BETA CAE System S.A. announces the release of v15.1.2 of our ANSA & μETA pre- and post- processing suite. With new enhancements and fixes to identified problems, this version further enhances and improves the performance of our latest v15.1x branch.
Amongst the new enhancements and fixes of v15.1.2 the most noticeable are listed below:
Understanding the Software Release Schedule
BETA CAE System is committed in delivering improved and enhanced software releases, the soonest possible, in order to meet the requirement of their customers for the continuous improvement of their experience and work. Therefore, they are working in releasing new software versions with code corrections, new software features and enhancements, in regular, frequent intervals.
- A major software version is released every year.
- First point releases, such as v14.1.0, v14.2.0 and so on, with code corrections but also with additional software features and enhancements are released every three months.
- Second point releases, such as v14.2.1, v14.2.2, v14.2.3 mainly with code corrections only upon their parent first point release, are scheduled on a monthly basis.
Each software release is accompanied by a detailed description of the introduced corrections and/or additions so that our customers can decide whether it is critical to implement this release in their environment.
This release
This release of v15.1.2 implements code corrections, to the v15.1.1 release and the latest pre-existing releases of the 15x and 14x branches.
Known issues resolved in ANSA
GUI
Element pick selection with Shadow flag deactivated might not perform properly.
CAD Data translation
Translating files that contained annotations might result in unexpected termination.
Volume Mesh
Layer creation in triple bounds areas might be problematic.
DECKs
Saving the list of nodes when having more than 10000 nodes might result in unexpected termination.
Middle nodes might be removed from Sets and Includes when converting, from 2nd to 1st order, shell elements attached to volume mesh.
Numbering Rules of Laminate Properties could not be outputted.
Abaqus: Parts connected to Fasteners might be deleted when applying Cut Model.
Enhancements and known issues resolved in µETA
Enhancements in µETA
Supported Interfaces
Fluent: ANSA Parts are now listed in the Part Manager.
PERMAS: NPSTS data elements are now supported.
StarCCM: The GlobalArray keyword is now supported.
Toolbars
CFDPost: CFX files are now supported for post-processing.
CompositePost: It is now possible to define the S13, S23, f12, f13, f23 material limits through the Setup Materials card.
Occupant Injury Criteria: Q10 and Q6 child dummies are now supported.
Occupant Injury Criteria: Radioss files are now supported for post-processing.
Known issues resolved in μETA
General
The feature lines of 2nd order solid elements were not drawn correctly.
Supported Interfaces
Abaqus: Certain .inp files could not be loaded.
Abaqus: Results on axisymmetric elements were not correct.
ANSYS: In certain cases deformation results might not be correct.
ANSYS: Force vectors might not be drawn in the correct direction.
Ensight: Ensight models were not clipped smoothly by cut planes.
JT: Unexpected termination could occur while reading .jt files.
LS-DYNA: Parts hierarchy could not be read from erroneous d3plot.xml files.
Nastran: Unexpected termination when scanning Nastran .pch files that included more than 200 element Type33 entries.
PERMAS: the structure of PERMAS includes was not read correctly.
Advanced Filter
The filtering on node groups would not be correct.
The filtering of volumes of elements would wrongfully return shell elements also.
NVH Calculators
Unexpected termination could occur when loading a file with only model stress results (no nodal deformations) in the Model Response tool.
Report
Unexpected termination in case of creating a new Report Composer window with an existing name.
Adding date textboxes on slides could result in saving a corrupted pptx file.
For more details about the new software features, enhancements and corrections please, refer to the Release Notes document. http://www.beta-cae.gr/news/20140926_announcement_ansa_meta_v15.1.2.htm
