Historical Software Updates
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9/30/2005
Fluid Flow Analysis- Added ability to automatically model the fluid medium based on a CAD solid model
- Added segregate steady solver for faster runtimes with less memory
Superview IV Results Environment - Added isosurface display of results
- Added colored, 3-D streamlines and particle tracking with size control
- Added ability to specify default display settings for new models
- Added ability to show node numbers for minimum and maximum values
- Added export capability to VRML
6/30/2005
Fluid Flow Analysis- Improved support for large models
Superview IV Results Environment - Added stand-alone animation player
- Improved display of impact and slice planes
- Improved ease of use and robustness
4/1/2005
Fluid Flow Analysis- Added support for curves to define fan effects
- Added support for fans at arbitrary orientations
- Added support for local coordinate systems
- Added support for rotating frames of reference to allow for modeling of 2- and 3-D circulating flows
- Improved support for large models
Superview IV Results Environment - Added capability to view graphs in same window as contours
- Added ability to save probes and Min/Max annotations
- Added ruler to display scale when viewing models
- Improved overall ease-of-use and robustness based on customer feedback
- Improved support for large models
2/24/2005
Fluid Flow Analysis- Improved support for fan effects
12/22/2004
Fluid Flow Analysis
- Added support for fan effects
- Added support for multiple, independent fluids in a single analysis
- Added support for gravity loads in flow through porous media analyses
- Added particle tracking
Superview IV Results Environment
- Added particle tracking for fluid flow analysis
- Added ability to display sliced models using transparency
- Improved performance of slice planes by automatically capping element faces
- Improved ability to save and delete presentations
9/30/2004
Fluid Flow Analysis
- Added streamlines
- Added automatic constraints of walls to provide simplified modeling
- Improved convergence and speed for fluid flow and coupled fluid/thermal analyses
Superview IV Results Environment
- Added streamlines for fluid flow analysis
7/30/2004
Superview IV Results Environment
- Added support for user-defined result types
- Improved ability to select multiple nodes
7/7/2004
Fluid Flow Analysis
- Added stop and restart capabilities for steady and unsteady fluid flow analyses
- Added new implicit time integration method for faster run times
- Improved convergence for 3-D steady fluid flow analyses for faster run times
4/13/2004
Superview IV Results Environment
- Added ability to define graphs based on the addition/subtraction of results
- Added ability to display X- and Y-axis labels
- Improved support for calculating and graphing the derivative of results
3/30/2004
Fluid Flow Analysis
- Added option to use an all-new iterative solver that provides a significant speed increase for mid- to large-size models
Superview IV Results Environment
- Added annotations to highlight the location of minimum and maximum results
- Added ability to define result probes at desired locations
- Added embedded animation player
- Added ability to specify the size of vector arrows
- Improved tools for selecting parts, elements, faces, loads and constraints
12/17/2003
Fluid Flow Analysis
- Added coupled heat transfer and fluid flow analysis to accurately simulate natural, forced or mixed convection
- Added temperature-dependent viscosity and power-law viscosity capabilities for non-Newtonian fluids that enable engineers to simulate highly viscous and variable-viscosity fluids
Superview IV Results Environment
- Added ability to include the mini-axis in image files, animations and printouts
- Improved support for user-specified thresholds for result contour ranges
- Improved display of feature lines for hand-built models
11/4/2003
Fluid Flow Analysis
- Added support for the fractional power Darcy's law for flow through porous media analyses
- Improved unsteady fluid flow sparse solver to provide better performance for large models
Superview IV Results Environment
- Added transparent display capabilities (translucency)
- Added ability to vary display of mesh and results on individual parts
- Improved support for generating animations of time-dependent analyses
- Improved ability to save presentations with a model
- Improved ability to import presentations from a model
9/18/2003
Superview IV Results Environment
- Improved ability to quickly smooth result contours
6/30/2003
Fluid Flow Analysis
- Added support for natural convection (buoyancy) effects in 2-D and 3-D steady fluid flow analyses
- Provides ability to read temperature results directly from a previous heat transfer analysis when considering natural convection (buoyancy) effects
- Improved parallel sparse solver robustness for very large models
General
- Improved parallel sparse solver robustness for very large flow through porous media models
Superview IV Results Environment
- Added ability to display results in an arbitrary orientation using any of the user-defined coordinate systems
- Added ability to save annotations with presentations
- Improved speed of all dynamic viewing commands by hiding the display of load and constraint symbols during viewing operations
- Improved controls for setting the result smoothing options
- Improved controls for defining and working with slice planes
- Improved ability to display the maximum value (without smoothing) when displaying result contours
5/14/2003
Fluid Flow Analysis
- Added a new analysis option to simulate flow through porous media in models consisting of 2-D planar, 2-D axisymmetic and 3-D solid elements
- Provides support for multiple parts including both porous and non-porous regions
4/7/2003
Fluid Flow Analysis
- Added the mixed Galerkin Least Squares (GLS) formulation that provides equal-order interpolation for velocity and pressure resulting in improved pressure calculation results for 3-D steady and unsteady fluid flow analyses
- Improved support for hybrid meshes (combines bricks on model surface with tetrahedral elements on the inside) resulting in improved speed of 3-D steady and unsteady fluid flow analyses
- Improved iterative solver for 3-D steady fluid flow analyses resulting in improved speed for large models
- Improved ability to specify surface-based loads including pressures, tractions and velocities
Superview IV Results Environment
- Improved default settings for legend box range to provide a wider band of values
- Improved ability to display models using feature lines
- Improved ability to output inquired results to text files
2/6/2003
Superview IV Results Environment
- Added ability to display element quality contours before an analysis
- Improved display of element quality contours
- Improved ability to modify plot settings
- Improved ability to inquire on results at multiple locations and use the summary option
12/20/2002
Superview IV Results Environment
- Added display of part names in the tree view
- Added support for saving the lighting settings used with a presentation
12/6/2002
Superview IV Results Environment
- Updated to an all-new, integrated environment for model visualization and results evaluation (fluid flow analyses)
- Added docking toolbars to provide quick access to the most common commands (fluid flow analyses)
- Added tree view that provides summary information about model data and quick access to visualization and results evaluation options (fluid flow analyses)
- Added right-click menus for quick access from the graphics window and tree view to common commands (fluid flow analyses)
- Provides ability to simultaneously view a model and varying result types through multiple view windows (fluid flow analyses)
- Provides fast dynamic viewing options and rich colors through OpenGL-based displays (fluid flow analyses)
- Provides dynamic clipping planes for slicing models to view various profiles (fluid flow analyses)
- Provides quick access to a variety of pre-defined color palettes or a user-defined palette when displaying results (fluid flow analyses)
- Provides dynamic controls for positioning the results legend, annotations and background images (fluid flow analyses)
- Provides a display of the units related to the display in the results legend (fluid flow analyses)
- Provides ability to save all settings for a specific presentation and view that same display at any time or use those settings with a different model (fluid flow analyses)
- Provides various methods for selecting elements in order to hide areas of the model in a display (fluid flow analyses)
- Provides ability to use TrueType fonts and control all related attributes for use in annotations and the results legend (fluid flow analyses)
- Provides quick and complete access to the display attributes and controls for the results legend (fluid flow analyses)
- Provides an inquire mode where results from selected objects or load data is displayed and available for copy and paste operations to other applications (fluid flow analyses)
- Provides a slider to control the display of elements based on a lower or upper result limit (fluid flow analyses)
9/13/2002
Fluid Flow Analysis
- Added an all-new fast sparse solver for 2-D steady analyses
- Improved ability to dynamically perform memory allocation when using the sparse solver for 2-D steady analyses
- Added an all-new fast sparse solver for 3-D steady analyses
- Improved ability to dynamically perform memory allocation when using the sparse solver for 3-D steady analyses
4/24/2002
Fluid Flow Analysis
- Added an all-new fast sparse solver as the default solver for unsteady analyses
- Added ability for sparse solver to perform parallel processing by utilizing multiple processors for unsteady analyses
- Improved ability to dynamically perform memory allocation when using the sparse solver for unsteady analyses
11/1/2001
Superview
- Improved help messages for various menu commands
- Provides direct access to the ALGOR User's Guide from the HELP pull-down menu
- Provides direct access to the "Getting Started with ALGOR" video from the HELP pull-down menu
- Provides direct access to important areas of the ALGOR web site for additional product and service information
- Provides direct access to the tutorials from the HELP pull-down menu
- Improved messages when viewing the reaction force results of a fluid flow analysis
9/6/2001
Superview
- Improved display of selection indicators when using the mixed display option or when working with selected element groups
- Improved support for creating graphic images of models that are located near the edge of the viewing window
- Added support for overlaying contour line plots over light or material shading
- Added support for the usage of up to 240 colors when defining contour plots
- Improved ability to display models using only the feature lines
- Added and updated various help messages to reflect the latest software updates
- Improved ability to output Superdraw geometry files with proper group numbers for any model
- Improved ability to save contours or other images to bitmap files that can be used within a wide range of third-party graphic applications
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