February 8, 2024

BETA CAE Systems announces the release of the v24.0.2 of its software suite

Regarding the download of ANSA/EPILYSIS/META/CAD data translator v24.0.2 here

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About this release

We announce the launch of the second bug-fix release of v24.0.x series, including a range of upgrades and performance improvements for your tasks, workflows, and processes.

These, along with the already existing features, unlock further simulation potential in design and analysis, aiming at assisting you in a hassle-free update to the newer series.

A detailed list of the new features and improvements follows.

Contents

Known issues resolved in ANSA
Known issues resolved in EPILYSIS
Known issues resolved in META
Known issues resolved in KOMVOS
Known issues resolved in FATIQ
CAD data translator
Recommended GPU (OpenCL Support) requirements
Virtual Machine Environment

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Known issues resolved in ANSA

Model Browser

Model Browser contents would unnecessarily refresh, resulting in loss of focus, expand/collapse state, sorting, and inessential filtering.

When a default filter was active (e.g., filter "visible") and a new Part was created, all Parts/ Groups would be visible, even though the filter was still active.

Data Management

When saving a Group in DM using the "Save inner parts" option, ANSA would fail to detect conflicts between Parts having "blank" and "common", as a representation.

The import of RLI would not be successful when the selected file was placed in any subdirectory of the DM Root.

Connections & Assembly

By executing "Realize" on Adhesive Lines, abrupt termination would occur when the "Cut-Off Adhesive Elements" option was activated, and the Adhesive was passing over holes.

Topo

Ctrl+V would not paste a value in the Curves' menu relative fields with direct keyboard entry.

Volume Mesh

Unexpected termination could occur in the following cases:

-When opening the Mesh Parameters of a Hextreme Area in Octree.
- When applying the function "Redefine" on volumes without boundary.

Feature Manager

ANSA would abort during feature recognition of fasteners or stamps if the setting "Decks> Copied entity id" had a value other than its default.

Decks

An unexpected termination would occur, while working with Laminate Tool, if the "ringe > LAMINATE [Layers]" option became active.

ANSA would cease operating when switching the type from RBODY/MTOCO to PAM MTOCO, by UTIL [Change Type> 1-D Entities] execution.

The exported MED HDF5 file format could not be recognized when using Code Aster through SALOME 9.7.0.

Scripting

By executing the function base.OptimizeSetContents(), unexpected software abortion could occur in models with 2nd order elements.

Plugins

Referencing Squeak and Rattle> Eline Method, unexpected termination of the tool could occur during the realization of E-lines, when Surface Stripe was selected as definition method.

Concerning ECAD Importer, abrupt software abortion could occur, when using trace mapping with layer features that were smaller than a single pixel of the discretization canvas.

 

Known issues resolved in EPILYSIS

General

Unexpected termination could occur under the following circumstances:

- In AMLS when fluid grids existed in the model without fluid elements.
- During topology with stress constraints and analysis as MODES, DFREQ or MFREQ.
- In specific cases after MECHFIX operation.

 

Known issues resolved in META

Read Results

Abrupt termination could occur when reading Ensight results on bar elements.

Regarding Nastran, the available ESE and EKE results would not be shown correctly in GUI when reading 2D results from .pch files.

Regarding Abaqus, META could not read kinematic/distributed couplings when reading geometry from .odb files. Also, unexpected termination could occur while executing the command "read geom contents pids shell all" for an Abaqus .odb file, as well as when loading results at many layers.

META would unexpectedly cease operating when reading OptiStruct H3D files with PSOLID elements on Linux OS.

Software abortion could also take place when reading Adams .cmd files on Windows OS.

States & Animation

META could become unresponsive when animating forward once, using the command " animation for1".

Annotations

Focusing on Filters, unexpected termination could occur when using the advanced option for filtering the Annotation's list. Also, Edit could not work when picking multiple annotations from screen.

Moreover, an invalid Annotation object was created by moving an Annotation to another window or page via Scripting. That invalid Annotation object could possibly lead to an unexpected termination.

Concerning Text, META would unexpectedly cease to respond in case the Scalar Data Name was requested while no scalar results were loaded. Abrupt termination would also take place when setting the number of rows to add a table in annotation's text.

Math operation in Field Data

Synchronization of loaded states in Section Forces tool with states loaded in the States window did not work as expected.

Managing Curve Data

Force result was not available when loading a .pch file.

Report

Unexpected termination could occur when saving a spreadsheet that contained unsupported conditional formatting.

File Export

META would stop operating when an invalid path would be given to ATFX output.

In addition, when saving geometry in LS-DYNA format, "*END" was not added at the end of the file.

 

Known issues resolved in KOMVOS

Configuration

Unexpected termination would occur, in case no Mime Types for files had been registered in the SPDRM back-end, and the user pressed Next Iteration.

Furthermore, the <profile_name>.db settings file would not be read when KOMVOS was launched connected to an SPDRM backend configured with only one Settings Profile.

Scripting

An SPDRM action that was configured to run a script with input arguments would lead to an error message although the actions were executed normally.

 

Known issues resolved in FATIQ

GUI

Unexpected termination would occur when deleting multiple tasks, whereas Fields: Start, End, Offset, Scale and Repeats of Assign Loads window in time domain would falsely accept blank, as a value.

Calculations

Natural logarithm was executed instead of log10 for results Log of Damage and Log of Life.

 

CAD data translator

The supported CAD-data formats handled by the CAD DATA Translators are listed below.

- CATIA V5 (R7 - V5-R33) [.CATPart],[.CATProduct]
  Tesselated data [.cgr]
- CATIA V6 (2011x - 2013x) [.3Dxml]
- 3DExperience (2014 - 2022x) [.3Dxml]
- NX (CT based, Unigraphics V11.0 - NX1957,NX CR 2212) [.prt]
- NX (UG Open based, NX1899,NX1926,NX1953,NX1980,NX2007,NX2206,NX2212) [.prt]
- Parasolid (all - 35) [.xmt_txt],[.xmt_bin],[.x_b],[.x_t]
- Pro/ENGINEER (from WF3 to WF5),
  PTC Creo Parametric 2.0 M140, PTC Creo Parametric 3.0 M020,
  PTC Creo Parametric 3.0 M030, PTC Creo Parametric 3.0 M040,
  PTC Creo Parametric 3.0 M090, PTC Creo Parametric 4.0 F000,
  PTC Creo Parametric 5.0 - 9.0
- SolidWorks (2007 - 2023) [.sldprt],[.sldasm]
- JT (v8.0 - v10.8) [.jt]
- Inventor (2010 - 2023) [.ipt],[.iam]
- CoreTechnologie [.ctp],[.cta]
- Rhino(up to v6) [.3dm]
- ACIS(R27) [.sat]

 

Recommended GPU (OpenCL Support) requirements

The following presents the recommended GPU requirements.:

 GPU :NVIDIA,AMD
 OpenGL Version:3.3
 GPU memory :1GB
 OpenCL Version:1.2

Virtual Machine Environment

-Any instance of an application launched through a Virtual Machine or Machine of NIC Teamng will not share the same license and will occupy the prescribed number of credits.

 

Regarding the download of ANSA/EPILYSIS/META/CAD data translator v24.0.2 here