5.3.0

CAESES Release 5.3.0

The Maritime Special

🚀 New Features

• BRep Operation: A new operation lets you easily create linear Patterns.
• BRep Operation: Added operation to merge curves to a BRep with the option to trim it.
• Computations: Improved computation handling in batch mode (FExternComputation.run(true)) ensuring tasks are completed in sequence before application is finished.
• Context Menu: Added option to Sort Objects in Tree.
• Context Menu: Added option to Select Multiple Surfaces.
• Context Menu: Added Target Search to automatically adjust a design variable such that a dependent parameter matches the target value.
• Curve Operation: Added curve operation to extrude a curve to a plane and optionally close the extrusion.
• Curves: Added create / edit / delete buttons to color map editor.
• Documentation: New documentation platform.
• FCurve: Added .getPositionTangentToCircle() command to find the position on a curve where a circular fillet can smoothly connect to a specific point and tangent direction, which may be derived from another curve.
• FGenericCurve: Added Data Reduction Tolerance, which is applied after approximation with n points.
• FNurbsCurve: Added command .approximatePointsWeightedConstrained().
• FPanelMeshGroup: Added new commands to get the unique vertices .getUniqueVertices() and their ids .getIdsForUniquePoints().
• FParameter: Added (optional) bounds for parameters.
• FPoint: Added option to enable/disable 3D view handles when dragging points.
• FVector3Series: Added command to decimate a curve composed of line segments to a similar curve with fewer points using the Ramer-Douglas-Peucker-Algorithm.
• Features: Added methods to create menus within features.
• Fonts: Added commands to question properties of fonts.
• General: Added commands: isProjectLoaded(), isUpdating(), getProjectName().
• Maritime: Added fast way to compute Sectional Area Curve (SAC) as part of the existing .getDisplacement() command.
• Maritime: Added Ship Modeling Workflow with Component-Based Ship Object.
• Maritime: Added Section-Based Aftship.
• Maritime: Added Buttock-Based Aftship.
• Maritime: Added Waterline-Based Foreship.
• Maritime: Added Midship.
• Maritime: Added Single Skeg.
• Maritime: Added Basic Bulb.
• Maritime: Added Generic Ship Object.
• Maritime: Added Hydrostatics Plots for calculated hydrostatic properties at a series of drafts.
• Maritime: Added feature to enforce hydrostatics via generic Lackenby transformation.
• Maritime: Added feature to create a simple flow domain.
• Maritime: Added righting lever curve.
• Maritime: Added a software connection to OpenFOAM for ship resistance simulations.
• Maritime: Added a software connection to StarCCM+ for ship resistance simulations.
• Propeller: Added Advanced Propeller Workflow.
• Propeller: Added Toroidal Propeller Workflow.
• Propeller: Added Propeller Center Surface.
• Propeller: Added 2D Profile Configurator.
• Propeller: Added Propeller Blade Component.
• Propeller: Added new Propeller Tip Surface.
• Propeller: Added Propeller Solid Component.
• Propeller: Added Propeller Flow Domain Component.
• Propeller: Added Propeller Calculator.
• Propeller: Added Cavitation Prediction.
• Propeller: Added Minimum Thickness calculation.
• Propeller: Added Propeller Slip Percentage calculation.
• Propeller: Added Expanded Area Ratio calculation.
• Section Distribution: Added option to change the section distribution for MetaSurfaces, GenericBlade, AirfoilBlade and Propeller Blade
• Selection: New selection behavior to pick object in 3D view with highlevel and sublevel (Ctrl+Alt) selection.
• Sensitivity Computation: Re-Enabled Sensitivity Computation to use adjoint surface sensitivities directly for optimizations.
• Sensitivity Computation: Added relative parametric sensitivity, which takes the area of impact of a design variable into account, in order to weight the parametric sensitivities.
• Silhouette: Added command FTriangleBag::getSilhouette().
• Transformation: Added Inverse Transformation.
• Turbo: Added feature in camber utilities to calculate rake angles between two camberlines.

🔧 Changes

• Add-on Turbo: Propeller modeling functionality now part of separate add-on Propeller.
• ANSYS Integration: Updated ACT app.
• Design Engine: Editor now displays full names from a common base scope.
• Freeform Deformation: Improved handling of point selection.
• Math: Change result of tan(Pi()/2) to be INF, and atan(INF) to be Pi()/2 or 90, according to MATLAB/Octave convention.
• NURBS Curves: Removed degree restriction (former: 9).
• Periodic BRep: Moved periodic BRep from ribbon to BRep Operations and changed name to "Rotational Pattern".
• Project File: Added warning message for projects stored on a network drive.
• Shortest Distance Line: Show tessellation settings of input.

📝 Documentation

• New documentation platform.
• New type and global commands overview.

New Docs

• Added description on New Selection Behavior.
• Added Interactive Modeling.
• Added Patterns.
• Added Message Boxes Pop-Up documentation.
• Added Sorting In Object Tree.
• Added Expert-Know-How for feature programming.
• Added Context Menu Actions.
• Added Propeller Fundamental Know-How Documentation.
• Added Propeller Design Workflow documentation.
• Added Hydrostatics documentation.
• Added Ship Modeling Workflow documentation.

New Tutorials

• Added tutorial on Parametric Hard Chine Boat.
• Added tutorial on Planar Transom and Deck Modeling.
• Added tutorial on Lackenby Transformation.
• Added tutorial on Partially PArametric Deformation of an Imported Ship Hull.
• Added tutorial on OpenFOAM Connection.
• Added tutorial on StarCCM+ Connection.
• Added tutorial on Fine Marine Pre-Processing.
• Added tutorial on Naval CFD Post-Processing.
• Added tutorial on Advanced Propeller Design Workflow.
• Added tutorial on Toroidal Propeller Design Workflow.

New Samples

• Added Component-Based Ship sample.
• Added Hard Chine Boat sample.
• Added new sample showing Deformation of an Imported Ship Hull.
• Added Advanced Propeller sample.
• Added Toroidal Propeller sample.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 3D Selection: Fixed potential crash.
• BRep Properties: Fixed bug calculating BRep properties such as getVolumeMomentsOfInertia() with a given center of gravity.
• BReps: Fixed case where extrusion failed.
• Configurations: Fixed duplicate entries.
• Dakota: Fixed Dakota.
• Design Velocities: Fixed bug where the coordinate system cube was not working when design velocities are being displayed.
• DesignEngine: Removed unnecessary warnings.
• DesignEngine Editor: Fixed crash when exchanging constraints.
• DetailView: Fixed crash.
• Developable Surface: Fixed rendering with developable surface as dynamic type.
• Developable Surface: Fixed export of unrolled surface.
• DimensionalityReduction: Fixed crash when updated at the wrong time.
• Documentation: Fixed crash.
• Documentation: Fixed back button.
• Dynamic Types: Fixed references to dynamic types within features.
• Dynamic Types: Fixed renaming of dynamic type objects.
• Extract Wakefield: Postprocessing: fixed extraction of wakefields.
• FCurve: Fixed inconsistent results of getMin() called with or without arguments.
• FFeatureDefinition: Fixed crash when deleting argument of nested feature.
• FFile: Fixed FFile.readVector3s() with delimiters.
• FeatureStorage: Fixed issue with creating dynamic types after project open and close.
• Features: Fixed problems with NaN values.
• Features: Fixed potential deadlock on detach.
• Features: Fixed basic type assignment in functions.
• Features: Fixed template types in feature functions.
• Features: Fixed initialization of default values for special cases.
• Features: Function names can now contain underscores.
• GUI: Close popup when element after element has been selected.
• GeomTurboExport: Fixed problem that zr curve point number was not correct.
• Import FFW: Fixed dynamic types.
• Interspace Surface: Fixed interspace surface for dynamic types.
• Nurbscurve: Fixed potential memory race.
• Operations: Fixed editor when moving/rearranging operations.
• Parax: Fixed Parasolid export.
• Planar Intersection Curve: Added intersection tolerance.
• PolySurface: Fix null references when created with selection.
• Post-Processing: Fixed size of selection combobox.
• Rendering: Fixed potential crash.
• SAT Export: Fixed issue that project units are ignored
• Screenshot: Fix internal path of built-in screenshot generation during helpdesk ticket creation.
• Selection Set: Correct naming behavior in the selection set of objects behind ad-hoc CMDs.
• Selection Set: Fix moving items in selection set up and down.
• Selection Set: Make use of static toString() method in selection set model.
• Selection Set: Ensure singular occurrence of objects in selection set.
• Selection: Ensure correct rectangle selection behavior when picking lines.
• Selection: Ensure consistent pick results for highlighting and selection.
• Selection: Prevent move handlers from showing in the selection set.
• Streamsection: Fixed tolerance issue when angle distribution does not exactly start at x=0 and end at x=1.
• TSearch: Fixed number of evaluated designs being one less than specified.
• TypeDocu: Fixed missing images.
• Types: Correct parsing of component CMDs that are owned by dynamic types.
• User Interface: Save-button of screenshot viewer keeps focus.
• User Interface: Disable selection set actions when clicking outside of rows.
• User Interface: Ensure internal pointer to be always valid.
• User Interface: Fix frozen application and wrong error highlighting in case of pasting multi-line text.
• User Interface: Wrap FWorkspacePopup in a QDialog to fix hidden DeleteOnClose bug.
• User Interface: Ensure non-zero mouse wheel delta to fix zoom to NaN.
• WebApp: Fixed a bug where templates are not being removed correctly.