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9/7/2006
CAD Support (Direct)
- Improved support for Pro/ENGINEER on 64-bit Windows computers
- Improved support for Rhinoceros
- Improved handling of unwanted gaps in CAD geometry
FEMPRO
- Updated international language versions
- Added capability to import nodal and element constraints from ASCII text files
- Improved feedback for licensing and installation
- Improved meshing tools
- Improved midplane meshing
- Improved meshing of thin parts
Material Library Manager
- Improved support for nonlinear material models
Superview Results Environment
- Improved load case combination utility
6/30/2006
CAD Support (Direct)- Improved support for Autodesk Inventor
- Improved support for SolidWorks on 64-bit Windows computers
FEMPRO - Added ability to select a group of vertices and project them onto a plane for alignment
- Added capability for CSV file import/export of beam cross-section data
- Added mesh seed points for specifying locations of nodes (e.g., to apply loads and constraints)
- Improved surface meshing
- Improved part mesh matching
- Improved midplane meshing of thin structures consisting of complex junctions
- Improved automatic boundary layer meshing
- Improved refinement point options
- Improved handling of invisible parts
- Improved speed of user input dialogs
- Improved support for custom material libraries
Report Wizard and Environment - Added user control of font styles, sizes and colors
- Added user control of image sizes
- Added capability to specify the title page image
Superview IV Results Environment - Added capability to display electrostatic charge results
- Added capability to display the results of user-supplied functions operating on calculated results, user-supplied constraints and material properties
- Added additional color contour options
- Added options for surface-based selection and display
- Improved inquiry functionality
5/8/2006
Solid Modeling and Collaboration- Updated to Alibre Design Basic 9.0
4/3/2006
CAD Support (Direct)- Added full associativity with each design change for Rhinoceros
- Added support for KeyCreator 5 and higher
- Improved support for Autodesk Inventor, IronCAD, Pro/ENGINEER, Solid Edge and SolidWorks
CAD Support (Universal) - Improved CAD support for 2-D and 3-D wireframe geometry in the DXF file format
FEMPRO - Added capability to select a surface or part and then apply nodal-based loads and constraints to all the nodes
- Added capability to create fillets between non-intersecting lines
- Added capability to extend to construction lines, arcs and other sketch entities
- Added capability to snap to vertices on filtered parts or hidden sketches
- Added user-specified minimum number of elements through thin cross section
- Improved user interface ease-of-use including user interaction with the tree view and input dialogs as well as consistency between all menu and toolbar commands
- Improved selection tools including global and chain methods
- Improved dynamic viewing options including zoom and enclose methods
- Improved surface-to-surface contact support involving local coordinate systems
- Improved midplane meshing including handling of multiple thicknesses within a part
- Improved capability to modify part numbers while creating and updating structured meshes
- Improved capability to modify multiple refinement points at the same time
Report Wizard and Environment - Added capability to publish reports to the PDF file format
- Added capability to automatically include the Superview result images in reports
- Added support for additional custom logo options including watermarks
Superview IV Results Environment - Added capability to display stresses calculated from average stress tensors
- Added capability to display pipe element stresses from an MES or nonlinear analysis
- Added capability to calculate enthalpy based on weighted average part temperature
- Added capability to display heat transfer results during an analysis
- Added capability to display fluid flow results as streaklines
- Added capability to display electrostatic reaction forces
- Added beam offset visualization
- Improved capability to save and restore animation settings
Weight, Center of Gravity and Mass Moment of Inertia Utility - Added support for pipe elements
1/16/2006
CAD Support (Direct)- Added direct CAD/CAE data exchange for Rhinoceros
- Improved installation support and feature import for Pro/ENGINEER
Documentation - Updated ALGOR User's Guide for international languages including Chinese
FEMPRO - Added ability to run analysis on remote computer
- Completed implementation of Superdraw III sketching functionality in FEMPRO
- Added boundary layer meshing capability to capture important details around the fluid boundary
- Improved tet mesher for fluid flow
- Improved support for units
- Improved overall feedback provided by messages, cursor and more
License Management - Improved installation dialogs for easier determination of what to install
- Improved warning/error messages when a license server is not available
Material Library Manager - Added support for Ogden and Mooney-Rivlin materials
Superview IV Results Environment - Added 2-D stress linearization utility (including axisymmetric models) for evaluating a design's compliance with industry standards such as the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC)
- Added ability to display fluid flow results during an analysis
- Added non-time-dependent graphs
- Added export capability to OpenHSF
- Improved 3-D beam visualization including making it the default
- Improved robustness of presentations
- Improved probe behavior with slice planes
- Improved zoom level persistence
- Improved part selection tools
- Improved robustness of boundary elements
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