A new release version of the PrePoMax contains the following FEM features:
- added a new constraint of type surface spring
- added a new constraint of type point spring
- added support for opening and visualizing the contact element nodes from jobname.cel files
- added support for “Contact elements” parameter at nodal, elemental and contact field outputs
- added support for opening and visualizing the ResultsForLastIterations.frd files
- Added support for “Last iterations” parameter at nodal, elemental and contact field outputs
- added support for element renumbering
- added support for 3D membrane section and membrane finite element types M3D3, M3D6, M3D4, M3D4R, M3D8 and M3D8R
- added support for performing 2D plane stress analysis using the finite element types CPS3, CPS6, CPS4, CPS4R, CPS8 and CPS8R
- added support for performing 2D plane strain analysis using the finite element types CPE3, CPE6, CPE4, CPE4R, CPE8 and CPE8R
- added support for performing 2D axisymmetric analysis using the finite element types CAX3, CAX6, CAX4, CAX4R, CAX8 and CAX8R
- added support for outputting shell and planar results in 2D or 3D
- bug fixes
And the following user features:
- added a crash recovery functionality
- added support for exporting the mesh and the deformed result parts as stl files
- added support to represent the undeformed results using a wireframe representation
- added a feature to smooth stl parts
- added a feature to flip stl part normal
- added a feature to regenerate a compound part
- added a new symbol for the spring constraints
