- Added all-new conjugate heat transfer capability where convection heat transfer due to fluid flow is closely coupled with the conduction heat transfer in an adjacent solid region
- Improved support for sparse solver used with models that include body-to-body radiation or forced convection to allow for the analysis of larger models
- Provides additional controls for defining the memory to be used by the sparse solver
- Improved feedback to suggest appropriate memory allocation values for a given model
- Improved support for large models
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
- Added ability to display the elapsed time in a transient heat transfer analysis within a label
8/21/2001
Monitor
- Improved support for the number of result components that may be considered in unison to create a plot
- Added right-click inquire capability for determining the exact coordinate values of curve points
- Improved support for displaying results involving mathematical equations of the results from multiple nodes
- Improved support for displaying results from a transient heat transfer analysis
- Improved help messages
5/25/2001
Heat Transfer Analysis
- Added ability for specification of the radiative surfaces and other input data such as multiple enclosures, shadowing effects and temperature-dependent emissivity in a steady-state analysis
- Added an automatic view factor calculator for determining amount of radiation to be passed between bodies in a steady-state analysis based on user-specified input
- Improved feedback on tetrahedral element integration order in log files for a steady-state analysis
- Improved ability to allocate larger amounts of memory under Windows 98 for a steady-state analysis
- Improved handling of long filenames in log files for a steady-state analysis
- Improved support for definition of the material axis data for orthotropic materials with brick and tetrahedral elements in a steady-state analysis
- Improved support for heat flux surface loading on tetrahedral elements when radiation effects are also included in a steady-state analysis
- Improved numerous features based on customer feedback for a steady-state analysis
- Improved support for the definition of both radiation and heat flux surface loading involving 2-D and brick elements in a steady-state analysis
- Improved support for temperature calculations after convergence of nonlinear iterations in a steady-state analysis
- Added ability to define surface-based loads such as convection, radiation or heat flux on multiple faces of a brick or tetrahedral element in a steady-state analysis
- Improved disk space reporting for large hard drives for a steady-state analysis
- Improved disk space reporting for large hard drives for a transient analysis
- Improved support for models larger than 2 GB for a transient analysis
- Improved numerous features based on customer feedback for a transient analysis
- Improved feedback to user of the total number of warnings or errors that occurred during a transient analysis
- Added ability to restart a transient analysis to complete the initial specified duration or to extend a previous analysis using the current or a newly specified time step size
- Improved feedback of error messages and display of data in log files for a transient analysis
- Improved support for load curves associated with multiple surface-based loads on tetrahedral elements in a transient analysis
- Improved handling of simultaneous attempts to perform analysis and display results in Superview for a transient analysis
- Improved support for the definition of the material axis data for orthotropic materials with tetrahedral elements in a transient analysis
- Added ability to calculate time-dependent heat flows and fluxes in a transient analysis
- Added ability to define surface-based loads such as convection, radiation or heat flux on multiple faces of a brick element in a transient analysis
- Improved ability to allocate larger amounts of memory under Windows 98 for a transient analysis
- Improved support for printout of element loads for tetrahedral elements in a transient analysis
- Improved support for the definition of both radiation and heat flux surface loading involving tetrahedral elements in a transient analysis
- Improved support for surface-based loads such as convection, radiation or heat flux on multiple faces of a tetrahedral element in a transient analysis
- Improved support for boundary condition options for tetrahedral elements in a transient analysis
- Improved support for specific heat distribution in hybrid brick elements in a transient analysis
- Improved ability to specify the specific nodes for which to output results for a transient analysis
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