About this release
Aiming to further upgrade your workflow processes while eliminating numerous error-prone factors, a second bug-fix release for v22.0.x series is now deployed for ANSA/EPILYSIS/META and KOMVOS.
Known issues resolved in ANSA
General
Unexpected termination would occur while editing a material database path within Settings.
Moreover, Transform and Transform [Move] actions, such as pasting CONS/ Perimeters with underlying Volume entities, could also lead to abrupt termination.
Model Browser
Unexpected termination would occur when an empty configuration was activated.
Data Management
ANSA would terminate unexpectedly when adapted Subsystems or Group Subsystems containing adapted Subsystems were saved in DM.
DECKs
Unexpected termination would occur throughout the following cases:
- upon activation of Auxiliaries > GEB [GEB GN], when GEB was attached to Rigid material - upon Input/Output of A_POINTs, due to erroneous definition of not Applied entities - upon editing of an existing Thermal loadset, under NASTRAN > THERMAL [Applied Heat]
Plugins
The Beam Optimization tool would terminate unexpectedly right after starting, when no model was open in ANSA.
For more details about the new software features, enhancements and corrections please, refer to the Release Notes document.
Known issues resolved in EPILYSIS
General
WEIGHTCHECK/GRDPNT would not be calculated correctly in SOL101 case with DMIG (M2GG).
MUMPS linear solver would fail, when memory was set to "unlimited" during an "IN ANSA" solution.
For more details about the new software features, enhancements and corrections please, refer to the Release Notes document.
Known issues resolved in META
General
META would unexpectedly terminate, when deleting a window during animating.
Read Results
Default settings for loading stress results on shell elements corners were not respected and scalar results on nodes of CBAR beams could not be read correctly.
Cases of wrongly interpreted results have been combatted including:
PIDs from conjugate heat transfer Converge cases in .h5 format and Vector results on nodes of CBAR beams for Ensight.
User Toolbars – Crash & Safety
FMVSS 201U: File paths on Windows OS were not read correctly from the configuration file.
Low Speed Impact:
The toolbar could not read results in Linux.
EU-NCAP MPDB:
The Hide Flying Elements function had been fixed.
Automation
Memory leak could occur when using script function results.StartChangingCentroidScalar().
For more details about the new software features, enhancements and corrections please, refer to the Release Notes document.
Known issues resolved in KOMVOS
The variance estimation of the predictions was not computed correctly.
Feature based group prediction would return zero (0) values for all but the last predictor, when few predictions were requested.
For more details about the new software features, enhancements and corrections please, refer to the Release Notes document.
New Documentation in ANSA
User Guides
Tutorials:
- Map Block
New Documentation in META
User Guides
- Toolbars
- Participation Analysis
- Deployable Bonnet Systems Assessment
For more details about the new software features, enhancements and corrections please, refer to the Release Notes document.
Compatibility and Supported Platforms
ANSA files saved by all the first and second point releases of a major version are compatible to each other. New major versions can read files saved by previous ones but not vice versa.
META Project files saved from version 22.0.2 are compatible and can be opened by META version 16.0.0 or later.
Support for Mac OS has been discontinued.
Support for 32-bit platform has been discontinued for all operating systems.
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Where to download from
Customers who are served directly by BETA CAE Systems, or its subsidiaries, may download the new software, examples and documentation from their account on our server. Contact us if you miss your account details. The Downloads menu items give you access to the public downloads.
Customers who are served by a local business agent should contact the local support channel for software distribution details.