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Recent Software Updates
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9/7/2006
CAD Support (Direct)
- Improved support for Pro/ENGINEER on 64-bit Windows computers
- Improved support for Rhinoceros
- Improved handling of unwanted gaps in CAD geometry
FEMPRO
- Updated international language versions
- Added capability to import nodal and element constraints from ASCII text files
- Improved feedback for licensing and installation
- Improved meshing tools
- Improved midplane meshing
- Improved meshing of thin parts
Fluid Flow Analysis
- Improved support for automatic solution controls
Linear Dynamic Analysis
- Added faster, industry-standard sparse solver for critical buckling load analysis
Material Library Manager
- Improved support for nonlinear material models
Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver
- Added capability to print strain and stress results for beams
- Improved memory usage for large models
- Improved setup for surface-to-surface contact involving many surfaces
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
CAD Support (Direct)
- Improved support for Autodesk Inventor
- Improved support for SolidWorks on 64-bit Windows computers
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 surface meshing
- Improved part mesh matching
- Improved midplane meshing of thin structures consisting of complex junctions
- Improved automatic boundary layer meshing
- Improved refinement point options
- Improved handling of invisible parts
- Improved speed of user input dialogs
- Improved support for custom material libraries
Fluid Flow Analysis
- Added the capability to model flow obstacles as distributed resistance parts, which can greatly simplify 3-D modeling
Heat Transfer Analysis
- Added new preconditioned bi-conjugate gradient stabilized iterative solver for both steady-state and transient analyses of large models with body-to-body radiation and/or fluid flow convection
- Improved speed of transient heat transfer analysis involving body-to-body radiation
- Improved capability for temperature-dependent heat generation with surface radiation loads
Linear Dynamic Analysis
- Added faster, industry-standard sparse solver
- Added ability to apply a temperature file from a steady-state or transient heat transfer analysis as a load in a load stiffening or buckling analysis
Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver
- Added faster, industry-standard sparse solver
- Added distributed memory processing for 32- and 64-bit Linux (Red Hat)
- Added slide/no bounce contact for more accurate simulation and faster convergence for applications where relative sliding is negligible such as a press-fit process
- Added tied contact (functions like bonded contact even if nodes are not matched)
- Added new thin shell element formulation with bilinear von Mises material model
- Added anisotropic temperature-dependent general piezoelectric material models
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 electrostatic charge results
- 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
5/8/2006
Solid Modeling and Collaboration
- Updated to Alibre Design Basic 9.0
4/3/2006
CAD Support (Direct)- Added full associativity with each design change for Rhinoceros
- Added support for KeyCreator 5 and higher
- Improved support for Autodesk Inventor, IronCAD, Pro/ENGINEER, Solid Edge and SolidWorks
CAD Support (Universal) - Improved CAD support for 2-D and 3-D wireframe geometry in the DXF file format
Electrostatic Analysis - Added 64-bit HP-UX support
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 midplane meshing including handling of multiple thicknesses within a part
- Improved capability to modify part numbers while creating and updating structured meshes
- Improved capability to modify multiple refinement points at the same time
Fluid Flow Analysis - Added 64-bit HP-UX support
- Added automatic adaptive parameter control for segregate scheme used in steady-state, transient and coupled fluid/thermal analyses
- Improved automatic constraint of walls for axisymmetric models to provide simplified modeling
Heat Transfer Analysis - Added 64-bit HP-UX support
- Improved support for steeper load curves in transient analyses
- Improved consistency between surface- and nodal-based temperature loads
Linear Dynamic Analysis - Added 64-bit HP-UX support
- Improved support for the number of damping ratio frequencies that can be defined
- Improved support for warped plate elements
Material Library Manager - Improved handling of custom material libraries
Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver - Added gasket material model and element (2- and 3-D, geometrically linear and nonlinear)
- Improved surface-to-surface contact
- Improved support for shell, hydrodynamic and kinematic elements
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 capability to display pipe element stresses from an MES or nonlinear analysis
- Added capability to calculate enthalpy based on weighted average part temperature
- Added capability to display heat transfer results during an analysis
- Added capability to display fluid flow results as streaklines
- Added capability to display electrostatic reaction forces
- Added beam offset visualization
- Improved capability to save and restore animation settings
Weight, Center of Gravity and Mass Moment of Inertia Utility - Added support for pipe elements
1/16/2006
CAD Support (Direct)- Added direct CAD/CAE data exchange for Rhinoceros
- Improved installation support and feature import for Pro/ENGINEER
Documentation - Updated ALGOR User's Guide for international languages including Chinese
Electrostatic Analysis - Added 32-bit and 64-bit Linux (Red Hat) support
- Added 64-bit Windows support
FEMPRO - Added ability to run analysis on remote computer
- Completed implementation of Superdraw III sketching functionality in FEMPRO
- Added boundary layer meshing capability to capture important details around the fluid boundary
- Improved tet mesher for fluid flow
- Improved support for units
- Improved overall feedback provided by messages, cursor and more
Fluid Flow Analysis - Added 32-bit and 64-bit Linux (Red Hat) support
- Added 64-bit Windows support
- Added equal-order segregate solver for transient and coupled fluid flow/heat transfer analyses for faster runtimes with less memory
- Added loosely coupled fluid-structure interaction
- Added ability to restart at arbitrary step
- Improved capability for applying wall boundary conditions
Heat Transfer Analysis - Added 32-bit and 64-bit Linux (Red Hat) support
- Added 64-bit Windows support
- Added ability to consider fluid convections from a porous media analysis
License Management - Improved installation dialogs for easier determination of what to install
- Improved warning/error messages when a license server is not available
Linear Dynamic Analysis - Added 32-bit and 64-bit Linux (Red Hat) support
- Added 64-bit Windows support
- Added ability to output power spectrum density at nodes
- Improved support when defining frequencies and damping ratios
Material Library Manager - Added support for Ogden and Mooney-Rivlin materials
Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver - Added 32-bit and 64-bit Linux (Red Hat) support
- Added 64-bit Windows support
- Added support for all material models and element types in nonlinear modal analysis
- Improved support for hydrostatic pressure loads on shell elements
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 ability to display fluid flow results during an analysis
- 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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