BETA CAE Systems announces the first bug-fix release of ANSA/EPILYSIS/META and KOMVOS v21.0.x series. Apart from fixes in the detected issues, this version also hosts noteworthy enhancements and implementations.

Consistently trying to streamline emerging trends and needs in engineering simulation industry, BETA CAE Systems proudly presents the release of v21.0.0 of its software suite.

Through an attempt to couple the past with your most recent expectations, v21.0.0 offers significant advancements in plenty of fields, providing exemplary user experience and a dynamic insight.

Do not miss:
- The boosted User Performance with the new ANSA Graphics Kernel.
- The augmented pre-processing potential with the advancements in ANSA VR.
- The progressing Optimization capabilities in ANSA, as well as in SOL200 area with EPILYSIS.
- The extended Report & Automation implementations for post-processing applications.
- The promising Machine Learning integration in KOMVOS through ANSA.

Python Development Platform
v21.0.0 release is based on Python version 3.8.1. This is a major upgrade, compared to the previous version Python 3.3 used in BETA suite.

Abaqus libraries for META removed from the installation package
The Abaqus libraries, required for the post-processing of Abaqus .odb files, are not included in the installation package anymore.
They are provided in the additional META External Libraries package (META Ext Libs v21.0.0) and can be optionally unpacked.

Elevating User Experience in ANSA
The new Graphics Kernel in ANSA provides a significantly enhanced graphics performance in terms of model handling (draw and update of graphic entities), as well as an impressively realistic transparency mode, including enhancements in the visualization of polygons/polyhedral. It is also accompanied by a new GPU metrics tool, placed under Settings > Graphics.
Apart from significant enhancements regarding the management of changes in the Modular Environment, the brand new user toolbars and the new coherent set of icons offer an elevating experience in this field.
Moreover, constantly providing effective solutions to aerodynamics problems, effortless model wrapping and Hextreme meshing are offered via our upgraded automatic leak detection and closure tools, achieving significant performance and accuracy enhancements.
Focusing on Optimization, enhanced pre-processing of a topology result can be achieved via the new Sculpting Tool, with the additional capability to smooth the optimum result and add material on regions.
Following META success in Virtual Reality, ANSA v21.0.0 presents extended VR functionality, covering areas such as Morphing and Collaboration, embedding handy features such as voice commands, and user-positioning.

Optimization gaining ground with EPILYSIS
The brand new v21.0.0 heads straight for uplifted optimization with the support of Laminates for SOL200 Multidisciplinary Optimization, as well as in-house formulation for multi-objective design problems. On top of that, noteworthy enhancements in EPILYSIS algorithms, such as the Contact algorithm, give boost to the precision and accuracy in engineering solutions.

Expanding post-processing capabilities with META
Acknowledging and further promoting report and automation post-processing needs and capabilities, through a brand new report-dedicated Python API, new classes add tags in reports and find reports that match user's criteria. This goes along with other enhancements in this field, such as the ability to export a 3D Model in glTF format and embed it into a presentation slide.
Vast developments have also taken place in the NVH domain, and specifically in the Modal Response and FRF Assembly Tool, now solving modal components that contain poroelastic materials (PEM). Implementations have also been noted in the field of Frequency and Transient Response Analyses, with extended applications for Load-cases investigation.
Focusing on the area of aerodynamics analysis, apart from progressive support of more solver formats, such as Converge .h5 and multi-region decomposed OpenFOAM cases, CFD in META comes with a new, enhanced post-processing toolbar, offering improvements in results' calculation with extended functionality. Not to be missed, additional handy features, such as the trim section visibility control and the SPH distance criterion that filters visibility to particles located in regions with low particle densities.
Needless to mention, that such handy features are constantly being implemented in various domains of our software, revitalizing user experience. For example, in v21.0.0 themes and display styles of 2D Description windows can be saved and re-applied to new window/Descriptions, with all their embedded fonts, background and axes color etc.
Furthermore, with the aid of a dedicated META Developer License, the new version offers the capability to develop user-script applications via META Python API, without acquiring a full META license.

Integrating Machine Learning in BETA products
One of the highlights of the new version is the integration of Machine Learning (ML) in BETA Software Products, specifically in KOMVOS through ANSA. It provides a powerful tool to engineers/designers in the early development stages of a vehicle, enabling what-If studies for CAD & CAE teams to examine the impact of certain design changes using ML practices.
From a closer perspective, KOMVOS v21.0.0 offers boosted user performance capabilities, providing handy features such as an advanced Search Filter for all entities, coupled with automated refresh of its GUI upon DM views update.

Making the most of Computed Tomography for further analyses
Promoting BETA Products interoperability, effortless update of material properties of an idealized volume mesh, based on a Computed Tomography (CT) scan, can directly take place through a brand new ANSA plugin, whereas effective stiffness of FE mesh captures the presence of cavities in castings or the varying density of bones.

ANSA v21.0.0 highlights

EPILYSIS v21.0.0 highlights

META v21.0.0 highlights

Enhancements and known issues resolved in ANSA

Enhancements in ANSA

Translators JT
JTOpen toolkit is now upgraded to version 10.7, providing numerous fixes to already acknowledged problems.
Product Tree Editor/ Input Model Definition
Import time for large PLMXML files (of more than 50 thousand parts) has been significantly reduced.

Known issues resolved in ANSA

License Management
ANSA would falsely release the License while running a batch (volume) mesh scenario, due to IDLE USER TIMEOUT.
Data Management Schema Editor
ANSA would unexpectedly terminate, when properties with duplicate names were defined.
Modular Run Management
Abnormal termination might occur after unloading and reloading a Subsystem, whose A_POINTs/LC_POINTs were used by other entities.
Batch Meshing
In CFD mesh of shell meshing scenarios, mixed mesh would be generated if element type was Ortho Tria.
LS-DYNA
Output in i10 format would fail in cases, such as models including 2nd order solid elements or specific element types.

Known issues resolved in EPILYSIS

Calculate
EPILYSIS would give erroneous results at 0.0Hz frequency, in case of models with no structural damping.

Enhancements and known issues resolved in META

Enhancements in META

LS-DYNA
All LOAD_ NODE_∗ keywords are now supported.
NVH Calculators - Modal Response
Performance has been significantly improved, when scanning NASTRAN .op2 result files.

Known issues resolved in META

General
META could delete any file that was read via drag and drop, if the Shift key was also pressed during this action.
Graphics
A shared memory leak would occur under -rasterizer mesa-llvm graphics mode.
Math Operations on Field Data - Random Response
META would unexpectedly terminate, when reading results from NASTRAN PUNCH file.
Project Files & METADB
Unexpected termination could occur, when trying to read displacement results from uncompressed METADB as scalar or vector result.

BETA delivers a portfolio that is relevant to the engineers' problems and enables accelerated performance and quality improvement, from the individual user, up to a corporate level.

As products today become more complex with more variations and advanced performance requirements, organizations strive to meet market demand for quality and improve the effectiveness of their processes. In these efforts, they employ engineering simulation more and more, making it a central point in product design and development to reduce time to market, increase product quality, and understand better the behavior of the numerous product designs.

New developments and capabilities in engineering simulation promise not only to tackle existing industry requirements and bottlenecks but also form the building blocks for new concepts that will speed up the evolution of current processes in product design and development. However, to do so these new solutions and developments must be relevant to current engineering problems and requirements while avoid adding further complexity.

To develop such solutions, simulation software providers should be aligned with customers and work closely with them to give answers to their needs beyond buzzwords. In this notion, and in partnership and continuous dialogue with the engineering world, BETA delivers a portfolio that is relevant to the engineers' problems and enables accelerated performance and quality improvement, from the individual user, up to a corporate level.

The advanced Simulation Data and Process management with KOMVOS and SPDRM, the versatile and powerful modeling with ANSA, the engagement of the freshly developed solver EPILYSIS, and the high-performance post-processing and visualization with META, have become the trusted core of simulation by the most demanding sectors.

New software products, enhance further the engineering simulation capabilities focusing on taking collaboration amongst global teams to new levels and streamlining product design from early stages. NEERE, the new collaboration platform offers all the typical communication means and augments teamwork further with Virtual Reality rooms and the capability for engineers to work remotely together on their models. The also new, OpDesign revolutionizes the product design and development process through a holistic, performance-driven method.

The BETA portfolio offers a platform for engineers to move into the new age of simulation by transforming the way they face their challenges. Because, after all, it is their challenges that drive evolution.

BETA CAE Systems - Simulation solutions

BETA CAE Systems is a private engineering software company committed to the development of state of the art CAE software systems that meet the requirements of all simulation disciplines. The company's products, the ANSA pre-processor/ EPILYSIS solver and META post-processor suite, and SPDRM, the simulation-process-data-and-resources manager, hold a worldwide leading position across a range of industries, including the automotive, railway vehicles, aerospace, motorsports, chemical processes engineering, energy, electronics, heavy machinery, power tools, and biomechanics.

Product: BETA CAE Systems
Version: 21.0.1 with Tutorials *
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : www.beta-cae.com
Language: english
System Requirements: PC **
Size: 6.6 Gb

BETA CAE Systems 21.0.1

BETA CAE Systems Meta Post External Libs 21.0.1

BETA_CAE_Systems_v19.1.2_COMPLETE_META_tutorials.tar
BETA_CAE_Systems_v19.1.4_COMPLETE_ANSA_tutorials.tar

BETA_CAE_Systems_v21.0.0_COMPLETE_ANSA_tutorials.tar
BETA_CAE_Systems_v21.0.0_COMPLETE_META_tutorials.tar

For the full list of Supported platforms and minimum system requirements please refer to

Graphic Requirements

Upon v21.0.x, the minimum graphic requirements for ANSA and META are: AMD or NVIDIA GPU with at least 1GB of video memory and OpenGL 3.3 support.

In case of unsupported hardware in Windows or Linux, ANSA and META will automatically fall back to software rendering using Mesa LLVM rasterizer pipeline. Additionally, Mesa can be manually activated.