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CAD Support (Direct) |
- Added support for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0
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CAD Support (Universal) |
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Documentation |
- Improved documentation about transferring to Superdraw
- Improved custom results documentation
- Improved restart documentation
- Updated script for Accuracy Verification Examples
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FEMPRO |
- Improved support for Chinese and German languages
- Improved analysis parameters including input of model description
- Improved ability to import data from CSV files including load curves and general cross-section data for beams
- Improved design optimization
- Improved handling of weight and center of gravity log files during analysis
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| Linear Dynamic Analysis |
- Improved support on Microsoft Vista for buckling analysis and natural frequency analysis with load stiffening
- Improved calculation of stresses for Random Vibration analysis
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Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver |
- Improved user-specified contact stiffness
- Improved import of static nonlinear load curves
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| Multiphysics Analysis |
- Improved support on Microsoft Vista for electrostatic analysis
- Improved handling of temperature-dependent isotropic materials in electrostatic analyses
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Report Wizard and Environment |
- Improved report templates
- Improved reporting for beams
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Stress Analysis with Linear Material Models |
- Improved capability for load combinations
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| Superview Results Environment |
- Improved graphing
- Improved code checking
- Improved handling of volume-based results and custom calculations
- Improved support for lumped masses
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| CAD Support (Direct) |
- Added direct CAD/CAE data exchange for SpaceClaim including full associativity
with each design change
- Added support for IronCAD V10
- Added support for Mechanical Desktop 2008 on Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit
- Improved capability to import Autodesk Inventor models including WORK points
- Improved support for CoCreate OneSpace Modeling
- Improved associativity with Alibre Design including edges
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| CAD Support (Universal) |
- Improved capability to import ACIS models
- Improved capability to import IGES models
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| Documentation |
- Added an Accuracy Verification Example for critical buckling with shell elements in MES
- Improved ALGOR User's Guide
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| FEMPRO |
- Added capability to display feature lines of contact pairs
- Added ability to copy and paste multiple
loads and constraints between load cases
- Added option to allow analyses to continue even if geometry warnings are encountered
- Improved copy/scale/rotate functionality
- Improved capability to inquire on distance/length between construction points
- Improved handling of coincident nodes
- Improved handling of contact pairs
- Improved software wizard for creating bolts and other fasteners:
- Added ability to create bolts on curved-head and nut contact surfaces including surfaces that are made of multiple parts
- Added ability to allow non-parallel surfaces on interior of bolted connections
- Added support for holes that have more than two interior surfaces
- Added ability to define bolts between surfaces that have holes with different diameters
- Improved support for tight fit
- Improved handling of prescribed velocities
- Improved meshing tools:
- Added capability for user-specified value for limiting adjacent mesh size
- Improved default meshing
- Improved hybrid meshing of thin parts
- Improved ease of input for composite lamina
- Improved capability to define load combinations
- Improved speed of decoding a model
- Improved Chinese language support
- Improved handling of legacy models
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| Fluid Flow Analysis |
- Improved handling of boundary conditions
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| General |
- Introduced ALGOR DesignCheck for SpaceClaim for first-pass stress analysis
- Updated support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1
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| Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver |
- Added industry-standard eigensolver (BCSLIB-EXT)
- Added Ogden and Mooney-Rivlin hyperelastic
and viscoelastic material models for shell elements
- Added capability for geometric smoothing of 2-D contact surfaces for improved convergence
- Added capability to restart from user-defined time step
- Added capability to specify large displacement as default
- Added prescribed displacements for nonlinear static analyses
- Improved consistency of beam orientation
- Improved handling of 2-D pressures
- Improved results-based loads
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| Multiphysics Analysis |
- Improved handling of units for electrostatic analysis
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| Report Wizard and Environment |
- Added capability to save and re-use
user-defined report templates
- Improved beam element reporting to display both element number and line number
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| Stress Analysis with Linear
Material Models |
- Improved handling of multipoint constraints by automatically switching to iterative solver
- Improved error handling
- Improved consistency of beam orientation
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| Superview Results Environment |
- Added capability to display results for additional load combinations
- Added capability to draw a vector through a part and plot temperature versus distance
- Added ability to view plasticity results for shell elements
- Improved speed when opening results (default and custom) and code checking
- Improved graphing
- Improved beam visualization for large-motion MES
- Improved handling of weld contact with display option in model tree
- Improved handling of load combinations
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CAD Support (Direct) |
- Improved support for Solid Edge
- Improved support for Autodesk Inventor
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Documentation |
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Improved
documentation about relationship between Solid Edge part activation and
opening of
Solid Edge models
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FEMPRO |
- Improved default mesh settings
- Improved ability to retain axisymmetric settings when accessing contact
dialog
- Improved design scenario support for design optimization
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Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver |
- Improved handling of default parameter values for small and large displacement
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Report Wizard and Environment |
- Improved image handling
- Improved export to Microsoft Word
- Improved handling of model names
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Stress Analysis with Linear Material Models |
- Added option to input beam cross-sectional properties of pipes using O.D. and wall
thickness
- Improved support for large cyclic symmetry models
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| CAD Support (Direct) |
- Added Kubotek USA's KeyCreator software to ALGOR software's distribution media
- Added support for CoCreate OneSpace Modeling 2007
- Improved support for Mechanical Desktop 2007 and 2008
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| CAD Support (Universal) |
- Added capability to switch units when opening STEP files
- Improved capability to import DXF files
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| Documentation |
- Updated help and User's Guide
- Added documentation of advanced Mechanical Event Simulation and contact settings
- Improved right-click help
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| FEMPRO |
- Added capability for side-by-side installation of different ALGOR versions
- Added support for design studies (batch run multiple solutions with varying input and analysis types)
- Added capability to vary plate thickness (via surface number) in a single part
- Added capability to specify a centrifugal load multiplier for different load cases
- Improved installation of Accuracy Verification Examples on multiple processor/core systems
- Improved support for multibyte characters in file paths and user names (including meshing, reports and DesignCheck registration)
- Improved support for large archive files (>4 GB)
- Improved capability to define arcs
- Improved handling of layers on construction lines
- Improved the joint creation utility
- Improved capability to delete heat generation loads from parts
- Improved meshing tools:
- Added capability to mesh directly from CAD data for higher quality mesh with less user interaction
- Added dimension-based mesh ordering
- Added capability to turn off mesh matching for better MES convergence
- Improved multiphysics meshes by specifying the default as tetrahedral
- Improved handling of beam and/or truss elements attached to plate elements
- Improved appearance of glyphs to represent FEA objects
- Improved Material Library Manager utility:
- Added capability to read temperature-dependent material data from spreadsheet files (.CSV)
- Added capability to export material libraries without needing administrative privileges
- Improved ability to edit and save porous media
- Improved handling of temperature-dependent orthotropic material properties
- Improved capability for tabular input
- Improved automatic contact detection including contact pairs
- Improved capability to calculate X-Y moment of inertia
- Improved handling of deleted parts
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| Fluid Flow Analysis |
- Added support for mass transfer in 3-D unsteady (diffusion-only) fluid flow
- Added industry-standard and distributed sparse solvers for 3-D steady and unsteady fluid flow
- Added capability to specify virtual memory for BCSLIB-EXT sparse solver
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| Heat Transfer Analysis |
- Added capability to simulate liquid-solid phase change via
latent heat
- Added industry-standard sparse solver on 32- and 64-bit Linux for transient thermal analysis
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| Linear Dynamic Analysis |
- Added capability to specify virtual memory for BCSLIB-EXT sparse solver
- Updated response spectrum procedure
- Improved combination method for response spectrum analysis
- Improved handling of steep load curves in modal superposition
- Improved control of analysis output
- Improved support for remote Linux execution of response spectrum analysis
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| Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver |
- Added support for fracture mechanics
- Added Duncan-Chang material model for soils
- Added support for automated nonlinear analysis settings
- Added support for beam elements in the stress update integration scheme for elasto-plastic material models
- Added industry-standard sparse solver on 32- and 64-bit Linux
- Added capability to specify virtual memory for BCSLIB-EXT sparse solver
- Improved handling of large models
- Improved handling of original shell orientation
- Improved analysis parameters
- Improved notification of reaction force output
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| Report Wizard and Environment |
- Added additional customization options
- Added capability for WYSIWYG editing of report sections
- Added capability to embed 3-D graphics in PDF reports
- Added capability to review a PDF report
- Added options for defining a master report
- Added capability to export as MS-Word (.doc) and Rich Text Format (.rtf) files
- Improved support for non-English languages
- Improved support for multiple design scenarios
- Improved available fonts for headings
- Improved reordering options
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| Stress Analysis with Linear Material Models |
- Added industry-standard sparse solver on 32- and 64-bit Linux
- Added capability to specify virtual memory for BCSLIB-EXT sparse solver
- Added support for cyclic symmetry
- Added multipoint constraint data to model archive
- Improved handling of friction with linear contact
- Improved capabilities for contact analyses
- Improved welding capabilities
- Improved speed of stress recovery due to improved handling of input/output
- Improved stiffness reduction
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| Superview Results Environment |
- Added capability for full 3-D display of 2-D axisymmetric and planar model results (using rotation or thickness values)
- Added capability to control the number of significant digits displayed by a probe
- Added capability to control transparency of impact planes and slicing planes
- Added capability to append text results to an existing file
- Added capability to plot displacements as vectors
- Added capability for code checking of custom-defined pipe cross-sections
- Improved support for non-English regional settings
- Improved messaging for when results differ from the current preprocessing model
- Improved visualization of slice planes
- Improved smoothness of results display across plate elements
- Improved display of beam worst stress results for transient stress (direct integration) analyses
- Improved rendering speed by improving beam visualization
- Improved appearance of legend box
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