What’s New in the SIMULIA 2017 Portfolio Releases?

There are plenty of new developments in the latest SIMULIA portfolio release (rolled out in November 2016).

New in Abaqus 2017:

• Enhanced contact and constraints
• XFEM contact improvements for Abaqus/standard
• Advances in LCP (linear complementary problem) equation solver for Abaqus/standard
• CZone Enhancements for Abaqus/explicit
• Enhanced materials and elements
• Development for welding and additive manufacturing (AM)
• Event series
• Usability

New in Isight 2017:

• Updated SIMULIA Execution Engine (SEE)
  • Improved robustness and performance of TomEE
• Component Enhancements
  • Abaqus component upgrade
  • ANSYS Workbench component upgrade
  • Excel/Word components upgrade
  • MATLAB component upgrade
  • Pointer-II performance improvements

What’s New in Tosca Structure and Tosca Fluid 2017:

• Tosca Structure 2017 enhancements:
  • Improved fe-safe integration
  • New Tosca Python driver integrates Abaqus and Tosca together and offers up to 75% faster runtime performance
  • New custom interpolation schemes
• Tosca Fluid 2017 enhancements:
  • Tosca Fluid improved interfaces for: StarCCM+ 9.02 – 11.04Tosca Structure

New in fe-safe

• Weld fatigue enhancements
• PSD improvements
• Enhancements for Abaqus users
• ANSYS Workbench component
• Enhanced NASTRAN interface
• Vibration fatigue enhancements
• Improved batch/macro usability.