September 21, 2022

BETA CAE Systems announces the release of the v22.1.4 of its software suite

Regarding the download of ANSA/EPILYSIS/META/CAD data translator v22.1.4 here

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About this release

We are glad to announce the release of v22.1.4. Offering numerous enhancements and adjustments on recently tracked issues, this version is addressed towards those who have not migrated to the v23.x.x branch.

Follows a selection of the most important items:

Contents

Enhancements and known issues resolved in ANSA
Enhancements and known issues resolved in EPILYSIS
Enhancements and known issues resolved in META
Enhancements and known issues resolved in KOMVOS
CAD data translator
Recommended GPU (OpenCL Support) requirements
Virtual Machine Environment

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Enhancements and known issues resolved in ANSA

Known issues resolved in ANSA

General

Significant performance and memory footprint when Focus-related functionality, such as Near, is applied on solid elements.

The opening an ANSA database with rigid elements, defined on nodes, connecting more than 100000 nodes, has been accelerated and reverted to normal time and performance execution.

Connections & Assembly

The selection of Connectivity entities in Connection Manager list would take excessive time, due to the large number of User Attributes.

Compare

Unexpected termination might occur, when copying mesh between two models via the Apply Mesh function.

Data Management

Opening the Subsystems tab in DM Browser would unreasonably take more time than expected, when more than 1000 Interface Attributes were referenced by the DM Objects.

IGA

The process Model Browser > DM > Save in DM would result in a corrupted database in case the model contained *ELEMENT_SHELL_NURBS_PATCH keywords.

Decks

Occasionally, the output of LS-DYNA main file through an Includes configuration within Includes Manager would add an empty line after specific keywords, like the *PARAMETERS or *TITLE.

Abaqus NON-STRUCTURAL MASS would wrongly be exported if MASS was zero or blank.

Reference of Radioss /GRSHEL/SHEL/ would be erroneously output, when used by a /SECT.

Scripting

The function utils.DeckInfo() would erroneously print the text "ID of Element with max value" instead of "ID of Element with min value" for CSV format.

 

Enhancements and known issues resolved in EPILYSIS

Known issues resolved in EPILYSIS

SuperElements

Unexpected termination would occur during SuperElement creation, in case of an empty OSET.

 

Enhancements and known issues resolved in META

Known issues resolved in META

Command Line arguments

The -s -foregr <session_filename > is again a valid syntax for META command line arguments.
In prior versions, this combination would provoke communication problems between META and optimizers that provide a META node in their workflows.

Read Results

META would unexpectedly terminate on Windows OS, while reading .op2 plot results.

Decks

In Pam-Crash, Time History nodal results curves were occasionally not interpreted correctly.

Upon reading geometry from Radioss, in some cases, transformation was not applied on beam elements.

Initial temperature values defined with parameters were not read properly during Abaqus Input.

LS-DYNA Nodal Rigid Bodies were not read from keyword files that use the i10 format.

States & Animation

Backward animation through the Page Up key was not synchronized among multiple active models.

NVH Calculators

In FRF Assembly, creation of large tables via command would unreasonably take excessive time.

In Modal Response, when modal matrices were used in FSI and the viscous damping was taken from the modes�f list, time integration would not produce correct results.

Curve Functions

Reading and plotting scalar results from model entities would lead to unexpected termination.

Report

Drag and drop of a 2d plot into the Report Composer would sometimes result in a black image.

 

Enhancements and known issues resolved in KOMVOS

Known issues resolved in KOMVOS

Design Variables

Group predictions of 3D results would fail to create a correct META project, containing the prediction.

 

CAD data translator

The supported CAD-data formats handled by the CAD DATA Translators are listed below.

-CATIA V5 (R7 - V5-6R2021(CATIA V5 R31)) [.CATPart],[.CATProduct]
 Tesselated data [.cgr]
-CATIA V6 (2011x - 2013x)) [.3Dxml]
-3DExperience (2014 - 2020x) [.3Dxml]
-NX (CT based, Unigraphics V11.0 - NX1957,NX CR 1980) [.prt]
-NX (UG Open based, NX9, NX10, NX11, NX12, NX1847, NX1872, NX1899, NX1953, NX1980) [.prt]
-Parasolid (all - 33) [.xmt_txt],[.xmt_bin],[.x_b],[.x_t]
-Pro/ENGINEER (from WF3 to WF5),
 PTC Creo Parametric 2.0 M140, PTC Creo Parametric 3.0 M020,
 PTC Creo Parametric 3.0 M030, PTC Creo Parametric 3.0 M040,
 PTC Creo Parametric 3.0 M090, PTC Creo Parametric 4.0 F000,
 PTC Creo Parametric 5.0 - 8.0
-SolidWorks (2007 - 2021) [.sldprt],[.sldasm]
-JT (v8.0 - v10.7) [.jt]
-Inventor (2010 - 2021) [.ipt],[.iam]
-CoreTechnologie [.ctp],[.cta]
-Rhino(up to v6) [.3dm]
-ACIS(R27) [.sat]

 

Recommended GPU (OpenCL Support) requirements

The following presents the recommended GPU requirements.:

 GPU :NVIDIA�AAMD
 OpenGL Version:3.3
 GPU memory :1GB
 OpenCL Version:1.2

Virtual Machine Environment

-Any instance of an application launched through a Virtual Machine or Machine of NIC Teamng will not share the same license and will occupy the prescribed number of credits.

 

Regarding the download of ANSA/EPILYSIS/META/CAD data translator v22.1.4 here