| CAD Support (Direct) |
- Improving support for Autodesk Inventor models including surface-knitting data, edge associativity and material data
- Improving support for Mechanical Desktop:
- Adding face and edge associativity
- Adding automatic remeshing
- Adding InCAD toolbar
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| FEMPRO |
- Adding support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2
- Adding display of a preview image on the "Open" dialog when opening a model archive
- Adding ability to create beams from the centroids of surfaces
- Adding capability for linear contact on unmatched meshes
- Improving support for installing ALGOR DesignCheck on Microsoft Windows Vista systems
- Improving default display settings by specifying lighting on by default
- Improving meshing tools:
- Adding capability for user-controlled de-featuring of VCAD models
- Adding capability for face-to-face intersection to allow imprinting of surface models
- Adding ability to base mesh studies on precision of von Mises stress
- Improving matching between midplane-meshed and solid parts
- Improving the "Use Legacy Mesh Engine" option by applying it to the current model only
- Improving support for composite elements by adding options
to specify thickness (including varying thickness) for the first lamina
- Improving support for applying edge loads and constraints (including midplane meshes)
- Improving support for applying torque loads to surfaces
- Improving support for automatic contact:
- Improving display of automatically generated contact pairs in tree view by sorting on surface number
- Improving speed of automatic contact detection
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| Fluid Flow Analysis |
- Adding temperature-dependent viscosity to simulate phase change in coupled heat transfer analyses
- Improving consistency of features between 2-D and 3-D steady fluid flow analysis
- Improving support for velocity load curves
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| Heat Transfer Analysis |
- Improving support for material models
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| Material Library Manager |
- Adding ability to export an XML file from a custom material library
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| Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver |
- Adding option to make large displacement the default setting for new MES models
- Adding elastic soil boundary elements
- Adding Ogden and Mooney-Rivlin hyperelastic material models for membrane elements
- Adding compression-only boundary conditions and springs
- Adding capability to apply lateral-only hydrostatic loads on shell elements
- Adding capability to output stress data at
midside nodes
- Improving messaging to advise when a coarser or tetrahedral mesh can be helpful
- Improving support for MES models with friction effects
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| Multiphysics Analysis |
- Adding automatic time reduction for solution using free-surface segregate solver
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| PipePak |
- Adding master/slave constraints
- Adding support for ASME Section III-NB Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code
- Updating support for ASME code B31.8 for gas transmission and distribution piping systems
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| PV/Designer |
- Adding support for elliptical nozzles
- Adding support for rectangular nozzles
- Adding capability to create a vessel with multiple nozzles and mesh with brick elements
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| Report Wizard and Environment |
- Adding capability to list moments and reaction forces in a report
- Adding ability to specify a summary of results (maximum and minimum displacements, von Mises stresses, factor of safety and more)
for all or specified parts
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| Stress Analysis with Linear Material Models |
- Adding Lagrange multiplier approach to surface contact for unmatched meshed parts
- Adding elastic soil boundary elements
- Adding capability to output stress data at
midside nodes
- Improving convergence of linear contact by using contact area
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| Superview Results Environment |
- Adding support for Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) code checking
- Adding capability to output and display stress results for midside nodes
- Adding capability to orient the local element axis for viewing results of plate elements (2-D, membrane and composite)
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