What’s New in Simpack 2021:
General Functionality
- Improved GUI and solver load-time performance
- DoE adaptation for HPC support
Simpack Solver
- Improved handling for strain and dissipative energy calculation of Force Elements during Eigenvalue analysis
- Configurable solver termination due to errors and warnings
Simpack Post
- Automatic front/back plane clipping adaption during animation
- Harmonization of Animation Page into Autosize Page
- Static Field Results
- Marker visualization for mesh and field channels
- Improved contouring performance for Flexible Bodies
Simpack Scripting
- Enhanced scripting performance for modifying many SubVars
Flexible Bodies
- Modal flexible track representations
- Support for ANSYS versions 2019 R2 and 2020 R1
- Tutorial with best practices for nonlinear reduction of twist beam axles
General Modeling Elements
- Extension of Electric Machine Interface for run-up simulations
- Improved wireframe visualization for Primitives from CAD Interfac
- New Fluid Interface <preliminary>
Simpack Gear, Rolling and Journal Bearing
- User Defined Roller Profile for Rolling Bearings
- Output loads per slice for roller type bearings
- Importer for REXS (gearbox interface format)
- New output Instant Contact Ratio for Gear Pair
- Simplified flexible gear node handling for Gear Pair
- Support for Load intensity Mesh Outputs Gear Pair
- EHD Nodal Oil flow
- EHD improved maximum gap handling
- EHD Global thermal balance
- Additional output values for half-width pressure in EHD
- Suport for Piston-Ring Dynamics simulations
Simpack Automotive
- TMeasy update to version 5.3.1
- Standalone model support for external references used by FTire
Simpack Rail
- Enable constant position for Marker ‘Follow Track Joint’
- Improved traction formulation for Rail-Wheel contact in zero velocity
Simpack Contact
- New Solver support for Curve-Curve Contact
- Improve Contact Search for Cycloidal Gear based on Cam Contact
- Height correction modification and increased performance for Polygonal Contact Model
Simpack Wizard
- Configurable memory usage for scenario generation
- Support for „Select Directories“ for Parameters
- “Copy to project” functionality for par.spck files from additional libraries
- Filter for overwritten values of Linked Variants
- Visual distinction of overwritten values
- Viewing of arbitrary Modeling Elements
Simpack Power’By (Multibody Analyst PXP role in 3DEXPERIENCE R2020x Simulation)
- Enhanced Open Product Structure from 3DEXPERIENCE
- Support for Engineering Connections (Transfer to Simpack Connections)
- Support for Knowledgeware Parameters (Transfer to Simpack SubVars)
Simpack Multiphysics Interfaces
- Extend S-Function blocks by adding Signal Names to the Output Ports
- Support for MATLAB® / Simulink® R2019a and R2019b