Version 0.6.0
released 22.9.2000
Fixed Bugs
- Clipping and SHIFT rotate now works on clipped structure
- zooming is not limited any more
- commands session files cannot be adressed to all slots
- crash with "Pick" of part menu
- fo3 rotation of plane surpressed
- problem with CTRL-Arrowleft/Arrowright to switch slots
New features
New add/erase commands
l add/era mat/ele box - define a 3D box to add or erase
l era mat/ele @no - select by node to erase
l ide nod/ele xyz - select by location
"wri crs" now outputs Nastran format
l BAR elements are used to draw line
l File can be read back
l Following is applied
Cross section can be defined by selecting 2 nodes
l Command: vie crs nod
Function colorbar can be edited
l Command: col fun
Function colorbar can be switched to logarythmic
l Command: fun log on/off
Vector plot capability for principal stress/strain, velocities etc.
l read vector data instead of function data
l switch on/off with sty vec on/off
Write pixel data in PNG format
l Command: wri png
Read pixel data as background
l Command: rea rgb/tif/png - to read rgb/tif/png data
l Command: img pop/pus - to pop/push image
l Command: img pos - to position
l Command: era/add img - to add/erase
Get various information
l Command: wri inf act/all - to output model statistics
Save/Load compact database
l Command: wri/rea dat - to save/load database
(geometry,disp., func., color, style, explode)
Transparency for solids is now implemented
Interactive explosion module
l Command: exp mat @po - to explode parts by pressing x/y/z keys
New features for part box
l Parts in part box can be sorted by name, pid, element type, etc.
l Part box has a separate slot switch
Large file support
l Nastran interface is now able to handle file > 2 GB
Cookbook has been updated
LINUX version for XFree version 4.01 available
l Hardware accelerated for ATI, NVIDIA and VODOO graphics cards
l Tested with SuSE and REDHAT Linux on GNS-PCs and on SGI Linux Workstation
l High performance and stable version
Version 0.5.3c
released 25.3.2000
Fixed Bugs
- Triangles are identified as Quads, Wedges as Hexas etc.
- Postscript interface does not support fringes
- Postscript interface errors on SUN
- "era/add ele fra" defective
- stereo does not work
- transparent function plots does not work any more
- failed solids recognized for Pamcrash
- crash when node labels are displayed on RBEs
- Shift-Fkeys does not work when CapsLock or NumLock is enabled on SGI
- session file written by "wri ses act" contains redundant lines in some cases
- the 'Add connected' function does not work correctly when mesh less spot
weld are read from Pamcrash
- reversed function range does not work for textured fringes
- risk of crash when multiple slots are loaded and materials are picked and
erased
- local coordinate frames defined relative to another frame are not transformed
well for Nastran
- RBE3 are no read correctly from Nastran Input
- add connected parts leads to incorrect results in some rare cases
Version 0.5.3b
released 25.1.2000
Fixed Bugs
- Patran interface does not read element function files
- Nastran interface assigns wrong node to last SPC in file
- Radioss interface reads version 3.1 files written with version 4.1 incorrectly
- Nastran forces defined in local CS are not transformed well
- button "display failed elements" cannot be pressed
- Nastran_small output interface writes invalid node format for some nodes
- some complex Nastran analysis are not processed correctly
- display of internal displacements (fun int) is wrong
- cross-section display is wrong when using Lagrange on bars
- output geometry does not account for failed elements
- spcs are not highlighted when ide spc in performed
New features
Interfaces:
l Nastran
l version 70.7 support
l CBUSH element support reading OP2
l Pamcrash
l version 2000 support
l Dyna3d
l plastic strain for BEAMs
l Indeed
l support for rezoned results
Platforms:
l IBM AIX version available
Functions:
l command "ide ang" and "ide his ang" outputs angle between 2 lines
defined by 4 nodes
Version 0.5.3a
released 5.1.2000
Fixed Bugs
- using functions + lines causes triangles to be drawn on some platforms
- "opt tim" always selects state 0
- "ide elo" prints wrong value for total elongation
- "vie rce" (CTRL-F5) does not work when following is enabled
- arbitrary offsets between models in slots when following enabled
- switching off following causes model to be translated
- long filenames not supported in NASTRAN include files
- "vie loa" does not restore follow nodes
- "wri rgb <fac>" does not work when perspective viewing is enabled
- Nastran interface never returns reading some OP2 files
- random crash when using multiple slots + picking + nothing found
- command "opt fel on/off" is reversed
- a session file cannot start a plugin
- animator crashes when multiple slots are used and title is not defined
- definition of Euler / Lagrange is reversed for cross sections
- "opt cdi" is repeated for each slot loaded
- crash when command is entered while a session file is processed
- colors of parts are wrong when polygon and edge/line style are mixed
- crash when edge style + functions are enabled
- endless loop in Patran interface reading function values on some platforms
- crash when "xcm ful off "is entered without previous "xcm ful on"
- "era aux @w" without effect
- mpeg2play uses incorrect colors
New features
Interfaces:
l New Medina input interface to read binary .bif and .bof files
l For SGI and HP platforms
l Valid Medina license is required
l New Indeed interface
l supports non rezoned results
l Ansys input interface now supports Ansys 55
l Radioss input interface now supports Radioss 41
l Dyna3d input interface now supports elimination of rigid shell element data
l Pamcrash input interface now supports CNODE keyword
l Nastran input interface now supports
l complex energies
l CQUAD8 and CTRIA6 elements (additional nodes are skipped)
l RBE/SPC/MPC on multiple lines without contiuation marks when ascii input is read
l Nastran output interface now supports single field (Nastran_small)
l Element skalar values supported for BAR/BEAM/SPRING/DAMPER
l NASTRAN energies (real or complex)
l LS-DYNA, PAMCRASH
l PATRAN
Platforms:
l SUN Solaris version available
Hot keys:
l User defined hot keys:
| KEY | COMMAND | EFFECT |
|---|
| Alt-a | era all | erase all
|
| Shift-Alt-a | add all | display all
|
| Alt-m | era mat @sin | pick on part to erase
|
| Alt-e | era ele @sin | pick on element to erase
|
| Alt-w | era ele @np | select window to erase elements
|
| Shift-Alt-w | era ele @wp | select window to erase elements
|
| Alt-i | ide nod @sin | pick on node to get data
|
| Shift-Alt-i | ide ele @sin | pick on element to get data
|
Functions:
l command "opt cco on/off" selects color coding according to parts in cross
section mode
l command "ide his dno" for time history of total displacement
l command "col mat res" to reset colors to initial state
l command "add/era mat col" to add or erase parts by selecting the color
l command "add/era sl2" to view the differences between two models
l New command "opt gsf" to scale all coordinates
l New command "add/era tri/pyr/pen/wed" to add/erase special element types
l New command "ide his sum act/all" to create time history of the summation
of the scalarvalues (i.e. energies)
Slots:
l slot status is displayed in label window
l slot switch displays last 40 characters of title
l slot switch for part and group gizmo
l slots can be disabled / enabled in popup
Input devices:
l IRIX 6.5 Space Mouse driver (magellan-2) supported
l Space mouse driver (xdriver interface) supported
l Spacebar driver (XCM interface) supported
l Behavior of space mouse / ball can be configured to control camera or model
l Environment variable A3SPACEMODE MODEL/VIEWER
l command "vie spa mod mod/vie" to switch model/viewer mode
Output:
l Microsoft compatible GIF and TIFF formats,
command "wri gif/tif ...", "rec gif/tif ..."
l Microsoft compatible AVI movie files "rec avi ..."
l transparency included in color session file
Contours:
l colors have been incorrect in previous versions, this is now fixed
l plots created with this version may differ from previous versions
l additional colors are availabe for underfow and overflow of the defined range
l graphics performance tuned (up to 480%)
Misc:
l textured function + lighting enabled (banded + lit contours)
l new viewing model - camera analogy implemented
l command "vie cam inf" - prints parameters
l command "vie cam pos" - sets position of camera
l command "vie cam ref" - sets reference position
l command "vie cam upv" - sets up vector
Batch mode:
l invoked with command line option -b
l no display is opened
l may be used for automatic batch postprocessing
l may be used inconjunction with -w and -h to produce images in any size
(s. below)
Command line options;
-b for batch mode (s. above)
-w <width> to define width of graphical area
-h <height> to define height of graphical area
Version 0.5.2
released 10.6.1999
Fixed Bugs
- Follow cannot be set independent for each slot
- Displacement scale factor cannot be set independent for each slot
- 3 node follow + explode slot incorrect
- Nastran fails to transform displacements when spoints are used
- Nastran energies for solids are not read in
- Nastran interface fixed bug to display stresses of element type
144 correctly (BILIN Option)
- Nastran interface computes wrong principal stresses for sol 111
- Nastran interface does not support sol 200
- Pamcrash rigid body spot weld not displayed reading inputfile
- "wri rgb <fname> <fac>" does not work any more
- "xcm ghe" buggy
- "xcm ful on/off" does not reset window to original sizes
- Pamcrash interface does not read some Pamcrash99 files
- commands of class "col mat lin gro @sin" don't work
- write postscript and follow fixes
- Radioss interface does not support latest version output
- Ansys interface does not support version 55
- Postscript defective for Solids
- BOUGV1 datablocks not supported for CSA NASTRAN
- RBE2 elements not supported for CSA NASTRAN
- erasing Spcs, Forces and frames by selecting a window
lets them disappear forever
New features
Interfaces:
l New Abaqus input interface to read binary .fil files, implicit / explicit
l New VRML output interface to write vrml 1.0 format files
l nodal value (velocity, acceleration) fringe values are read
in for Pamcrash and Dyna
Functions:
l command "opt sta tim" selects state to be displayed by the time
(Pierre Talkowsky, Volkswagen, Germany)
l functions are displayed when parts are in "sty mat edg" mode
(Mr. Zoeller, Daimler-Chrysler, Germany)
l banded contours using 1D textures "sty fun nod", "opt tex on"
l get min / max value of function "fun inf"
l sum up function "fun sum"
Slots:
l slot explode improved:
l 2 modes available to define explode in window or model coordinates.
"exp slo ... win" selects window coordinates
"exp slo ... mod" selects model coordinates
Plugin:
l a plugin is a program that generates and pipes commands to control Animator3
"rea plu <prog>"
Grid:
l a 2D grid can be displayed in the plane of the cross section "gri"
(Stephan Neumair, AUDI)
l Window management:
l iconize / deiconize window: "xcm ico on/off"
l pop / push window: "xcm pop/push"
l width of graphics window "xcm gwi"
Misc:
l when clipping enabled, cross section is also enabled (Klaus Radtke, GNS)
l light model library to select predefined models, command: "opt lig def/pla"
l new command and menu entry "add/era aux" to add or erase frames, forces, spcs,
mpcs (Mladen Chargin, CDH USA)
l new command and menu entry "add/era mat ele" to add or erase materials by
elements (Klaus Radtke, GNS)
l fast rotation mode <Shift>Mouse like <Ctrl>Mouse, but only edges
are drawn
