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Table of Contents
Global ......................................................................................................................................................... vii
1. Advisories ......................................................................................................................................... viii
2. Installation ........................................................................................................................................ viii
3. Licensing .......................................................................................................................................... viii
4. Documentation ................................................................................................................................ viii
5. Online Video Access ............................................................................................................................ ix
6. ANSYS Customer Portal ....................................................................................................................... ix
7. ANSYS Elastic Licensing ...................................................................................................................... ix
8. Platform Support ................................................................................................................................ ix
8.1. Screen Resolution Recommendations ......................................................................................... x
9. New Product Levels ............................................................................................................................. x
I. ANSYS Structural Products ...................................................................................................................... 1
1. Mechanical Application Release Notes ............................................................................................. 3
1.1. Incompatibilities and Changes in Product Behavior from Previous Releases .................................. 3
1.2. General Enhancements ............................................................................................................... 3
1.3. Platform Enhancements .............................................................................................................. 4
1.4. Geometry Enhancements ........................................................................................................... 4
1.5. Contact and Connection Enhancements ...................................................................................... 4
1.6. Mesh Enhancements .................................................................................................................. 5
1.7. Composites Enhancements ......................................................................................................... 5
1.8. Analysis Enhancements .............................................................................................................. 5
1.9. Rigid Body Solver Enhancements ................................................................................................ 5
1.10. Explicit Dynamics Enhancements .............................................................................................. 5
1.11. Results Enhancements .............................................................................................................. 5
2. Mechanical APDL .............................................................................................................................. 7
2.1. Windows 10 Issues Resolved ....................................................................................................... 7
2.2. CIRCU125 Element Re-documented ............................................................................................ 7
3. Autodyn ............................................................................................................................................ 9
3.1. Incompatibilities and Changes in Product Behavior from Previous Releases .................................. 9
3.2. Autodyn Component System Issues Resolved .............................................................................. 9
4. Aqwa ............................................................................................................................................... 11
5. ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) .................................................................................................. 13
5.1. New Features in ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) 17.2 ............................................................. 13
5.1.1. Improved Postprocessing for Solids .................................................................................. 13
5.1.2. Section Cut ...................................................................................................................... 13
5.1.3. Butt Joint Sequence ......................................................................................................... 13
5.1.4. Enhanced BECAS Interface ............................................................................................... 13
5.1.5. Improved CSV Interface for Results Export ........................................................................ 13
5.2. New Features in ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) 17.1 ............................................................. 14
5.2.1. Performance Improvements ............................................................................................. 14
5.2.2. Variable Offset Selection Rule ........................................................................................... 14
5.2.3. Enhancements to Python User Interface ........................................................................... 14
5.2.4. CAD Geometry Handling .................................................................................................. 14
5.2.5. Unified Mechanical Postprocessing Engine ....................................................................... 14
5.2.6. Text Labels for User-Defined Plots ..................................................................................... 14
5.3. Supported Platforms for ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) 17.2 ................................................. 14
5.4. Known Incompatibilities ........................................................................................................... 15
II. ANSYS Fluids Products .......................................................................................................................... 17
1. Fluent .............................................................................................................................................. 19
1.1. New Features in ANSYS Fluent 17.2 ........................................................................................... 19
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of ANSYS, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates.
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1.2. Supported Platforms for ANSYS Fluent 17.2 ............................................................................... 20
1.3. New Limitations in ANSYS Fluent 17.2 ....................................................................................... 20
1.4. Resolved Issues and Limitations ................................................................................................ 20
1.5. Updates Affecting Code Behavior .............................................................................................. 21
2. CFX .................................................................................................................................................. 23
2.1. Supported Platforms ................................................................................................................. 23
2.2. New Features and Enhancements .............................................................................................. 23
2.3. Incompatibilities ....................................................................................................................... 23
3. TurboGrid ........................................................................................................................................ 25
4. BladeModeler .................................................................................................................................. 27
4.2. BladeGen .................................................................................................................................. 27
4.2.1. New Features and Enhancements ..................................................................................... 27
4.3. BladeEditor ............................................................................................................................... 27
5. CFD-Post .......................................................................................................................................... 29
6. Polyflow .......................................................................................................................................... 31
6.1. New Features ............................................................................................................................ 31
6.3. New Limitations in ANSYS Polyflow 17.2 .................................................................................... 31
6.4. Past Versions of ANSYS Polyflow Release Notes .......................................................................... 31
7. Forte ................................................................................................................................................ 33
7.1. New Features and Enhancements since 17.1 .............................................................................. 33
7.2. Resolved Issues since Forte 17.1 ................................................................................................ 33
8. Chemkin .......................................................................................................................................... 35
8.1. New Features and Enhancements Added since 17.1 ................................................................... 35
8.2. Resolved Issues since 17.1 ......................................................................................................... 35
III. ANSYS Electronics Products ................................................................................................................. 37
1. Icepak .............................................................................................................................................. 39
1.1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 39
1.2. New and Modified Features in ANSYS Icepak 17.2 ...................................................................... 39
1.3. Resolved Issues and Limitations in ANSYS Icepak 17.2 ................................................................ 39
IV. ANSYS Geometry & Mesh Prep Products ............................................................................................. 41
1. DesignModeler ................................................................................................................................ 43
2. SpaceClaim ...................................................................................................................................... 45
3. CAD ................................................................................................................................................. 47
4. Meshing ........................................................................................................................................... 49
4.1. Changes in Product Behavior from Previous Releases ................................................................. 49
4.2. Match Control Enhancements ................................................................................................... 50
4.3. Local Sizing Control Enhancements ........................................................................................... 50
4.4. New Target Mesh Metric ............................................................................................................ 50
5. IC Engine Release Notes .................................................................................................................. 51
6. ICEM CFD ......................................................................................................................................... 53
6.1. Highlights of ANSYS ICEM CFD 17.2 ........................................................................................... 53
6.1.1. Editing blocks .................................................................................................................. 53
6.1.2. Improved replay handling ................................................................................................ 53
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6.2. Documentation ........................................................................................................................ 53
6.2.1. Tutorials ........................................................................................................................... 54
7. Fluent Meshing ............................................................................................................................... 55
7.1. Changes in Product Behavior from Previous Releases ................................................................. 55
7.2. New Features ............................................................................................................................ 55
V. ANSYS Simulation Products .................................................................................................................. 57
1. Workbench ...................................................................................................................................... 59
1.1. ANSYS Workbench .................................................................................................................... 59
1.1.1. ANSYS Workbench - EKM Portal Enhancements ................................................................. 59
1.1.2. ANSYS Workbench Enhancements .................................................................................... 59
1.2. External Connection ................................................................................................................. 60
1.3. Engineering Data Workspace ..................................................................................................... 60
1.4. External Data ............................................................................................................................ 60
1.5. FE Modeler ............................................................................................................................... 60
1.6. System Coupling ....................................................................................................................... 60
1.7.TurboSystem Release Notes ....................................................................................................... 60
1.7.1. Supported Platforms ........................................................................................................ 61
2. ANSYS ACT ...................................................................................................................................... 63
3. Remote Solve Manager (RSM) ......................................................................................................... 67
4. EKM ................................................................................................................................................. 69
4.2. Issues Resolved in this Release .................................................................................................. 69
4.3. Issues and Limitations ............................................................................................................... 69
5. DesignXplorer ................................................................................................................................. 71
VI. ANSYS AIM ........................................................................................................................................... 73
1. Advisories ........................................................................................................................................ 75
2. Enhancements in AIM 17.2 .............................................................................................................. 77
5. Limitations ...................................................................................................................................... 83
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Global Release Notes

The release notes are specific to ANSYS, Inc. Release 17.2 and arranged by application/product, with
the exception of:
Advisories (p. viii)
Installation (p. viii)
Licensing (p. viii)
Online Video Access (p. ix)
ANSYS Customer Portal (p. ix)
Platform Support (p. ix)
Note that installation- and licensing-specific information is detailed in some application and product
sections.
Release notes are available in printable format (PDF) via the product media, and accessible in the ANSYS
Help Viewer or online via the ANSYS Customer Portal (p. ix) for the following:
ANSYS 17.1
ANSYS 17.0
ANSYS 16.2
ANSYS 16.1
ANSYS 16.0
See ANSYS Customer Portal> Downloads> Previous Releases> ANSYS Documentation and Input Files
to download zip files containing the Product and Release Documentation.
The Release Documentation files include the following:
ANSYS Platform Support Strategy & Plans
ANSYS, Inc. Installation and Licensing Tutorials
ANSYS, Inc. Known Issues and Limitations
ANSYS, Inc. Licensing Guide
ANSYS, Inc. Quick Start Installation Guide
ANSYS, Inc. Quick Start Licensing Guide
ANSYS, Inc. Release Notes
Linux Installation Guide
SpaceClaim Release Notes (as applicable)
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Global
Windows Installation Guide
1. Advisories
In addition to the incompatibilities noted within the release notes, known non-operational behavior,
errors and/or limitations at the time of release are documented in the Known Issues and Limitations
document, although not accessible via the ANSYS Help Viewer. See the ANSYS Customer Portal (p. ix)
for information about the ANSYS service packs and any additional items not included in the Known
Issues and Limitations document. First-time users of the customer portal must register to create a
password.
2. Installation
The following features are new or changed at Release 17.2. Review these items carefully.
The Product Configuration Tool has been changed to the Product & CAD Configuration Manager. In addition
to all the features that were contained in the Product Configuration Tool, the Product & CAD Configuration
Manager gives you the ability to configure geometry interfaces for Mechanical APDL and ANSYS Workbench.
Hovering your cursor over any of the Installation Launcher buttons displays a "tooltip" describing what is
installed when this button is selected.
The Visual C++ 2005 redistributable file has been removed from the installation. Additionally, during installation you are notified if your system still has the Visual C++ 2005 redistributable file installed and you are
asked to remove it before continuing the installation.
3. Licensing
The following enhancements have been made to ANSYS, Inc. Licensing for Release 17.2:
The ansyslmd.ini keyword QUEUING_INTERVAL and the Licensing Interconnect command option queuing_interval have been modified in the following manner: the Default value/range values have been
changed to Minimum 15 seconds (was 300 seconds), Maximum 600 seconds (was 3600 seconds) and Default
120 seconds (was 300 seconds).
The current version of OpenSSL utilized with the ANSYS Licensing Interconnect is 1.0.2g.
For both Windows and Linux platforms, the FlexNet version of LMGRD is 11.13.1.3 (All other FlexNet components are at release 11.13.1.2.).
The functionality available through the ANSYS SpaceClaim CATIA V5 Interface license has been incorporated
into the Geometry Interface for CATIA V5 license. From this release forward, the Geometry Interface for
CATIA V5 license may be used to access the ANSYS SpaceClaim CATIA V5 Interface.
ANSYS License Management Center now includes options to display reports on license usage (current usage
and historical usage and license denials). These reports provide data in both tabular and bar chart formats.
4. Documentation
Documentation is now installed per-product; only the documentation associated with the products you
install will be included by default. You can choose to install all documentation by running a documentation-only install from the installation launcher.
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Platform Support
Updated Product Documentation

Visit the ANSYS Customer Portal Online Documentation page to view or search the latest updates to
the Release 17.2 documentation.
5. Online Video Access

To review an extensive library of How-To Videos that demonstrate how to use ANSYS product features,
go to the ANSYS How-To Videos YouTube page on YouTube.
6. ANSYS Customer Portal

If you have a password to the ANSYS Customer Portal, you can view additional documentation information and late changes. The portal is also your source for ANSYS, Inc. software downloads, service packs,
product information (including example applications, current and archived documentation, undocumented
commands, input files, and product previews), and online support.
All the product documentation is available in printable format (PDF). Note that the content of the files
can be copied into word processing programs.
Customer Portal access points:
Tutorials and input files To access tutorials and their input files on the ANSYS Customer Portal, go
to http://support.ansys.com/training.
Documentation To access documentation files on the ANSYS Customer Portal, go to http://support.ansys.com/documentation.
General information For further information about tutorials and documentation on the ANSYS
Customer Portal, go to http://support.ansys.com/docinfo.
7. ANSYS Elastic Licensing

Pay-per-use licensing is offered in conjunction with traditional lease and paid-up licensing. ANSYS
Elastic Licensing provides hourly-based access to all ANSYS products (with the exception of the Semiconductor applications and SCADE applications) through a single license called ANSYS Elastic Units.
Available in three phases, they are:
Phase 1: Elastic Licensing launched with five Cloud Hosting Partners in March 2016.
Phase 2: Elastic Licensing to be launched on ANSYS Enterprise Cloud in August 2016.
Phase 3: Elastic Licensing to be launched on-site/on-premise in the fourth quarter of 2016.
More information and announcements about ANSYS Elastic Licensing and the ANSYS Enterprise Cloud
are available at ansys.com.
8. Platform Support
Information about past, present and future platform support is viewable via the ANSYS, Inc. website
(Solutions> Solutions by Role> IT Professionalst> Platform Support).
Included on the web page is:
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Global
ANSYS Platform Support Summary of Strategy and Plans
Browser Support
CAD Support
Graphics Cards Tested
Remote Display Support
Interconnects Support
Platform Support by Application
8.1. Screen Resolution Recommendations

Minimum supported screen resolution (except handheld mobile)
1024 x 768 (4:3 aspect ratio)
1366 x 768 (16:9 aspect ratio)
1280 x 800 (16:10 aspect ratio)
Recommended resolution
1920x1080 (16:9)
1920x1200 (16:10) or higher
Note
Use of display devices with a 4K resolution may trigger unexpected graphical behaviors, and
therefore are not fully supported.
9. New Product Levels

The product level consolidation and upgrades introduced at Release 17.0 remain unchanged for Release
17.2. The result is that more capabilities per product are included except for the LS-DYNA Export capability that has been removed from the Explicit STR implementation in Mechanical Enterprise. Otherwise,
no features have been removed from the individual products or applications such as ANSYS Mechanical
APDL or ANSYS Workbench Mechanical. Your current license will continue to function as usual until
you upgrade to the new release.
The following table outlines the capabilities of the product levels introduced at Release 17.0:
Product Name
Capabilities
DesignSpace
Same as previous DesignSpace product
ANSYS Mechanical Pro
New product at Release 17.0 featuring:

Static Stress Analysis
Steady-State and Transient Thermal Analysis
New Product Levels

Product Name
Capabilities
Modal Analysis
Eigenvalue Buckling Analysis
Fatigue Analysis (ANSYS Fatigue Module)
ANSYS Mechanical Premium
New product at Release 17.0, featuring everything

in ANSYS Mechanical Pro and:
Static Stress Analysis with Nonlinear Materials
Harmonic Analysis
Linear Transient Stress Analysis
Spectrum Analysis
Random Vibration Analysis
Rotordynamics Analysis
Rigid Body Dynamics (ANSYS Rigid Body
Dynamics)
ANSYS Mechanical Enterprise
ANSYS Mechanical renamed as ANSYS Mechanical

Enterprise. Nothing removed from previous ANSYS
Mechanical product, featuring everything from
ANSYS Mechanical Premium and:
Advanced Nonlinear Materials
Nonlinear Transient Stress Analysis
Fracture Analysis
Acoustics
Electric and Electrostatic Analysis
Coupled-Field Analysis
Substructuring
Shell and Solid Composites Pre- and
Postprocessing (ANSYS Composite PrepPost)
Hydrodynamics (ANSYS Aqwa Suite with Coupled
Cable Dynamics)
Explict Dynamics (ANSYS Explicit STR except for
the LS-DYNA Export capability)
Advanced Geometry Creation and Manipulation
(ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct Modeler)
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Product Name
Capabilities
Design Optimization and Probabilistic Design
(ANSYS DesignXplorer)
Workflow Automation (ANSYS Customization
Suite)
ANSYS Mechanical Enterprise PrepPost
ANSYS Mechanical PrepPost renamed as ANSYS

Mechanical Enterprise PrepPost. Nothing removed
from previous ANSYS Mechanical PrepPost product,
and includes all PrepPost features of ANSYS
Mechanical Enterprise including:
Fatigue Analysis (ANSYS Fatigue Module)
Dynamics)
Explicit Dynamics (ANSYS Explicit STR except for
Shell and Solid Composites Pre- and
Postprocessing (ANSYS Composite PrepPost)
Cable Dynamics)
Advanced Geometry Creation and Manipulation
(ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct Modeler)
Design Optimization and Probabilistic Design
(ANSYS DesignXplorer)
Workflow Automation (ANSYS Customization
Suite)
ANSYS Mechanical Enterprise Solver
ANSYS Mechanical Solver renamed as ANSYS

Mechanical Enterprise Solver. Nothing removed
from previous ANSYS Mechanical Solver product,
and includes all Solver features of ANSYS Mechanical
Enterprise including:
Dynamics)
Explicit Dynamics (ANSYS Explicit STR except for
Cable Dynamics)
ANSYS Autodyn
Same as previous ANSYS Autodyn product
ANSYS LS-DYNA
Same as previous ANSYS LS-DYNA product
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New Product Levels

New products enable all functionalities and multiple applications. However, they are still a single product
or a single task, and therefore only allow access to each application sequentially, but not simultaneously.
For example, if you have a single ANSYS Mechanical Enterprise license available, you can perform a
Mechanical APDL solution, but you would not be able to use SpaceClaim Direct Modeler until the
solution is complete.
The HPC capabilities for each of the solvers remain as they were in previous releases. The number of
cores allowed to be used by the solver without any HPC licenses is 2 (DMP or SMP) for the Mechanical
APDL solver, 1 for the Rigid Body Dynamics solver, 1 for the Explicit solver, and 1 for the Aqwa solver.
If you are running a previous release of ANSYS products with the Release 17.2 licensing manager, you
will notice that some additional features have been made available to your earlier product. Although
these new features are available and can be used, the previous releases will not contain the full set of
features of the new product levels.
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Part I: ANSYS Structural Products

Release notes are available for the following ANSYS Structural products:
Mechanical Application (p. 3)
Mechanical APDL (p. 7)
Autodyn (p. 9)
Aqwa (p. 11)
ACP (p. 13)
Chapter 1: Mechanical Application Release Notes

This release of the Mechanical application contains all of the capabilities from previous releases plus
many new features and enhancements. Areas where you will find changes and new capabilities include
the following:
1.1. Incompatibilities and Changes in Product Behavior from Previous Releases
1.2. General Enhancements
1.3. Platform Enhancements
1.4. Geometry Enhancements
1.5. Contact and Connection Enhancements
1.6. Mesh Enhancements
1.7. Composites Enhancements
1.8. Analysis Enhancements
1.9. Rigid Body Solver Enhancements
1.10. Explicit Dynamics Enhancements
1.11. Results Enhancements
1.1. Incompatibilities and Changes in Product Behavior from Previous

Releases
Release 17.2 includes several new features and enhancements that result in product behaviors that
differ from previous releases. These behavior changes are presented below.
Solution Object Property Name Change. Under the Post Processing category of the Solution object, the
property "Calculate Beam Section Results" has been renamed "Beam Section Results."
Specifying Named Selections using Worksheet Criteria. The Worksheet used to specify Named Selections
is now, by default, displayed below the Geometry window so that you can view your geometry while simultaneously working with Named Selection worksheet entries.
For Explicit Dynamics analyses, parallel solution on clusters using the Windows HPC Jobscheduler is no
longer officially supported due to unstable behavior.
1.2. General Enhancements

The following general enhancements have been made at Release 17.2:
Selecting Nodes and Elements by IDs. Mechanical now provides a graphical interface dialog that enables
you to select mesh nodes and elements by entering their ID. This feature also provides an option to create
Named Selections for your selected nodes or elements.
Selection Utilities Toolbar. Mechanical now provides a new toolbar to facilitate the manipulation of entity
selections: Selection Utilities. The options of this toolbar enable you to quickly make selections of different
geometric entities based on the active selection of a different entity type. The toolbars functionality uses
ANSYS ACT. The relevant python modules (selection.py and toolbar.py) are available for review in
the install folder: aisol/DesignSpace/DSPages/Python.
Mechanical Application Release Notes

Named Selections of Entities Shared Across Bodies. Mechanical has a new Worksheet Criteria: Shared
Across Bodies. Its options include Yes and No enabling you to generate Named Selections for faces, edges,
or vertices that you share or do not share across bodies.
Sorting the Tree Outline. The Tree Filter Toolbar contains a new option, Sort Ascending, that, when selected,
sorts objects in alphanumeric order. This is primarily associated with lower level objects. That is, parent objects
such as Geometry, Coordinate Systems, Connections, etc. are not sorted but their child objects are. For example, if you have a large number of contact regions, the application sorts them according to alphanumeric
precedence.
Group Tree Objects
You can now group all of the child objects in the Named Selection folder using the Group All Similar
Children option.
The F9 key, that hides bodies, is now supported for groups under the Geometry object.
The Delete key can now be used to delete selected groups and their children.
1.3. Platform Enhancements

The following operating system platform enhancements have been made at Release 17.2:
Substructuring Analysis. The Substructuring feature of Mechanical is now supported on the Linux platform.
1.4. Geometry Enhancements

The following geometry enhancements have been made at Release 17.2:
Distributed Mass. Mechanical now enables you to apply Distributed Masses to edges of your model.
1.5. Contact and Connection Enhancements

The following contact and connection enhancements have been made at Release 17.2:
End Releases. Mechanical now enables you to specify two or more edges on a vertex when defining
an End Release. In prior releases, only a single edge could be released from a vertex.
New Constraint Type Options. Two new Constraint Type options have been added to the Advanced
category for Contact Regions: Projected, Displacement Only and Distributed, Normal Only. These
new constraint options enable you to further control the multipoint constraints on Contact Regions
now involving solid bodies. In addition, the option names, but not the functions, of the following
Constrain Type options have changed.
Previous Option Name
New Option Name
Target Normal, Uncouple U

to ROT
Projected, Uncoupled U to ROT
Target Normal, Couple U to

ROT
Distributed, All Directions
Inside Pinball, Couple U to

ROT
Distributed, Anywhere Inside Pinball
Results Enhancements
Remote Point Application. The new property, Pilot Node APDL Name, is now available for Remote
Points. This optional property enables you to create an APDL parameter (in the input file) and assign
its value to the pilot node number of the Remote Point. This facilitates easy programmatic identification
of the Remote Points pilot node for later use/reference in a Command object.
1.6. Mesh Enhancements

Refer to the 17.2 Release Notes of the Meshing application for the new features and enhancements
associated with Meshing in the Mechanical application.
1.7. Composites Enhancements

The following enhancements have been made at Release 17.2:
Composite Failure Tool. The Composite Failure Tool is now available on Linux. Additionally, sandwich
failure criteria such as wrinkling and shear crimping are now evaluated for shell and solid elements.
1.8. Analysis Enhancements

The following analysis enhancements have been made at Release 17.2:
Substructuring Analysis. The Substructuring feature of Mechanical is now supported on the Linux platform.
1.9. Rigid Body Solver Enhancements

The following enhancements have been made to the Rigid Dynamics solver at Release 17.2:
Joint Friction. For revolute, cylindrical, and translational joints, you can now introduce frictional behavior
in the joint when using the Rigid Dynamics solver.
1.10. Explicit Dynamics Enhancements

The following enhancement is available at Release 17.2:
Multiple Autodyn component systems can be opened at the same time now, provided enough licenses are
available.
1.11. Results Enhancements

The following results enhancements have been made at Release 17.2:
User Defined Result Expressions. You can now use two consecutive asterisk symbols "**" as an alternative
to the caret (^) symbol to specify the power operator.
User Defined Results for the Mechanical APDL Solver. The following new element-based expressions
used to define User Defined Results are now available for use with the Mechanical APDL Solver.
ENMO
PNUMENAM
CONTPNUMTYPE
Mechanical Application Release Notes

CONTPNUMREAL
CONTPNUMMAT
CONTPNUMSEC
CONTPNUMESYS
CONTPNUMELEM
CONTPNUMENAM
Heat Reaction. The Heat Reaction probe, used in Steady-state thermal and transient thermal analyses, now
enables you to scope the probe to Geometry selections, Contact Regions, and Construction Body Surfaces.
Structural Probe. Mechanical now provides a Flexible Rotation Probe for Static Structural and Transient
Structural analyses.
Electric Probe. Joule Heat is now an available probe type for electric-based analyses.
Thermal Contact Results. The Contact Tool is now supported for Thermal analyses.
Chapter 2: Mechanical APDL Release Notes

Release 17.2 of the Mechanical APDL application offers most of the capabilities from prior releases plus
many new features and enhancements. Areas where you will find changes include the following:
Windows 10 Issues Resolved (p. 7)
CIRCU125 Element Re-documented (p. 7)
2.1. Windows 10 Issues Resolved

All known issues involving Mechanical APDL interaction with Microsoft Windows 10 have been resolved.
2.2. CIRCU125 Element Re-documented

Documentation for the CIRCU125 element had been removed at Release 17.0, along with documentation
for other, related electromagnetics capabilities. However, since CIRCU125 has independent functionality
as a diode element for circuit simulation, it has been added back to the product documentation.
Chapter 3: Autodyn Release Notes

The ANSYS Autodyn product comprises all of the following explicit solvers: FE (Lagrange), Euler, FCT,
ALE, and SPH, and various means to couple them together. All are integrated into the Autodyn Component system, while the FE (Lagrange) and Eulerincluding Euler-Lagrange couplingare also integrated into the Explicit Dynamics Analysis system (see Explicit Dynamics Enhancements (p. 5)). Both
systems are part of the Autodyn product.
3.1. Incompatibilities and Changes in Product Behavior from Previous Releases
3.2. Autodyn Component System Issues Resolved
3.1. Incompatibilities and Changes in Product Behavior from Previous

Releases
Release 17.2 includes the following product behaviors that differ from previous releases.
Parallel solution on clusters using the Windows HPC Jobscheduler is no longer officially supported due to
unstable behavior.
3.2. Autodyn Component System Issues Resolved

The following enhancement is available at Release 17.2:
Multiple Autodyn component systems can be opened at the same time now, provided enough licenses are
available.
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Chapter 4: Aqwa Release Notes

This release of the Aqwa related products contains all capabilities from previous releases plus many
new features and enhancements. The following enhancements are available in release 17.2. Refer to
the product specific documentation for full details of the new features.
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Chapter 5: ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP)

The following enhancements are available in release 17.2. Refer to the product specific documentation
for full details of the new features. Notes on features incorporated into the 16.1 and 16.2 releases are
also included here for users upgrading between major releases.
5.1. New Features in ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) 17.2
5.3. Supported Platforms for ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) 17.2
5.4. Known Incompatibilities

The following features were added to ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) for the 17.2 release:
5.1.1. Improved Postprocessing for Solids
5.1.2. Section Cut
5.1.3. Butt Joint Sequence
5.1.4. Enhanced BECAS Interface
5.1.5. Improved CSV Interface for Results Export
5.1.1. Improved Postprocessing for Solids

Failure criteria for sandwich structures in solid elements have been refactored. Criteria are now evaluated
independently of whether the results are shown on solid or shell elements. Additionally, accuracy in
evaluating failure criteria has been improved. For more information, see Postprocessing of a Composite
Solid Model.
5.1.2. Section Cut

A new visualization method for section cuts allows you to generate surface meshes instead of line
(wireframe) plots. For more information, see Section Cuts.
5.1.3. Butt Joint Sequence

The new Butt Joint Sequence entity allows you to define butt joints between plies. This information is
helpful in the generation of section cuts, and allows you to generate more precise surface meshes for
BECAS. For more information, see Butt Joint Sequence.
5.1.4. Enhanced BECAS Interface

The BECAS interface can now automatically deal with thick laminates and T-joints. The result is a more
precise representation of the laminate. For more information, see BECAS.
5.1.5. Improved CSV Interface for Results Export

The CSV export interface for solution objects now supports solid elements. Additionally, performance
has been improved during CSV export. For more information, see Solution Object.
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ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP)

The following features were added to ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) for the 17.1 release:
5.2.1. Performance Improvements
5.2.2. Variable Offset Selection Rule
5.2.3. Enhancements to Python User Interface
5.2.4. CAD Geometry Handling
5.2.5. Unified Mechanical Postprocessing Engine
5.2.6.Text Labels for User-Defined Plots
5.2.1. Performance Improvements

For Release 17.1, there has been an emphasis on improvements in performance. The modeling ply update
has been reworked. The handling of the Fabric option Ignore for Postprocessing has been adapted
as well. Both changes yield significant reductions in update time for large models.
5.2.2. Variable Offset Selection Rule

The Variable Offset Selection Rule has been fully incorporated into ACP. Previously this selection rule
was available as an ACP add-on. This selection rule is an advance version of the Tube Selection Rule,
combined with Ply Tapering. The Variable Offset Selection Rule allows you to select elements at varying
offsets from an Edge Set. If the same selection rule is applied to multiple Modeling Plies, a tapering can
also be defined. The offsets are defined using Look-up Tables and can be measured directly or along a
curvature.
5.2.3. Enhancements to Python User Interface

The access to model information through the Python user interface has been extended. The mesh_query
function now allows you to directly and quickly access model information such as elemental area,
volume, or weight.
5.2.4. CAD Geometry Handling

CAD Geometries which are imported directly into ACP are transferred to the Workbench Project file
structure. This removes any absolute file paths and makes sharing of ACP projects more stable. For
more information, see CAD Geometries.
5.2.5. Unified Mechanical Postprocessing Engine

Composite failure postprocessing is now available in Mechanical as well as ACP-Post. For more information, see Composite Failure Tool.
5.2.6. Text Labels for User-Defined Plots

The functionality of the User-Defined Plots has been extended so that user-defined text labels can be
presented on each element. The feature behaves in the same way as text labels for failure plots.
5.3. Supported Platforms for ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) 17.2

Platform/OS levels that are supported in the current release are posted on the ANSYS website.
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Known Incompatibilities
5.4. Known Incompatibilities

There are no known incompatibilities with previous releases for Release 17.2.
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Part II: ANSYS Fluids Products

Release notes are available for the following ANSYS Fluids products:
Fluent (p. 19)
CFX (p. 23)
TurboGrid (p. 25)
ANSYS BladeModeler (p. 27)
CFD-Post (p. 29)
Polyflow (p. 31)
Forte (p. 33)
ANSYS Chemkin (p. 35)
Chapter 1: Fluent Release Notes

The following sections contain release information for ANSYS Fluent 17.2.
1.1. New Features in ANSYS Fluent 17.2
1.2. Supported Platforms for ANSYS Fluent 17.2
1.3. New Limitations in ANSYS Fluent 17.2
1.4. Resolved Issues and Limitations
1.5. Updates Affecting Code Behavior
1.1. New Features in ANSYS Fluent 17.2

New features available in ANSYS Fluent 17.2 are listed below. Where appropriate, references to the relevant section in the User's Guide are provided.
User Interface
You can use the mouse scroll-wheel to zoom in / out in the graphics window.
Data Import and Export
It is now possible to export surface data to the RadTherm format while running Fluent in parallel.
Solver-Meshing
For rigid body motion in transient dynamic mesh simulations, it is now possible in certain cases
to define a set of properties for the six degree of freedom (six DOF) solver through the Six DOF
Properties dialog box, instead of having to create a user-defined function (UDF). This simplifies
the process, especially for one degree of freedom translations or rotations. For details, see Setting
Rigid Body Motion Attributes for the Six DOF Solver and Rigid Body Motion.
Overset meshes are now compatible with hybrid initialization. Note that if you plan to take advantage of this compatibility, it is recommended that you first enable the least squares interpolation method using the following Scheme command, as this method produces a better hybrid
initialized velocity field compared to the default interpolation method: (rpsetvar
'ost/interpolation-method 1).
Models
Combustion and Species Transport
For the Relaxation to Chemical Equilibrium model, you can now use a user-defined function to specify
the characteristic time at each cell. (DEFINE_RELAX_TO_EQUILIBRIUM)
Add-Ons
For the PEMFC model, the enhancements include:
the ability to include a gas channel dynamic head in the liquid water flux calculations at GDL/Channel
interface
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Fluent
the ability to specify Leverett function coefficients
the ability to model the diffusivity of water content using either Wu et al. or Wang and Wang formulation
General
ANSYS ACT is now available in Fluent. See Customizing Fluent in the Fluent User's Guide for additional
information.
Support for the Fluent License Manager has been extended to version 17.2, though it will not be supported in version 18.0 and later releases. The purpose of this extension is to provide time for those still
using it to migrate and upgrade to the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager.
1.2. Supported Platforms for ANSYS Fluent 17.2

Information about past, present, and future operating system and platform support is viewable via the
ANSYS website.
1.3. New Limitations in ANSYS Fluent 17.2

The following is a list of new or recently discovered limitations known to exist in ANSYS Fluent 17.2.
Where possible, suggested workarounds are provided.
Models
For the evaporating species, the following limitations exist for definitions of Specific Heat, Viscosity and
Thermal Conductivity material properties when the Temperature Averaging Coefficient or the Composition Averaging Coefficient is defined with a constant value other than 1 for a Droplet particle
or Multicomponent particle material:
The user-defined method is not supported and should not be used.
For the non- and partially- premixed models, the evaporating species properties are not saved
with the case file and must be re-entered after the case file is read.
Solver-Numerics
Beginning in version 17.0, the warped-face gradient correction (WFGC) is not supported with shell
conduction if the ability to define multi-layer shells has been disabled through the define/models/shell-conduction/multi-layer-shell text command.
For a complete list of known limitations, including those that exist from previous releases, refer to Known
Limitations in ANSYS Fluent 17.2 in the Fluent Getting Started Guide.

Release 17.2 addresses many issues and limitations that have existed in previous releases of ANSYS
Fluent, including the following:
Adjoint Add-on Module
Starting in version 17.0, mass-flow inlets and pressure inlets are now supported with the adjoint
solver.
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Updates Affecting Code Behavior
1.5. Updates Affecting Code Behavior

This section contains a comprehensive list of the code changes implemented in ANSYS Fluent 17.2 that
may affect the output generated by the previous release.
Note
Text that is in bold font represents key words that may facilitate your search for the
changes in code behavior.
Solver-Numerics
Corrections have been made to ensure accurate results when the warped-face gradient correction
(WFGC) is used in a case with shell conduction; this may result in changes compared to previous
versions. Note that as described previously, this combination of settings is only supported if the
ability to define multi-layer shells has not been disabled through the define/models/shellconduction/multi-layer-shell text command.
Solver-Meshing
The default partitioning method for overset meshing in parallel has been changed to Metis. This
matches the default automatic partitioning method for Fluent generally, so you no longer have
to manually reset the automatic partitioning method before reading in the mesh for an overset
case in order to avoid repartitioning during initialization.
A fix has been introduced to ensure that dynamic mesh zones with rigid body motion move as
intended when the relative motion is set to zero.
Zone motion previews (for rigid body or user-defined motion) have been corrected.
For six degrees of freedom (DOF) solver cases that constrain angular motion and use the default
second-order solver, a fix has been introduced to ensure that the angular velocity is calculated
correctly.
Turbulence
Changes have been made so that the Stress-Based Eddy Simulation (SBES) model now works
correctly when the Dynamic Smagorinsky model is selected for the LES mode. Previously, the
solver delivered zero LES subgrid eddy viscosity in the LES mode of SBES.
Heat Transfer
A fix has been introduced to ensure that the macro-level heat rejection updates correctly when
the minimum heat capacity rate is zero.
When the shell conduction model is enabled for internal coupled wall zones with multiple layers
and each layer has a different material specified, more accurate results may be produced compared
to previous releases.
Reacting Flow
A correction has been made to the calculation of the chemical reaction heat source. This correction
may result in improved solutions for multiphase simulations compared to version 15.0 or later.
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Discrete Phase Model
For two-way coupled unsteady particle tracking without turbulent dispersion, a fix has been introduced
to ensure that initial particle states are not overwritten during postprocessing. For such situations, even
if time steps are calculated after graphical postprocessing or file export of unsteady particles has been
done, a DPM summary will now report correct Initial and Change data, and some particle laws (for
example, for wet combusting particles) will produce more adequate results.
Eulerian Multiphase Models
A fix has been introduced for Multiphase cases using the User-Defined Real Gas model for one of the
phases, so that the molecular weight of the other phases is no longer overwritten by that defined in
the UDRGM functions. As a result of the fix, the ideal-gas law now correctly computes the density of
any phase other than the real-gas.
A fix has been introduced to the Vant Hoff correlation for the Henrys law coefficients. This will result
in improved solution for multiphase flow simulations with the species mass transfer model compared
to the previous releases.
Fluent in Workbench
When you import a case and data file, there is an additional prompt that asks if you would like to immediately generate an interpolation (.ip) file.
Add-Ons
For the Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) add-on module, treatment of boundary conditions for the potential method has been improved to produce more accurate results compared with the previous releases..
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Chapter 2: CFX Release Notes

The following sections contain release information for Release 17.2 of ANSYS CFX.
2.1. Supported Platforms
2.2. New Features and Enhancements
2.3. Incompatibilities


This section lists features and enhancements that are new in Release 17.2 of ANSYS CFX.
There is improved modeling for high-lift devices. For details, see "High Lift Modification" in Turbulence:
Option in the CFX-Pre User's Guide.
When importing ANSYS Meshing files (.cmdb or .dsdb) into ANSYS CFX-Pre, there is a new option to
handle how contacts are read. For details, see the description of the Read Method in Contact Detection
Settings in the CFX-Pre User's Guide.
To improve reliability, the options -affwidth=numa -affcycle=socket have been removed from
all Platform MPI start methods. This may have a performance impact. For details, see section "Using IBM
Platform MPI (Message Passing Interface Library)" in Configuring High Performance Computing Guide.
2.3. Incompatibilities
This section describes the operational changes, the procedural changes (actions that have to be done
differently in this release to get an outcome available in Release 17.1), and the support changes (functionality that is no longer supported) in Release 17.2 of ANSYS CFX.
The CFX-Solver executable names have changed. The default executable is no longer named differently for
each MPI implementation (for example, solver-impi.exe, solver-pcmpi.exe). Instead, a single
executable (solver-mpi.exe) is used with all supported MPI implementations.
An implication of this is that, for Windows systems, any User Fortran shared libraries must be rebuilt
using the cfx5mkext utility.
One benefit of this change is that, on Windows, a single User Fortran shared library can be used with
all supported MPI implementations. It is no longer necessary to modify cfx5mkext.ccl and compile
different User Fortran shared libraries for different MPI implementations.
On Linux systems, User Fortran is unaffected by these changes.
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This section lists issues and limitations that have existed in previous releases, but that have been resolved
and removed in Release 17.2 of ANSYS CFX.
A bug that could lead to wrong monitor values for Reynolds stress components has been fixed.
A bug that could lead to wrong boundary heat fluxes at walls with specified mass fraction sources has been
fixed.
A contact resistance interface model for the solid part of a porous solid interface is now included.
The combination of the SSG Reynolds Stress model with an Opening boundary condition and the Flamelet/BVM model is now supported.
The normalization of residuals for the fluid energy equation has been fixed for cases including conjugate
heat transfer with solids.
Monitor Surfaces can now be constructed using multiple User Surface locations.
Data on Monitor Surfaces is now displayed with the correct ranges in CFD-Post.
A bug causing CEL callback functions to be evaluated in the wrong order has been fixed. This bug caused
the CFX-Solver to be interrupted on the wrong time step.
The Monitor Surface output is no longer disrupted by setting the Output Frequency option to None (which
prevents results files from being written).
Monitor Surface data is now written to .smn files in steady-state, and the data retention CCL controls now
distinguish between these files and scheduled backup results.
Intermediate results files should now be deleted (if requested) even if they were temporarily locked by
postprocessing actions from CFD-Post.
Combining momentum sources, buoyancy forces and second order Rhie-Chow is now supported.
Exporting data in CGNS format now works with the large problem options.
All variables scheduled to be written from Monitor Surfaces now appear in the variables list in CFD-Post.
Solution restart interpolation has been improved for cases involving wall films.
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Chapter 3: TurboGrid Release Notes

The following sections contain release information for Release 17.2 of ANSYS TurboGrid.


This section lists features and enhancements that are new in Release 17.2 of ANSYS TurboGrid.
TurboGrid supports Flank Milled blades made in BladeGen.
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Chapter 4: BladeModeler Release Notes

The following sections contain release information for Release 17.2 of BladeGen and BladeEditor.
4.2. BladeGen
4.3. BladeEditor

4.2. BladeGen
4.2.1. New Features and Enhancements
This section lists features and enhancements that are new in Release 17.2 of ANSYS BladeGen.
There is support for making Flank Milled blades. For details, see Flank Milled Blades in the TurboSystem
User's Guide.
4.3. BladeEditor
This section lists features and enhancements that are new in Release 17.2 of ANSYS BladeEditor.
There is support for making Flank Milled blades. For details, see Flank Milled Blades in the TurboSystem
User's Guide. Note that blades made natively in BladeEditor and blades loaded from BladeGen into
BladeEditor can be exported to TurboGrid using the ExportPoints feature. However, in this case the
geometry in TurboGrid is only an approximation. To pass a more accurate representation of a Flank
Milled blade to TurboGrid, create the blade in BladeGen, then pass the geometry directly to TurboGrid.
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Chapter 5: CFD-Post Release Notes

The following sections contain release information for Release 17.2 of ANSYS CFD-Post.
Note
If CFD-Post crashes while creating graphics on a machine with NVIDIA graphics hardware,
try upgrading your graphics driver or set environment variable VIEWER_FACE_LIST to
999.


This section lists features and enhancements that are new in Release 17.2 of ANSYS CFD-Post.
You can now monitor selected variables on monitor surface locations during a solver run in ANSYS CFDPost. For details, see CFD-Post Monitor Menu in the CFD-Post User's Guide.
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Chapter 6: Polyflow Release Notes

The following sections contain release information for ANSYS Polyflow 17.2.
6.1. New Features
6.3. New Limitations in ANSYS Polyflow 17.2
6.4. Past Versions of ANSYS Polyflow Release Notes
6.1. New Features

ANSYS Polyflow 17.2 has no new features or enhancements.

Information about past, present, and future operating system and platform support is viewable via the
ANSYS website.
6.3. New Limitations in ANSYS Polyflow 17.2

There are no new limitations to note for ANSYS Polyflow 17.2. For limitations that are present in ANSYS
Polyflow 17.2 but that were discovered during previous releases, see Known Limitations in ANSYS
Polyflow 17.2 in the Polyflow User's Guide.
6.4. Past Versions of ANSYS Polyflow Release Notes

Previous versions of the ANSYS Polyflow Release Notes are installed as PDFs with the product.
To access these PDFs, point your web browser to
For Windows:
path \ANSYS Inc\v172\polyflow\polyflow17.2.x\help\index.htm
For Linux:
path \ansys_inc\v172\polyflow\polyflow17.2.x\help\index.htm
where path is the directory where you installed ANSYS Polyflow and x represents the appropriate
number for the release (for example, 0 for polyflow17.2.0).
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Chapter 7: Forte Release Notes

The following sections contain release information for Release 17.2 of Forte.
7.1. New Features and Enhancements since 17.1
7.2. Resolved Issues since Forte 17.1
7.1. New Features and Enhancements since 17.1

Simulation Interface
Added an auto-map button to the Initialization import panel, which automates variable mapping,
including variable units, when importing from a Forte *.ftres file. [Legacy Defect #3345]
For Inlet and Outlet boundary conditions, new options are available to specify whether the inlet/outlet
variable is a total or static value, e.g., total pressure vs. static pressure.
Improved speed in populating table entries during import from a file for large tables, such as for profiles
or point-cloud tables, for example. [Legacy Defect #3570]
Added the option to automatically define a set of Monitored points corresponding to the engine cylinder
liner surface or other surface swept by a moving boundary, for use in exporting heat-transfer information
that may be employed in conjugate heat-transfer (CHT) simulations.
For conjugate heat-transfer (CHT) simulations, made the following improvements:
Provided a tolerance for the monitors on/near a wall.
Output the effective averaging duration that a probe is active.
Improved the near-wall heat flux calculation.
Engineering Models and Computation
Added information about the fuel lower heating value (LHV) to engine summary data in the FORTE.log
file.
Added a control to turn on/off the G-equation model for controlling flame propagation.
7.2. Resolved Issues since Forte 17.1

Job Submission, Monitoring and Running Options
Modified the method of assigning mpivars and preloading Intel MPI libraries to address issues when
running multi-node on certain Linux cluster configurations. [DE124589]
Fixed an access violation error when wall-sampling probes are used. [DE126348]
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Fixed error that occurred when the flame library name was selected as a parameter-study variable.
[DE127968]

Information about present and future operating system and platform support is viewable via the ANSYS
website.
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Chapter 8: Chemkin Release Notes

The following sections contain release information for Release 17.2 of Chemkin:
8.1. New Features and Enhancements Added since 17.1
8.2. Resolved Issues since 17.1
8.1. New Features and Enhancements Added since 17.1

Chemkin-Pro
Added a new library allowing linking between GT-Power and Chemkin-Pro, and provided a tutorial to
demonstrate its use (see Tutorials Manual).
Behavior with ANSYS Fluent for flamelet data sharing is now consistent: In particular:
The strain rate output is now the global strain rate (previously it was one-half of the value).
Additional data of stoichiometric mixture fraction and stoichiometric scalar dissipation rate (based
on Z profile) are written.
Chemkin-Pro enforces that mass fractions output to the flamelet library are non-negative values
between zero and one and that the sum of all species fractions sum to 1.0.
Removed the legacy IDL-based Graphical Post-processor option, due to dependencies on unsupported
3rd-party libraries. The Chemkin Visualizer will continue to be supported and enhanced as required.
Model Fuels Library
The MFL user guide / report is included in the installation.
The thermodynamic data included for pre-reduced chemistry sets has been modified to only tag species
as fuel that were part of the fuel surrogate defined for the pre-reduced mechanisms, to avoid confusion
when using with the Surrogate Blend Optimizer. [DE127649]
8.2. Resolved Issues since 17.1

This section lists issues and limitations that have exisited in previous releases, but that have been resolved
and removed in Release 17.2.
Chemkin-Pro
Fixed an issue causing inconsistent results when creating X-Y plots from variables that are part of a
plot-set other than the first-selected plot set. [DE126147]
Fixed an issue with the Visualizer that prevented selection of a data set that has a duplicate name with
another set. [129327]
Energico
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Resolved an indexing error when loading Fluent case/data files that have multiple domains. [DE129415]
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Part III: ANSYS Electronics Products

Release notes are available for the following ANSYS Electronics products:
Icepak (p. 39)
Chapter 1: Icepak Release Notes

Release 17.2 of the ANSYS Icepak application offers most of the capabilities from previous releases plus
new features and enhancements.
Introduction (p. 39)
New and Modified Features in ANSYS Icepak 17.2 (p. 39)
Resolved Issues and Limitations in ANSYS Icepak 17.2 (p. 39)
1.1. Introduction
ANSYS Icepak 17.2 is a release of ANSYS Icepak that has new features and resolved issues and limitations.
1.2. New and Modified Features in ANSYS Icepak 17.2

Model Import/Export
A Resolution field was added to the Import CTM profile files panel that allows you to input a factor by
which to multiply the size of the smallest sources in the powermap, which is helpful when using a high
Density number. See Section Apache RedHawk Chip Thermal Model (CTM) Powermap Files of the Users
Guide.
Icepak is able to import and export models in the Electronics Cooling XML format. See Section Importing
Electronics Cooling XML Files into ANSYS Icepak of the Users Guide.
Enhancements to gridcut were made to more accurately reflect the conductivity based on changes to
the via parameters.
Model Building
The Surface probe feature is able to display values for pre-solve property value-shaded objects when using
the Show object by property and Display powermap property functions.
For LED powered objects, efficiency is now able to be set as temperature-dependent.
Right-click options were added to the Model manager and Model Display context menus that open the
Volumetric heat losses and Surface heat losses panels displaying only the objects selected in the Model
manager or Model Display window.
1.3. Resolved Issues and Limitations in ANSYS Icepak 17.2

Import/Export
In the Board layer and via information panel, effects of changing the Via diameter is unclear as the changes
are not reflected in the trace geometry nor metal fraction. (124952)
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When importing a package with dies attached to the bottom layer, the layer is identified as a diestack
layer and is not imported correctly. (125070)
When importing a flip-chip package (.mcm file), if the die name contains an underscore character, an error
message is displayed and the package is not imported correctly. (125261)
For a specific model, an imported trace displays the incorrect metal fractions at high grid densities. (125810)
For a solid copper region, imported copper layers display a metal fraction of 0.997 rather than 1.0. (125906)
While importing a specific sip file in a block, the bottom two layers are not imported. (127400)
For a specific model, EM heat losses imported from HFSS are not mapped correctly in Icepak. (127656)
Model Building
Metal fraction calculations for certain imported ECAD at high grid density can require an extended period
of time and be resource intensive depending on the computer hardware. (127464)
When constructing a Krylov ROM on the Linux platform, a stack trace error occurs. (127376)
When constructing a Krylov ROM on the Windows platform, a stack trace error occurs. (129919)
When you clear ECAD from an object, the associated files are not removed from the project folder. (129238)
Object Parameters
Edit of geometric properties when multiple objects are selected does not work. (128826)
Solution
For a specific model with an exhaust fan object, an error occurs when performing a full restart solution.
(129721)
For a PCB conduction simulation with holes, models generated by SIwave do not run in parallel setting.
(128201)
Parametric Trials
When using a variable to deactivate an object, in the parametric panel the variable loses its connection
to the object when the object becomes inactive. (126857)
Parametric variables are out of order and not reported correctly on the parametric trials panel. (127240)
Reports
Values in a summary report for a specific case do not match those on the parametric trials panel. (127241)
After Remote Solve Manager data is sent to Icepak, post-processing reports must be run if selected.
(127931)
When using the Remote Solve Manager, Icepak does not write the uns_in file correctly. (130791)
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Part IV: ANSYS Geometry & Mesh Prep Products

Release notes are available for the following ANSYS Geometry & Mesh Prep products:
DesignModeler (p. 43)
SpaceClaim (p. 45)
CAD Integration (p. 47)
Meshing (p. 49)
IC Engine (p. 51)
ICEM CFD (p. 53)
Fluent Meshing (p. 55)
Chapter 1: Geometry Release Notes

This section summarizes the new features in DesignModeler Release 17.2:
Reader Mode into SpaceClaim
It is now possible to read DesignModeler agdb files into SpaceClaim Direct Modeler without needing
a DesignModleler license. By default, DesignModeler will check out its own license to read the file, but
if no license is available it can still read the model data without the license in most cases. This is only
applicable when importing DesignModeler geometry into SpaceClaim.
CAD Parameter Promotion
CAD parameters imported via the CAD plug-ins into DesignModeler can now be promoted to design
parameters in the project schematic, regardless of whether their parameter names are unique. Previous
versions of DesignModeler allowed promotion of uniquely named parameters only.
For more information, see Menus> File Menu> Attach to Active CAD Geometry> Attach Properties>
Parameter Key Property in the DesignModeler User's Guide.
Improved Parameter Manager Evaluations
DesignModeler's parameter manager has been improved such that sketch dimension assignments belonging to the same plane are now evaluated together, rather than independently as was done in prior
releases. This improves the robustness for design parameter updates involving sketch dimensions.
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Chapter 2: SpaceClaim
For detailed information specific to SpaceClaim 2016, see the most-recent release notes on the ANSYS
Customer Portal (support.ansys.com) at Knowledge Resources> Online Documentation> Geometry.
To view previous release notes, select applicable release under the Previous Releases menu at Knowledge
Resources> Online Documentation. Alternatively, see Downloads> Previous Releases> ANSYS Documentation and Input Files to select the applicable Release Documentation file.
This section summarizes the new features in SpaceClaim Direct Modeler Release 17.2:
ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct Modeler
See the Installation section of this document for information specific to the ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct
Modeler product.
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Chapter 3: CAD
Note
Support for the Plug-in Creo Parametrics Wildfire 5.0 version is expected to be discontinued
after the release of ANSYS 17.x.
This section summarizes the new features in CAD Integration Release 17.2:
Tabular Naterial Data
When importing tabular data for a material property, the firstdata point is now used to complete the
material definition.
For more information, see File Format Support> NX> NX Associative Geometry Interface.
Geometry Interface Updates for New CAD Releases
Geometry interfaces are updated to support new CAD release including:
CATIA V5 V5-6R2016 (Reader)
AutoCAD 2016 (Plug-in)
AutoCAD 2017 (Plug-in)
CATIA V5 CADNexus CAPRI CAE Gateway V3.22.0 (Plug-in)
Inventor 2017 (Plug-in)
For detailed version support information, see CAD Integration> Geometry Interface Support in the CAD
Integration section of the ANSYS Help.
Information about past, present and future CAD, operating system and platform support is viewable
via the ANSYS, Inc. website (Support> Platform Support).
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Chapter 4: Meshing Application Release Notes

This release of the Meshing application contains many new features and enhancements. Areas where
you will find changes and new capabilities include the following:
4.1. Changes in Product Behavior from Previous Releases
4.2. Match Control Enhancements
4.3. Local Sizing Control Enhancements
4.4. New Target Mesh Metric
Many of the enhancements detailed in the Mechanical Application Release Notes (p. 3) are relevant
to the Meshing application. In particular, the following sections describe enhancements that can also
affect Meshing:
General Enhancements (p. 3)
Geometry Enhancements (p. 4)
Contact and Connection Enhancements (p. 4)

The assembly meshing methods CutCell and Tetrahedrons now use the latest Fluent Meshing technology.
This may result in changes from previous meshing results and quality.
Note
The legacy CutCell and Tetrahedrons methods are accessible via the Beta flag for Release
17.2 and are planned to be discontinued by Release 18.0.
If you resume a legacy database into Release 17.2, meshing size controls are resumed with new local size
functions and local defeature sizes as follows:
If the global size function is set to Curvature, Curvature and Proximity, or Proximity, and the local size
control's Behavior option is set to Soft, the local size function is set to Curvature when the model is resumed.
If the global size function is set to Curvature, Curvature and Proximity, or Proximity, and the local size
control's Behavior option is set to Hard, the local size function is set to Uniform with Behavior set to
Hard when the model is resumed.
If the global size function is set to Uniform, the local size function is set to Uniform when the model is
resumed.
If the global size function is set to Adaptive, local size functions are not applicable.
The local defeature size is set to 0 or default with the default value in parentheses when the model is resumed. The default value is inherited from the smaller of these two settings:
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One-half of the smallest local size. Depending on the size function type, this may be the curvature
minimum size (Local Min Size), proximity minimum size (Proximity Min Size), or Element Size.
Global defeature size.
4.2. Match Control Enhancements

The following enhancements have been made to the Match Control at Release 17.2:
Match Controls now support multiple source and target faces and named selections.
When setting a Match Control, you can select more than one face or edge to be the high or low
geometry. You can also now set the high and low geometries by selecting a named selection.
All Match Control error and informational messages are now displayed only when you generate the mesh.
Previously, some errors were reported when defining the control.
If a Match Controls fails due to one face having more vertices than the other, the error message now indicates
the problematic vertices.
4.3. Local Sizing Control Enhancements

The following enhancements have been made to the Local Sizing Control at Release 17.2:
Local proximity has been added to the Local Sizing Control.
The Advanced group of options has been added to the Details view to enable you to set the following options
for locally-scoped entities:
The Size Function option is now available for body, face, and edge size controls.
You can define a local uniform, curvature, proximity, or proximity and curvature size function to
set the sizing for a locally-scoped entity.
The Defeature Size option is now available for body and face size controls.
4.4. New Target Mesh Metric

The following target mesh metric has been added for Release 17.2:
The new Target Skewness for CFD metric enables you to set the target skewness that you would like the
mesh to satisfy. The mesher will attempt to improve the skewness to meet the target skewness specified.
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Chapter 5: IC Engine Release Notes

Release 17.2 of IC Engine has no new features or enhancements.
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Chapter 6: ICEM CFD Release Notes

ICEM CFD Release 17.2 development efforts included enhancement of ANSYS ICEM CFD as a standalone
application as well as continued development of its underlying technology exposed within other ANSYS
applications such as Workbench Meshing.
Topics include:
6.1. Highlights of ANSYS ICEM CFD 17.2
6.2. Documentation
6.1. Highlights of ANSYS ICEM CFD 17.2

ANSYS ICEM CFD 17.2 includes new features and improvements in the following areas:
6.1.1. Editing blocks
6.1.2. Improved replay handling
6.1.1. Editing blocks

New options are available for splitting blocks:
Split Block Imprint Face and Split Block Split Free Block By imprint now allow you to choose a
direction for the imprint operation.
Split Free Block By Imprint and Split Free Block Blend across loops have improved usability where
blocks will be made swept or mapped based on whether the faces are mapped or free; and can accommodate
sweeping or mapped meshing.
Create Blocks From Vertices/Faces 3D Blocks has improved usability for Mapped and Swept block
types. Blocks can be created from vertices, from edges or from faces and can be used to carve out regions
of free 3D blocks, or to create new material.
6.1.2. Improved replay handling

Usability improvements have been made to Replay Control:
The Do one / Do all / Do range controls remain active when Replay Control is in edit mode.
Yellow highlighting in the Replay Control window indicates the current line being edited.
You can RMB in the Replay Control window and select Edit Filter to add to, or remove from, the list of
commands deleted by Clean.
6.2. Documentation
All documentation for ANSYS ICEM CFD Release 17.2 is accessible using the Help menu.
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6.2.1. Tutorials
To access tutorials and their input files on the ANSYS Customer Portal, go to http://support.ansys.com/
training. The Customer Portal also contains links for training, for hard copies of the Tutorial manual, or
for PDF format copies of the tutorials.
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Chapter 7: Fluent Meshing Release Notes

The following sections contain release information for ANSYS Fluent Meshing Release 17.2:
7.2. New Features

Face zones which are not connected to volume mesh (geometry objects or unreferenced zones in case of
mesh object-based workflow) will be transferred as imported surfaces when the volume mesh is transferred
from meshing to solution mode. Also, any unmeshed face zones connected to volume mesh (mesh object
with some regions filled or unreferenced zones), will be disconnected and transferred as imported surfaces
in solution mode.
The display of the cut edges of the model exposed by the clipping plane is now disabled by default. Use
the Show Cut Edges option in the Clipping Planes group in the ribbon to display the cut edges (release
17.0 behavior).
The disabling of the cut plane edges will improve graphics performance when clipping planes are
combined with display bounds for cell zones.
The Select Visible Entities option for box and polygon selection is now disabled by default.
The Remesh and Separate options for the patching tools are now enabled by default. Hence, when the
patching tools are used, by default, the new faces will be remeshed and added to a new face zone.
Note
Reading a mesh file from previous releases will retain the previously saved settings for
these options.
The Delete operation (shortcut Ctrl+W) cannot be performed repeatedly using the Ctrl+right-mousebutton shortcut.
7.2. New Features

The new features available in the meshing mode in Fluent include enhancements to many existing
features and improved robustness through defect fixes.
Scripting Improvements
New utility functions are available for:
Obtaining zone, object, region and face zone label lists
Obtaining mesh setup information
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Reporting mesh quality, statistics, face/cell distribution
Diagnostic tools for face connectivity and quality issues
Performance and Feature Enhancements
The following enhancements have been made:
You can now use the mouse scroll-wheel to zoom in/out in the graphics window, by default. This can
be used in combination with the box zoom to examine the mesh.
The wrapping process has been improved, with speedup in operations such as feature imprinting,
remeshing, and fixing of self-intersecting faces.
The tetrahedral meshing process has been improved, resulting in an overall speedup.
Volume meshing for Windows has been improved, resulting in speedup.
Adaptive edge extraction has been improved to avoid disconnected edges after CAD import. This also
results in better remeshing.
Remeshing has been improved to provide correct topology and better feature capture and quality.
Customizing Fluent with ANSYS ACT
ANSYS ACT functionality is available for release 17.2. The ACT Start Page provides an access point for
ANSYS ACT functionality. From this page, you can access tools that can be used in the development and
execution of extensions.
For details, see Customizing Fluent.
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Part V: ANSYS Simulation Products

Release notes are available for the following ANSYS Simulation products:
Workbench (p. 59)
ANSYS Customization Toolkit (ACT) (p. 63)
RSM (p. 67)
EKM (p. 69)
DesignXplorer (p. 71)
Chapter 1: Workbench
The ANSYS Workbench platform offers many new features and enhancements. Areas where you will
find changes and new capabilities include the following:
1.1. ANSYS Workbench
1.2. External Connection
1.3. Engineering Data Workspace
1.4. External Data
1.5. FE Modeler
1.6. System Coupling
1.7.TurboSystem Release Notes
1.1. ANSYS Workbench

Enhancements have been made to the following areas:
1.1.1. ANSYS Workbench - EKM Portal Enhancements
1.1.2. ANSYS Workbench Enhancements
1.1.1. ANSYS Workbench - EKM Portal Enhancements

Job Submission from Workbench to EKM
A new Submit to Portal option enables you to submit solutions and updates from Workbench to an
EKM Portal. See Submitting Jobs to an EKM Portal in the Workbench User's Guide.
Jobs submitted to an EKM Portal can be monitored using the EKM web application or the Workbench
Job Monitor.
1.1.2. ANSYS Workbench Enhancements

Performing Updates on Multiple Systems
You can update multiple systems by Ctrl-clicking those systems and selecting Update from the context
menu.
Clarification of Export to CSV Options

To clarify data export functionality, the previous Export Data as CSV context option has been relabeled
Export Table Data as CSV for tables and Export Chart Data as CSV for charts.
Excel 2016 Support for the Excel Component

Microsoft Office Excel 2016 is now supported by the Microsoft Office Excel component system in ANSYS
Workbench. See Microsoft Office Excel in the Workbench User's Guide.
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Default Geometry Editor

The default geometry editor is now SpaceClaim Direct Modeler. You can change this behavior via the
Preferred Geometry Editor preference in the Workbench Options dialog.
For more information, see Configuring ANSYS Workbench> Setting ANSYS Workbench Options> Geometry
Import in the Workbench User's Guide.
Mechanical Model Cell Data Connection

Geometry cells in the project schematic can now receive input data from upstream Model cells. The
transferred data is in the form of a PMDB file and may be further edited in DesignModeler or SpaceClaim
Direct Modeler.
For more information, see Project Schematic Operations> DesignModeler Application Behavior in Project
Schematic> Data Sharing and Data Transfer in the DesignModeler User's Guide.
1.2. External Connection

No enhancements have been made to the External Connection add-in.
1.3. Engineering Data Workspace

No new Engineering Data enhancements have been made for ANSYS Workbench 17.2.
1.4. External Data

No enhancements have been made to the External Data add-in.
1.5. FE Modeler
Release 17.2 for FE Modeler has no new features or enhancements.
1.6. System Coupling

No enhancements have been made to System Coupling.
1.7. TurboSystem Release Notes

TurboSystem is a set of software applications and software features that help you to perform turbomachinery analyses in ANSYS Workbench. For details, see Introduction in the TurboSystem User's Guide.
These release notes cover:
Turbo Setup
Vista AFD, Vista CCD, Vista CPD and Vista RTD
Vista TF
These release notes do not cover:
ANSYS BladeModeler (see BladeModeler Release Notes)
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TurboSystem Release Notes

TurboGrid (see TurboGrid Release Notes)
CFX-Pre (see CFX Release Notes)
CFD-Post (see CFD-Post Release Notes)
Note
After reviewing the TurboSystem release notes, you are encouraged to see Usage Notes,
which describes some known TurboSystem workflow issues and recommended practices for
overcoming these issues.
1.7.1. Supported Platforms


This section lists features and enhancements that are new in Release 17.2 of TurboSystem.
There is a new Performance Map component system. For details, see Turbomachinery Performance
Maps in the TurboSystem User's Guide.
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Chapter 2: ANSYS ACT

The following enhancements are available in the 17.2 version of ANSYS ACT:
Custom Workflow Enhancements

ACT Custom Workflow functionality includes multiple project-level, workflow-level, and task-level enhancements:
Global Callbacks for Non-Schematic Actions
Global callbacks for invoking custom actions within the Workbench project workflow are now supported
not only at the schematic level but also at the Workbench level. This means that you can invoke custom
actions elsewhere in the project, such as in the Parameter Set. For more information, see Using Global
Callbacks and Defining a Global Callback.
Progress Monitoring
You can use the ExtAPI.UserInterface.ProgressMonitor property to monitor the progress
of custom workflows. For more information, see Progress Monitoring.
Process Utilities
You can use the EExtAPI.ProcessUtils property to execute any outside program with a single
method call. For more information, see Using Process Utilities.
Task-Level Enhancements
When defining a task, you can specify task-level attributes and data transfer access. You can also use
APIs to facilitate management of task-level files and, from a task, access and manipulate objects above
the task level. For more information, see Defining a Task, paying particular attention to the following
subsections:
Defining Task-Level Attributes
Defining Task-Level Data Transfer Access
Task-Level File Management Capabilities
Accessing and Invoking Task-Related Workbench Data
State Handling
ACT provides several APIs for controlling state handling and also a default state handler for a task without
an <onstatus> callback. If any task property is invalid, ACT instructs Workbench to use an unfulfilled
state. For more information, see Accessing State-Handling APIs.
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Project Reporting APIs
By providing interfaces to generalize APIs across all applications, ACT fully wraps Workbenchs reporting
API. You can use the many provided APIs to adopt reporting for your own ACT applications. For more
information, see Accessing Project-Reporting APIs.
Mechanical API Enhancements

The following enhancements have been made to the ANSYS Mechanical API:
Mechanical Worksheet APIs
ACT provides an API that enables you to automate the creation, population, and execution of Named
Selection and Mesh Order worksheets in Mechanical. For more information and examples, see Mechanical Worksheets.
Mechanical Tree API
ACT provides ExtAPI.DataModel.Tree as the access point to the Tree object in Mechanical. You
can use the available APIs to access information about the objects contained within the tree. For more
information, see Tree Object.
Modifications to the BoltPretension Class
Modifications to the BoltPretension class (Ansys.ACT.Automation.Mechanical.BoundaryConditions.BoltPretension) provide improved access to the step values in a Mechanical
simulation.
Previously, the DefineBy, Preadjustment, and Preload properties provided you with values
only for the step marked as "current" in the analysis. With the API modifications implemented in
17.2, you now have access to the full set of values over the course of the entire simulation.
For more information, see the ANSYS ACT Migration Notes for the 17.2 release.
Modifications to the CommandSnippet API
The CommandSnippet API has been modified so that CommandSnippet content can be modified, replaced, and imported from a file. This added feature supports the automated generation of MAPDL
scripts for preprocessing, solution, and post-processing.
Documentation for Mechanical Boundary Condition Fields API
Introduced in ACT 16.0, the API for manipulating boundary condition fields is now documented. For
more information, see Fields for Boundary Conditions.
ACT Console Enhancements

The following enhancements have been made to the ACT Console:
Command History Display Last Executed Icon
A new toolbar icon enables you to display up to 500 of the commands last executed in the Command
History window. For more information, see Using the Command History Window.
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Context-Menu Actions for Command History Items

For each entry in the Command History window, you can access a drop-down menu and select an action
to be applied to the entry. The following options are available:
Copy: Copy the command text to the clipboard.
Bookmark: Bookmark the command.
Replay: Paste the command into the input field of the command line editor in order to replay it.
For more information, see Using the Command History Window.
Improved Import Bookmark Functionality
When you import an existing bookmarks collection, the imported bookmarks are appended to the ACT
Consoles existing Bookmarks list. For more information, see Using Bookmarks.
Wizard Enhancements
An ACT wizard for the Fluent application has been added:
ACT Start Page Access in Fluent
ACT functionality can now be accessed directly from the Fluent application. You can display the ACT Start
Page in Fluent by either of the following methods:
In the Fluent Launcher, select the Load ACT checkbox.
In the Fluent application, select the ACT option in Arrange the workspace menu.
Fluent Wizards
You can now run ACT wizards for Fluent and Fluent Meshing when Fluent is opened either within Workbench
or as an independent application. Two example wizards are defined in the following extensions:
FluentDemo1, which uses a .msh input file
FluentDemo2, which uses a .cas input file
The extensions themselves can be accessed by downloading the ACT Wizard Templates package from
the ACT Templates section of the ANSYS ACT Application Store 17 on the ANSYS Customer Portal.
Documentation for these extensions can be accessed in the Wizard Examples section of the ACT Develper's
Guide.
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Chapter 3: Remote Solve Manager (RSM)

In this release of Remote Solve Manager, changes and enhancements include:

There are no new features or enhancements in ANSYS RSM Release 17.2.

The -aas option has been enabled for the CFX solver, enabling the display of convergence monitors in
EKM when a CFX component update is submitted to an EKM Portal from Workbench.
When submitting batch jobs to RSM from EKM, RSM is better able to handle jobs with a large number of
input files (1000+). Previously such a job may have failed with a 'maximum recursion depth exceeded' error.
When using a non-English version of Windows, some groups or reserved names are localised, such as the
built-in everyone account. In previous versions this caused the XmlRpc port reservation to fail, and EKM
was not able to connect to a machine running a non-English version of Windows. This has been fixed in this
release.
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Chapter 4: ANSYS EKM Release Notes

ANSYS Engineering Knowledge Manager (EKM) 17.2 consists of EKM, the EKM server product, and its
companion web application. The following sections provide an overview of new features and resolved
issues in ANSYS EKM 17.2:
4.2. Issues Resolved in this Release
4.3. Issues and Limitations

There are no new features or enhancements in ANSYS EKM Release 17.2.
4.2. Issues Resolved in this Release

Below are the major issues that have been resolved since the release of 17.1.
When executing a batch job template, permission checks complete successfully when a script is run, and
no longer result in an "AccessControlException" error.
Convergence monitors are now shown for CFX solutions submitted to EKM from Workbench.
When submitting batch jobs, RSM is better able to handle jobs with a large number of input files (1000+).
Previously such a job may have failed with a 'maximum recursion depth exceeded' error.
When using a non-English version of Windows, some groups or reserved names are localised, such as the
built-in everyone account. In previous versions this caused the XmlRpc port reservation to fail, and EKM
was not able to connect to a machine running a non-English version of Windows. This has been fixed in this
release.
4.3. Issues and Limitations

All issues and limitations known at the time of release are listed in Appendix B in the EKM Users Guide.
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Chapter 5: DesignXplorer
The following enhancements have been added to ANSYS DesignXplorer 17.2:
Response Surface Interface Enhancements

For the Response Surface component, the Outline, Table, and Chart views are reorganized, making
it easier to find important content. For example, separate tables display refinement points, response
points, and verification points. For more information, see Response Surface Component Reference.
Genetic Aggregation Performance Enhancements

Algorithms for the Genetic Aggregation response surface are refactored, resulting in faster, more efficient
resolutions when determining the type of response surface best suited to each output parameter in
your problem. For more information, see Genetic Aggregation.
Additional Response Surface Export Options

Context menu options are added for exporting a full response surface as an independent reduced-order
model (DX-ROM) that can be reused in other environments. From the Response Surface component,
you can now use any of the following options:
Right-click in the Outline view and select Export Response Surface.
Right-click in the Chart view and select Export Response Surface.
Click the Export Response Surface button in the toolbar.
For more information, see Exporting Response Surfaces.
Clarification of Export to CSV Options

To clarify data export functionality, the previous Export Data as CSV context option has been relabeled
Export Table Data as CSV for tables and Export Chart Data as CSV for charts.
DesignXplorer Extension Compatibility Updates

The following extensions have been updated for compatibility with the 17.1 release:
DOE from Correlation
Import Parameters and DOE
Parameter Sweep
MATLAB Optimizers
Response Surface Reader
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DOE from Correlation
Direct Optimization from RSO
Compatibility updates for the 17.2 release are in progress and will be released promptly upon completion.
To access updated extensions, go to the ACT Application Store 17 and filter the applications by selecting
DesignXplorer from the drop-down menu.
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Part VI: ANSYS AIM

The following enhancements are available in ANSYS, Inc. Release 17.2 (ANSYS AIM). Accessible via the
Help Viewer in the product and online via the ANSYS Customer Portal, the release notes are intended
to provide an overview of the product. Enhancements published in the Release 17.0 and 17.1 release
notes are included for reference.
Chapter 1: Advisories
In addition to any incompatibilities noted within the release notes, known non-operational behavior,
errors and/or limitations at the time of release are documented in the ANSYS, Inc Known Issues and
Limitations document, accessible via the ANSYS Customer Portal (account required). The AIM download
page is not publicly-accessible. First-time users of the customer portal must register to create a password.
See the ANSYS Customer Portal for information about ANSYS service packs, Customization, and any
additional items not included in the Known Issues and Limitations document.
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Chapter 2: Enhancements in AIM 17.2

The following enhancements have been made to ANSYS AIM for Release 17.2.
The ability to perform static structural stress simulation in multiple steps. Structural loads and physics
coupling interfaces can be activated or deactivated in each step.
The ability to apply bolt pre-tension loads in structural simulation including an option to lock the pretension and apply loads (additional bolt tensioning or operational) in subsequent simulation steps.
The ability to perform time-dependant (transient) thermal simulations. Define initial temperatures,
apply time varying thermal conditions through tabular data or expressions, post process results over
time.
The ability to define one or more momentum sources/sinks as fluid physics conditions.
The ability to define heat sources/sinks fluid and fluid-thermal simulations.
The ability to define rotational or translational periodic region interfaces.
Enhanced wall boundary condition to allow specification of wall roughness height.
Enhanced fluid viscosity definition to allow viscosity to be defined as a function of strain rate for fluid
flow simulation.
The ability to monitor calculated values during the solution of a fluid flow simulation.
The ability to include thermal effects in polymer extrusion simulation.
Enhanced, generalized Newtonian, viscosity models for polymer extrusion.
The ability to include generalized slipping models for polymer extrusion.
Enhanced performance for 1-way physics coupling through the use of 2-core parallel processing for all
surface and volumetric data mapping.
The ability to transfer geometry, mesh and selection sets to a Mechanical system from the AIM study.
The ability to display the AIM UI in Japanese language.
The ability to create an HTML report to provide a summary of all simulation data.
Enhanced animation controls in graphics.
Enhanced usage of conditionally up-to-date state messaging.
Enhanced performance for geometry with large number of facets.
Automatic selection of primary field for editing when working with the immersive data entry panel.
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Enhancements in AIM 17.2

Enhanced field level help. Some fields now include short video demonstrations within the field level
help window. You can double-click on the video to launch a larger version in your default video player.
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The following enhancements were made to ANSYS AIM for Release 17.1.
The ability to simulate static electromagnetic fields using a guided workflow with an adaptive solution.
Options include the computation of magnetic flux density, magnetic field intensity, current density,
Ohmic loss, magnetic force, magnetic torque and inductance.
Enhanced material properties include linear and nonlinear magnetic materials for many common materials.
The ability to simulate solid heating due to electromagnetic effects by using physics coupling to
transfer heat rate to a thermal simulation.
The ability to model polymer extrusion using a guided workflow to simulate various aspects of the
deformation of molten plastic pushed through a die. Options include: simulating the flow within the
die, predicting the extrudate shape for a particular die, and predicting the required die shape in order
to obtain a desired extrudate shape.
Material library enhanced to enable the modification and specification of appearance properties.
The ability to perform static structural and modal analysis using shell elements including the ability to
create a mid-surface from solid geometry using the Geometry Modeling task.
The ability to apply displacement and/or rotation boundary conditions remotely on model topology
or a construction point.
Enhanced displacement boundary condition allows components to be unconstrained by entering Free
as an expression.
Enhanced support boundary condition, which includes fixed (default), frictionless and user specified
options.
The ability to automatically hide bodies not applicable to a contact or joint definition for structural,
thermal and electric conduction stimulation.
The ability to automatically hide bodies not applicable for a region when a physics condition is selected
for fluid flow and extrusion simulation.
Enhanced solution monitors that include solution convergence charts for nonlinear structural, thermal
and electric solutions.
Enhanced solution monitors for fluids that includes automatic filtering of monitors by defined physics
models.
Enhanced performance and memory usage for conjugate heat transfer models with complex topology
(many faces).
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Enhancements in AIM 17.1

Enhanced solver meshing control for fluids simulation to control the conversion of the mesh to polyhedral.
Enhanced solver transcript for fluids simulation that includes information on partitioning, mesh statistics,
flow balances and wall clock times.
The ability to include multiple interface generators with a specific scope and tolerance for conjugate
heat transfer simulation.
Enhanced physics task layout that includes improved organization and physics specific naming conventions.
Enhanced navigation bar that collapses to current navigation for simpler model navigation.
Enhanced next step suggestion intelligence.
The ability to include structural mass as a calculated value for inclusion in design point studies or optimization.
Enhanced custom templates that include multiple steps to provide greater flexibility for the creation
of custom applications.
Geometry Modeling is now enabled by default in the standard Simulation Process Templates.
Enhanced Geometry Modeling look-and-feel for improved consistency and easier navigation.
Improved persistence of locations and named selections for enclosures and extracted flow volumes
created in Geometry Modeling.
Sheet Metal and Midsurface tools are now available in Geometry Modeling.
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The following enhancements were made to ANSYS AIM for Release 17.0.
The ability to create and edit geometry directly within the AIM Study.
Based on the ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct Modeler.
Includes enhanced performance for geometry updates and automated parameter creation.
The ability to manage, update and review design points directly from within the AIM Study using Design
Point Dashboard.
Enhanced graphics display renders bodies based on material appearance.
Material library enhanced to include appearance settings for many common materials.
The ability to model strain-life based (low cycle) fatigue.
The ability to apply force loads remotely on model topology or a construction point.
The ability to automatically generate region interfaces for conjugate heat transfer based on surface
proximity.
Enhanced boundary conditions for compressible flow including a far field boundary condition to
model free-stream compressible flow at infinity.
Enhanced solution monitoring including multiple convergence and residual monitors, and the ability
to review multiple charts during the solution update.
The ability to interrupt, interrogate results and continue the solution from an interrupted state for all
physics.
Enhanced documentation including field level help for any property.
The ability to connect to the simulation portal (EKM) from within the AIM Study.
Enhanced volumetric mapping including radial basis function mapping for volumetric temperature
data.
The ability to automate a simulation in AIM by executing a Workbench Project wizard on the AIM project
tab.
Enhanced custom simulation process templates including the ability to include field level help, radio
and multi-select lists as part of a custom template.
Improved fluid initial conditions - consistent with boundary conditions, more granular.
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Chapter 5: Limitations
The AIM product documentation details limitations to the Volume Creation task and Geometry Modeling
task.
In addition, the Known Issues and Limitations document is accessible via the ANSYS Customer Portal
(account required). Via Knowledge Resources> Online Documentation, open the General section to view
the current Known Issues and Limitations document. First-time users of the customer portal must register
to create a password.
Release 17.2-Specific
When typing Japanese characters in a text field, the user interface may be unresponsive and entering
characters may not be possible. To recover, place the cursor in the text field, click the right mouse
button and resume typing.
Rernaming a selection set does not cause the Meshing task to go out of date. This behavior can cause
a problem if you are transferring that mesh to Mechanical or Fluent (beta) and want the new selection
set name to be transferred. Right click on the Meshing cell to manually update the Meshing task for a
mesh transfer.
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7. ANSYS Elastic Licensing

8.1. Screen Resolution Recommendations

9. New Product Levels

Same as previous DesignSpace product

ANSYS Mechanical Pro

New product at Release 17.0 featuring:

New Product Levels

ANSYS Mechanical Premium

New product at Release 17.0, featuring everything

ANSYS Mechanical Enterprise

ANSYS Mechanical renamed as ANSYS Mechanical

ANSYS Mechanical Enterprise PrepPost

ANSYS Mechanical PrepPost renamed as ANSYS

ANSYS Mechanical Enterprise Solver

ANSYS Mechanical Solver renamed as ANSYS

Same as previous ANSYS Autodyn product

Same as previous ANSYS LS-DYNA product

New Product Levels

Part I: ANSYS Structural Products

Chapter 1: Mechanical Application Release Notes

1.1. Incompatibilities and Changes in Product Behavior from Previous

1.2. General Enhancements

Mechanical Application Release Notes

1.3. Platform Enhancements

1.4. Geometry Enhancements

1.5. Contact and Connection Enhancements

Previous Option Name

New Option Name

Target Normal, Uncouple U

Projected, Uncoupled U to ROT

Target Normal, Couple U to

Distributed, All Directions

Inside Pinball, Couple U to

Distributed, Anywhere Inside Pinball

1.6. Mesh Enhancements

1.7. Composites Enhancements

1.8. Analysis Enhancements

1.9. Rigid Body Solver Enhancements

1.10. Explicit Dynamics Enhancements

1.11. Results Enhancements

Mechanical Application Release Notes

Chapter 2: Mechanical APDL Release Notes

2.1. Windows 10 Issues Resolved

2.2. CIRCU125 Element Re-documented

Chapter 3: Autodyn Release Notes

3.1. Incompatibilities and Changes in Product Behavior from Previous

3.2. Autodyn Component System Issues Resolved

Chapter 4: Aqwa Release Notes

Chapter 5: ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP)

5.1. New Features in ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) 17.2

5.1.1. Improved Postprocessing for Solids

5.1.2. Section Cut

5.1.3. Butt Joint Sequence

5.1.4. Enhanced BECAS Interface

5.1.5. Improved CSV Interface for Results Export

ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP)