FEMAP v11.2.1 New Features and Corrections Updates and Enhancements GUI - General Added dynamic face highlighting during Element Face picking and enabled dynamic highlighting of elements in the Connection Region dialog if “Elements-No Faces” is selected Added “Plane Element Offset” as an option when using the “Model Data Value” option for “Pick^” in the standard entity selection dialog box Added a Cancel button to the “OK to Start New Model (No=Add to Current Model)?” dialog box which appears when you “drag and drop” an analysis model or geometry file into an open instance of FEMAP Updated the “Add Connected Elements” option for “Pick^” in the standard entity selection dialog box to dramatically improve performance Interfaces - NX Nastran FEMAP with NX Nastran bundle now includes NX Nastran 10.2 Added support for NX Nastran 10.2 Thermal and Mechanical Strain (op2 data blocks OSTR1ELC, OSTR1THC, OSTR1EL, OSTR1TH) Updated default value for the “Solid Results in Material CSys” option in the “NXSTRAT Solver Parameters” dialog box in the Analysis Set Manager to be Off instead of On, which will write a 0 to the ELRESCS field on the NXSTRAT entry instead of a 1, which is the default value for NX Nastran Interfaces - LS-Dyna Added “20..EQ 13: 1 point nodal pressure tetrahedron” as a formulation option for Solid elements to create ELFO=13 Updated “Memory (Megawords)” field in the LS-DYNA Analysis Control dialog box, which writes the *KEYWORD MEMORY entry, to allow values up to 99,999,999, as the previous limit was 2,147 Interfaces - Geometry Enhanced support for importing geometry files from SolidWorks 2015 by implementing a newer version of the SolidWorks translator Aeroelasticity Added support for randomizing colors of the various Aero entities when modifying the color Meshing Enhanced performance significantly when using the Mesh, Copy, Element; Mesh, Radial Copy, Element; Mesh, Scale, Element; Mesh, Rotate, Element; and Mesh, Reflect, Element commands to create copies of existing elements. Enhanced performance significantly of the Mesh, Extrude commands to extrude elements, the Mesh, Revolve commands to revolve elements, and the Mesh, Sweep commands to sweep elements. Output and Post-Processing Updated “View, Advanced Post, Contour Model Data” command to allow display of “Plane Element Offset” on planar elements API Added feAppSetModel32 and feAppGetModel32 methods to supplement the existing feAppSetModel and feAppGetModel methods for programming environments where 64-bit integers are not available Added NumberOfLoads and NumberOfConstraints properties to the API Node object Added GetAllArray2 and GetCoordArray2 methods to Node Object that returns an extra Variant that indicates which nodes actually exist Added GetAllArray2 method to Element Object that returns an extra Variant that indicates which elements actually exist Updated the GetAllArray and GetCoordArray methods for the Node object to automatically zero all memory, so if you ask for entities that do not exist the values returned will all be zeroed Updated the GetAllArray method for the Element object to automatically zero all memory, so if you ask for entities that do not exist the values returned will all be zeroed Corrections Analysis Manager Corrected issue when copying Analysis Sets that caused set options to become corrupted (for example, text in the “Direct Output To” field and various “Start Text” and “End Text” dialog boxes would be missing or wrong) Corrected issue that caused the MultiSet button in the Analysis Set Manager to not work if you had only Load Sets or Constraint Sets, not both Load Sets and Constraint Sets Element - CBUSH Corrected a number of issues related to element orientation which could occur during creation of the element in FEMAP, importing from a FEMAP neutral file, or importing from a Nastran input file. For more information, please refer to Software Field Bulletin SFB-FEMAP-9054 for more information Performance Graphics Corrected issue where individual Coordinate Systems did not obey the Visibility Check Boxes when Performance Graphics is enabled Corrected issue where Coordinate systems were ignored when calculating the bounding box when Performance Graphics is enabled Corrected issue where element coordinate system labels were not drawn for solid elements if there were also shell elements in the in model when Performance Graphics is enabled Corrected issue where scaling factors were not being generated for geometry loads when Performance Graphics is enabled Corrected issue where rounding negative values to specified number of significant figures was not correct when Performance Graphics is enabled, which effected both criteria values and load values Corrected issue where beam direction arrows are not drawn when “Normal Style” is set to “2..Backface Shading” for the “Element - Directions” option in the “View, Options” command, when Performance Graphics is enabled Graphics Corrected issue which caused FEMAP to exit unexpectedly when drawing CBUSH elements when the “Show Y Axis” option was enabled for “Element - Beam Y-Axis” option in “View, Options” command Corrected issue which caused no arrow representing the element direction to be displayed on solid elements when “Show Direction” is turned on and “Normal Style” set “0..Right-Hand Rule” or “3..Right-Hand Rule First Edge” for the “Element - Directions” option in “View, Options” command and the View Style was set to Solid GUI - General Corrected issue in the Results selection dialog when you attempted to Filter Sets, Studies or Vectors by title. If any of the entities had the string “..” in the title, those entities could only be filtered on text that came after the “..” Corrected issue that prevented box/area picking Solids that contained combined curves if you also had the “Pick All Inside” option turned on Corrected issue when using the “Model Data Value” option for “Pick^” in the standard entity selection dialog box. Previously the “Plane Element Thickness” Model Data Value selection only worked for thicknesses specified on the Property. Now it also uses the element thickness overrides if selecting elements, while only using property values if selecting properties or other entity types. Corrected issue that caused Alt-Pick (automatic Query Selection) to fail if “Smart Snap” was turned on (PR 7382986) GUI - Toolbars and Icons Select Toolbar Corrected issue that allowed entities to be selected multiple times if you were using the Selector on Multiple. Previously this was correctly prevented GUI - Dockable Panes Meshing Toolbox - Geometry Editing Tool Corrected issue with the “Project/Move Point” Operation where the “Edge Aligned” option was being considered when “Project/Move Point” was set to “Point”, even though that option is not available when set to “Point”, which was causing the operation to fail Data Surface Editor Corrected issue that caused a database corruption if you modified a data surface, closed the data surface window then did an undo Corrected issue where FEMAP would exit unexpectedly or become unresponsive when trying to create an “Output Map Data Surface” from output on 20-noded hex elements (PR 7330949) Corrected issue where the ID field in the Define Connection Manager Data Surface dialog box would be ignored when creating a new Connection Manager Data Surface. Additionally, the ID field is now grayed out when modifying an existing Connection Manager Data Surface. Data Table Corrected issue with “Copy to Clipboard”, “Copy Rows”, and “Copy Columns”. Previously there was an extra trailing tab (column) and trailing carriage return (row). This caused the selection in Excel to be wrong when you pasted in the results PostProcessing Toolbox Corrected issue in Freebody tool where the “Display Freebodies” check box did not change when the “Set the Freebody Style” icon menu was used to change the display state of Freebodies (PR 7367712) Interfaces - FEMAP Neutral Corrected issue in the Neutral File Converters that prevented models created in FEMAP Educational Licenses from being moved forward to later versions of FEMAP, even if you still had an educational license Corrected issue with neutral file export that could potentially cause FEMAP to exit unexpectedly when re-importing v11.2 neutral files into FEMAP (PR 7390961) Interfaces - NX Nastran Corrected issue when reading input files containing entities for both linear contact and/or glued contact which would cause only a single Connector to be imported instead of the actual number of Connectors in the input file. Interfaces - Nastran Corrected issue when reading variable length cards with embedded blank fields such as SPC1, which is allowed in Nastran but not typical Corrected issue when reading NASTRAN INCLUDE statements if they followed an “open-ended” card, like RBE2 or RBE3 Corrected issue that caused NASTRAN INCLUDE files to not be read if there were same-line $ comments on the include line Corrected issue when reading or attaching to Nastran OP2 and/or XDB files that caused some vectors to be improperly labeled “Nonlinear” Corrected issue where composite element failure index vectors were missing when attaching to op2 files (PR 7372455) Interfaces - MSC Nastran Corrected issue that caused *.f06 files from MSC Nastran version 2013 and above to not be imported properly Interfaces - LS-DYNA Corrected issue where translator was writing out comments that exceed the standard 80 char resulting in the solver not being able to properly process the input file (PR 7383233) Corrected issue where “Translation Text” specified via the “File, Notes” command was being ignored during export Corrected issue where only 2 of the required 7 fields on the first line of the *SECTION_BEAM entry would be written when beam element formulation was set to “9..Spotweld” (PR 7365784) Loads and Boundary Conditions Corrected issue that caused load values to be zeroed if you edited a load definition using the “Edit Load” command and chose to update the faces where the load was applied (or the direction of a Distributed Load). Previously this would cause the load values to be zeroed on all elements other than the first where the load was applied.