October 14, 2022

BETA CAE Systems announces the release of the v23.0.1 of its software suite

Regarding the download of ANSA/EPILYSIS/META/CAD data translator v23.0.1 here

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About this release

The first bug-fix release of v23.x.x series comes to support the plethora of new tools and features, introduced recently with the v23.0.0.

Your feedback, along with your diversified interest, is clearly reflected in this first upgraded revision for ANSA/EPILYSIS/META and KOMVOS, which hosts numerous fixes in recently detected issues.

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

CAD to ANSA Translators

*.plmxml files would not be successfully interpreted via the standalone CAD to ANSA translators.

General

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

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

GUI Settings & Mouse Operations

Unexpected model rotation would be observed when changing mouse button operations settings.

Modular Run Management

Abnormal termination could occur during the execution of Check Templates through the Build Process of Subsystems.

"Next Iteration" on Simulation Models, containing solver Subsystems not originated from ANSA Subsystems, would take too long to complete. The delays were directly proportional to the number of DM objects in DM.

Volume Mesh

The generation of 2nd order layers for structured mesh is now significantly accelerated, requiring now half the execution time.

Nastran

Reading a file with Coordinate Systems referencing other Coordinate Systems would take excessive time.

Scripting

Excessive time would also be required when applying the function base.HotPointsDelete() on big FE-mesh models.

Moreover, executing the function mesh.SplitEdges() could lead to unexpected termination.

Unexpected termination could also occur in the Kinetics area, when accessing the function kinetics.Time() during Simulation.

 

Enhancements and known issues resolved in EPILYSIS

Known issues resolved in EPILYSIS

General

Unexpected termination could occur when the PFGRID was requested in large models.

SuperElements

Unexpected termination could occur during SuperElement creation in cases of empty OSET.

SOL111

The NOZPRINT option, used to remove the zero-value output from the punch file, would not be taken into account for SOL111.

 

Enhancements and known issues resolved in META

Known issues resolved in META

Graphics

Texture files for Rendering Materials could not be loaded if the path contained special characters.

Command Line arguments

-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 which provide a META node in their workflows.

Read Results

Unexpected termination could occur while reading tensor results of Marc solver, for specific type of elements.

Focusing on the successful interpretation of results, rounding errors could be introduced when reading Z-axis values from UNV files.

As for Fluent results, CFF and MEAN scalars would not be loaded correctly.

It was not possible to read results for QUADR and TRIAR elements from HDF (.h5 files).

RMS results from Random Response NX-Nastran analysis would not be successfully detected.

Decks

Results on elements from Solution 112 op2 file would not be read and visualized in 3D window properly.

Focusing on LS-DYNA, failed second order Hexa elements would not be displayed correctly.

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

Cases where nodal results curves were not correct in Pam-Crash models have also been combatted.

NVH Calculators

Focusing on Modal / FRF Calculation, NASTRAN .pch file in SORT2 format would not be read.

Curve Functions

Saving to column format curve data via Curve Functions>Modify Curve>Points is now fixed and reverted to its default functionality, as before v23.0.0.

Report

Unexpected termination could occur while exporting a U3DPDF file and displaying the Scalar results using the Critical palette.

Project Files & METADB

Unexpected termination could occur when searching for A/LC points for non-visible 3D model.

Automation

META would unexpectedly terminate when deleting curves after overlaying METADB files.

Scripting

The windows.CollectWindowEntities() function now returns the expected result, as it has been reverted to its default execution, which was before v23.0.0.

Moreover,the CurvesTypesDyna() function would not return element's result calculation options (e.g. max, min, average, integration point-1/2/3 etc.), in case of stress/strain shell-element output. As a result, the LoadCurvesDyna() function would not work properly for the above cases.

META Viewer

Editing of Vector Fringe on CFD models would result in unexpected termination.

Unexpected termination would also occur during the reading of TPA-related METADB.

 

Enhancements and known issues resolved in KOMVOS

Known issues resolved in KOMVOS

Machine Learning

Focusing on ML Training, the Design Variable based training for 3D results of very large FE models would fail, due to lack of system resources.

SPDRM

When KOMVOS was launched via the -dmroot command line, the option "Switch User" would pop up a window where the User Name would be erroneously disabled and could not be changed.

 

CAD data translator

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

-CATIA V5 (R7 - V5-R32) [.CATPart],[.CATProduct]
 Tesselated data [.cgr]
-CATIA V6 (2011x - 2013x)) [.3Dxml]
-3DExperience (2014 - 2022x) [.3Dxml]
-NX (CT based, Unigraphics V11.0 - NX1957,NX CR 2007) [.prt]
-NX (UG Open based, NX1872, NX1899, NX1926, NX1953, NX1980, NX2007) [.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 - 2022) [.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 v23.0.1 here