The Siemens Digital Industries Software is pleased to announce the availability of HEEDS MDO 2020.2.1. This release has improved upon the latest release by enhancing some existing features, increasing productivity and usability and fixing minor bugs.

PATCH RELEASE HEEDS 2020.2.1

BDS P ORTAL : ADDITIONAL PARAMETERS AVAILABLE FOR TAGGING
In the previous version of HEEDS, only optimizable parameters in the Main Physical Cell Description section of an input .tbm file were available for tagging. With this new release, all optimizable parameters from Builder, active IET, active Thermal and active Electrolyte sections in an input .tbm file are available for tagging in HEEDS.

Note:
- Parameters from active Electrolyte section will be available for tagging only when active IET = Distributed 3D.
Key benefits:
- Increased usability of the Simcenter BDS Portal.

BDS P ORTAL : ADDITIONAL RESPONSES AVAILABLE FOR TAGGING
In the previous version of HEEDS, only responses from an .out file can be extracted. With this new release, in addition to responses from an .out file the user can also tag responses available in the Report and BOM sections of an output .tbm file.

Key benefits:
- Increased usability of the Simcenter BDS Portal.

CATIA P ORTAL : ADDITIONAL PARAMETERS AVAILABLE FOR TAGGING
In the previous version of HEEDS, The CATIA portal did not report the error status for designs that were raising an error. In the new version, the portal saves a copy of the error designs with the parameters in their error state, so finding the root cause of the error is now much easier and improves CAD robustness.
Key benefits:
- Much easier detection of error root cause with CATIA portal error designs

MISCELLANEOUS MDO FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS
ug 6455 Parameter names with square brackets are correctly showed In the previous version, HEEDS showed invalid tag entries if the parameters' name contains square brackets. This is now fixed, and parameters' names are showed correctly.
MISCELLANEOUS S OLVER FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS
ug 6186 Simultaneous jobs now run correctly In the past, for evaluation only studies that contained more than one experiment to be run at the same time, the second parallel batch of analyses was not run till the first parallel batch was completed. This is now fixed and works as expected.
MISCELLANEOUS P ORTAL AND TAGGING FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS
ug 6419 NX 12 projects now run correctly In the HEEDS 2020.2 release, NX 12 projects failed to run even if the same project could be run successfully with HEEDS 2020.1.1. This is now fixed and NX 12 projects can be successfully run as expected.
ug 6305 Star-CCM+ portal can now run large simulation files with many parts In the past release, when running a Star-CCM+ portal analysis with almost 1000 parts inside the sim file, HEEDS froze and didn't proceed. This is now fixed and large simulation project files with thousands of parts can be run successfully.
ug 6305 Simcenter Prescan portal now supports version 2020.3 In the previous release, the Simcenter Prescan portal was supporting only up to version 2020.2. With this patch, support for version 2020.3 of Simcenter Prescan has been added.
ug 6132 Simcenter Prescan output parsing now works when using the "Reload file" button In the previous release, when using the "reload file" button in the output tagging, the output file was not reloaded. This is now fixed and the reload button correctly performs the expected operation.
ug 6075 Simcenter Prescan now regenerates Simulink models correctly In the HEEDS 2020.2 release, models with variables prescribing different positions need to be regenerated in Simulink to produce different outputs. This is now fixed and the portal automatically regenerates Simulink models as expected.
ug 6059 Hyperlynx portal now correctly displays subgroup name In the HEEDS 2020.2 release, subgroups were not correctly displayed when tagging variables. This is now fixed and subgroups are displayed as expected.
ug 6058 Hyperlynx portal now correctly imports discrete variables baseline In the HEEDS 2020.2 release, when importing discrete variables, their baseline value was correctly shown in the auto-tag wizard but not correctly imported after exiting the wizard. This is now fixed and the correct baseline is set for discrete variables.
ug 5964 JSON files are correctly parsed in Linux In the previous release, JSON files parsing resulted in an error when selecting Python 2.x as parsing engine under Linux. This is now fixed and parsing works correctly also under Linux.
ug 2149 NX CAD portal correctly tags expression formulas with parenthesis In the previous release, when tagging expression formulas with parenthesis, the resulting tag was truncated, and the values not extracted. This is now fixed and expression formulas with parenthesis are correctly tagged.

HEEDS MDO is a robust multidisciplinary design optimization software package that automates the search for better solutions within a given design space and dramatically reduces design time.

HEEDS MDO enables you to quickly find designs that perform extremely well according to multiple criteria, while simultaneously satisfying multiple constraints and using a large number of variables. In an overnight run, HEEDS can produce results that would take weeks to accomplish manually.

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HEEDS software is offered by Siemens PLM Software, a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) and manufacturing operations management (MOM) software. The HEEDS team is located in East Lansing, Michigan, with software distributors throughout the world. We offer design space exploration services and software to our customers and clients based on our core values - unbridled innovation, uncompromising integrity, and quality in everything we do.

Product: Siemens HEEDS MDO (Multidisciplinary Design Optimization)
Version: 2020.2.1 build 12505 with VCollab 2015
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : www.redcedartech.com
Language: english
System Requirements: PC *
Size: 1.1 Gb

The computer(s) on whichyou intend to run HEEDS MDO must meet the following minimum requirements for a Windows installation:

Operating system: x86-64: Windows Vista, 7, 10
Note: While the versions listed above are the officially supported versions of Windows, HEEDS MDO may run on other versions as well.
Platform: x86-64
Processor Pentium 550 MHz
RAM: 128 MB for HEEDS MDO and whatever is needed for your analysis software to run. Consult your analysis software manuals for these requirements.
Disk space At least 1.5 Gb of free disk space.