CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
7 December 2012
Product News
BETA CAE Systems S.A. Announces the Release of µETA v6.8.3 with Enhancements and Known Problems Resolved
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 review the latest document on the supported platforms and minimum system requirements
New features introduced
- The Modal Response and FRF Assembly tools can now calculate the pressure on fluid grids from the complex eigenvalues (Nastran SOL107) of a coupled acoustic model.
- META now supports reading, in the 2D Plot tool, modal contribution fractions from Nastran *.pch files.
- It is now possible to draw the interior surfaces of Fluent models.
Known issues resolved
- The result option "Max of In Out/All Layers" would not calculate correct results from Abaqus *.odb files.
- The 32-bit MS-Windows version of META would crash when reading FEMZIP-L files compressed with the 64-bit executable.
- The graphics performance of META would deteriorate when working with multiple Pamcrash *.DSY files and numerous plotted curves.
- Pamcrash TETRA10 elements would not be read.
- META would not read certain Permas *.uci files.
- META would not read certain Ensight files.
Compatibility
µETA v6.8.3 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.
Documentation
Documentation is packed into the "common" file. While the "common" file is unpacked, you will find an html file that will guide you through the available PDF documents, including the Release Notes and the Users Guides.
Release Notes
Please refer to the Release Notes document for more details about the software corrections and the new features. A detailed Release Notes document is available in PDF in the download directory and also in the /docs sub-directory within the installation directory.
Users Guide
An Users Guide, updated for version 6.8.3, is also available in PDF.
Tutorial files' availability
The demofiles necessary to cover the tutorials' documentation are available as separate downloads within the META_POST_TUTORIALS folder of the [ Public ] area. Some tutorial files have been updated for µETA v6.8.2.
For more information, visit: http://www.beta-cae.gr/news/20121206_announcement_meta_v6.8.3.htm
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