Abaqus/CAE

Section  2.5

Performance improvements in Abaqus/CAE

Section  2.6

Usability enhancements in Abaqus/CAE

Section  2.7

Using wildcard characters for file selection

Section  2.8

Enhancements to overlay plots

Section  2.9

Linking field output across viewports

Section  2.10

Accessing plot display customization options from the Visualization module toolbox

Section  3.4

Double precision constraint solving within a single precision Abaqus/Explicit execution

Section  3.6

Dynamic load balancing for domain-level parallel execution

Section  4.1

Model types in Abaqus/CAE

Section  4.2

Midsurface modeling

Section  4.3

View cuts in Abaqus/CAE

Section  4.4

Modeling enhancements for Abaqus/CFD

Section  4.5

Topology tracking in the Sketcher

Section  4.6

Three-dimensional sweep paths for swept features

Section  4.7

Selection of individual faces for repair of face normals

Section  4.8

Geometry repair for shells and solid parts that contain multiple cells

Section  4.9

New tools for editing or repairing faces

Section  4.10

Improvements to repair of small edges and small faces

Section  4.11

Automatic validity check after geometry edits

Section  4.12

Stitching gaps in non-manifold parts

Section  4.13

Enhanced support in Abaqus/CAE for modeling fracture mechanics using XFEM

Section  4.14

Ability to select attachment points for additional modeling tasks

Section  4.15

Enhancements to distributions of orientations

Section  4.17

Control over individual vector display in continuum shell composite layups

Section  4.18

Enhancements to orientations for material orientations and composite layups

Section  4.19

Querying mass properties for beams and trusses

Section  4.20

Querying for disjoint ply regions

Section  4.21

Querying for regions missing section assignments

Section  4.22

Enhancements to the Datum toolset

Section  4.23

Rendering of shell thickness

Section  4.24

Hiding annotations

Section  4.25

Quick display buttons for all datum geometry, viewport annotations, free body cuts, and attributes

Section  4.26

Specifying the universal gas constant

Section  5.1

Streamlined part and assembly import from Elysium Neutral files

Section  5.2

Model import from ANSYS input files

Section  5.3

Running CAD software in the background after changes to CAD parameters

Section  5.4

Automatic geometry repair during part import

Section  5.5

Import and export of model data from stereolithography files

Section  5.6

NX associative import

Section  6.1

Abaqus/CFD analysis

Section  6.2

Incompressible fluid dynamics

Section  6.3

Abaqus/CFD to Abaqus/Standard or to Abaqus/Explicit co-simulation

Section  6.4

Iterative equation solver

Section  6.5

Dynamics enhancements

Section  6.6

Contour integral evaluation improvements

Section  6.7

Continued development of the XFEM-based crack propagation capability

Section  6.8

Enhancements in Abaqus/Standard to Abaqus/Explicit co-simulation

Section  6.15

Direct cyclic analysis in Abaqus/CAE

Section  6.19

Enhancements to the geostatic procedure

Section  7.1

Mohr-Coulomb plasticity in Abaqus/Explicit

Section  7.2

Critical state (clay) plasticity model in Abaqus/Explicit

Section  7.3

Cast iron plasticity in Abaqus/Explicit

Section  7.4

Viscoelasticity with anisotropic elasticity in Abaqus/Explicit

Section  7.10

Low-density foam materials in Abaqus/CAE

Section  7.11

Combining equations of state with pressure-dependent shear plasticity in Abaqus/Explicit

Section  7.12

Johnson-Cook plasticity in Abaqus/Standard

Section  7.13

Enhancements to Johnson-Cook strain rate dependence

Section  7.14

Tension cutoff

Section  7.15

Ignition and growth equation of state

Section  7.16

Specifying a constant pressure specific heat in Abaqus/CFD

Section  8.1

Support for cylindrical elements in Abaqus/CAE

Section  8.4

Fluid elements in Abaqus/CFD

Section  9.1

Eulerian mesh motion in Abaqus/Explicit

Section  9.2

Eulerian boundary conditions in Abaqus/CAE

Section  9.4

CONWEP blast loading in Abaqus/Explicit

Section  9.6

Plotting amplitude data

Section  10.1

Creating a planar constraint

Section  11.1

Eulerian surfaces in Abaqus/CAE

Section  11.2

Pressure penetration in Abaqus/CAE

Section  11.8

Support for element and contact pair removal and reactivation in Abaqus/CAE

Section  11.15

Progressive viewfactor calculation

Section  11.16

Display of connector section assignment tags

Section  11.17

Coincident Point Builder

Section  11.18

Support for position tolerance and adjustment of the slave surface initial position for cyclic symmetry interactions in Abaqus/CAE

Section  12.1

Mapped meshing performance

Section  12.2

Mesh verification, queries, and saved sets

Section  12.3

Improvements to adaptive remeshing

Section  12.4

Tetrahedral meshing enhancements

Section  12.5

Mesh seeding enhancements

Section  12.6

Global node and element renumbering of meshed parts or part instances

Section  12.7

Local node and element renumbering of orphan mesh parts

Section  12.8

Numbering merged nodes

Section  12.9

Preserving node and element labels in the input file

Section  12.10

Editing the mesh of a dependent part instance

Section  12.11

Selecting by feature edge

Section  12.12

Mesh retained on native parts upon model database upgrade

Section  13.1

Element nodal forces in beam section orientations

Section  13.2

PSD and RMS Mises stress contour and history plots from random response analysis

Section  13.4

Isosurface contour type for contour plots

Section  13.5

Allowing for multiple view cuts

Section  13.6

Interpolated values on cut surfaces for symbol plots

Section  13.7

Improved control over arrow color and display in symbol plots

Section  13.8

Combining data from multiple output databases

Section  13.9

Finding the nearest node to a point

Section  13.10

Finding the average temperature of a set of elements

Section  13.11

New output variables for connectors

Section  13.12

Field output for connectors

Section  13.13

Improvements to filtered field output

Section  13.14

Enhancements to free body cuts

Section  13.15

Calculation of contour limits based on all frames in an animation

Section  13.16

Total time display for time history animation

Section  14.5

New location option for saving plug-ins created with the Really Simple GUI (RSG) Dialog Builder

Section  14.6

Utility routine to obtain the volume fraction in Eulerian elements

Section  15.1

Python upgrade

Section  15.2

Accessing internal sets