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Thursday, May 07, 2026

BETA CAE Systems announces the release of the v25.1.5 of its software suite

We gladly announce the v25.1.5 release, for ANSA, EPILYSIS, META, KOMVOS, SPDRM, with critical bug fixes and selected implementations.

Follows an overview of the most important items:

Known issues resolved in ANSA

Data Management

Mesh parameters file was not read at all, while connected to a DM.

LS-DYNA

A couple of cases were encountered with "*MAT_108 *MAT_ORTHO_ELASTIC_PLASTIC".

In specific, executing "Fringe > M.SCALE" would not color the model when its material was "*MAT_108 *MAT_ORTHO_ELASTIC_PLASTIC".

The ADDED MASS, SCALED MASS and MASS INCR. % would not be calculated for "*MAT_108 *MAT_ORTHO_ELASTIC_PLASTIC".

Furthermore, when the LS-DYNA ID SCHEMA was used, SETs might get the same IDs with different SET types while renumbering Includes. For instance, a SET could get the same ID with a SET_PART or vice versa.

Abaqus

Focusing on STEP Manager, MODEL CHANGE would be written out even if it was set to "NO".

Kinetics

ANSA would exit abnormally while trying to load a flexible body in Flex Tools after deleting its modal file.

Modal results for flex bodies would not be calculated on Linux OS.

In addition, model Info would display wrong number of DOFs and redundant constraints on models with flexible bodies.

Renumber

The execution of "NODE > Renumber" function would cause an unexpected termination when called from the search engine.

Curve Functions

Simply accessing *DEFINE_CURVE would lead to software abortion.

Known issues resolved in META

Nastran

Non-Linear Plastic Strain was not read correctly since version 25.1.3.

LS-DYNA

Focusing on 2D Plots, nodout curves were not read correctly in case of high IDs.

Abaqus

Analytical surfaces were not read correctly from an .odb file.

Ansys

Middle node results on Ansys SHELL132 elements would have erroneous values.

Adams

The Flex Bodies Normalized Coordinates results would be displayed incorrectly as 2D plots.

FEMZIP

Geometry was not properly read from FEMZIP ERF files. In specific, curves from .erfh5 files compressed in FEMZIP version16.28 and later would not be read, unless "File Format" was switched explicitly to "Pam-Crash", instead of "Auto detect".

Project Files & METADB

Project file comments could not be retrieved when loading a project file saved using lossless settings.

Known issues resolved in KOMVOS

Data Management - Teamcenter Utilities

Execution of "Teamcenter Utilities > Export Structure" function would export the latest revision and not the selected one.

In addition, pressing the "Download missing parts from Teamcenter" would consistently download only parts with missing CAD files.

Known issues resolved in SPDRM

Data Management

"GetAvailableLibraryItems" script function would erroneously return "None" when searching for RLIs in folders.

Users Management - Security

Under certain circumstances, the ACL settings would fail to be exported through a remote SPDRM Client session.

Download

Where to download from

BETA LM Toolkit and all the supported versions of the software of BETA CAE Systems are now available from Cadence.
To access the Cadence Downloads and the Cadence Support (ASK) portals you are required to first create your CadenceID, if you do not already have one.

What to download

Login to Cadence Downloads using your CadenceID.
Follow the options ANSAEPILYSISMETA 25.1, Release Version ANSA EPILYSIS META 25.1 HF5, Release Date 30-Apr-2026, select the required Operating System and get the available installers.
The installed files should replace any pre-releases or other files of this release downloaded prior to that date.

Important

The license files that are issued by Cadence Design Systems from February 2026 require that BETA LM 7.3 is installed on the license server. All supported versions of the BETA CAE Systems software and previously released license files are compatible with BETA LM v7.3.

BETA LM Toolkit and all the supported versions of the software of BETA CAE Systems are now available from Cadence. Login to Cadence Downloads using your CadenceID. New customers can download BETA LM v7.3 directly for Windows or Linux to produce the license server identification details required for licensing and a CadenceID.

It is important that you download and deploy BETA LM v7.3, so you can renew or upgrade your license file.

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