14.04.2009
Animator4 Version 1.1.3 released
GNS has releases a new version of Animator4. Version 1.1.3 contains a lot of significant improvements and bug fixes.
New Features / Improvements
- Added support for frequency response calculation from modal results.
- Added variables to command language
- User and system defined variables
- String and numeric variables
- definable on startup on commandline, by command and with GUI
- systemvariables allow access to modeldata
- Implemented CurveIds for easy access to curves without knowing their names
- Support for subcase selection in curve import
- Direct access from model items to curve including calculation of sum, minimum, maximum, aver- age, etc.
- Specification of default target view for identify history to avoid multiple views from one command
- added support for Tk in Tcl & upgraded to version 8.5.6 extended Tcl-API: access to variables, properties, follow nodes, etc.
- Added support for curves and texts in Database
- improved speed of distance calculations
- accelerated identifying of items accelerated adding/drawing large sets of curves curves
- all settings and options can now be saved as defaults for future sessions on per user basis
- split options dialog into multiple dialogs to improve navigation
- added direct pdf output so that pdfs can be generated without a pdf-printer / ghostscript installed
- added command to access printer from session file (not in batch mode)
- PartDialog is now able work on multiple slots simultaneously.
InputInterfaces
- Abaqus:
- support for CP.. elements
- some bugfixes in import of model and result data
- Dyna3D:
- accelerated reading d3plot
- support for DEFINE_TRANSFORM
- Marc:
- support for additional solid elements
- bugfixes for solid element results
- Nastran:
- support for curve import
- support for calculation of frequency response curves from modal analysis results
- support for additional datablocks and results
- Pamcrash:
- several bugfixes
Output Interfaces
- Pamcrash:
- fixed writing parts
- Dyna:
- write header cards
- VRML:
- set output format to two digit exponent & fixed crash if no Nodes have been send
For further details and a list of bugfixes see the WhatsNew tab in the
About dialog in Animator4 or review the file WhatsNew.text in the
installation directory.

