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Here you will find an inventory of the latest StressCheck Professional release updates, along with the notable fixes, features and enhancements included in each release.
StressCheck Professional Updates
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StressCheck Professional Release Highlights
The following sections contain release highlights, release notes/changelogs and video demos of the most recently released StressCheck versions, starting with the release of StressCheck v10.1 in 2014.
- Newly Refreshed Toolbar Icons
- New Contextual Menus
- New Assembly Meshing with Automatic Contact Detection
- New Mesh Seeding Feature for Improved Auto Meshing Results
- Multiple New Features for Simulation Post-Processing
- Introduced Parameter and Formula Name Input Validation
- Introduced Independent Control Over Solid Body Colors
- Enhanced Index Controls for Geometry and Mesh Objects
- Parameter and Object Set Dependency Feedback Enhancements
- Object and Record Selection Feedback Enhancements
- General GUI Cleanup, Tune-ups, Optimizations & Fixes
- Performance Improvements for Model Rendering & Load Display/Updating
- New Thin Section Automesh Method with Penta or Hexa-Dominant Option
- Boundary Layer Automesh Method Now with Mixed Mesh (Hexa/Penta/Tetra) and Shrink-To-Fit/Trim-to-Fit Options
- Crack Front Automesh Method Now with Curvature D/H, Mixed Mesh, Integration Layer, and Grade Toward Ends Options
- New Global-Local Features for Load Scaling/Reversal
- Improvements to COM API Functionality and Online Documentation
- New Getting Started and Offline Documentation Available in Help Menu
- Upgrades to Spatial Interop and MeshSim Libraries
- General GUI Cleanup, Tune-ups, Optimizations & Fixes
- Optimized Solve and Results Panes for Improved User Flow
- Dockable Panes Extended to Display Objects, View Controls, & More
- New Feature for Exporting & Importing Solution and/or Extracting Settings
- Significantly Improved Accuracy of Mesh Region Assignments
- Offline Documentation Now Available
- Upgraded User Interface and User Flow Improvements
- Enhanced Automeshing Functionality
- New Crack Front Automeshing Method
- Automatic Extraction Radius for Fracture Mechanics Parameters
- Enhanced Solver Settings for Multi Body Contact Analysis
- New Extraction Functions for Multi Body Contact Results
- Enhanced Load/Constraint Experience
- Improved Cutting Plane Performance
- New Force/Length Option for Spring Coefficients
- Improved Mesh Region Assignment
- New Error and Warning Message Handlers
- Semi-Automatic File Upgrade Utility (for Model Files < v10.5)
- Full Online Documentation
- New Force/moment method
- New TLAP Cross section option
- TLAP Bearing and Bearing loads correction
- New Any Body option for Assignment
- Plastic Strain extractions
- Log Improvements for Incremental Solutions
- Name sorting for ITP solutions
- Face/Face Surface element blank
- Curves resolution can now be controlled
- File Build number is now recorded in the Project Log
- Long solution names are now wrapped on the Plot legend
- Automatic And Manual Selection Of Graphic Drivers
- Direct Force Option for Traction Loads
- Individual Load Record Checking
- New TLAP-Bearing Option (Ignore Moments & Offsets)
- Formulae Importation/Exportation
- Improved Local System Extractions
- Total Displacement Extraction Function
- Improved Bearing Load Feedback Messaging
- Improved Contact Zone Copy Operations
- Tabbed Dialogue Persistence
- Increased Input Window Sizes
- New Option for Automatic Generation of Contact Constant
- Shrink Contact Zones for Efficient Resultant Checking
- Updated COM Version
- More…
- Cutting Plane Functionality Upgraded
- Multiple options exist for rendering cutting planes
- Fringe plotting enhanced for quality
- New Curved Automesher
- The automatic mesh generator has been upgraded to generate meshes with better aspect ratios, element distribution and geometric conformity
- Compliments the high-order capability of StressCheck’s elements
- Load and Constraint Editor
- A new Edit option has been added to the Load and Constraint tabs of the Model Input interface
- Min/Max Tags for Fringes
- The possibility to include Min and Max extraction markers has been added to the Fringe Plot function
- TLAP Methods Now Available in COM
- Import/Export Parameters
- StressCheck Professional v10.3 is Windows 10 Compatible
- Point number labeling for Point extractions.
- Extraction point numbers can now be visualized for Point tab extractions.
- General performance enhancements.
- Error and Warning handling.
- Project log handling.
- General GUI improvements.
- 2D fracture mechanics extraction for points.
- Points have been added to the options to select a crack tip for SIF/J-Integrals.
- Translate points utility migrated to StressCheck.
- Point loads and point constraints can be directly imported into a StressCheck model.
- Faster project file (SCP) loading.
- More rapid opening of projects.
- Improved COM programming help.
- StressCheck COM API help file improved and updated for available COM functions.
- Min/Max extraction marker and label.
- A marker and label can be created at the location of the max/min value, by turning on the Locate Maximum button.
- Multiple fastener resultant enhancements.
- Individual fastener resultants now graphed.
- General performance enhancements.
- Pre-solve and contact checks faster.
- GUI refreshing more efficient.
- Intrinsic function usage faster.
- Improved logging functionality.
- Project log keeps track of all user activities.
- Improved documentation.
- MasterGuide was revamped to reflect current release of software.
- Geometry disassocation feature.
- Convert points, systems and lines from geometry-associated to global.
- Usage of 3-Pt Plane methods much more productive.
- General performance enhancements.
- TLAP visualization.
- Load checks.
- SCP footprint size.
- Improved blanking/unblanking
- MeshSim automesher upgrades.
- New batch solver utility.
- Registration-free server installation now available.
- Improved TLAP functionality.
- Automatic creation of coordinate systems.
- Load case summation enhancements.
- General performance enhancements.
- Multi importation of TLAP data.
- Session and Error logs.
- Loads and constraints visualizations.
- Contact gap measurement.
- Plot animation feature.
- 3D Mouse (3DConnexion) now available.
- Improved load visualization.
- Change colors of surfaces based on the number of loads assigned.
- Surface Loads Browser to query surfaces with assigned loads and select assignments from lists.
- A new module for residual stresses
- Reliably predict distortion due to machining or surface treatments
- Simulate redistribution of residual stress and distortion as material is removed.
- New functionality for the fracture mechanics module
- Faster fracture extractions.
- Determine the influence of residual stresses on SIFs and the J-integral.
- New features for the laminate composites module
- Assign laminate stacks to geometric surfaces.
- Allows for much more flexible mesh designs.
- A new and improved file management system
- Simplification: Only one file type is necessary.
- 100% intuitive: All new and easy to use.
and much more…
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