| CAD Support (Direct) |
- Improved support for assembly-level features in Alibre Design models
- Improved support for Autodesk Inventor models
- Improved handling of units and material data defined for CAD models
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| CAD Support (Universal) |
- Improved support for ACIS and DXF models
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| Documentation |
- Added example using transient coupled fluid flow with heat transfer analysis
- Improved documentation for thin composite elements
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| FEMPRO |
- Added capability to change the orientation of beams (especially useful for the definition of L-beams)
- Improved support for Chinese (simplified) and French languages
- Improved support for moving nodes such as projecting nodes onto a plane
- Improved handling of lamina in element definition
- Improved display options for element orientation
- Improved handling of rotation when using the Glue command
- Improved capability to automatically generate the fluid medium by excluding deactivated parts
- Improved meshing
- Improved ability to select all parts or all sketches that lie in the same plane for 2-D meshing
- Improved robustness of solid meshing for assembly models with many parts
- Improved speed of mesh studies
- Improved load curve selection for thermal loads
- Improved capability for exporting to NASTRAN file format
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| Linear Dynamic Analysis |
- Improved handling of load cases/curves for Transient Stress (Direct Integration) analysis
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| Material Library Manager |
- Improved speed when selecting and applying materials
- Improved handling of mass units
- Improved support for custom materials that are defined by tabular data
- Improved support for saving a customer-defined material to a library
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| Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver |
- Improved point-to-point contact
- Improved support for pressure/traction loads applied to thin shell elements
- Improved support for parts with large numbers of nodes and elements
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| Multiphysics Analysis |
- Added support for multiple fluid parts in bi-directional coupled fluid/thermal analysis
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| PipePak |
- Improved import and export of CAESAR II models
- Improved support for special characters in filenames
- Improved legend box to optionally exclude results for hidden sections of the design
- Improved support for user-defined reports in SI units
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| PV/Designer |
- Added capability to cancel out of PV/Designer without updating the model
- Improved surface numbering for easier application of loads to a solid mesh
- Improved support for adding a rectangular nozzle to a cylinder head
- Improved default mesh settings
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| Report Wizard and Environment |
- Added right-click option for changing design scenarios (make consistent with functionality in other environments)
- Added capability to save default image size and location for easier addition of images (particularly for a large number of images)
- Improved display of log files for MES
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| Stress Analysis with Linear Material Models |
- Improved selection of default solver for improved convergence of contact analysis
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| Superview Results Environment |
- Added capability for full 3-D display of symmetric model results
- Improved ability to inquire on distance and angle results when switching time steps
- Improved support for inquiring on thickness of composite elements
- Improved graphing to update title based on operator for multiple node graphs
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