February 6, 2025

BETA CAE Systems announces the release of
the v24.1.4 of its software suite

About this release

We gladly announce the bug-fix version 24.1.4, for ANSA, EPILYSIS, META, KOMVOS and FATIQ.

Follows an overview of the most important items:

Known issues resolved in ANSA
Known issues resolved in EPILYSIS
Known issues resolved in META
Known issues resolved in KOMVOS
Compatibility and Supported Platforms
Download

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Known issues resolved in ANSA

CAD Import/Export

During the transition of CAD Body names to ANSA PID names while importing STEP files through ANSA Translator, Part names were not retained.

Model Browser

The Global Scaling would be erroneous for Linux with KDE desktop manager.

Model Browser

New Shells/Solids would not be automatically placed in the current Subsystem.

Modular Run Management

Focusing on Intermodular Assembly, a connecting Subsystem would always be marked as incompatible, in the case of next iteration on a regular Subsystem that contained geometry mesh.

Connections & Assembly

Converting Shells or Faces to Adhesive Faces would lead to an unexpected termination, in case of using a Subsystem as Current and having the Subsystem Draw Mode active.

Furthermore, realizing connections massively would take an excessive amount of time on Windows machines.

Shell Mesh

The "Improve" option from the "Paste" function would not work as expected.

Batch Meshing

ANSA would falsely split warped quad elements at anisotropic zones, even if the option "Split Violating elements" was not active.

LS-DYNA

Output of a file with Curve IDs above LS-DYNA limits would lead to unexpected termination.

Moreover, ANSA would cease unexpectedly when changing the T1 of SECTION_SHELL.

Pam-Crash

Pam-Crash orientation file did not contain the material orientation data for trias, 2nd order quads and solids (excluding hexas) when placed inside an Include.

OptiStruct

PBUSH card in Nastran deck was not output correctly when switching to OptiStruct deck.

Laminates

Upon execution of "Generate Report" function, ABD matrix was not printed if PCOMPs were attached on geometric faces.

Optimization SOL200

Through Topography Wizard, ANSA would produce extra Task Items, not related to Topography Optimization.

 

 

Known issues resolved in EPILYSIS

General

Significant performance improvement of ~60% in data recovery phase has taken place for transient analysis with many time steps.

Output

Incorrect results could occur for models that contained CONM2s elements with zero mass matrix but nonzero moments of inertia.

SOL109

Transient Analysis with many TLOAD entries has accelerated to x40 times, compared to previous versions.

 

 

Known issues resolved in META

General

META would unexpectedly terminate when accessing "Materials" window after deleting laminate property.

Sudden software abortion would occur when box-selecting solid elements, in case some of them were drawn as spheres

Read results

Template reading was incorrect when "Activate models of active window" was enabled.

In addition, UFF file format with curve data was falsely recognized as ASCII format, when loaded in META.

Nastran

Stress results on the Superelement part were not read, when the geometry was retrieved by the corresponding .op2 file.

Abaqus

Surfaces from solid elements were not created properly for Pyramid elements type.

User-defined results in the .odb files were occasionally not detected.

Failed CAX axisymmetric elements were not loaded correctly.

Inconsistency in average-compute and compute-average stress calculation for shell-continuum (SC) elements took place. This inconsistency has now been resolved by handling the SC elements as solids.

LS-DYNA

LS-DYNA hierarchy was not read, if geometry had been read from METADB file.

Permas

META would cease unexpectedly, when reading large Permas input files.

OptiStruct

Penta elements were not read properly.

Managing Curve Data

Unexpected termination would occur while exporting curve data in .csv column format, when the option Multi column was enabled.

Curves from ERFH5 files were read multiple times, when read from session file.

TDMS files were not read correctly.

NVH Calculators

Referring to FRF Assembly, NVH Insights would just animate the component where the response was taken and not the complete assembly.

Focusing on Modal/FRF Correlation, an unexpected termination would occur when loading results from Nastran SOL105 dynamic subcase solution.

Report

Saved presentations with embedded Excel tables could not be read by the latest versions of Office365, because of a new format. A presentation with the old format can now be automatically converted to the new format upon saving.

File Export

The selected states would not be stored in the U3DPDF file, even though the option "Selected states" was used during the export.

 

 

Known issues resolved in KOMVOS

Data Management

Several attributes and properties of a DM item could be missing from the Details tab and Show/Hide Columns menu.

Machine Learning

The name of the Predict Session function was erroneously changed to Predict Library Sessions.

 

 

Compatibility and Supported Platforms

ANSA files saved by all the first and second-point releases of a major version are compatible to each other. New major versions can read files saved by previous ones but not vice versa.

META Project files saved from version 24.1.3 are compatible and can be opened by META version 16.0.0 or later.

Support for Mac OS has been discontinued.

Support for 32-bit platforms has been discontinued for all operating systems.

 

Download

Where to download from

Customers who are served directly by BETA CAE Systems, or its subsidiaries, may download the new software, examples and documentation from their account on our server. They can access their account through the "download" link on our website.
Contact us if you miss your account details. The Downloads menu items give you access to the public downloads.
Customers who are served by a local business agent should contact the local support channel for software distribution details.

What to download

All files required for the installation of this version reside in the folders named "BETA_CAE_Systems_v24.1.4", "KOMVOS_v24.1.4", and "FATIQ_v24.1.4", and are dated as of February 6, 2025. These files should replace any pre-releases or other files downloaded prior to that date.
The distribution of this version of our pre- and post-processing suite is packaged in one, single, unified installation file, that invokes the respective installer and guides the procedure for the installation of the required components.

For the installation of the software on each platform type, download from the respective folders, the .sh file for Linux or the .msi file for Windows.

In addition to the above, optionally, the META Viewer is available to be downloaded for each supported platform.

The tutorials and the example files reside in the folder named "TUTORIALS". This folder includes a complete package, and one with only the updated files.

The Abaqus libraries required for the post-processing of Abaqus .odb files are included in the installation package and can be optionally unpacked.

Earlier software releases are also available in the sub-directory called "Previous_Versions" or in a folder named after the product and version number.