| CAD Support (Direct) |
- Improved support for importing Autodesk Inventor models including work points
- Improved support for importing Solid Edge models including synchronous technology
- Improved support for importing SolidWorks models
- Improved general support for importing CAD models
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| CAD Support (Universal) |
- Improved support for importing ACIS and STEP models
- Improved support for stereolithography (STL) models
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| Documentation |
- Updated online help
- Improved documentation including phrasing and descriptions
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| Electrostatic Analysis |
- Added capability for "smart" bonded contact on unmatched meshes using a multi-point constraint (MPC) approach
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| FEMPRO |
- Improved handling of long path names and file names
- Improved support for localization:
- Added automatic resizing of dialogs based on localization
- Improved support for French and Japanese languages
- Improved handling of legacy models
- Improved handling of larger dimensions for construction vertices
- Improved display of fillets
- Improved ease of copying part information between models
- Improved speed of automatic contact detection
- Improved support for defining the active range of prescribed displacements
- Improved handling of multiple cores/processors
- Improved support for weight and center of gravity analysis on the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system
- Improved support for design optimization
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| Fluid Flow Analysis |
- Improved support for fans in 3-D analysis
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| Heat Transfer Analysis |
- Added option to choose from a list of preset values for thermal convection coefficients when applying a convection load
- Added capability for "smart" bonded contact on unmatched meshes using a multi-point constraint (MPC) approach
- Improved handling of material models
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| Linear Dynamic Analysis |
- Added support for local coordinate systems in restart analyses
- Added capability for "smart" bonded contact on unmatched meshes using a multi-point constraint (MPC) approach
for buckling analysis and natural frequency with load stiffening analysis
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| Material Library Manager |
- Added capability to order custom material libraries alphabetically
- Added capability to import temperature-dependent material data from a CSV file
- Improved support for selecting a material and editing properties
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| Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver |
- Added a new "double power" creep law for 2-D, brick and tetrahedral elements
- Improved support for Garafalo creep law in 2-D, brick and tetrahedral elements
- Improved handling of slide/no bounce contact
- Improved default parameter settings for element contact updating
- Improved support for contact involving maximum initial distance
- Improved support for customized integration parameters for increased accuracy of displacement results
- Improved convergence of nonlinear static analysis solution
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| Multiphysics |
- Improved handling of units
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| PipePak |
- Improved support for international localization
- Improved support for importing a time history load curve
- Improved visualization via anti-aliasing
- Improved support for reports
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| PV/Designer |
- Added capability to define multiple nozzles on brick-element models
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| Report Wizard and Environment |
- Improved support for importing images
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| Stress Analysis with Linear Material Models |
- Improved support for load combination utility including calculation of square root sum of squares (SRSS)
- Improved handling of smart bonding
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| Superview Results Environment |
- Added capability to display MES and nonlinear stress analysis results in an element local coordinate system
for shell, composite, membrane and 2-D elements
- Added option to display nodes that are
involved in "smart" bonded contact
- Improved 3-D visualization of beam elements that have custom sectional properties
- Improved support for beam code checking
- Improved handling of saved presentations
- Improved handling of saved output files by including the design scenario number
- Improved support for exporting element-based results
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| CAD Support (Direct) |
- Added InCAD support for Think3 ThinkDesign v2008.1
- Updated support for Alibre Design to Version 11
- Updated support for KeyCreator to Version 8
- Improved support for Autodesk Inventor models including
import time, surface-knitting data, edge associativity,
feature control and material data
- Improved support for Rhinoceros models including capability to read blocks
- Improved support for SpaceClaim models including capability to read material data
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| CAD Support (Universal) |
- Improved support for NURBS-based geometry
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| Documentation |
- Updated online help
- Improved documentation including phrasing and descriptions
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| FEMPRO |
- Added ability to create beams from the centroids of surfaces
- Updated text of software license agreement
- Improved program start-up
- Improved support for Windows DPI "large" setting
- Improved support for Chinese (simplified) language
- Improved support for license borrowing
- Improved handling of part names across environments
- Improved handling of term "species" in mass transfer analysis
- Improved meshing tools:
- Added user control of surface number of sketch objects for 2-D meshing
- Improved the "Use Legacy Mesh Engine" option by only applying it to the current model
- Improved surface meshing
- Improved midplane meshing
- Improved support for automatic contact:
- Improved display of automatically generated contact pairs in tree view by sorting on surface number
- Improved support for custom libraries of beam cross-sectional properties
- Improved support for midside nodes in Joint Utility
- Improved feedback on progress while checking the model
- Improved support for design optimization
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| Fluid Flow Analysis |
- Added in-core and out-of-core multifrontal massively parallel solver (MUMPS) for distributed memory systems on Windows clusters
- Added out-of-core multifrontal massively parallel solver (MUMPS) for distributed memory systems on Linux clusters
- Improved consistency of features between 2-D and 3-D steady fluid flow analysis
- Improved handling of flow through porous media analysis
- Improved support for k-epsilon turbulence in models with multiple parts
- Improved support for load curves including ability to define separate load curves for velocities
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| General |
- Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2
- Updated support for Superdraw III as a line modeler
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| Heat Transfer Analysis |
- Added capability for thermal contact in 2-D models
- Improved handling of load curves
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| Linear Dynamic Analysis |
- Added capability for "smart" bonded contact on unmatched meshes using a multi-point constraint (MPC) approach
in natural frequency (modal) and transient stress (direct integration) analyses
- Improved support for non-administrative users of critical buckling load analysis
- Improved hydrostatic load calculations for triangular elements
- Improved calculation of stresses and strains for tetrahedral elements with midside nodes
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| Material Library Manager |
- Added capability to specify default material library
- Added additional materials including fluid, MIL-STD metal,
K-340 and composite materials
- Updated AISC database
- Improved ease of use for selecting a material library
- Improved wood material data including red oak and white ash
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| Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver |
- Added option to make large displacement the default setting for new MES models
- Added Ogden and Mooney-Rivlin hyperelastic and viscoelastic material models for membrane elements
- Added capability to apply lateral-only hydrostatic loads on shell elements
- Added capability to output stress and strain data at midside nodes
- Added in-core and out-of-core multifrontal massively parallel solver (MUMPS) for distributed memory systems on Windows clusters
- Added out-of-core multifrontal massively parallel solver (MUMPS) for distributed memory systems on Linux clusters
- Improved support for large models
- Improved messaging to advise when a coarser or tetrahedral mesh can be helpful
- Improved support for contact in MES and static stress with nonlinear material models analysis
- Improved support for MES models with friction effects
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| Multiphysics Analysis |
- Added capability to apply fans to surfaces in steady coupled fluid flow and thermal analyses
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| NASTRAN Support |
- Improved capability for exporting results to NASTRAN
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| PipePak |
- Improved capability to import piping data from CAESAR II
- Improved support for industry-standard piping codes
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| Report Wizard and Environment |
- Added capability to list moments and reaction forces in a report
- Added separate report sections for loads and constraints
- Added capability to export reports to DOCXML
format for viewing in Microsoft Word
- Improved support for configuring a report
- Improved support for comments from reviewer
- Improved handling of image files by using relative links for portability
- Improved support for customer-specified title image
- Improved support for summary and log files
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| Stress Analysis with Linear Material Models |
- Added capability for "smart" bonded contact on unmatched meshes using a multi-point constraint (MPC) approach
- Added capability to apply lateral-only hydrostatic loads on
plate elements
- Added in-core and out-of-core multifrontal massively parallel solver (MUMPS) for distributed memory systems on Windows clusters
- Added out-of-core multifrontal massively parallel solver (MUMPS) for distributed memory systems on Linux clusters
- Added capability to output stress and strain data at midside nodes
- Improved handling of files with long path names
- Improved handling of hydrostatic loads on triangular
and brick elements
- Improved calculation of stresses and strains for tetrahedral elements with midside nodes
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| Superview Results Environment |
- Added beam code checking for MES
- Added capability to output and display stress and strain results for midside nodes
- Improved handling of load cases when inquiring on results
- Improved handling of plastic strain results for MES
- Improved support for path plots
- Improved display of bending stress in pipe elements
- Improved support for background images including TIF files
- Improved handling of memory during AVI creation
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