BETA CAE System S.A. announces the release of the v15.1.1 of the ANSA & µETA pre- and post- processing suite. With improvements and fixes to identified problems, this version further enhances and improves the performance of their latest v15.1x branch. Amongst the improvements and fixes of v15.1.1 the most noticeable are listed below.
Understanding the Software Release Schedule
The plan
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 their customers can decide whether it is critical to implement this release in their environment.
This release
This release of v15.1.1 implements code corrections, to the v15.1.0 release and the latest pre-existing release of the 14x branch, i.e. 14.2.5.
Known issues resolved in ANSA
Parts Manager
When a part was unmeshed, its mass would be zero in the Part Manager’s attributes.
Replace: Correction in the Sets reapplication on the new part.
Compare
Comparing databases with more than five thousands PLINKs, could cause unexpected termination.
Connections and Assembly
Check: Connections>Maximum dist>By absolute distance option, ignored the defined distance and used instead the default one.
FEMFAT SPOT: Improvement of RIVET beam’s Young’s modulus calculation to comply with the FEMFAT specifications.
Mesh
The generation of hexahedral layers from quad shell mesh in combination with the collapse mode could create invalid layers.
Elements: Selecting three nodes, that all belonged to polygon elements, to create a tria element could result in unexpected termination.
DECKs
Checks: Tied Contacts check was limited to the Abaqus Deck.
NASTRAN: Any K2GG/M2GG header command referencing multiple matrices might be read erroneously.
PAM-CRASH: Outputting a database containing SETs with names of 80 or more characters, in PAM-CRASH version 2012 or newer, could result in unexpected termination.
ANSYS: Solid-to-solid checks for Property Thickness penetrations might be ignored or not detected correctly.
For more details about the new software features, enhancements and corrections please, refer to the Release Notes document.
Known issues resolved in µETA
LS-DYNA model geometry would not be loaded correctly from the .key file if it contained the keyword INCLUDE_TRANSFORM in more than one references.
Unexpected termination could occur when plotting curves from Abaqus files on MS-Windows workstations, if a user-defined abscissa was specified.
Erros occured during the Fluent Mean Volume Fraction results reading.
OpenFOAM results on polygon and polyhedral meshes could not be mapped.
Sections forces from STAR-CCM+ *.sim files might not be calculated correctly.
User field function result sets, could not be created, if curves were specified in the calculation expression.
Curves from the glstat variable of LS-DYNA binout files could not be loaded as expected.
Unexpected termination when overlaying a session that created and deleted a report.
Exporting Model Reports could cause unexpected termination.
