BETA CAE Ships ANSA, & micro; ETA Pre-Post-Processing Suite v14.0.0

BETA CAE announced the release of the new version v14.0.0 of the ANSA and µETA pre-and post-processing suite, with new software features and tools, which enhance the user experience and increase the simulation processes performance, the company says.

In this version, the synchronized release of the components of the suite has also been included. The installation of the software suite is now driven by a unified installer that provides an easy-to-use and automated step-by-step installation procedure.

A new graphical user interface improves the working efficiency through additional icons, a new layout, and colored grouped toolbars. The selection tool has been enhanced and made available for all functions.

CATIA, NX, Pro/ENGINEER and SolidWorks CAD files can now be directly opened in ANSA, and a new interoperability with SpaceClaim allows direct geometry modifications, through an export-modify-retrieve loop.

A new volume meshing algorithm allows now to generate trimmed hexahedral and polyhedral elements without the need for watertight volume definitions. A new tool has been introduced for rapid basic volume entities creation, and Boolean operations with volume and faces are now available.

The Kinetics module now supports static equilibrium, contact, initial conditions, and kinematic simulations. Additional keywords for all Solvers are now supported (i.e. LS-DYNA *ALE, *FSI and ABAQUS *CO-SIMULATION), and new morphing boxes are now available (i.e., Tetra, Pyramid), providing flexibility in adjusting boxes to more complex geometry. Additionally, 1-D morphing entities are now supported.

On the post-processing side, asynchronous reading of results now allows working on META while reading results. Additionally, the loading process can be canceled.

JT files can now be read and saved. CFD++ geometry and result files are now supported. Additionally, h3d files are also supported.

NVH ANSYS results are now supported in MAC, Modal response and the FRF Assembly tool. Cavity modes can now be imported from a separate .op2 file in Modal response tool. Auto-grouping of curves output from Modal Response and FRF Assembly tools is now available. Moreover, an ERP toolbar that calculates equivalent radiated power results has been added.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.