What is new from version 7.2 to beta version 7.4b

 

NEW FEATURES - PREPROCESS

  • New mesh renumber option. Setting the variable 'RenumberMethod' to 1, after generate a mesh, the nodes are renumbered with a Reverse Cuthill-McKee algorithm. (setting 0 the old renumber method is applied, and setting -1 the mesh is not renumbered). For future versions new algoritms can be included.
  • Add to dev_kit.tcl some procedures to select GiD coordinates or entities: ::GidUtils::GetCoordinates, ::GidUtils::PickEntities (useful for tcl-problemtype developers)
  • Translation: Added to general prefences a language option. It's possible to add a new language copying inside scripts\msgs the apropiate language catalog message file (es.msg, de.msg, etc.)
  • Custom Render: The user can define new render styles, selecting the layer color to draw entities, the visibility, width, etc. (menu View->Render->Customize...)
  • Acis Import: updated to ACIS 7 format.
  • Parasolid Import: updated to Parasolid 11 format.
  • New Shapefile import (useful GIS format).
  • Tcl/Tk: internal GiD interpreter updated to Tcl/Tk 8.4.1 version.
  • Encryption functions.
  • Backup: each GiD store your own backup, and ask the user to restore the model if GiD crash.
  • Bas template: new commands *ElemsType, *ElemsTypeName, *SetFormatForceWidth, *SetFormatStandard, *nelem(OnlyPoints, *set elems(OnlyPoints).
  • Tcl: it's possible cancel the calculation from the tcl-GiD event procedures 'BeforeWriteCalcFileGIDProject' or 'BeforeWriteCalcFileGIDProject' returns '-cancel-' (to check data input before calculate).
  • Tcl: new tcl-GiD event procedures BeforeGenerateMesh and AfterGenerateMesh.
  • Play sound general preference: to play a sound when some task is finished.
  • General preference 'Shrink windows when selection' to resize some windows (layers, conditions...) when selecting to facilitate this selection.
  • Procserver: get remote calculation server info (available groups,...).
  • It's possible to set the number of a new volume or planar surface (useful for scripts automatization).
  • Variable 'CalcWithoutMesh' to write the calculation file without mesh entities (for some special problemtypes).
  • New specialized GiD-tcl commands to manage conditions, materials, local axes, mesh edit , etc (GiD_ModifyData, GiD_AssignData, GiD_CreateData, GiD_LocalAxes, GiD_IntervalData, GiD_Mesh ).
  • New GiD-tcl command drawopengl to directly draw in GiD from tcl scripts.
  • Import/export materials updated for book and special fields support, and accepted blank lines in material or condition file.
  • Iges export: if the problemtype has model units, then write this units in the iges output file.
  • GiD-tcl info command: new order info parametric line|surface to obtain coordinates, derivatives, etc.
  • Nastran import: new GiD-tcl event procedures to process information in the problemtype.
  • DXF export: try to export surfaces as 3Dface if possible or else an approximate polyface mesh.
  • RecentFiles menu to access to the last models.
  • Fast surface render for some simple cases.
  • Edge collapse enhanced.
  • New utilitis to mesh edit (smooth a selection and map nodes over geometry).
  • Mesh from boundary command to generate tetrahedras from a triangle boundary.
  • Move node utility enhanced, deleting collapsed nodes and elements.

NEW FEATURES - POSTPROCESS

  • New right buttons look
  • View can be accesed directly through TclTk with '.central.s info view' and '.central.s process view set view ""'
  • New 'Utilities->graphical->animation script' window which allows the user to define a sequence of scenes which will be animated
  • New 'Utilities->Report' window for creating reports: images, List Entities info, text, etc. can be inserted.
  • Changed the boundaries calculation algorithm, should be faster and uses a little less memory than before, also for preprocess-
  • Smooth Contour fill: shows a contour fill with smoothed gauss points results: min, max and mean value of the nodal extrapolated results
  • Labels, dimensions, comments, legends and axes are scaled with High resolution printings ( >200dpi).
  • Cuts can be done giving the coeficients of the cut plane: Ax + By + Cz + D = 0
  • The lines of the volume meshes are also drawn when the option 'draw interior' is on, and not only the internal faces as before
  • Background image and texture also in JPEG format


CORRECTED BUGS - PREPROCESS

  • Errors with temporary files with not occidental operating systems (japanese, Corean, etc) using filenames with not ASCII characters.
  • Check of bas numeric format before apply, to avoid crash using some incorrect format.
  • The user can cancel the 'quit' function if some process is still running.
  • Corrected mesh quality graph bugs with small elements.
  • Corrected internet retrieve bug with some fast connections.
  • Bas template: *break can exit a for or a loop
  • IGES export: bad output file extension if the user not assign any extension.
  • IGES import: more tolerant to files with incoherent data (bad parameter count field 14, etc.)
  • Corrected read/write bug of GiD Ascii files with conditions over layer.
  • Corrected crash creating a surfmesh from a quadrilateral mesh.
  • A condition over face elems is applied in a interface between materials to two elements instead to select only one.
  • Corrected bug of aditional random blank spaces in the calculation file.
  • Corrected slow Reverse Cuthill-McKee renumbering with 1-noded elements.
  • Swapped bad orientation of volume elements created with a copy/move by mirror.
  • Corrected a bug calculating the area of some trimmed surfaces.
  • Avoided geometric entities renumber when generate a mesh.
  • Corrected a bug generating tetrahedras with background mesh sizes.

CORRECTED BUGS - POSTPROCESS

  • Corrected bad precision calculating eigenvalues and eigenvectors for tensor results.
  • Corrected the gausspoints extrapolation with given natural coordinates and for cuadratic elements
  • Corrected bug when changing number of colors and contour fill and visualizing several results at once
  • Corrected some problems while animating several results at once
  • Correction while reading tecplot files with hexaedras
  • Some corrections for the legend and the c.fill ranges for extreme situations: range width too small, limits too close, < epsilon
  • When changing the render style for the meshes, it changes the render of the isosurfaces too
  • Correction when projecting a texture to the border of the mesh
  • Correction when cutting more than 100 meshes and when cutting volume meshes
  • Some corrections when selecting results, analysis and steps with the same prefix
  • Corrected the merge(Ascii) option which didn't merge partial values of the same result/step/analysis
  • Independent behaviour for the 'animation controls' and 'animation results' windows
  • Correction of the 'Read Batch' windows which swallows the quotes of the batch file