What's new in BETA CAE Systems 24.0.1 - Date: October 13, 2023
As numerous highly anticipated enhancements and implementations have been introduced with v24.0.0, the release of v24.0.1 comes to establish the added value stemming from of the plethora of these new tools and features.


Known issues resolved in ANSA

CAD Import/ Export
- Translator settings defined for material vector might not be taken into consideration, when executing CAD to ANSA with parallel jobs.
GUI
- The opening of cards would take excessive time if grammar-spelling software was running.
- Moreover, Focus > OR on Single Face did not work when multiple models were loaded in the same window.
Model Browser
- The time required to reload a selection of multiple Part instances from DM is now considerably reduced to about half.
Data Management
- In DM Browser, deleting a results directory attached as a Link under a Simulation Run in the DM, would also delete the source results from the file system.
- More than one matched part can now be replaced through the Compare Tool functionality.
Shell Mesh
- Executing function Improve > Fix Quality, unexpected termination might have occurred when clicking "Go to previous page" and "Go to next page" options repetitively.
Volume Mesh
- ANSA would falsely report a volume definition as problematic, and this would occasionally lead to unexpected termination.
- The algorithm of Mesh [Solid Cracks] function is now further enhanced to detect any Solid Crack in a model.
- Focusing on Conv2Poly function, conversion time of a mixed mesh is now improved by up to 40% compared to previous versions.
- Regarding Hexa Interior, quality of generated pyramids is now enhanced to allow for better growth rates with underlying layer cells.
Batch Meshing
- In CFD mesh, quad shells would also be generated in case only tria shells were requested.
Feature Manager
- When executing "Set thickness" function for 2D Ribs, the resulting thickness would not be correct.
- Furthermore, when massively saving fasteners in DM, names and type were not maintained.
Kinetics
- Unexpected termination would occur when using an unsupported .mnf file in Simplify function of Flex Tools.
Scripting
- Executing base.CollectEntities() function, High Order solids could not be collected using "SOLID" search type keyword.

Known issues resolved in EPILYSIS

Elements
SOL111 analysis would unexpectedly terminate if CDAMP4 elements were not between two nodes, but grounded.
Contacts
Forces due to friction were not calculated correctly, in cases where master nodes were also used in RBEs/MPCs.

Known issues resolved in META

Read Results
- Focusing on CFD solvers, Ensight results would not be read correctly on beam nodes and reading of STAR-CCM+ .sim file format would not successfully interpret the boundary conditions in STAR-CCM+ version 2306 build 18.04.008.
- Moving on to Nastran, unexpected termination could occur when reading static aeroelasticity results, whereas contact results could not be successfully read from .hdf files. Also, erroneous results on 2nd order shell elements would take place while reading .op2 files.
- Abaqus spring orientation and Abaqus coupling would not be read properly from .odb files, neither would Abaqus model, due to improper reading of +SYSTEM.
- As for LS-DYNA, META would cease to read the includes, when trying to read shell thickness from LS-DYNA files that contained the keyword INCLUDE_PATH_RELATIVE. Also, it was not possible to read SPH data from .d3Description files.
- Regarding Permas, unexpected termination could occur when reading sets containing character instead of integers and META could not read tensor results on nodes when Average,Compute option was used.
- As for FEMZIP, long titles were not supported while reading geometry from LS-DYNA files.
Math Operations on Field Data
- Focusing on Linear Combination, unexpected termination could occur when trying to read results either for "All Layers" or for the "Max of In Out/All Layers" .
- Furthermore, wrong scalar results were calculated on layers while reading .odb files.
Managing Curve Data
- Panel participation analysis results were not read correctly from NX-Nastran.
Curve Functions
- Contribution Description for ERP results was not supported, speaking of results from Nastran or OptiStruct .op2 files.
- Among Crash Criteria, Viscous criterion was not calculated correctly from command for H3-05 and H3-95 dummies.
NVH Calculators
- Unexpected termination would occasionally occur when adding/removing node pairs from list, in case "Project to nearest element" option was enabled.
- Moreover, Abaqus uncoupled fluid modes would not be read in Modal Response and the transient RMS calculation of von Mises stress was wrong for Max of Top And Bottom.
Project Files and METADB
- Data could not be saved properly in a Project file saved with references to results files.
- Consequently, an unexpected termination could occur when opening such a project file.

Known issues resolved in KOMVOS

Data Management
- To make available the changes made upon editing and overwriting a DM item, or an attached file, a manual refresh in the list would be required.-
Machine Learning
- On Windows OS, the Mode Classifier training would not be feasible for input Simulation models with varying number of modes.
- Furthermore, focusing on Predictors and ML Training, Machine Learning Training for 3D results would fail if there was an incompatible number of states between simulation runs.

Known issues resolved in FATIQ

GUI
Unexpected termination could occur when deleting multiple tasks, whereas Fields: Start, End, Offset, Scale and Repeats of Assign Loads window in time domain would falsely accept blank, as a value.
Calculations
Natural logarithm was executed instead of log10 for results Log of Damage and Log of Life.

New Documentation

META
- Toolbars: Seat Impact







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