CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

11 October 2012

Implementation Investments

BETA CAE Systems S.A. Announces the Release of µETA v6.8.2

Supported platforms

µETA v6.8.x is available on MS-Windows, Linux and Mac OS only. The support of the UNIX platforms: HP-UX, IBM-AIX and SUN-Solaris is discontinued. The support of Windows 2000 SP3 is also discontinued and Windows XP SP1 is the earliest MS-Windows supported version. For details, please reference the link below

New features introduced

  • Improved graphics performance working with models of a large number of Pids
  • New read options for element centroid calculations
  • Significant improvement in reading eigenvectors as field results from Nastran *.op2 files
  • Reading and displaying of Nastran SOL600 contact results as vector results
  • Reading of RMS Von Mises results from Abaqus *.odb files
  • Reading of element forces and moments as vector results from Pamcrash *.DSY files
  • Reading of universal dataset 58 files with uneven spacing
  • Reading of FEMZIP-N version 1.3.3 and FEMZIP-L and -P version 5.99 files
  • Plotting of local X-, Y-, Z- and Magnitude nodal displacements from Pamcrash *.THP files
  • Plotting of resultant moments of solid spotwelds from LS-Dyna swforc files
  • Improved speed of Linear Combination calculations for large result files
  • A new toolbar named Topometry Optimization for calculating the relative thickness that can be output to ANSA
  • The SOL103 Report toolbar has been renamed to Eigenmodes Report and now also supports Abaqus results
  • The Identify Global-Local Modes toolbar now also supports Abaqus results
  • ... and more

Known issues resolved

  • Abaqus 6.12-x *.odb files could not be read with the SIMULIA-sourced libraries, however, no issues have been noticed with the libraries distributed with µETA
  • The available STEPs from certain Abaqus *.odb files would not be displayed in the correct order
  • The Alpha field of Nastran RBE cards would not be read correctly
  • The calculation of the Reserve Factor: Azzi-Tsai-Hill criterion was not correct
  • Reading Sets hierarchy from a LS-Dyna *.xml file would cause META to crash
  • Geometry from certain FEMZIP-N files would not be read
  • Permas pyramid elements would not be displayed correctly
  • Various issues of the 2D Plot tool
  • ... and more

Compatibility

µETA v6.8.2 can only run with beta_lm_tools v6.0 or later. The latest beta_lm_tools version is v6.3. The .metadb files saved by the later versions of µETA are compatible and can be opened by earlier versions of µETA.

To view an unabridged version of this press release, visit: http://www.beta-cae.gr/news/20121011_announcement_meta_v6.8.2.htm

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