BETA CAE System S.A. announces the release of v14.2.4 of ANSA & μETA pre- and post- processing suite. This maintenance release focuses on the correction of identified issues for the ANSA & μETA 14.2x branch and is addressed to those who wish to continue to use the v14.2x branch, with its issues resolved, instead of upgrading to v15x. Those corrections have been also propagated to the v15x branch.
Known issues resolved in ANSA
General
When using ALL for LOCKED entities, the mouse cursor pointed in the middle of the entities list, making the quick selection inconvenient.
Batch Meshing
Excessive nodes would be assigned on curvatures resulting in triangular shell elements concentration.
The performance issue of the meshing process when the Features treatment option "Sharpen" was applied has been fixed.
Circular shaped holes, sometimes, would not be recognized to be treated as such.
Connections and Assembly
Triangular elements would be included on OVERLAP-CLOSED zones.
Shell Mesh
When using Wrap>Select the option "Fill Holes with diameter less than" was not applied.
Applying the Spacing>Manual function with the Remesh option enabled could lead to unexpected termination.
Information message was not displayed when remeshing macros failed.
Shell Mesh reconstruction affecting attached solids in combination with "Distance from Geometry" quality criterion and Hidden view mode could cause unexpected exit.
Solver Decks
When Enabling / disabling the values through the ANSA defaults file, the D.INFO options would not be updated accordingly.
Exporting in "Short Format" was not possible for ANSA parts with long Module IDs.
When NASTRAN Header Sets were not in an Include file they would not be exported.
NASTRAN Sets with ID ranges of entities were not exported using the THRU option. This is now feasible using the option “Create Ranges in Sets” at the Output Parameters>Miscellaneous tab.
PAM-CRASH: Incorrect added mass report could emerge due to erroneous mass scaling calculation.
PAM-CRASH: Erroneous “Time Step” calculation for Tetrahedral elements.
Importing PAM-CRASH PART_BEAM with tapered beam definition could lead to unexpected termination.
Scripting
The function SetANSAdefaultsValues did not update the D.INFO card.
The performance issue when modifying the fields of PAM-CRASH PART_PLINK has been fixed.
Known issues resolved in µETA
New Annotations Enhancement
The cross section area of Bar and Beam elements is now available in the PIDs list while the visualization of their actual cross section is supported.
Transparency can now be applied on specific elements.
A new read option has been added for averaging the corner values of an element with the corner values of adjacent elements based on a user-defined threshold angle.
Managing Curve Data
In certain cases, curves from Nastran XY punch format would not be plotted correctly.
Variables
The defaults file command: variable {name} {value} would not work in certain cases.
For more details about the new software features, enhancements and corrections please, refer to the Release Notes document.
