May 28, 2021

BETA CAE Systems announces the release of the v21.1.3 of its software suite

Regarding the download of ANSA/EPILYSIS/META/CAD data translator v21.1.3 here

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About this release

BETA CAE Systems announces the release of the new ANSA/EPILYSIS/META suite v21.1.3.

Apart from fixes in the detected issues, this version also hosts numerous noteworthy enhancements and implementations.

The most important enhancements and fixes implemented are listed below.

Contents

License Management for ANSA and META
Enhancements and known issues resolved in ANSA
Enhancements and known issues resolved in EPILYSIS
Enhancements and known issues resolved in META
Enhancements and known issues resolved in KOMVOS
CAD data translator
Recommended GPU (OpenCL Support) requirements
Virtual Machine Environment

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License Management for ANSA and META

Focusing on the Command Line arguments, the LM retry option (-lm retry timeout) can now be restricted by user-defined timeout.The respective flag is followed by the desired timeout in seconds and its minimum acceptable value is 60.

 

Enhancements and known issues resolved in ANSA

Known issues resolved in ANSA

Graphics

ANSA might abort launching when executed via VirtualGL on remote environments.

GUI

ANSA would cease to respond, when loading specific types of .xml files.

Indicatively, such .xml files would contain GUI Settings saved with any list windows (e.g. Properties, Materials) visible, affecting ANSA response even upon initial launch.

Database Browser

Unexpected termination could occur upon deletion of solid elements when deleted directly (e.g. through the Database Browser list of solids) or indirectly (e.g. through the deletion of other containers like includes or Model Containers).

Shell Mesh

Unexpected termination could occur when projecting points to open holes via Project [Holes].

Pasting nodes that lie on boundary of volumes in light volume representation mode via Grids > Paste [Auto] function would lead to erased volumes.

Laminates

Laminate Convert would occasionally lead to unexpected termination.

Optimization Tool

Unexpected termination could occur when Cross Sections were morphed and recalculated during a DOE run, or when Simulate was used and the Design Variables modified cross section thickness and shape.

 

Enhancements and known issues resolved in EPILYSIS

Known issues resolved in EPILYSIS

NVH

DMIG coupling generation weighing factors would not be correct when the coupled Fluid and Structure surfaces were parallel.

SOL200

Topometry optimization would stop in first cycle, when a PCOMP property was used.

 

Enhancements and known issues resolved in META

Known issues resolved in META

General

Certain settings in "Fraction Plot Options" of FRF Assembly might not be initialized correctly after Ctrl+N.

Certain settings in Modal / FRF Correlation Tool would not reset to their default values with Ctrl+N.

"Output in Unv58" settings under Modal Response would not be restored correctly.

Read Results

PAM-CRASH MTOJNT elements, as well as PERMAS EKINMASS scalar results, were not read correctly. Marc Element Type 84 was not read at all, whereas unexpected termination could occur when reading Marc Logarithmic Stress results.

NASTRAN

When multiple META sessions were using femzip NASTRAN models to read results simultaneously, META could become unresponsive. In addition, unexpected termination could occur when coordinates systems were defined with mixed single and double precision.

States & Animation

Unexpected termination would occur when Time was shown on the Animation Bar and the selected States Method was Interpolate.

Identification of Entities & Data

Parts identify function failed to exclusively identify the picked part in the GL area and, consequently, indicate it in the list.

Math Operations on Field Data

Unexpected termination could occur when reading scalar nodal results in Fourier Transformation for Abaqus.

NVH Calculators

FRF Assembly: When modal participations were requested for a single component, with no connections, the calculated results would be zero.

Modal Response: If the method without large masses was used to calculate enforced motion for ASCII modal models, the enforced motion displacement at the excitation points was calculated as zero.

Project Files & METADB

Unexpected termination could occur when reading element thickness.

File Export

Unexpected termination could occur while exporting a video with animating cycles.

 

Enhancements and known issues resolved in KOMVOS

Known issues resolved in KOMVOS

GUI

Thanks to the "Compare Containers" option, available under the Context Menu when selecting Parts, the properties and attributes of multiple Parts can be successfully compared.

DM Schema Editor

Clicking OK in the "Accepted Values Editor" window would lead to unexpected termination.

 

CAD data translator

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

-CATIA V5 (R7 - V5-6R2020(CATIA V5 R30)) [.CATPart],[.CATProduct]
 Tesselated data [.cgr]
-CATIA V6 (2011x - 2013x)) [.3Dxml]
-3DExperience (2014 - 2020x) [.3Dxml]
-NX (CT based, Unigraphics V11.0 - NX1934) [.prt]
-NX (UG Open based, NX9, NX10, NX11, NX12, NX1847, NX1872, NX1899, NX1953) [.prt]
-Parasolid (all - 32) [.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 F000 PTC Creo Parametric 6.0 F000 [.prt],[.asm]
-SolidWorks (2007 - 2020) [.sldprt],[.sldasm]
-JT (v8.0 - v10.7) [.jt]
-Inventor (2010 - 2021) [.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 for ANSA-META v14.x.x and later:

AMD:
Radeon HD 7xxx, 6xxx (with at least 1GB of video memory size)
Firepro W series, V series (with at least 1GB of video memory size)
NVIDIA:
Tesla (all) (with at least 1GB of video memory size)
Quadro (with at least 1GB of video memory size)
Intel:
i3, i5, i7
(Intel Platform is also supported, with the prerequisite that "Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications 2012-13" is already installed.)

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 v21.1.3 here