Ansa v13.1.0 Release Notes

v13.1.
0
Release Notes
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ANSA v13.1.0 Release Notes
August 2010
1. Introduction
This document contains all information about features improvement, new features added and problems
fixed during development of ANSA from version 13.0.5 to version 13.1.0.
NOTES:
ANSA databases saved by ANSA v13.1.0 cannot be opened by older ANSA versions.
Release History:
v13.1.0
2010.08.16
v13.0.5
v13.0.4
v13.0.3
v13.0.2
v13.0.1
v13.0.0
2010.05.12
2010.03.29
2009.12.18
2009.10.01
2009.05.25
2008.12.21
( introductory version )
Copyright notes:
All other company and product names mentioned in the software and its documentation are property, trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective owners.
Whats New in v13.1.0
August 2010
2. Whats new in v13.1.0

Enhancements New Options New Features
GENERAL
Function
Access
Search engine
The former Function Finder has been replaced by a more sophisticated
engine.
It is activated through Windows>Search Engine or with the shortcut

Ctrl+F.
It invokes functions of any menu, loaded script functions and

session commands.
The function access is achieved by typing few letters.
Search by meaning is also possible.
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Filter ranges of any entity and then open the respective list.
History of last applied functions is stored. Access this by hitting the 'Enter'
key.
Entities
Creation
Create new entities of any type via the Database Browser. The right mouse
button in the free space, will open a list where entities are grouped in a way
to provide easy access.
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New MENUS
The Volume Mesh functions are also available as a separate

menu.
Hexa Block [HexaB] module has been introduced. It provides a

special approach of generating faster and easier hexahedral mesh,
using boxes.
Model Views
Windows>Views: New option to manipulate and manage multiple views of

the current model.
Cutting
Planes
FOCUS>C.PLANE provides the capability to create planes that affect the

visibility of the model (clipping).
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Selections
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Focus commands (NOT, OR, !NOT) are

now performed using the selection
assistant tools.
When selecting from the graphics area,

the button combinations Ctrl+A and Ctrl+L act as select all /
deselect all.
CONS selection (e.g. COONS): Auto and Color are now

available as options in the feature selection toolbar.
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Path is a new selection tool, that traces the shortest path between two
picked points in order to select the nodes along this path.
Loop: New selection assistant that selects closed chains of nodes, edges,
CONS or line elements by a single click.
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Line Elements: At feature line selection with PID neighbors, now the
selection is directional i.e. clicking close to one side, the direction of
selection is towards the opposite side.
View
Manipulation
Windows>Settings[GUI Settings>Mouse]
The mouse buttons combination for the view manipulation are now
customizable.
Zoom in-out using wheel mouse, has customizable sensitivity.
PID selection when double click with any of the focus commands
(OR, NOT etc.), is now optional and can be deactivated.
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Legends
Move legends (e.g. element index, quality criteria etc.) in the graphics area
by grabbing them with the middle mouse button.
Quality
Criteria
Now, the activation / deactivation of

visible quality criteria can be directly by
hitting on the legend.
Also, by right click on the legend, the
Edit Visible Criteria card opens where
one can switch ON/OFF the visibility of
the desired criteria.
Draw Modes
Draw modes that use Fringe Bars (EL.THICK,

QGRAPH etc.), it is now possible to isolate a
range of elements, using the
FOCUS>ISOLATE>FRINGE BAR VALS.
New Draw Mode INCLUDE. It can also be
activated through Includes manager in
Database Browser.
New Draw per PART, colors according to ANSA
parts. By enabling the column Is color active in parts manager, the
drawing switches to the color of the group that belongs to.
Draw Modes that work only with shadow (e.g. EL.THICK), automatically
swich SHADOW on and HIDDEN off.
Measurements
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- The measure tool is now located at the top Menubar.
- Measurement of Euler axis, Euler angles and distance between

coordinate systems can be now achieved.
- The List option has been removed. The access now is through the
Database browser only.
GUI Settings
- Filtering capabilities are supported for Buttons Manager.

- More Font types can be selected for Windows and OpenGL (not only
monospaced).
- Customization options for toolbars are also available by right-click on the
toolbar.
Acquiring
Help
Ctrl+Left mouse button, now works also on the Script Buttons window. It
displays the help text of the user-function.
Graphics Area
Drag and Drop from a file browser in ANSA graphics area:

ANSA files are merged with the current database.
Files in neutral solver format are input in the database.
Files in neutral CAD format, are opened in a new database.
Images are set as background. Remove them from
Windows>Options>GUI Settings>Colors.
- Drag and drop the graphics area to a file browser to save the image.
- The graphics area of ANSA can be copied as image to the clipboard,
by pressing Ctrl+C.
Files History
File>Open/Input Recent:
Delete any of the recorded paths by selecting it and pressing the Delete
button.
The number of recently opened/input files shown in the pull down menu,
can be modified under the option Maximum file paths at
Windows>Options>GUI Settings>Menus and windows.
Output
Now, the output of a file to a solver has the option to choose the format.
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Help Window
Settings
Help>Edit>Settings
Running
ANSA
When ANSA is invoked, a launcher opens.
The Help Windows Settings window

is now available for non-Windows
operating systems. PDF viewer and email handler default application can now
be defined, which will initialized when the
user clicks on a .pdf link or on a
mailto: link within ANSA.
The Start up options provide an alternative to the -gui command line

argument.
Disable/Enable the launcher through Windows>Options>GUI
Settings>Menus and Windows.
Multiple CPU operation

New command line argument -np that specifies the maximum number of
CPUs that ANSA can use by application of multi thread functions. If it is not
defined, ANSA will use all the available processors.
New command line argument -dmroot that sets a directory as DM root.
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Database Browser
NEW
ENTITIES
New entities can be created when right mouse button is pressed within the empty space of
DBB. The list is split in two sections, according to usability and frequenct use of the
entities.
LISTs
The elements' lists now include subcategories of the various types and orders that may be
included in the database.
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Selection list toolbar contents are now customizable.
The option to open the list in a new window has been added.
Delete button can now be used to delete selected entities from the lists.
Lists of SETs and INCLUDES can have a tree view mode.
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SELECTION A Pick button enables / disables the selection from the screen.
The pull down menu displayed when right click on an empty space, is also available
through the button shown in the picture.
The option Clear Selection has been added in the list, when there is no empty space
to clear selections.
When there are no selected entities, the option Apply to All appears at the top of the
list. This indicates that whichever application of the list is pressed, it will be applied to
the whole model.
New option Send to > Current function enables the user to choose the entities from
the DBB list and send them to the currently active function for process.
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EDITMODIFY
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If wrong expression is typed in the Quick modify of the lists, the printed error message
includes also this expression.
Direct edit of the fields in the cards
has been implemented, without the
need to access the edit card. The
? can also be used, to open the
respective list.
FILTERs
Filtering in lists has new widget, which

is also used for edit and clear.
The Visible option is available to
keep in the list the currently visible
entities.
Filtering
Advanced MODIFY:
Modification Modifications are now saved.

New option More reveals additional options whereas, Card option opens the respective
card.
Question mark ? in now supported for opening lists.

The use of @ to enclose card field names, is no longer necessary. It is still required only
in cases of the use of special characters (-, /, etc.) and when it does not start with a letter.
FILTERING:
- Question mark ? is supported to open lists.
- Filters visible and selected are by default
ready to use.
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Advanced Filtering now facilitates two additional options:

- More..., opens a list with the columns that are not currently visible as columns in the
list.
- Card, opens the respective card for simultaneous access to multiple card fields.
- New filtering options:

- Unused
- starts with
- doesn't start with
- ends with
- doesn't end with
- visible
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TASK Manager
TASK Item
Added Check DM Updates item, to schedule a check for any availability of newer
parts, groups and includes. If any, the DM Browser pops-up, otherwise it is simply
checked.
The check parameters can be defined in the DM Updates Options card.
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Data Management
Compare Function
The new Compare function allows the full comparison of two models. The identified
differences can concern geometry, attributes, solver-specific definitions and connections.
Comparison can take place in terms of hierarchy i.e. in a parts/group structure mode.
Alternatively, the comparison of entities are displayed in a flat list. A toggle button switches
between the two display modes.
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Browsing Comparison Results

New short-cut options have been introduced to ease the
navigation, through the View option of the toolbar.
Also, isolation of parts and properties is available
through the Advanced sub-option.
Double-click on a group item, isolates its children in
the window.
A quick filtering is provided through the multi-condition
filter.
Selecting a listed part or group, it information is displayed in the lower part of the window,
along with a pixmap.
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Association of the Comparison Report with the drawing area.

Synchronization of the report contents with the models in the drawing area, through
Options>Show only on Isolate.
Incoming entities are bounded in a box, labeled Incoming model.
Comparison of parts
Matching of parts is done according to their module id. If this does not exist, their name is
the matching entity, otherwise the geometry is used.
Comparison report can be displayed in tree-list view, where the results are presented in
hierarchical manner or in flat-list view to present results per-type.
Mapping geometric differences: Identified geometric differences can be mapped from one
component to its match.
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Comparison of Connection entities

New feature has been introduced to compare connection entities. The matching of
connection points is specified by a factor of the connected components or an absolute value.
The search domain is graphically drawn as a white sphere.
Comparison report is given in two modes:

Tree-list view presents the results in a hierarchical manner i.e. internal to parts/groups
connections are listed as children whereas, the External Connections category contains all
external connections at zero lever.
Flat tree view displays the results per-type thus, all results relevant to connections are under
the CONNECTION category.
Color coding:
Upon selection of a connection item, a special drawing mode is drawn along with the display
of a legend, which declares the coloring attributes.
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DM Browser
The DM Browser is a new tool that allows the browsing of the current DM root contents.
Especially for parts, groups and includes browsing, the user can identify the available CAD
versions, study versions and representations and select which files to merge in the current
ANSA session and by which files to replace the ones currently used.
In parts category the user can quickly perceive their status:

Green box implies that the part is currently in use.
Orange box implies that the part is not the latest CAD version, study version or file
available.
Gray box implies that the part is an alternative of the one currently in use.
White box implies that the part is not used in the model.
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View Modes
Two view modes are available for the display of DM contents: Tree list-view that reflects to
the directory structure and the flat-list view where the actual files are displayed.
Quick identification of parts

Multi-condition filter is a new tool to quickly identify parts and groups. An extra row is added
below the column header with the respective fields. All standard filtering functionality in
ANSA is also applicable here.
Incorporating parts and groups in the model
The parts and groups that will be incorporated in the model when the Download is pressed
are those that are marked.
The Download of the alternative items of the currently used, will replace them. Also, there is
the option to Compare them before proceeding.
The Download of items not currently in use, will pop-up the Merge Parameters window.
Change Representation
Part Representation window, now lists in the Available column the representations that are
not available for all selected parts/groups but only for some of them. Their color is gray and
selecting such a representation will only change the representation of some of the selected
parts (the rest will be loaded in the respective Batch-Mesh session).
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Find Matches in DM
In cases where the module id is missing and hence, newer versions cannot be classified in
DM, ANSA can find the best match according to geometry comparison, with the function
Find Matches in DM.
Check DM Updates
The results of the Check DM Updates function are now reported in the DM Browser.
DM Paths
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New option to enable/disable the current DM root, without deleting them. In the Set DM
Paths list, a new option Unset current is available by right click on the path.
Also, set the current DM root by double click on the path.
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CAD Data Translators

The Unified CAD translator is now available also for IBM AIX, SUN Solaris and MAC OS.
New Graphical User Interface, which integrates all translation modes.
Five translation modes (CAD format) are now available:

CATIA
NX (UG Open)
NX (CT)
Proengineer
JT Open
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New option in Graphical User Interface to switch between 32bit and 64 bit.
Script path can now be given in the field provided, that will be run for the
translation. The script is also saved in the options.
Added option -create_sets, to create named sets of two or more named entities.
If surfaces have been converted, then a set named CONVERTED_ENTITIES is created.
-read_attributes, which reads attributes from entities that are stored in comments.
-help option added, to bring up all the options that can be used with the unified CAD Translator.
-use_orient_vec, searches for a curve on a specified layer,
in order to identify it as a vector and assign the proper
orientation to the faces.
-layer_thick, now works also for parallel lines that are
connected with small curves at their edges.
-flatten, is always ON for neutral formats.
-part2pid creates one PSHELL property for each part, named according to the parts' names.
-ANSAcolor, assigns a different color to each body PID.
-notANSAcolor option, uses the CAD color for each body PID.
Geometry mode has been added fir the JT Open translation mode. Now, the user can specify what type
of geometries to read:
Solids and Shells
Solids only
Shells only
Level of detail (LOD) is now available for the JT
Open translation mode.
Geometry of type XTB-rep is now supported by t e JT Translator. TOPOLOGY is now also translated
using the curves from the edges. Orientation of faces is also supported and translated when geometry of
type XTB-rep is used. XTP-rep support is being built with JTOpen Toolkit v5.3 and supports JT File
Format Version 8.0.
The behavior of creation of Property IDs is now changed for IGES. The option -singlepidis now always
ON for IGES in order to avoid problems due to missing topology.
A Directory List button is added in NX (UG Open) mode in order to help users with the creation of the
searchdirs.txt file required for NX assemblies. (In order for NX to ANSA translation to work properly with
assemblies, you need to inform the translator where to search for the individual files that make up the
assembly.)
The location where the GUI options are saved has changed. It is now written in the:
/.BETA/ANSA/version_13.1.0/ directory (in the same directory where the ANSA defaults file is saved)
and the file is named TranslatorGUIoptions.dat. This file is written automatically only if you click on
the Save options button.
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By clicking on the Load options button, the

TranslatorGUIoptions.dat file with user's preferred
GUI options, is loaded automatically.
The Change font button is still available, but now it also affects the fonts of the graphical user
interface and not only the fonts of the Translation output window.
A ct_parasolid_schema is added in the latest translator packages. This schema supports also the
.x_t parasolid format file.
New options TOPO BETWEEN PARTS added in CAD input topology options in ANSA. This is located
in the Windows>[Options...] window in ANSA. This gives the user the option to perform topology
between different parts. It is applicable especially on neutral format files. (.iges, .igs, .step, .stp, etc.) The
also known options READ CONSTRUCTION SURFACES and CREATE SETS have also been added
here.
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Connections & Assembly

Interface
A special ASSEMBLY group has been created at the bottom area, to

accommodate all functions related to connections creation and
management.
Weld Spots button from TOPO and MESH menus, moved to ASSEMBLY
group.
MARK/UNMARK moved to TOPO>HOT POINTs as MARK/UN.
General
The visibility manipulation of the connections via Show, Show Only and
Hide, now applies on both the connection entity and its FE representation as
well. Also, the function OR from Focus group operates now accordingly.
Windows>
Options
Settings>Connections
Removed the option Use current mesh parameters and now it is applied by
default instead.
Post realization, User Field and PID Mapping can be post processed by
inserting the script path in the fields provided. Alternatively, use F1 or ? to
open the selection window.
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Thickness to Diameter Map can be specified within the Connections options.

Also, a user script can be selected instead.
Added interface also for Master flange election method.
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Option Preview reconstruct mesh, provides a preview of the reconstructed

mesh, where the user can either accept or not the results. The preview is
only available for Spotweld_Points, Gumdrops, Bolts and Spotweld_Lines.
Spider2 options:
Connections
Manager
Search Existing Holes: Searches for spider connection holes.
Fill Existing Holes on Erase FE: Activating/deactivating the option,

controls if Identified openings will be filled or kept.
Decimal digits can be defined for the connection attributes in

Connection Manager.
Spider property grouping.
Part Instances: Selection of parts using F1, will ask the user whether
to include the instances or not. Note, that the parts must have
module ids.
New Search options for the Selection Assistant:
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- Visible Parts/Props.
- Visible Parts/Props. only
User Attributes now are affected by Show/Edit.
Replace Connectivity is available at right click options of

connections.
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New filter option in Selection Assistant, to filter the FE

representations by their Pid.
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Added SHOW ONLY button at the Selection Assistant window.
Connections with insufficient assigned parts or without connectivity,

when Applied a warning message is displayed in the ANSA info
window.
Added Replace Connectivity option in the parts/props list of

Connections Manager.
Selection of a part through the list (1st section of the window), the
part is highlighted in the model.
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Connections
Drawing
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Connections can be drawn according to their attributes:
Ent, for entity drawing.
Connectivity, groups connections according to the number of connected

parts.
Type, discretizes the connections regarding their type of connection.
Status, current condition (OK, failed, etc.) is displayed with different

color.
FE Representation, uses a color for each representation.
Diameter, each diameter of connections is colored differently.
User Attributes, draws the connection entities according to the assigned

values for the selected attribute to be displayed.
Switching between modes is available under the Presentation Parameters

tab in F11 card and also through the Assembly group at the bottom buttons.
Post
Realization
Now, the post realization results are considered for the STATUS. If the
return is 0, then the status is OK and the type CUSTOM FE otherwise, it will
not be realized.
It is supported also for all connection types, except for the spider.
ASSEMBLY
Group
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RM.DBL:
The selection of connection entities

can additionally be filtered among the
ones that have equivalent number of
parts/properties as connectivity
information.
The Combine/Delete operations may

apply according to user definitions.
The combined entities can be

optionally moved to the geometric
center.
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CONVERT>Cnctn2Geom: New function to convert connections to

geometric entities e.g. Spotweld points to 3d points. The connectivity
information is written in the Comments area of the entity.
CONVERT>Faces: New option to create the conversion on a new
duplicated face, laying exactly on the original one.
CONVERT>FE to Adhesive: ABAQUS cohesive to adhesives is available.
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DEF.CNCT>MANUAL: Added option to Reselect parts.
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DEF.CNCT>HOLES: Added option to Use diameter map.

DEF.CNCT>SPOTS2PERIM: New function that adds connection points on
selected CONS/Perimeters.
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ADHESIVE:
For CWELD, added option to specify the height instead of the gap for the
grown elements.
At the second phase of selection, the user can now select individual
elements. Also, the Selection assistant Tools are available in both phases of
selections.
Removed the option Search in from the Adhesive window
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REALIZE>AUTO
Connection
Curves
TEMPLATE
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Available also for adhesive faces.
For option Clear Connectivity added new limitation options, for the
searching parts.
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TOPO>CURVEs>CONNECT>MULTI: When applied on connection curves,

only one of them is kept as one unified connection and the rest are erased.
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Inserting a hot point by using a function from TOPO>HOT POINTs, the

connection line is split according to 3d curve number of segments.
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New tool is supported for organizing and managing the connections by

grouping them according to specific criteria. The TEMPLATE manager
follows the philosophy of the Batch Mesh manager:
A scenario consists of the Rules for each of the connection types.
Every Rule contains a number of sessions, according to the number

of different values for the specified variable. A color attribute for
every session is available.
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The column Contents manages the connection entities distribution.

A filter can be assigned to each session and then load the entities.
A template corresponds to each of the sessions for different

specifications.
When templates are ready, they may be applied by the APPLY button of the
TEMPLATE manager. Note, that the checked (marked) scenarios are going
to be applied only.
Read/Output
Next step is to REALIZE the connections with the specifications

acquired by the templates. The Connection Manager should be
opened and the button ReApply has to be pressed in order to
respect the template's definitions and not the current ones.
At the Connection Manager, three new columns have been added to

give information about the template id, template name used and the
success of application.
The path is saved after the Output or Read of a file.
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The extensions *.vip, *.vip2, *.xml and *.mcf are now saved in the
ANSA defaults.
Connections, Connectors and GEBs can now contain Includes (#IN) in their
connectivity.
Check>
Connections
Check number of parts < 2: Identifies all connections which have as

connectivity one or none parts/props.
Check double connections. The Fix, runs the function Remove Double
connections.
For Spiders positioning, check the distance from Feature Line and the
Feature Angle.
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FE- Representations
SPOTWELDS
Added option Create Quads Around projection point for the

representations of RBE2, CBAR, CBEAM, CBUSH, CELAS2, PASTED
NODES, RBAR, RBE2-CELAS1-RBE2.
Added new FEMFAT_SPOT, CGAP and CFAST representations.
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Support of CGAP and CFAST representations in Spotweld points and

Spotweld lines.
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SPIDER2 new features:

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Perfect Zone.
Snap distance.
GetSpwDiamFromThickness: Realized connections as Spider2,

return the minimum diameter of connections' holes.
Spec supported: CBAR, SOLID and ABAQUS FASTENER.
Holes are not created if the zones are unable to be constructed.
Representation form Square Holes.
SPIDER: If the outer zone is set to 0 (Di=0), only the nugget is created.
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RBE3
Added RBE3 element representation.
Feature Angle is also available to disassociate the RBE3 diam from

the Mesh>Params.
RBE3-CELAS1: The spring-property supports the use of ? to select

property.
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PERMAS Spotweld: Interpolation surfaces option (ISURFACE) is now

supported.
NASTRAN CWELD: For Weld type: ELEMID, the option Point to Patch is
now supported, so as to create CWELDs by attaching directly the existing
nodes of P1.
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CONTACTS
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CONTACT connections interface:
When a new tied contact is created the tied property's RDIST is

filled out with the maximum node-distance calculated for all slave
nodes as the projection distance of node from master set,
increased by half thickness of projection shell and a warping shell
value.
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Erasing Fe with CONTACTS, now erases all related

representations.
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ADHESIVE
LINES
PASTED HEXAS representation is now supported.
SEAMLINES
Y-JOINT-SHELL and OVERLAP-SHELL: Apart of the distance, the width

can be specified also by angle.
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CRIMP-WELD-SHELL: Offset row can now be specified also by angle.
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HEXA-CONTACT representation is now available.
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NASTRAN-CWELD: Weld type ELEMID is now supported only if a

feature line and flange are detected.
SEAMWELDS
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RBE2, RBE3, RBE2-CBEAM, ABQ-CONTACT, RBAR-SHELL, NASTRANCWELD:

Feature line is now supported as a field but, feature line angle limit is read
from the Mesh>Params during reconstruction.
Y-JOINT-SHELL, OVERLAP_SHELL, LASER-WELD, CRIMP-WELDSHELL, EDGE-WELD-SHELL and corresponding FEMFAT:
Added Feature angle field for feature lines detection. Feature line angle
limit values are obtained by the Mesh>Params.
RBAR_SHELL, NASTRAN CWELD, SHELL-CONTACT:
In case of feature lines connectivity with different number of feature lines
'covered', a message is displayed: Bad feature lines matching, for
connection ###.
HEMMING
PASTED HEXAS and PASTED NODES representations are supported.
BOLTS
Added option Reconstruct zones, which creates quadrilateral

elements around the bolt hole.
New option Perfect zone.
Added parameters to define the number on nodes as well as the

quad zone dimensions parametrically.
If hole zones fail to be created, then the bolt holes are not created
either.
For Abaqus, CONNECTOR type BEAM is supported.
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Manual Bolt window and Connection Manager are now synchronized,

i.e. what is changed in one of them, is changed in both.
Washer column is supported in Connection Manager.
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Attach to node supports now the option any nodes as Node type.
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BATCH Mesh Manager

Main
management
Window
Reorganized interface, with most of the operations found in the menus

when right mouse button is pressed.
Drag and drop as well as Copy/Paste are also fully supported e.g. to
change the order of sessions or copy a session to another scenario.
Keyboard buttons combinations of Ctrl + X/C/V are available.
Also, Wrap Scenario is now available as a batch mesh scenario.
Tubes treatment is now a separate tab.
FILTERS
Added new options named starts with, doesn't start with as well as the
ends with and doesn't end with.
Also, All ensures that every remaining part/property will be assigned in
this session.
Mesh
Parameters
Mesh generation types have been simplified, according to the engineering

analysis. Also, only the needed options remain available for each mesh
type.
In addition, the mesh type (quad, tria etc.) can now be declared, as soon as
it is supported by the selected engineering analysis mesh type.
Default treatment added for Fillets, Holes and Tubes, in order to ensure
that entities that do not fall in the specified ranges will have a default
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treatment.
Fillets Treatment
Support of expressions min/max, to create number of rows with

respect to the defined shell mesh criteria for minimum length and
target for max.
Always create even rows of element: Option to create only even

number of rows.
For defined Tria element type or Structural analysis, the option

Create orthogonal trias is supported, which orientate them.
Holes Treatment
New Expression window provides the
composition of more advanced
expressions.
The Tubes treatment removed from
Holes and now stands in a separate
tab.
Use bolt connections: Its activation
automatically adds a new special row
for the recognized bolt holes treatment.
Fix Quality
According to the activated treatment tools, some special options are
available:
Grow violating Fillets/Flanges: For elements being violating, the

nodes will be allowed to exceed the geometry bounds.
Create perfect hole zone: Maintains the washer's dimensions.
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Flanges Treatment
This tab is available when shell mesh analyses of General (with Tria
element type) and Solid structural mesh are picked.
Flanges element length: Assigns different target local element length for
the flange areas.
Refine perimeters proximity: New option to automatically refine and create

at least two rows of elements, at important areas.
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Layers
Scenario
August 2010
Layers session parameters

New options:
Volume
Scenario
Additional outer layers in

aspect mode.
Collapse problematic areas

for prism elements only.
Collapse free edges at nonconformal interfaces.
Volume session parameters

Tetra Rapid: New algorithm for quick element generation (former
DELAUNAY).
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Wrap
Scenario
August 2010
Wrap session parameters
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Wrap scenario is now available

in batch mesh with new options:
Fill openings bellow: Holes with
diameter less than the specified
are ignored.
Leak check: Detects possible
leakage, regarding a reference
point.
Post Wrap Treatment: Provides
mesh quality improvement.
General
Algorithm does not require

meshed macros to proceed.
When finished, the wrap

mesh is only visible.
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PART Manager
New window facilitates a more enhanced parts manager with new interface and more features.
Interface
The Menu bar is by default on the top of the window.

Each part's attributes are displayed on the right or at the bottom (according to
chosen option) and their editing is done directly in the field.
Added more properties of the parts in their edit window.
New visibility and color features.
Filtering /
Modify
Incorporated the Quick and Advanced filtering tool, already used in the
Database Browser lists.
Also, a new filter is available on the top of the list. Each column has special
field for quick filtering.
Modify is now provided within parts manager in the right click list.
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New Parts
Available the Drag and drop of selected entities from a list to an empty space
of the parts manager window, where a new part is created to be assigned to.
Parts from visible: Creates a new part and assigns all visible entities to this
part.
Lists
New List view mode added, which lists all parts and groups with no
hierarchy.
Visibility and coloring features:

A lamp indicates the visibility mode of the part. By a simple click it can be
switched on, off or semi-visible.
Added color attribute for each part.
New column Is color active, enables the user to switch the coloring between
Group / Part or even mixed i.e. Group color active but some Parts colored by
their part color.
User Attributes: New feature available in the edit area, where more
information about the part or group can be added. They are saved along with
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the database and can be output to solver, provided that the ANSA comments
will be written out.
Copy Columns: Right click on the label of the column, there are the options to
copy the entire column or the selected entities of it.
Options list
Reference option (right click on part/group)

gives more information, listed as a separate
tab in the DBB.
Menu bar
Set Part / Identify: Upon activation, the window disappears and recovers
when middle button is pressed. Also, now the part assignment is done by
double clicking on the part.
Utilities: Gathers some auxiliary operations regarding Lock, Current part,
Empty parts etc. Also, the new Options provides some detailed settings that
can be set by the user.
VIEW>Parts Info: New option to place the Edit Window of the parts / groups
at the bottom or at the side of the parts manager window.
Identify: The picked entities are now highlighted as well.
Edit Window Position: The position of the part can now be changed. Right click on
Position and the matrix is shown, where after confirmation the part is moved
to the new location.
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TOPO
HOT
POINTs
MARK/UN: The former functions MARK / UNMARK have been incorporated

in one, under the group HOT POINTs. Their application utilizes the use of left
and right mouse buttons respectively.
CONS
INFO: The right click opens the info

card of the picked CONS, which now
contains the field Min Radius. The
same card is displayed for each
CONS through database browser.
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OPEN HOLE: New tool to open holes on selected area of faces. The circle
center can be either on an existing point or on a random point laying on one of
the selected faces.
FACEs
FUSE>PIPEs: The CONs selection of the two pipes, now requires

confirmation with middle button before proceeding.
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SKIN: The CONs selection to define the solid description can be assisted by
the Feature Line angle or Loop tools.
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EXTEND:
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The function works with multiple selections of CONS to be extended and

unlimited number of target faces.
The selection assistant tools of Feature Line and feature Area are also
provided.
The only restriction concerns the CONs which have to be of faces laying
on the same surface.
DELETE: If Box or Polygon selection of faces is used, the user is able to

make deselections before proceeding.
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MIDDLE>MULTI
Switching the radio button to choose among

Red, Green or Blue sections, can be done
also by pressing number 1.
Added option to delete or keep the original

faces that describe the solid geometry.
A preview of the new faces is now provided,

giving the possibility to decline the results.
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FLANGE>COMPATIBLE
Trims the faces so that the absolutely common areas are strictly separate
faces which, automatically become linked. The function requires flat surfaces
to proceed.
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ORIENT:
It has been merged with INVERT function. Therefore, the inversion of

faces is now operated by Orient function.
Added the option of selected faces' orientation.
NEW: It is now possible to select CONS of frozen faces The new face will be
pasted even with the frozen faces.
FREEZE/UN: The former discrete functions of FREEZE and UNFREEZE, are

now under a common button. Their operation follows the general rule of left
and right mouse buttons.
PROJECT: Select two areas of faces to project the first on the second. It is
applicable for faces with small distance among them.
SURFs
EXTRUDE: The function gives the possibility to select a face or a group of

faces. Their CONs are extruded and new faces are created at the end of the
extruded ones. Optionally, any internal face(s) can follow the extrusion if the
respective flag button is active.
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SWEEP/GLIDE: New operation window and more capabilities for both

functions.
CURVEs
Make the selection of chains. Then, the reference point can be directly
changed by clicking on a point and the previewed surface is moved
accordingly. In case the chain is closed, by pressing the Change Start
button it is possible to redefine the reference point.
The Reverse button moves the reference point between starting and
ending point of the selected chain.
CENTER
Option CONS is used to define

the geometrical center of the
selected CONS. It is mandatory
that the chain of CONS describes
a closed loop.
The FACE applies at surfaces

which describe Revolution,
Cylinder, Cone, Torus or Sphere,
a center line is created except the
last one which is described by a
center point.
The CURVES can be used to

define the center point of ellipsoid
shaped curves.
POINTs
INFO: Added the ID field in the card of the CENTERs points.
WORK
PLANEs
Added the buttons New, Snap and Undelete in the lists of the DataBase
Browser.
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MIDDLE SURFACE EXTRACTION

New tool introduced in TOPO>FACEs>MIDDLE[AUTO] for fully automated middle skin
extraction of solid description geometries. The result is a model consisted of shell elements.
The target element length of the result model, is defined in the Automatic Middle-Surface Mesh
Generator window.
The model thickness is assigned to the generated shell elements as grid thickness. This can
be visible by switching the visibility mode to element thickness (EL.THICK).
The procedure requires to indicate the model's Minimum thickness that is the shortest length
of opposite sides throughout model, in order to issue accurate results.
Element type and target element length concern the generated model. If the latter is not
specified, ANSA considers a value close to the Minimum thickness.
Join perimeters with distance <, will combine perimeters if their distance is less than the
specified value.
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Paste triple bounds option, will combine neighboring junctions.
In cases where volume inside volume can be treated as one (single) or different (many) parts,
there is the the option to declare the desired treatment.
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SHELL MESH
General
Multi-core CPU usage for surface meshing is supported. All surface meshing
algorithms of ANSA will generate mesh using parallel technology (for multicore
PCs) and therefore, reduce meshing time.
Mesh
Options
Upon activation of a function, the Options window opens, where the relative
options can be enabled / disabled.
Thus, the buttons A.MESH, RECONS, DISTOR, 2nd ORD have been
removed and their are accessed via the Options window when needed.
Moreover, for several functions the option to Improve by smooth or

reconstruct is given
The selections (enable/disable) are saved in the ANSA.defaults file.
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HIDDEN: The color of the non-violating elements, depends on the background

color.
QUALITY CRITERIA HIDDEN Drawing mode
New tooltips added in the F11 card, that show the criterion definition.
Now, the number of triangular elements is not taken into account in

the total number of violating elements.
The legend of the OFF elements as well as the element statistics

legend can be dragged and dropped, using the middle mouse button.
Activate/Deactivate the quality criteria by a single click on the legend.
Edit visible quality criteria, using right mouse button on the fringebar
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August 2010
PERIMETERs NUMBER: Mathematical operations are now applicable within the value field.
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NUMBER: The former MULT.NUM and ALIGN have been incorporated in

NUMBER function. By enabling/disabling the Apply Multiple Number flag, the
numbering switches between the former NUMBER and MULT.NUM operation.
Also, The align of perimeters is now achieved by pressing the Opposite
button, located at the feature selection assistant tools.
A new option has been introduced as an option in the window which assigns
on all - attached to selected - perimeters, the min or max node number among
them.
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NUM +/- : New function for manipulating directly the node numbering of
perimeters. Each right click on the perimeter adds a node whereas, each left
click removes one.
INIT: Initialization of any numbering or spacing which
was utilized by NO-NUMB and INIT respectively, have
been united under the INIT function. Now, a window
pops up, where the function acts according to selected
options: Unmark number for numbering and
Recalculate grids for spacing.
LENGTH: The length of the nodes on a perimeter
or the perimeters of a macro, are both controlled
by this button. Upon activation, the window shown
is displayed, where the user is prompted to switch
the radio button according to the desired selection
mode.
SPACING
The box and polygon selection tools are now applicable for the function.
The Opposite selection tool is supported for the function.
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MACROs
August 2010
ORIENT:
It has been merged with INVERT function. Therefore, the inversion of

macros is now operated by Orient function.
Added the option of selected macros' orientation.
FREEZE/UN: The former discrete functions of FREEZE and UNFREEZE, are

now under a common button. Their operation follows the general rule of left
and right mouse buttons.
RELEASE: Added the option to switch between Perimeters or Macros and
thus, pick specific perimeters or those which belong to selected macros.
CUT / PROJ. CUT: The functions have been split to separated buttons.
EDG2PER: Option Holes renamed to Washers.
JOIN: New option to freeze non-visible macros.
SIMPLIFY
New tool that simplifies the mesh-areas of the visible geometric model. The
function will perform joints and cuts - colored orange and green accordingly in order to prepare the model for manual mesh. The defeaturing level is
handled by the slider and few more options.
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GRIDs
August 2010
ALIGN
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The connection points are now allowable to be picked, as direction points.
Toggling between Points and Entities in the ALIGN window, can be

performed using the number 1 button.
MOVE
Former discrete functions of MV.FREE, MV SURF
and MV HOLE have been merged into the MOVE
function, which is operated through a common and
more intuitive window.
Tab Free replaces the former MV FREE operation
whereas, the Surface option is the former MV
SURF.
New options to slide nodes on element edges or
macros perimeters. Its operation works also for
holes and washers, in the way that MV HOLE
sliding operated.
Perims Offset operates similarly to Slide with
extrapolating ability. For more than two grids
selection, the function works like the former MV
HOLE with the option Offset.
Shells Normal option, moves grids with respect to
the normal of the shell elements they belong to.
Right mouse button performs Origin function. Undo
and Redo are also provided, taking into account
also any origin operation.
Upon activation of the function, the Options
window is shown up. The user can set options
including the mesh improvement and selection
mode.
PASTE: Grids that lay on perimeters can now be pasted. That applies also for
mid-grids of 2nd order elements.
PROJECT > CALC THICK SKIN
New tool to calculate the real thickness of the middle surface (Geometry or
FE), by taking into account the distance in both sides.
MESH GEN.
The generators FREE, SPOT-ME, ADV.FR. and GRADUAL, can be applied

on FE models, with a preview state.
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SHELL MESH RECONS / RESHAPE: The new selection option Advanced has replaced the
Violating. Enabling any of the Fillets, Flanges or Holes flags, the
elements that fall in the defined criteria within Mesh Parameters, will be
automatically selected and reconstructed / reshaped. In a same way, the
Violating will apply on the elements that according to defined Quality Criteria
(F11 card) exceed the thresholds. The Expand level will select extra element
zones according to desired input.
PARAM.:
The button has been placed on the top Menubar (as toolbar button)
and it does not exist in Mesh menu anymore.
CONS resolution is renamed to Perimeter length.
The Expression option, provides the user with the ability to combine
an expression with a factor, using any of the basic mathematical
operations.
At shell Mesh tab, the user can select among three types of analyses.
For each one of them, the required and relative to this analysis
options are only available.
The Ortho tria element type has been introduced as option.
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Fillets
A default treatment will treat any fillet that does not fall in the specified
criteria.
As treatment can be set either a specific the number of rows on fillet,

or auto-set, that is the minimum number of rows (based on the
target element length) or the maximum number of rows (satisfying the
minimum element length).
Added the option Always create even rows of element to create even
number of rows for those cases that are not covered by the specified
rules.
Holes
Define holes' treatment by typing a value or by opening the Expression
window to specify expressions.
Use bolt connections: Its activation automatically adds a new special row for
the recognized bolt holes treatment.
Tubes
Added separated tab for tubes treatment.
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August 2010
Flanges
For 'Solid Structural Mesh' option, the algorithm automatically

recognizes the flanges of solid parts and meshes them according to
the special given value of element length within the tab.
Refines perimeters proximity: ANSA creates zones around important

perimeters.
Fix Quality
Grow violating fillets / flanges: New options for manipulation of flanges /
fillets. Their existence depends on the corresponding tabs activation.
Create perfect hole zone: Concerns holes treatment and appears upon
activation of Holes treatment.
REFINE: New option Trias that refines trias and results in triangular
elements too.
UTIL
The button has been split into the following separated functions:
HOLE, enhanced also with the Fill Hole option.

PROJECT
ZONECUT
PLANECUT
SHELL MESH SUBDIVISION: The function is no longer available.

ELEMENTs
NEW
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[NEW]
A window assists the creation by providing the

selection toggle buttons as well as the available
results, according to the current selections.
The new element's order, depends on the order of

the picked element edges. In case of different order
of the picked edges, it will result to incomplete
elements.
When free grids are picked for the new element, the
order depends on the corresponding option in the
Options Window.
[ON LINE EL (CYLINDRICAL)]: Rename of the former

ON LINE EL.
[ON LINE EL (CROSS SECTION)]: New option to
create shell elements that represent the geometry of a
line element's cross section.
PENETR. > REPOSITION FLANGES: The user now is prompted to choose
the pid to freeze.
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WRAP
Unmeshed macros can now be surface wrapped.
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[Constant Length]
Added the option to Fill Holes which are of diameter less than the
specified by the user.
While in the state of selection of volumes for wrap, the model turns into
transparent mode and each volume selected becomes highlighted.
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[Variable Length]
New option added Leak Check to detect possible leakage, regarding

a reference point. Upon detection, the algorithm is halted and a curve
is created to show the path of leak.
Post Wrap Treatment tool is now embedded in the function to provide

higher mesh quality improvement, by applying Reconstruct or
Reshape. Also, a target element length can be inserted in order to
create uniform mesh size at specific length.
Fill openings below: New option to ignore holes with diameter less
than the given and consider them as surface.
General
Algorithm does not require meshed macros to proceed.
When finished, the wrap mesh is only visible.
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SPLITs / JOIN / SWAP: Optionally remesh the volume elements locally to

follow the shell elements' changes .
SWAP/JOIN: The join operation considers some mesh parameters for
smoothing the shell mesh.
SWAP: Box or Polygon selection tools are supported for massive swap of
elements.
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VOLUME MESH
GENERAL
Special Volume menu has been introduced to accommodate functions

that concern only volume mesh.
The VOLUMEs>PARAM button has been removed. Its options can be

specified at the Options window, displayed every time a relative function is
activated.
Tooltips added for the quality criteria in the Quality Criteria/Presentation

parameters (F11) card.
VOLUMEs
DEFINE: Functions DEFINE and DETECT are now under this button.
RELEASE: New function to release the volume elements from the volume
they belong to.
RE-DEFINE: Change the definition of the existing volumes.
UNSTRUCTURED TET.RAPID: Rename of the DELAUNAY algorithm. It is capable of

MESH
element generation rate higher than 5million / min .
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HEX.POLY: New generator that creates Hexa elements in the interior and
the transition is done by Polyhedral elements. The resulted model has no
Pyramids and comparing to Hexa Interior generator, has fewer total
elements.
STRUCTURED
MESH
MAP: The tool has more enhanced operation and acquired guide window.
Automatically detect round area.
Initial volume is no longer necessary to be split into smaller

volumes to be map meshed.
OLD MAP: The MAP function of the former ANSA version has been
renamed to OLD MAP
EXTRUDE: The button does not exist any more. The functions under this
button have been separated.
DUAL-SWEEP: New sweep generator that is guided by two guidelines.
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Also, useful for spring shaped sweep.
LAYERS
Additional outer layers: Add extra layers in aspect mode with a

specified aspect ratio for the last layer.
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The Collapse problematic areas option has been added. Locates

problematic areas and progressively excludes them from the layers
generation. It applies at prism (pentas) elements only and not at
hexas.
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Collapse free edges: Option to collapse non-conformal interfaces that

could be exposed.
Problematic areas that block the layers generation, are now assigned
in a new set instead of creating 3d points.
Layers generation from shell elements of different property ids, can

now auto-connect from both sides to the interior surface mesh.
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Improved algorithm to create better layers, maintaining the height given by

the user in either absolute or aspect mode and in more layers.
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IMPROVE
August 2010
FIX QUAL / SMOOTH / RECONS: The functions are now separated and
acquired sub-options of Select and Visible.
FIX QUAL: Added new option External bounds distance, to control the
outer boundary elements.
SMOOTH / RECONS: New option Violating, applied with respect to the
criteria in F11 card.
TOOLS
CNV2POLY: Converts all volumes of any type to polyhedral elements.
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HEXA BLOCK
A new module has been introduced under the HexaB
menu. It provides an alternative way to create
hexahedral mesh with the assistance of hexa boxes.
Creation and modification of hexa boxes share the
principles of morph.
The main steps are:
Box creation
Hexa box faces fitting and association
Mesh parameters definition
Mesh generation
ASSOCIATE
BOXES
Additional group of functions that associates the hexa edges, faces or points
to fit to the geometry.
VISIBILITY
ASSOCIATION: Hexa box entities modified by the function ASSOCIATE

BOXES, are colored in orange.
GRIDS: Visualizes the mesh grids on the hexa box edges.
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DECKs
Results
Mapper
New tool introduced, to transfer the results to a different mesh of the model,
through the DECKS>AUXILIARIES>RES.MAP. The data can be nodal
thickness, pressure, initial stress etc.
The Results Mappers are treated as Generic Entities. Thus, the Apply or Erase
have to be pressed for the respective action.
Creating New Mapping entity
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Source: Definition of the source file, which has the actual results.
Mapping: Specify the data type to map among the supported ones:
- Common in all decks: Nodal thickness, Pressure, Material orientation.
- Nastran and Permas: Initial temperature.
- Ls-Dyna and Radioss: Initial Stress, Plastic Strain, Equivalent Plastic Strain,
Initial Temperature.
Also, new script function MapResults performs results mappings.
Interpolation Method
-Shape functions.
The result is calculated at the projection of the target mesh on an element of
the source mesh, using the shape functions of the element.
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- Common Area.
The result on an element is calculated as the weighted average of the results of
the source file elements that intersects. The weight factor is based on the area
of intersection.
- RBS (Radial Basis Functions Interpolation).

The result is based on the calculation of the weighted average of the results on
a group of locations of the source file, according to the given tolerances and
expand factor.
Mapping Options:
Connectivity / Search: Specify the domain of the current mesh to be mapped. It
can be part, pid or set.
X, Y, Z give the location of the results mapper symbol, without any influence.
Tolerance / Expand Factor: Define the domain of each element, in which the
source model will be taken into account.
PamCrash: When the option Write PAMCRASH Map File is active, a file in
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PAMSTAMP format (M0x file) with the results of the mapping is exported as
well.
Validation tab:
Minimal Overlap: Percentage of the minimum mapping area that has to be

mapped. If this area is smaller than the percentage, the mapping fails.
Fail if Results are not Available: If no results are available in the sourcve file for
at least one of the requested mappings, mapping will fail.
Align Mesh tab:
In cases of different location of the target (current) component. According to a
matrix, the mapping is transferred and calculated to this new location.
User Script tab:
Script functions can also be used as first step (pre_func_name) or last step
(pre_func_name).
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GRIDs
August 2010
ALIGN
The connection points are now allowable to be picked, as direction points.
Toggling between Points and Entities in the ALIGN window, can be

performed using the number 1 button.
UTIL: Added the selection tools assistants for the sub-functions.

ELEMENTs
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NEW
New interface supports the creation of new 2D and
3D elements.
SHELL: The new element's order depends on the order of the picked element
edges. In case of different order of the picked edges, it will result to incomplete
elements.
SHELL>On Line El (Cross Section)
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New option to create shell elements that represent the geometry of a line
element's cross section.
SHELL>By Thick Shell
Create shell elements from CSHELLs (Abaqus) and TSHELLs (LS-DYNA).
UTIL>Change Order
Applicable at geometry shells too.
UTIL>Mass Balance
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The function now works even with given coordinate of only one axis of the
target center of gravity.
UTIL>Reinforcement to Beam: Reinforcements shapes of type like L, T
etc., can now be used to automatically create cross sections and the
corresponding beam elements, which acquire the shape of the section and they
are also connected to the shell elements.
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AUXILIARIES
August 2010
SETs
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The SET button has been added in the Windows pull down menu. Thus, it
can be displayed as button on the toolbar, and be opened in the Database
as a tab.
Drag and drop can now more easily performed.
New field OUTPUT TYPE is available in the SET's card. It controls the
output mode of an unused set i.e. an unused property set will output its
nodes if the selected option is NODES.
Applying NEW in the SET's window, opens directly to Modify Contents
mode.
CONNECTOR and GEBs
They are written as ANSA comments by output and can be read by input.
Pretension representation for GEB_BCs for NASTRAN. It works on a
bar/beam/rod with MAT1 material. It creates a Temperature.
Pretension representation for GEB_BCs for ABAQUS and ANSYS.
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GEB_OR representation SectionForces: For LS-DYNA (sec type=PLANE)

and PAMCRASH (sec type=PLANE and plane_type=circular) a new option
plane_size has been added.
Added possibility to control the visibility of the GEB along with its entities.
This is done when right click on the header of the Connectivity column,
where the Show, Hide and Show Only can be selected.
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PRE-TENSION tool
For ABAQUS and ANSYS there is an automatic detection of contacts and
creation of GEB_BC.
CONTACT > FLANGES
New interface and functionality.
Preview reults in List
The Merge by sets option is added, that reduces the number of detected
contacts by specifying a distance between them. Nearby master flanges, are
merged to one.
The Contact Pairs Autodetection window provides better manipulation
of the contacts.
Contacts manipulation, by expanding or shrinking the detected surfaces.
D.PATCHES
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Added the CARPET option, which makes the layers growing from one side,
not symetrically.
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C.PLANE
-
Control the cutting planes through C.PLANES in the Focus group of

functions.
- Control the cutting planes through C.PLANES in the Focus group of
functions.
- Cutting planes now affect the visibility of the model, by setting the CLIP
option accordingly.
- Infinite planes are also supported, having circular shape.

- New options for creation of cutting planes parallel to the default planes of
XY/YZ/ZX.
- Existing cutting planes can be used to create Cross Sections.
- Their movement is operated by C.PLANE>MOVE as well as, by all three
mouse buttons.
- Available short-cuts can be used for quick positioning.
- Cut Model operation of CUTTING PLANE list (through
DECKS>AUXILIARIES), now has the option to Create smooth cut that
reconstructs locally the boundary elements to achieve cut exactly on the
intersection.
- Creation of Cross-Section from the existing Cutting Planes through the
Cross Section button in the corresponding list.
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FUNC CURVES TABLE

- Now, the column Include is available, to show in which INCLUDE the
entity belongs to.
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- Added the options FROZEN_ID, FROZEN_DELETE and DEFINED.
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TRANSFORMATIONs
The DEFINED = YES||NO has been added in the Transformation cards.
Thus, the undefined transformation (DEFINE=NO) means no transformation
keyword is exported, therefore the node coordinates of the 'transformed' set
are exported in the 'new' position.
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Properties
Materials
August 2010
The DEFINED status of new materials can be set yes or no through the
ANSA.defaults file.
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Solid elements support the display of material orientation.
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User Defined Attributes are supported for shell and solid properties, within
their Edit card.
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August 2010
Substructure
For ABAQUS and PAMCRASH, multiple substructures can now be selected

when outputting.
SECTION
FORCE
ASSISTANT
Now, Multiple cross sections can be created along selected paths.
RENUMBER
Nodes>Util
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Option Renumber Nodes of Holes added to renumber sequentially the

nodes of holes as well as at any continues path of edges.
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Renumber Report now lists up to 10000 entries. NEXT/PREVIOUS button
handles the listed items.
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New field INCREMENT is available to all cards, where special numbering

rules can be defined.
New script function CreateNumberingRulesWithIncrement supports the
above.
LAMINATES
Added option to expand the window of the RENUMBER list, using the Shift
+ Middle Mouse Button.
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Added the option in special rules for connections to renumber also the
nodes that belong to them.
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By PCOMP
The conditions (ply tolerances) for creating laminate layers are checked
between neighboring shells. Also, Theta is normalized to take values
between -90 and 90.
In LS-DYNA deck, when the output version is 971 or greater, a LAMINATE
property is output as many *PART_COMPOSITE.
CARPET option has been added for creation of one-side layered laminates.
A filter line for parts has been added in the Laminate Tool window.
Presentation Parameters (F11): The option Draw shell as solid applies
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also for laminate layers.

CARPET option has been added in PCOMP and LAYERS properties for
Nastran and Radioss. This, results in one side growing of the layers instead
of symmetric.
CHECK
MULTIPLE BCs: Identifies nodes or elements which have more than one
boundary conditions of the same type, applied on them.
INCOMPLETE: Automatic Fix is now available, to add the missing midpoints.
GEOMETRY
Added check for Single bound (red) CONS.
17900
Selected options in the Geometry Check window are now stored in the
ANSA.defaults file.
15641
CORNER TRIAS: Checks for tria elements that have two of their edges on
feature lines. The check applies only on tria mesh type.
CONNECTIONS
New check added to check double connections.
For Spider positioning, the Distance from Feature is also available.
F11 Card
Tapered cross section of line elements can be drawn when the Bar/Beam
option in Presentation Parameters is enabled.
INPUT
Support of Input / Output of FiberSim metadata
OUTPUT
OUTPUT>FibeSim: The centroid and a coordinate information for each

element is exported. A PID and MID start index is also written.
INPUT>FiberSim: Two files can be input simultaneously
- A file that associates each element with a PID and a material rotation
angle. This angle, corrects the material angle on the element.
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- A file in Nastran format under the Input Nastran Properties, that contains
the materials and properties of layered elements.
The option Merge to Laminate, will create one Laminate property from the
Nastran file's PCOMPs.
Output > mETA Product Tree

Outputs a meta post- processor session file that creates Groups in mETA, to
correspond to the ANSA Parts Manager hierarchy.
Output > Nastran / Ls-Dyna
Option Show Header Window has been added under the Miscellaneous
tab of the output parameters.
Parts Manager hierarchy can be output in xml format.
The information is written as ANSA comments, except of the:

PAMCRASH: GROUP definitions are written, having the parts/group info
under the META keyword.
ABAQUS: Written under the HEADING keyword.
PERMAS: Written in $PART definitions.
For LS-DYNA and RADIOSS the M00 XML format is supported as well.
Windows>Options>Settings>DECKS
The option PARTS/GROUPS : Output XML in M00 format controls the
output scheme.
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UNDEFINED Load Curves and Amplitudes are supported. When

importing a file that contains reference to such entities, but not their
definition, a default entity with DEFINED=NO is created in ANSA. These
entities are not written by File>Output.
FROZEN_ID and FROZEN_DELETE are now stored in ANSA comments.
Added file format option at DECK OUTPUT when exporting, with three
options:
INCLUDES
18320
New Includes Configurator has been introduced, that is capable to

generate different model variants or load cases.
It can be accessed through Windows>Includes or from the right-click menu

in the Includes browser.
Includes configurations are created and handled from the Includes
Manager window.
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The window consists of 3 sections:
Include Files tree List, contains all existing Includes that reside in
the database.
Includes per Configuration, where the Includes that participate in

each configuration are specified. For parent Includes, there the
option to set it as Exclusive and then only one of its contained
includes can participate in each configuration.
The 3rd section lists all configurations, with the current one colored in
red.
Current configuration appears in red.

The contents of a configuration can be loaded using the Update and Reload
functions.
- Reload clears the database and imports all the Includes of the selected
configuration. Already imported includes are cleared and input again.
- Update imports the entities of includes that have been activated and
disregards those of the includes that have been de-activated since the last
update of the selected Configuration.
Reload and Update buttons are located in the right click menu of any
configuration. Once any of the aforementioned buttons is pressed, the
configuration becomes current.
APPLY button Reloads or Updates the current configuration.
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Also, right click on an Include in the includes browser, the selected

Configuration becomes current after Reloading or Updating.
When a file that contains Includes is input or when Includes are created
within ANSA, then:
Working on a database that does not contain any Configuration, it is

automatically created and set as current.
Working on a database that contains at least one Configuration, the

new includes are added to the current Configuration.
At the bottom of the Includes Manager, there are the Clear and Log File
buttons:
Clear > Includes, deletes all the includes of the database along with their
entities. Only entities in the OUT OF INCLUDES remain.
Clear > Database, deletes all includes and entities, even those in the OUT
OF INCLUDES.
Log File contains any updating or reloading information.
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KINEMATICS
Kinematic Tool Morph coupling: When Kinematic mechanism makes movement, now it is
supported the ability to morph affected parts simultaneously e.g. morph the coil when the
suspension sub-system is shifted.
Now, any movement through GEOMETRY>TRANSF. applies on the kinematic mechanism

too.
Kinematic Tool now is also supported for geometry.
15900
When K RBODY is applied, the connection entities are automatically set into it.
17202
17756
SAFETY
Seatbelt entities are now considered as separate ANSA entities that can be
saved in ANSA database or in the deck file. Also, they can be reapplied or
modified.
Seatbelt tool
A new more enhanced tool has been introduced under the SAFETY>Seatbelt Tool button, in
the Ls-Dyna, Pam-Crash, Abaqus and Radioss menus.
Right click on the free area to create new Seatbelt entity.
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Each seat belt entity consists of the:

Parts to wrap where the user defines the parts that have to considered during seatbelt
generation. If the Disable Parts to Wrap is activated, then the option turns to green and it
will be applied to Visible.
Component is the entity that will include one

seatbelt component, with specific definitions.
Right click on the seatbelt entities to make the
definitions and manipulate them.
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Components
20970
Choose the element type from the pull down menu (1D / 2D Seatbelt). Automatically, the
window changes to accommodate the relative options.
Anchor: The user can choose to automatically convert the selected points to one of the
supported types, according to the current active solver.
Element type: According to active Solver among Ls-Dyna, Pam-Crash, Abaqus and Radioss,
the pull down menu has the respective options.
New option for Entry/Exit Vector, provides possibility to 'align' two consecutive 2D Seatbelt
entities, by specifying the Exit vector of the first Component, equal to the Entry vector of the
second Component. By pressing F1 in a field, it is possible to pick from the screen.
Once the parts to

wrap and the Components have been defined, the element generation can follow. Right click
on the Entity's name will show the list of options where the Create seatbelt resides too.
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During Seatbelt generation, once the Component with 2-D elements is generated, ANSA gets
to interactive mode and the user can pick a control point and modify it.
The picked points from the screen which are to guide the belt elements generation, are
stored as child entities under the corresponding Component, with a prefix in their names.
They can also be modified or even changed. Then, a re-application of the Component will be
required.
The modification of the already created Seatbelt Components is enabled through the list
shown if right click is applied on the Component's name. The Interactive Edit enables the
user to move the Control Points of the respective Seatbelt Component. The movement is
based on the contact algorithm.
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August 2010
Dummy Articulation
Former buttons Trans Dummy, Rot Dummy and Move Limb, have been merged under
the button Dummy.
The new interface is facilitated under the Dummy Articulation window, where three cards
(tabs) exist, one for each action.
Old function
New Function
Safety>Rot Dummy>Rotation
Activated by default in the Rotation

tab once the Pelvis Angle Gauge
part is selected.
Safety>Rot Dummy>Rotation Part
Depends on the chosen option of the

pull down menu, which is also
automatically selected when the
Pick is used to select directly from
the screen.
Safety>Trans Dummy
Switch to the respective tab.
Safety>Move Limb
Switch to the respective tab.
Undo Last and Undo All buttons are available for each dummy articulation card.
Conv to NODE_TRANSFORM is supported in each card and outputs the performed motions
in ANSA to NODE_TRANSFORM keywords.
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Pedestrian
Reference Lines
Reference Lines now can be created according to:
EuroNCAP v5.1
EU Phase 1
EU Phase 2
JNCAP
TRIAS 63
EuroNCAP GRID
Moreover, the Pedestrian Advanced Options gives more options to manipulate the Reference
Lines Parameters.
Target Points
Now, Target Points are ANSA entities. For each calculated point, an ANSA entity with the
respective card are created. The card contains all the information about the Target Point that
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the user inputs in the Target Points and Position tab as well as, the values calculated
according to the Protocols and Regulations.
19787
18779
For the legform positioning process, the Bumper Beam added.

The BLE Target Points for the legform Test, are now calculated in the corresponding tab of
Pedestrian Tool.
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August 2010
Follow all Lines: Upon activation, the Raster is created in accordance to the curves of each
protocol.
During Write File action, the user now is prompted to choose
what to write.
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August 2010
Positioning
18783
Added the Multi Point function in the Positioning tab.

After the definition of the Critical, Raster or the BLE Points, it is possible to make the
positioning of all the points in real time. Automatically, for each positioning, an INCLUDE file is
created that contains the Transformation keyword and the name of the SET which contains
the the Headform or Legform respectively.
Additional options for the button are available by pressing the button next to the option.
Where:
Files Name: The assigned name of the automatically created Include.
List Name: The name of the cvs file, which contains a list of the Target Points.
Meta File Name: File with all the information for use in mETA Post.
Directory: The path of the directory where the Include files will be created.
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Interior
Fmvss201U Tool
Target Points
Construction Points created according to Regulations, are now ANSA entities thus, they are
represented by 3d points and included in a corresponding SET.
A special button also, has been added for Target Points in the SAFETY group.
Each Target Point now has a card with its properties which, can be written out as ANSA
Comments.
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Positioning
New options provide now the possibility to Save Position of the impact that Auto Horizontal
and Auto Vertical calculate. The information is stored in each Target Point's card (mentioned
above).
Move to Position: Moves the headform to the saved position.
Manual Position: Moves the head so that FIZ node and the target point coordinates coincide,
ignoring possible penetrations.
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August 2010
Operations
Added fields to display the coordinates of the Contact Points at Trim and FIZ.
Ignore Property Thickness: If enabled, only simple intersections are checked when positioning
functions are applied. However, this is only for visualization reasons i.e., when exiting the
function with the flag on, a depenetration is automatically performed.
Validate On Exit: Validates the current position of the FMH. If the current vertical angle is
violated, the tool corrects it according to point's thresholds.
Cutting planes can now be created that folow FMH's local coordinate system.
Manual operations are supported to be performed on the FMH, using the keyboard. Keys W,
A, S, D rotate the FMH while keys I, J, K, L translate the FMH.
Transformations
Support of the option to save the current or all the saved positions of the transformation
keywords, relative to the initial position of the FMH.
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NASTRAN
ELEMENTs
AUXILIARIES
CHECK
UTIL>Change Type>1-D Elements: The CFAST and CWELD types

are now supported.
21199
GEB_BC: Support of the Pretension Representation.
CWELDS / CFASTS
The Fix functionality now makes GS coincident to the Patch Elements
center of gravity.
FILE>OUTPUT
Added the check box Show Header Window in the tab Miscellaneous.
It enables / disables the Header Window display during output.
MODAL MODEL
The option Edit Modal Model has been added in the Parts Manager,
at the pull down menu of parts.
The user can edit already defined Eigenmodes of an imported Modal
Model e.g. a Modal Model created in mETA.
Properties
The PCOMP(G) type is now supported.
15802
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ABAQUS
TIMESTEP criterion for shells, solids, cohesives and beams has been added in the F11
window. In addition, Batch Mesh, RESHAPE, RECONS, SMOOTH and FIX QUAL tools take
into account this criterion.
Mass Scale draw mode for Abaqus/Explicit: This mode takes into account the DT parameter
either from *FIXED MASS SCALING or *VARIABLE MASS SCALING keywords, hosted under
keyword pull down menu of STEP card.
The keywords *NGEN, *NCOPY, *NFILL, *ELGEN, are supported during Input only.
Node, element and coupling ids are supported by 9-digits.
14882
9561
11154
Right click on Abaqus elements to define local coordinate system, is now supported.
15826
ANSA.defaults enhancements:
The default type of a new set may be set or surface through the line Abaqus.write set as
surface = NO/YES
18748
The default status of the Element sets as surfaces and Preserve Ids in Names flag of
Abaqus output parameters window, can be controlled by the lines Abaqus.elementsets as
surfaces = NO & Abaqus.Preserve IDs in Names = YES.
18747
DEPENDENCIES parameter for *SPRING property:

It is supported if attributes of *SPRING are given in a tabular form. In ANSA, the number of
var(i) columns in DEPENDENCY DATA TABLE card declares the number of
DEPENDENCIES.
ELEMENTs
INFO: Added the ZOFFS field in the element's card. Visualize the offset,
by activating the field Draw shell as solid in F11 card.
C.SHELL>Elem
The nodal thickness of shells precedes of the thickness of their properties.
In particular, if t1, t2, t3 and t4 fields of shell cards are specified then the
function generates c.shells by assigning an average thickness to each
node. The thickness is calculated by the sum of nodal thicknesses divided
by the number of shells that share the current node.
C.SHELLs that are created from existing shell elements that have triple
boundaries, penetration can be avoided by definition of slightly offset
elements that are connected with a tied contact.
C.SHELL to SHELL conversion can be done via script, using the
command TranslConvCShell2Shell()
17740
COHESIVE: Capability of facets selection to be put in Set.
16922
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CONSTRAINTs
August 2010
MPC>CONSTRAINT has been replaced by MPC>RIGIDS.

MPC>MESH.REF>LINEAR hosts the old LINEAR.
MPC>MESH.REF new mpcs generation:
QUADRATIC, requires 4 nodes or sets with node entities.
BILINEAR, requires 5 nodes or sets with node entities.
C_BIQUAD, requires 9 nodes or sets with node entities.
P_LINEAR, requires 3 nodes or sets with node entities.
T_LINEAR, requires 3 nodes or sets with node entities.
P_BILINEAR, requires 4 nodes or sets with node entities.
T_BILINEAR, requires 4 nodes or sets with node entities.
Support of new MPC types:
CYCLSYM
REVOLUTE
SLIDER
UNIVERSAL
VLOCAL
BOUNDARY
BASE MOTION: Now it is supported for linear, eigenmode based, dynamic

procedures.
MOTION: Added button. Also activated by typing motion in Search
Engine (Ctrl+F).
AUXILIARIES
STEP
Support of *SECTION FILE and SECTION PRINT output requests, under
Keyword pull down menu.
GLOBAL parameter support of *NODE OUTPUT keyword.
18682
*FILTER card is updated according to ABAQUS v6.9: New parameters

added, HALT, LIMIT and OPERATOR.
*LOAD CASEs contents treatment: When deleting *LOAD CASEs, their
contents can be either deleted or moved to the relative STEP.
*MODAL DAMPING moved to ANALYSIS parameters section. Also
added the option define.
Current STEP: New option added in right click pull down menu on a
STEP. Upon activation, any new boundary or load will be defined to this
STEP.
SUBSTRUCTURE
The Select Eigenmodes flag added to define *SELECT
EIGENMODES for *SUBSTRCTURE GENERATE step. Optionally, the
Frequency Step can also be defined.
New button now facilitates the options of SINGLE, BOX (ORTHO) and
BOX (Best Fit).
Check 1D elements now applies also for fasteners through cloud
nodes as calculated by INFLUENCE RADIUS of fasteners or RADIUS of
fasteners property.
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GEB>GEB_OR
The SectionForce representation now supports the parameters position,
motion and project.
The AbaqusOutputRequest representation, now accepts the ? to open

the NODAL VARIABLES card for variables definition.
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10763
CONTACT>FLANGES
The interface has changed. The Merge by sets option added, that
reduces the number of detected contacts by specifying a distance between
them. Nearby master flanges, are merged to one.
The Contact Pairs Autodetection window provides better manipulation
of the contacts.
Contacts Inspection now allows their manipulation, by expanding or
shrinking the detected surfaces.
PRE-TENSION tool new options:
Calculate Contacts: This executes CONTACT>FLANGES to all parts
around bolt.
Create GEB_BC: Creates a GEB_BC with the settings as derived from the
pre-tension tool.
FRICTION: The CHANGE FRICTION keyword is now supported.
CHECK
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FASTENERS>CONNECTIVITY
Considers also the ATTACHMENT METHOD and represents fasteners
accordingly.
Errors in Check List are grouped by fastener. Also, supported the capability
to zoom in on a specific node that failed.
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PROPERTY
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CAVITY DEFINITION: Activated through the Search Engine tool (Ctrl+F),

by typing cavity definition.
SURFACE PROPERTY:
By switching the SET PROPERTY in the CAVITY DEFINITION card to
YES and pressing ? in the PROP(i) fields to create a new one through
the SURFACE_PROPERTY_HELP card.
Automatically, by creating *SURFACE PROPERTY.
EMISSIVITY: Activated by typing values in EMISS. and TEMP. fields of
SURFACE PROPERTY card.
RADIATION SYMMETRY: Activated by typing radiation symmetry in the
Search Engine (Ctrl+F).
CYCLIC: Activated by switching to 1 the CYCLIC field in the RADIATION
SYMMETRY card.
REFLECTION: Activated by switching to 1, 2 or 3 the REFLECTION field
of the RADIATION SYMMETRY card.
PERIODIC: Activated by switching PERIODIC to 1, 2 or 3 in the
RADIATION SYMMETRY card.
RADIATION VIEWFACTOR: Activated by typing radiation viewfactor in
the Search Engine (Ctrl_F).
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LS-DYNA
Support of 9-digits for Materials, Section and Load Curves (LC) ids.
Zero and Negative IDs are supported in the following fields:
MAT126: LCA, LCB, LCC, LCS, LCAB, LCBC, LCCA
10633
MAT34: LCUA, LCUB, LCUAB
19745
INCLUDES Handling:
Added GUI for Includes reading selection, which enabled/disabled through the Input
Parameters window.
SETs: The SET_SEGMENT OUTPUT TYPE is now supported.
18046
NODE
The type NODE_SCALAR is now supported in the node card.
18046
ELEMENT
SHELL: The MCID option is now supported in the element's card.

TSHELLs that are created from existing shell elements that have triple
boundaries, penetration can be avoided by definition of slightly offset
elements that are connected with a tied contact.
DESCRETE: The OFFSET value is updated automatically when its nodes
move away to each other.
17480
AIRBAG
20810
Negative ids in field LCC23 are now supported for:

*AIRBAG_HYBRID
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*AIRBAG_HYBRID_JETTING
*AIRBAG_WANG_NEFSKE
*AIRBAG_WANG_NEFSKE_JETTING
*AIRBAG_WANG_NEFSKE_MULTIPLE_JETTING
CONSTRAINED
CONSTRAINED_NODAL_RIGID_BODY_TITLE is now supported.
20802
JOINTs: JID field is supported in

*CONSTRAINED_JOINT_STIFFNESS_CARD.
12355
RBSTOP
11734
The *CONSTRAINED_RIGID_BODY_STOPPERS card, the following

values for the fields are supported:
LCMAX: Negative values
LCMIN: Negative values
PSIDMX: Zero (0) value
PSIDMN: Zero (0) value
BOUNDARY
Added the DEATH_BIRTH option in the *BOUNDARY_SPC card.
19230
LOAD
SHELL
16633
Pulldown LC_TYPE added on edit card controlling the LCID field with
the following options:
LCID for a load curve definition. Id of load curve is output.
BRODE for a LOAD_BRODE definition. / -1 is output.
BLAST for a LOAD_BLAST definition. / -2 is output.
INITIAL
STRAIN: The SOLID option is now supported.
AUXILIARIES
Position Assistant has been introduced for RIGIDWALL lists.

DATABASE_OPTION>DATABASE_OPTION, now handles the
DATABASE_BINARY_OPTION, DATABASE_EXTEND_BINARY,
DATABASE_OTHER and DATABASE_OPTION.
DATABASE_OPTION>HISTORY_OPTION, now supports the following
keywords:
*DATABASE_HISTORY_DISCRETE_ID,
*DATABASE_HISTORY_DISCRETE_SET,
*DATABASE_HISTORY_SEATBELT_ID
DATABASE_OPTION>DATABASE_OPTION
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14455
19017
The EXTEND_BINARY option now supports the MSSCL parameter.

Support of the keyword CONTACT >
AUTOMATIC_SURFACE_TO_SURFACE_TIEBREAK.
18046
The keyword SET _SEGMENT_GENERAL is also supported.
18046
CNNPRDAT
18874
The D_GFAD and GFAD fields are supported in

*DEFINE_CONNECTION_PROPERTIES card.
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Properties
Materials
August 2010
ELFORM card supports the 17, 19, 20 values too.
11995
PART_COMPOSITE is now supported for laminates definition.
7171
MAT98 MAT_SIMPLIFIED_JOHNSON_COOK:
16454
The values a, b, c and n of RADIOSS LAW2 material are mapped to A, B,

C, N of MAT98 respectively.
MAT58 MAT_LAMINATED_COMPOSITE_FABRIC:
AOPT values less than zero, are now supported.
MAT163 MAT_MODIFIED_CRUSHABLE_FOAM: Added the SFLAG.
The following material types are now supported:
MAT158 MAT_RATE_SENSITIVE_COMPOSITE_FABRIC
17912
MAT224 MAT_TABULATED_JOHNSON_COOK
16596
MAT41-MAT50 MAT_USER_DEFINED_MATERIAL_MODELS
11171
PARAMETER and PARAMETER_EXPRESSION keywords are

supported only for input.
MAT138 MAT_COHESIVE_MIXED_MODE
17668
MAT81 MAT_PLASTICITY_WITH_DAMAGE_ORTHO
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MAT81 MAT_PLASTICITY_WITH_DAMAGE_ORTHO_RCDC
MAT_SEATBELT
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The fields CSE and DAMP are now supported.
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PAM-CRASH
Input / Output
Added the option to choose the output Pam-Crash version.
17610
Support for version 2009 and 2010 (Implicit and Explicit).
When Output a file with MTOCOs at versions which do not support it,
automatically they are converted to RBODYs and a message informs
the user about it.
NODAL ENT
ELEMENT ENT
14273
CONLO
Added the field CLOAD.
16144
Negative values in ISENS are allowed.
13658
When IFRAM is defined, the values 1, 2, 5 and 6 are supported for IDR.
20305
DAMP: Negative values in ISENS field are now supported.
13658
SAFE>BAGIN
Completely new interface, which groups items into tabs.
Support of Chamber output parameters: Vent Hole Definition of BAGIN
keyword including the NLDCLK, NLDALK, NOD, QUALF, FCT and HOL
keywords.
11113
Tooltips functionality
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August 2010
In Wall Opening tab of BAGIN, negative IDs for MATOP are

supported.
F1 button can be used to select from screen, when in Edit card.
12646
PREFA: Negative values in ISENS field are possible.

PREBM: Negative values in ISENS field are possible.
CONSTRAINTS
MTOJNT is now supported.
20463
The NINT field in SHELL card can now be left blank.
15601
MTOCO: The option ITMTO is now supported.
16138
CNTAC
16139
Contact types of 37, 43 and 46 now support the IREMOV option.

If the field EDGLN (NTYPE=10) is blank or incorrect, a warning
message is displayed and the window does not close.
PLOT OUTPUT
In contact types 33, 34, 36 and 54 the option CTFRC has been added.
Also, the option ADJTOL is available when IREMOV is set to -1.
20758
OTMCO: Is now supported.
20464
THNOD / THELE: Added the option to define them by Set.
17173
SENPT
17620
Added new options:

Freely on Shell/Solids that picks a point on the free area of the
element.
Numeric for specific coordinates.
SECFO
Switching from one type (e.g. PLANE) to another (e.g. SECTION) is
now possible.
Type LINK is now supported.
17085
CONTACT and LINK types were added to SECFO assistant.
17086
SECFO with TRSFM:
17116
- When the user creates SECFO with Section Assistant, ANSA checks
for any TRSFM cards and if found, all entities will return to their original
position.
- Manual manipulation through TRSFM and if the TRSFM card is active,
a message appears in card reminding the user that the transformed
entities should first be moved to their original position.
- After manual manipulation through TRSFM, the elements that remain
highlighted are not the correct ones thus, by pressing the Recalculate
button the correct entities are highlighted according to the solver.
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AUXILIARIES
August 2010
CONTROL
General:
11849
Support the read, set and delete values in Pamcrash via script.
Support of version 2010 controls.
METRIC
Support input / output of files containing Nodes and Membrane
elements.
10486
The script functions InsertMetricFile and DeleteMetricFile added for

metric files.
TCTRL
Added the OTMCO_TIMESTEP_Control card.
OCTRL
New options added for deactivating THPOUPUT, DSYOUTPUT and
RSTOUTPUT.
Support for RBODY_MESH keyword.
16128
17052
ECTRL
The options QUALF1 and QUALF2 added in RATESCALE.
16129
The option BEAM_FORMULATION is now supported.
21080
ICTRL
New interface for the card, which is now fully supported up to 2010
version.
20757
BUCKLING and TRANSIENT analysis type are supported.

A blank option is supported in ANALYSIS TYPE>QUALF2 pull down
menu.
The following keywords have been added:
MNBFGSMX, CVRTL, FVRTL, FVALRM, FVALRMP, MITER,
CFACTOR, ACTIVET, TVTL, TFVTL, FVALRT, FVALRTP, DOFCOD,
IDFRA, IDREFNOD, IDNOD, CNTAITMX.
RUMPO
16143
IRUP=11: Added user-defined rupture criterion (only for materials 223,

234 and 302)
IRUP=13: Added user-defined criterion (only for materials 223, 234 and
302).
SENSOR: The type ITYP is now supported.
16141
FUNCTION
16140
The option FUNCSW is now supported.
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August 2010
LAYER: Support for the PLY definition.

Properties
The option TSCALF for Part types of Shell, Solid, Bshell, Beam and Bar
are supported.
20475
PART_BEAM type has new options:
Materials
Safety
Added the At field for shear effective area in t-direction.
16131
In card 6, the end release codes foe beam nodes 1 and 2 are now
supported.
12020
PART_BAR: Support of the TCONT and EPSINI fields.
17054
Material types 109 and 128 are now supported.
16690
New options in Material type 37: LTCsoft, LTCuniaxial and LTCvolume.
16133
New options in Material type 16: IYC, IDRUP, YC1, YC2, YC3, YC4,
YC5 and YC6.
16132
Seatbelt
847
The BELTS_/ keyword is supported

CHECK
CHECK>Massless, now checks also for free nodes of RBODYs.
Input / Output
GROUP_/
15252
[SETs]
When General Entity Selection (without groups) leads to the creation of

a group in ANSA, the created group is marked as AUXILIARIES=YES.
During output, auxiliary groups are considered according to their
components and not as a group. Thus, these Sets are only expanded
to their contents.
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August 2010
RADIOSS
Radioss Version 10 is supported for Input-Output-Control
Output in version 5.1 has the possibility to change the extension through ANSA.defaults.
18829
20540
Input: Recognition of E-3 apart from E-03 in units TIME, MASS, LENGTH.
17985
NODAL ENT
BCS: Added the LAGMUL option.
11435
INIVEL: Added the TYPE>GRID and ISKEW options as well.
11457
ELEMENTs
New element types are supported:

NSTRAND
MPC
TSHELL
11419
11436
11429
RBODY: The field ISENS has been added.
11450
LOADs
PLOAD: The options SCALE_X and SCALE_Y(EID) are now supported.
11456
AUXILIARIES
CONTROL>DEF_SOLID: Support of the IFRAME and ISTRAIN fields.

INTERFC: The option LAGMUR is now supported.
11434
SECTION: Added the Frame_ID option.
11449
SENSOR :
11424
Added the following definitions: AND, OR, NOT, RWAL, INTER.
11425
11426
RIGDWAL: The options LAGMUR, FFAC and IFQ are now supported.
11438
11453
CONTROL>LAGMUR is now supported.

Properties
11432
The ISTRAIN, IROT are supported for shell and solid properties.
New PROP definitions:
11420
NSTRAND
TSHELL
11445
PROP/RIVET: the option Imod has been added.
11452
PROP/SPRING:
If field K=0 or blank and H different from 0 (solver requirements), then a
OK button is not responding and a warning message is displayed.
In case the INERTIA<MASS*(element)Length^2/1000, aNSA displays a
corresponding warning message in the ANSA Info window.
Materials
New material type is supported: LAW31-USER3.
14867
Ls-Dyna material MAT_98 - *MAT_SIMPLIFIED_JOHNSON_COOK, is

specified to be mapped to Radioss LAW02-ELASTO-PLASTIC(JOHNSON-COOK).
16454
103
August 2010
ANSYS
ELEMENTs
Element type LINK10, is now supported by switching the TYPE

pull down menu to LINK10, of LINK_PROP card.
18022
CONSTRAINTs
CE/CP: Added tool to generate more than one degrees of freedom

at once.
17180
Properties
COMBIN now supports the types: COMBIN7, COMBIN37 and

COMBIN39.
17256
Type MPC184-General type is now supported under the

SECTION_JOINT, by changing the Subtype to General.
17633
COUPLING: A check for Cps that share at least one node, is now
supported.
14685
CHECKs
104
August 2010
PERMAS
INPUT
PARAMETERS
Added the options Merge Parts and Paste Nodes by Name.
Identifiers can be up to 9 digits.
ELEMENTs
GASKET: Support of GKHEX8 and GKPNT6 solid elements.

PLOTA: Support of PLOTA6 and PLOTA8 types.
UTIL: The transformation from SHELL to PLOTA and vice versa, is now
supported.
INFO: The option MATREF has been added in the SHELL_ELEMENTS
card.
MPCs
Support of ISURFACE, IQUAD, ITRIA.

RIGID: If no master node is selected, automatically it is created on the
COG.
CONSTRAINTs
21260
CONTACT: Added the options GUDING>SURFNODE and

DEPENDENT>SURFNODE.
C.VARIANT: Drag and Drop operation is supported for the listed items.
LOADING
The following options are now supported:

PARAMETER
FREQLOAD
DISLOAD / DISLOADN: TEMP, TEMPFILM, TEMPFLMS, TEMPINF,
TEMPINFS, SURFHS, SURFHSS, VOLHS.
CONTVAL: Support of FRICTION_TYPE>LOCK_Y and LOCK_Z
options.
SITUATION: Support of PARENT and ASSEMBLY parameters.
RESULTS
The group is now supported along with the NLRESULTS, TIMESTEPS,

PARAMETER and R.VARIANT.
AUXILIARIES
COMPONENT
Substructuring functionality is supported.
Support of option TEMP (YES/NO).
FLANGES functionality has been added.
FUNCTION: Tables with more than 2 axes can be visualized in 3D.
Properties
ELPROP_SHELL: The CONA and CONS options of TYPE are supported

in the card.
ELPROP_SPRING_DAMPER: The NLSTIFF, NLSTIFFR, NLDAMP and
NLDAMPR of TYPE option are now supported in the card.
105
Materials
August 2010
Homogeneous: Support of the $THERMEXP option.

The types GASKET, FLUID and LAMINATE are now supported.
17233
All materials support the input options DATA and TABLE.
16604
SETs
Support of SetBin and OUTPUT TYPE.
INPUT
Support of UCI input section and reading of multiple PERMAS or

MEDINA files.
Option to Merge Sets by Name.
Option to Merge Variants by Name.
Identifier rules according to Medina door.
OUTPUT
During export, the file is automatically compressed at *.gz extension.

Support of $ECHO HEADER keyword.
ANSA entity filtering and option for output of element sets as surfaces.
The format of the output files can now be selected, among Windows,
Linux or System native specific.
New option for surface assignment by ID or NAME.
Output format selection of Permas v12 or v13.
MEDINA
INPUT
The type MEDINA CAE KEY 699 is now supported.
20089
106
August 2010
CFD Decks
GENERAL
Read and Write of meshes (surface and volume) in CGNS format is now
supported.
Support of OpenFOAM version 1.6. Also, ANSA will now read and write
meshes in the latest OpenFOAM format.
16171
Support of the OpenFOAM version 1.6 cyclic boundary.

Support of Polyhedral mesh. ANSA can now read and write polyhedral
meshes in most of the supported cfd mesh formats (FLUENT, STAR,
CCM+, OpenFOAM).
SIZE BOXES
New option is supported to specify different maximum element length for

shell and solid elements.
13794
Size Boxes work also with the new TETRA RAPID and POLYHEDRAL
algorithms.
CHECKs
ISOLATED SOLIDS: Detects the database for solid elements with facets
that are all free.
14866
SHELLS WITHOUT SOLIDS: This check locates any shell that is not
connected with any solid element.
14760
UNCLOSED POLYHEDRA: Checks the integrity of polyhedral elements,

by finding any incorrectly defined.
PYRAMIDs: Avaialble also in CFD decks.
18561
107
August 2010
MORPH
BOXES
NEW: Incorporates the former functions of ORTHO, MULT. BOX (Along CS

and Min. Volume) as well as the ADAPT>Rough.
POINTs: Added the option to create user tangent.
CONVERT
The function now incorporates the following former conversion applications:
LINKS
CYLIND
2DMORPHCONV2SIZEBOX
CONV2SIZEBOX
OFFSET: Incorporates the OFFSET BOX and MULT.BOX [ON EXISTING].

SWEEP/GL: Former SWEEP and GLIDE are now under one button.
LOAD: Cross sections can now be loaded in a morph box. After any
morphing reformation, the cross section is recalculated.
LOAD>NOTLOADED: The function moved to CHECKS group of functions.
ADAPT>Crossec
New option to automatically create boxes between cross sections, while
acquiring their form. At first, it operates like the CROSS
SECTs>NEW[MULTICUT] and then follows the box creation.
108
August 2010
SPLIT [Project]: There is no need to pick the center point of the box before
selecting the morphing edge.
CONTROLS
PARAMS
Added Show Contents option to isolate the morphing boxes which are
controlled by the specific morphing parameter.
16859
New parameter option added for type HOLES, which operates the function
DIRECT MORPHING>HOLES.
Copy button, copies selected parameters.
Merge two or more parameters to one. The selected ones must not use the
same data and be of the same type.
CONTROL
POINTS
INSERT: Project function moved under this function.
EDGES
TANGENCY: The function has been inserted at the Options window as

option at functions relevant to that (e.g. Boxes>Split).
DIRECT
MORPHING
FIT
Functions 4SFIT, MLT. FIT & SH. FIT have been incorporated under this
function.
It is applicable at geometry models as well.
HOLES
New tool introduced, which recognizes holes and manipulates their
diameter. Any diameter rise, can be on a plane or there is the option to
follow the local surface.
CROSSEC
New tool introduced, to morph a model by associating original cross
sections with respective target ones. Then, selected entities can be fit to the
target cross section segments.
109
August 2010
Through the CROSSECMORPH window, the user creates the association of

the initial and target cross sections.
The Morph button is then activated to fit the entities to the target cross
sections, according to the defined CROSSECMORPH associations.
The steps required by the function, are:
Optionally, pick two cross sections to define the bounds.
Select the entities to be morphed.
110
August 2010
The Move button, acts as the function TOPO>CROSS SECTs>MOVE i.e.

Mv.Free or Translate functions are used to move the cross section
segments (curves) on the cross section plane.
Associate button may be used to edit the selections of the original and the
target cross section segments of an association.
GEO_CHECK: Added option FORCE to allow the user semi-automatically
cut faces found as Conflict but they are not cut at all.
DISTORTED: Identifies and highlights morphing boxes of bad shape.
The former flag buttons are now available upon activation of a function, in
the opening Options window.
DRAW MODE
New group created, to gather all relevant to visibility functions.

SKIN: When activated, leaves visible only the external morphing boxes.
111
August 2010
POINTS: Controls visibility of internal control points along morphing edges.

HATCHES
Includes all the visualization options of the morphing faces:
Off: Shadowing and cross hatches are disabled.
Crosshatch: Only cross hatches are displayed.
Shadow: Shaded morphing faces and cross hatches are both

displayed.
112
August 2010
Optimization
Optimization
Task
The Optimization Task resides also in the database Browser. Thus, massive
operations (e.g. new, delete etc.) are now available through it.
The created Design Variables can be associated with Morphing or ANSA parameters,
through Database List or Optimization Task.
Use the DV from entity to automatically associate almost any of the ANSA card fields
with ANSA Parameters and consequently with Design Variables.
Morph & ANSA Parameters can now be massively introduced to the Optimization
Task, through Database Browser. A new button Assign DV, assigns to the selected
parameters one Design Variable to each one of them.
Simulate tool: The Animate status can now switched massively for all selected
design variables.
Design of Experiments (DOE): A new functionality has been added in the Optimization
Task right click menu, called DOE study. It performs separate experiments based
on user defined values.
TOSCA
Structure
Loadcase can now be directly selected from the relative list by typing the symbol ? in
the appropriate field.
New item called MODIFICATION_FILES has been added under the VALIDATE item.
For the normalization of the Objective function, the field NORMALIZATION has been
added in the relative card.
113
August 2010
CROSS SECTION
CROSS SECTs>
New features have been added:
NEW
SECTION TYPE
- GENERAL, creates Nastran
PBEAM/PBAR properties.
- Equivalent Box, creates Nastran
PBEAM/PBAR properties with
Type Box properties.
12653
- NASTRAN PBMSECT, creates

Nastran PBMSECT/PBRSECT
properties.
CUTTING PLANE, controls the type
and shape of cutting plane.
CURVES CORNER ANGLE,
regulates segmentation of curves
describing cross section.
12919
DESIGN OPTIMIZATION,
integrates the Morphing
functionality to cross sections and
additionally, there are options to
create Design Variables and
A.PARAMETERS.
CURVEs
MOVE button added that moves the control points of curves.
15396
VISIB.
Drawing mode selection has been added. The provided options are
Entity (ENT), Property (PID), Material (MID) and Element Thickness
(EL.THICK).
PROPERTIES
SET PID: Now supports picking curves from the screen.
6387
Properties can now be assigned to curves also through PROPERTIES

card, using the APPLY button.
6583
The element type PBMSECT is now supported.

SECTIONS
PROPERTY option has been added, where the section type can be
chosen as well as the creation of Ls-Dyna or Pam-Crash integration
points.
Database Browser
Options located at Parts Manager>Options>Cross Sections, have been

moved to the right-click menu of the Cross Section entities in Database
Browser, along some new ones:
Run the cross section
Generate a report (Info)
114
August 2010
Position a section on a 3d curve (Position on Curve)
Compare two or more cross sections (Compare)
Create Reinforcement Beams (Reinforcements).
CROSS_SECTION
New options have been added in the cross section's card:
Card
- Type of section (Thin or Solid).

- Status to declare if it is calculated or not.
- Snap view of the cross section.
- Geometrical Properties.
- Position and Orientation fields are now editable.
Windows>Options
Cross Sections
20260
New tab has been added, which hosts some essential information.
They can also be saved in ANSA.defaults.
Boundary elements accumulation factor controls the number of
boundary elements of solid cross-sections.
14177
Measurements
Measurements performed in cross-Section module, can now be stored

and dynamically follow any new positioning.
Visibility
Shaded representation of the Bar/Bram Cross sections is now

provided under the option in the Presentation Parameters tab in F11
card.
12244
Beams to Cross
Section
New option to create shell elements that follow the cross section shape
of the existing beam elements.
12654
115
August 2010
VTRAPS
Interface
The tool is facilitated under new interface, which gives better flexibility and
manipulation.
The window is activated from the Module menu and it is independent of the current
module.
The VTRAPS window can be docked.
STEP: The increment for the scanning of the fluid levels.

RX/RY/RZ: Angle of rotation in degrees, referring to the global coordinate system.
Calculate: Button to proceed to the calculation.
Results
Visualization
The results can be manipulated:
Sort the results according to volume Id, Volume or Area.
Hide or show the desired volumes, by activating / deactivating the

respective check boxes.
Leave visible volumes above a specific volume magnitude, by inserting this

value in the Min. vol. field.
116
August 2010
SCRIPTING
GENERAL
New functions for launching build-in dialogue boxes:

UserError
UserWarning
Pressing Ctrl+Left mouse button on user script buttons, opens user's script help.
Script Editor
Syntax color for build-in functions
'Uncomment' functionality
SCRIPT
FUNCTIONS
File
Topo
The function GetEntity, now accepts __PROPERTIES__ and __MATERIALS__

as types.
New Merge function with variable number of input arguments.
Added function for automatic middle surface:
MiddlesurfAuto
New functions for Working Planes creation:
CreateNormalWplaneNormal
CreateWplane3Points
Createwplanewith2Axis
Mesh
Morph
Added the function FillHoleWithStl. One or more holes of the model are filled with the
STL algorithm.
New function to perform DOE study: PerformDoeStudy.
Added the function, MorphHistoryState (element state), to retrieve a recorded state.
Hexa Block
Support of functions to handle Hexa Boxes:

HexaBlockLength
HexaBlockNumber
HexaBlockSpacing
HexaBlockVolSkin
HexaBlockVolumes
HexaBoxDelete
HexaBoxUndelete
Parts Manager
Batch Mesh
New function to create User Defined Attributes: CreateUserDefinedAttribute.

New functions for the creation of wrapping scenario/session:
GetNewWrapScenario
GetNewWrapSession
Visibility
New functions to manipulate visibility:

F11PresParamsOptionsSet
GetEntityVisibFlag
GetViewMode
Added the option to control the Detail on Demand slide bar, of the F11 card e.g.:
F11PresParamsOptionsSet(Detail on demand effect, , 0);
will set the detail on demand to zero.
117
Decks
August 2010
The following functions can handle the CONTROL cards of LSDYNA, ANSYS,
RADIOSS and PAMCRASH as any other entity:
SetEntityCardValues
GetEntityCardValues
GetEntity
DeleteEntity
Activate / deactivate the CONTROL's keyword as the following example:
SetEntityCardValues (PAMCRASH, pcontrol, CCTRL, ON,
CCTRL_ITER_INIPET_N_ITIPNB, 1);
Also, for PamCrash two more functions have been added:
InsertMetricFile
DeleteMetricFile
Abaqus Step
New functions for Abaqus STEP handling:

InsertStepOutputRequest
UpdateStepOutputRequest
DeleteStepOutputRequest
CopyStepOutputRequest
Abaqus
C.SHELL to SHELL conversion by the command TranslConvCShell2Shell()
Cross Section
Support of function to Run Cross Section: RunCrossSection.
Includes
Configuration
New Functions for managing Includes Configuration:
Connections
LoadIncludeConfiguration
GetConfigurationIncludes
GetCurrentIncludeConfiguration
SetConfigurationIncludes
The existing GetFirstFeRep and GetNextFeRep functions, now return contacts that
belong to connection's FE Representations.
Post Realization enhancements:
The return of the function is taken into account i.e., if return is 0, the status is OK and
type CUSTOM FE otherwise, if the return is -1, the connections are not Realized
(Error Status).
Post Realization is provided for all connection types and FE representations, except
for SPIDER. The arguments are the same, as for the Spotwelds.
By User connection post realization function, contacts can be added to connection's
FE representation.
New function for connections converting: ConvertConnections.
Remove double connections with RemoveDoubleConnections function.
New functions for projections and custom checks:
GetNearestPointOnBound
GetNearestPointOnFeature
GetConnectionProjections
The function GetCurveLength has been enhanced by returning the sum of the length
of more than one curve segments or connection curves respectively.
Math
Added functions to perform mathematical operations:

Min2, Max2, Nint, Mod, Cosh, Acosh, Sinh, Asinh, Tanh, Long10
118
August 2010
GUI Desinger
BC GUI is a powerful library of GUI functions. It assists the users to build easily windows that consist of
any type of graphical interface, like LineEdits, Comboboxes, Checkboxes, etc. in order to interact faster
and easier with ANSA entities.
The BC GUI entities are divided in Widgets, Layouts and Items.

Widgets
Function BCWindow, enables the user to create a window that may hold any of the items that BCGUI
can apply.
E.g. using functions like BCFrame, BCLabel, BCLabelTicker, BCSpinBox, BCSeparator, BCSlider and
BCStatusBar, the following widget can be created:
Using the BCWidgetStack, a stack of widget can be created. In the same window, the BCListView adds
a list. These two entities can be separated by the function BCSplitter. Also, different tabs can be
created, using the function BCTabWidget.
119
August 2010
Layouts
BCBoxLayout consists of a rectangular box with transparent border, which can obtain
horizontal and vertical orientation to its child widgets and layouts.
BCGridLayout divides the available space into columns and rows.
The BCWindow has by default a BCBoxLayout with vertical orientation i.e. all the children will be
placed one below the other , according to the order they have been created.
Items
BCSpacer gives the ability to create an empty space in a window, extensible to all directions.
120
August 2010
Script Collection
Kin4Bars: An interface that allows the set-up of 4bar mechanisms in the Kinematics Tool.
QuadsWith3CommonNodes: Finds 2 quads that share 3 of their nodes.
TriasConnectedToQuads: Finds trias that all their nodes are connected to quads and quads that share
3 nodes.
Calculator: Opens the ANSA calculator.
CheckContactsDyna has been removed.
CheckCoincidentNodes: Checks the database for coincident nodes according to a given tolerance.
ShowList: Opens a list with all existing entities of the given type. The user is able to select from the list.
The selected entities are stored in a global variable called 'selected' for further usage.
Capitalize: Capitalizes the given string.
FindNearestFace: Finds the nearest face to a given position.
ConvertRBE2ToMPC: Function that converts RBE2s to MPCs.
CheckPropsWithSameName: Check for properties sharing the same name. Results are reported in the
Checks List.
CheckNCOGifSlave: Checks the database for PAMCRASH RBodies whose NCOG is also included as
a slave node.
NcogInTiedSet: Identifies NCOG nodes of RBODYs that are used in a TIE contact slave set.
The nodes are listed in the check list.
121
August 2010
3. Known Problems resolved in v13.1.0

GENERAL
Geometry
Right-click to pick a point, could not pick control point of Morph or Size
Box.
17705
File>Input
STL importing reports errors which caused missing elements.
18396
MESH>GRIDs
MV FREE could not be assisted by the Feature angle selection tool, on

grids belong to solid elements.
17213
Measure
Upon activation, other open windows (e.g. Mesh Params) closed.
15150
19059
Assembly & Connection Manager

Seamlines gave bad results after pressing Apply more than once.
17160
Realization of Spotweld Line with the option Use Nearest Node active and spacing which
did not conform with the current element length, led to duplicate elements.
10680
Seamlines (RBE2 Representation) was realized with Loose Ends even without having the
option active.
18168
Seamlines which defined closed chains, did not draw arrow with the exact picked points for
"set weld position".
16295
Adhesive Faces (COHESIVE CONTACT): When you pressed ? in the Contacts Id field,
the Contacts list did not contain any contact pairs of TIE type, even that they already existed.
18110
FE to Adhesive (RBE3-HEXA-RBE3): If an RBE2 existed, apart from the RBE3s the Realize
would apply on it too.
20861
RBE3-CBUSH-RBE3: Wrong orientation of the RBE3s when there were more than 2 flanges
and the flag Keep all branches was active.
21313
Known problems resolved in v13.1.0
20079
122
August 2010
BATCH MESH Manager

Holes treatment did not apply in some holes, despite that they were within the range.
19921
PARTs MANAGER
IDENTIFY displayed only one part per group, in case of box selection. Now, clears any
selections and selects all the included parts in the box.
14440
When a part was replaced (input/output), the sets (e.g. for contacts) could not be kept
even in almost similar parts replacement, and they had to be re-defined again.
6488
TOPO
HOT POINTs>PROJECT of 3D Points could be applied more than one time on the same
face.
18696
TOPO functions would exit if the alt or Tab buttons were pressed.
19159
FACEs>CONVERT issued to bad faces.
19133
FACEs>OFFSET [FACES] function did not accept operations as input.
18802
CURVEs>CENTER crashed when perimeters number equals zero.
19005
FACES>EXTEND made wrong projection.
10889
WORK PLANEs>INFO gave wrong coordinates for origin.
17935
CURVE>CIRCLE could not select nodes of volume entities.
17929
FACEs>OFFSET [FACES] did not allow simple calculation input in the "Offset Value"
window.
17829
FACEs>NEW & COONS did not apply properly the PID neighbs selection tool.
16016
MESH
VOLUMEs>MAP caused problem when selecting two elements to define the path and they
were intact with the geometry.
18769
QGRAPH in F11 card was not updated if the calculation method was changed, e.g. for crash
time step criterion when changing the calculation method from Ls-Dyna to Pam-Crash.
21189
123
August 2010
DECKs
RENUMBER
When two or more special rules for connections were selected, the right
click menu would provide additional useless options.
20863
GEBs Connectors
Connectors and GEBs lost their settings at outputting, if the field

Representation was referenced by ANSA parameter.
18839
LAMINATEs
ANSA crashed when the user typed ? in the Layer curve option of
Generate Report button, to open Parts Manager.
20266
The color of PCOMPs changed each time the user accessed the Laminate
tool
16398
CHECK
FREE: Nodes of line elements which are not connected at all, can now be
spotted and displayed in the list as Free.
20924
Nastran
ELEMENTs>UTIL>Change Type: The application on CROD to convert it

to CBAR, changed also the fields I1 and I2 in the property, which is wrong.
18217
DynaPamCrash
CURVE[DEFINE_CURVE] and FUNCTION: If the scale factor was set to

zero, the plotting curves' values were multiplied by zero, which is wrong
according to the solvers.
15953
Abaqus
AMPLITUDE: The calculations for X and Y axes of the plot were

computed by ANSA as x=SCALEX(value+SHIFTX) whereas, the correct is
x=SCALEX(value*SCALEX)+SHIFTX.
15953
HII 50 Aerospace Dummy: Information of some kinematic joints was not

read correctly.
20768
Sets used by kinematic tool were deleted when applied database

compress.
17755
SAFETY
KINEMATICs
124
August 2010
NASTRAN
Input of material section which contained tabs or empty lines, resulted in error.
16760
When NSM entities created by script on line elements, the field "TYPE" did not take correct
value.
12002
The comments typed in NSM Comments field, were not kept when the model was output.
15300
ABAQUS
Materials imported by Include were nor read in at all.
19632
SMOOTH parameter in Hyperelastic material is now written out as integer. If it is floating, it is

converted accordingly.
19421
Parameter ELIMINTATION=NO was not exported.
21254
Check>Contact orientation: Wrongly orientation conflicts were detected. Also, works for
CONTACT>FLANGES.
18707
Wrong MASS was report (D.INFO) when the masses were defined on set with per element
type.
20293
When Physical Constants were specified and then another file was input with steps, the
constants were erased.
18730
17210
PAM-CRASH
ELEMENTs>KJOINT: If the field RELPEN was left blank, the value 1.0737E9 was written
instead of gap.
20818
RADIOSS
The materials LAW35-VISCOELASTIC-KELVIN-VOIGT and LAW0-VOID_MATERIAL now
they are updated accordingly when the version switches between 4 and 5.
20382
Fixed wrong output in Radioss version 5.1, where 2 rows less were being written.
20186
125
August 2010
FLUENT
Output
If a volume mesh contained double or multiple shells, then FLuent output blocked.
19983
MEDINA
Joint Revolute created in ANSA, missed the constrained extra nodes information when
import to MEDINA.
21331
126
August 2010
SCRIPTING
MESH_SHELL_MESH_RECONSTRUCT_VIOLATING: When no parameter of affected
zones was given in the brackets, the function could not proceed. Now, the case is overcome
by deriving the value from the mesh parameters in the tab Fix Quality.
20727
MESH_SHELL_MESH_RESHAPE_VIOLATING: When no parameter of affected zones was

given in the brackets, the function could not proceed. Now, the case is overcome by deriving
the value from the mesh parameters in the tab Fix Quality.
20727
OR, AND and NOT functions did not accept 0 as argument for current deck.
18823
Function SetEntityId did not work on spotweld entities.
18996
RealizeConnection returned 1 even if the connection was not realized.
19447
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