New features in Animator3 0.6.6a, released february 20 2006

• support for FLC postprocessing (Indeed)
• support rezoning (Indeed and LS Dyna)
• spotweld support with more than 3 layers (Medina)
• added VRML input interface
• Nastran velocity and acceleration support as function and vector values
• Nastran support for CAABSF elements (translated to mass, bar or shell)
• Madymo interface rewritten with support for hdf5, kin3 and skalar values
• Pamcrash default for reading .inc files set to 2002 format
• failed element support for Pamcrash PLINKs
• transformation cards are resolved reading Pamcrash input decks
• many enhancements reading LS-Dyna input decks
• support for Radioss Y files
• added version for windows XP 64bit
• support for multiple license servers (A3SERVER1, A3SERVER2, ...)
• animation is shown during reading
• new enhanced font rendering
• redefine font size in pixels "opt fs1/fs2 ..."
• command "col fun num .." to set no. of colors in function color bar
• command "fun rev on/off" to reverse orientation of function color bar
• iso lines "fun ili on/off"
• "sel nli ..." to select node chain between 2 points
• "ide nhi ..." to plot values of a node chain
• impact points can be created: "imp usr ...", "add/era imp ...", "opt imr ..."
• enhanced rendering for functions without textures "fun tex off"
• added "txt ele/nod del all" command to delete all texts attached to elements/nodes
• added "opt cul ret" command to retain shell element orientation (do not change node order for drawing)
• added a method to operate Animator3 from an external program