LUCERNE, Switzerland, Apr 16, 2025 – BETA CAE Systems is pleased to announce the release of v25.1.1 for ANSA, EPILYSIS, META, KOMVOS, SPDRM, ANSERS, FATIQ and RETOMO.
Just two months past the official commencement of v25.1.x series, v25.1.1 comes at a perfect timing to empower you with boosted performance, more stability – yet greater flexibility – at your processes, thanks to critical bug fixes and selected implementations.
Follows an overview of the most important items:
Known issues resolved in ANSA
Data Management
Focusing on Logbook, selecting any values to be displayed in the embedded META Viewer, would result in the values of the next column being displayed instead.
Moreover, in DM Browser, file attachments would be lost upon next iteration/download and while saving a new version.
Modular Run Management
Defined Target Id ranges on Impactors used by target Point Library Items would not be written in the solver keyword file.
In addition, the default numbering rules would not be read in the case of Next Iteration on a solver Subsystem.
Connections & Assembly
Converting Shells or Faces to Adhesive Faces would lead to an unexpected termination when using a Subsystem as Current and having active the Subsystem Draw Mode.
FE Representations
Concerning RBE2, for LS-DYNA and for a rigid Connectivity, the created
- *CONSTRAINED_SPOTWELD would result in errors in the solver. Now,
- *CONSTRAINED_EXTRA_NODES are created instead.
Furthermore, realizing RBE3/ RBE2-CBEAM/ RBE2/ BEAM-CONTACT with regular distribution could lead to abnormal termination.
Shell Mesh
Unexpected termination could happen after editing values in Quality Criteria window.
Laminates
Upon report generation, ABD matrix was not printed if PCOMPs were attached on geometric faces.
NVH Console
In cases where the option “Exclude Rigid Body Modes” was activated in the Defaults, Rigid Body Modes were excluded from the calculations in FRF Assembly for all components of all NVH Console runs.
LS-DYNA
ANSA would become unresponsive for a few seconds, when drawing beam elements with ELFORM=3 and the “Line elements cross section” presentation parameter was active.
Pam-Crash
During Input, unexpected termination would occur for BAGIN/, if GNAME was not in single quotes.
Optimization Tool
The values of an Optimization Study would not be updated when DM was empty.
Known issues resolved in EPILYSIS
General
- The performance of transient response analysis has been significantly improved in cases where too many RFORCEs are set.
- Significant time reduction has also been noted in AMLS phase 5 for “Fluid physical space responses recovery” in case of FRF calculation with detailed cavity models.
- EPILYSIS would terminate unexpectedly if a static pre-load (STATSUB) was used in two different dynamic subcases (SOL111).
SOL200
Abnormal termination would occur in cases with many DESVARs and many retained constraints (dual casting).
Output
- Unexpected results would be produced in case of overlapping ERP panels and ALLPANEL output was requested.
- In addition, ERP calculation did not work correctly in case of common shell/solid faces, or when requesting results on a Set.
Known issues resolved in META
General
“Auto Redraw” option in SETs did not work since version 25.0.0.
NVH Calculators
- Focusing on FRF Assembly, NVH Insights would just animate the component where the response was taken and not the complete assembly.
- Regarding Modal/FRF Correlation, META would terminate unexpectedly when loading results from Nastran SOL105 dynamic subcase solution.
Project Files & METADB
- META would not successfully detect the file format, when reading geometry from a compressed (.zip) METADB file.
- In addition, user created results were not saved in Project Files when using the option “Save References” to Results Files.
States & Animation
State attributes did not appear in the Right Mouse Button menu options of the animation bar.
Managing Curve Data
- Curves from DIAdem files were erroneously read.
- TDMS files were not read correctly.
- Modal Displacements were not read from SOL111 and SOL112 results file, when the option Modal Displacement (contribution analysis) was selected.
- Curves from ERFH5 files were read multiple times when they were read from session file.
Handling Entities
Unexpected termination could occur when selecting MAT8 material on the 3D window.
Annotations
Annotation on synchronized curve value kept on returning values, while animating states, even after the end of date was reached for the annotated curve.
Abaqus
META wouldn’t read Abaqus models with cyclic symmetry correctly, if element and node IDs were bigger than 1M.
File export
When saving nodes to CSV format, multiple lines would be written per node.
Known issues resolved in KOMVOS
Data Management
Editing of an attached file of a Subsystem would not be possible.
Machine Learning
Machine Learning training would not be completed on Windows OS, when field results from META databases that contained the colon symbol, e.g. “Model_1:Displacements”.
Configuration
KOMVOS.defaults would not be saved correctly after launching KOMVOS, while previously connected to an SPDRM server.
Known issues resolved in SPDRM
Data Management
Modifying the Status Property of a Subsystem would erroneously lead to the corruption of the stored DM object.
Data Migration/Archival
The relationships (links) between data objects were not retained during data migration from one SPDRM environment to another, using the DM Export/Import functionality among separate packages exported from the same source environment.
Furthermore, the DM import would be interrupted when it encountered properties/attributes with special (multi-byte) characters, due to an encoding issue on the SPDRM java client application.
Users Management/Security
It would not be possible to set ACLs (privileges) on data based on the value of a particular property/attribute (e.g. Project), in case the list of its accepted values was defined according to rules.
Moreover, the sorting function in the Users list under the SPDRM Admin. web portal (Users Management tab) was not working as expected.
Known issues resolved in ANSERS
General & Frontend
- Opening a shared dashlet in new tab would activate it also in current tab.
- Actions using Send to functionality were not saved directly in the dashlet.
- The static html report generated from a dashlet could not be loaded correctly in various cases.
Panels
Several bug-fixes regarding various panel types have taken place, as follows:
- In case a second model was selected to be displayed in a 3D Model panel, it appeared undeformed.
- In Curves chart points could not be displayed.
- In Scatter and Curves charts changes to axis and curve line style options were not applied directly but only after refreshing the browser page.
- In Table panel selection brought wrong objects to the implicit datasource, when the table was sorted.
Known issues resolved in FATIQ
Modal Response
Centroid stresses were output by the analysis embedded Modal Response task, despite defining the output request on Corners.
Known issues resolved in RETOMO
Item Browser
Representative foam cell center coordinates are now seamlessly calculated and printed in the “Cell List”. This information is also exported in the CSV file, along with the rest of the columns.
Download
Where to download from
- Customers who are served directly by BETA CAE Systems, or its subsidiaries, may download the new software, examples and documentation from their account on our server. They can access their account through the “download” link on our website.
- Contact us if you miss your account details. The Downloads menu items give you access to the public downloads.
- Customers who are served by a local business agent should contact the local support channel for software distribution details.
What to download
All files required for the installation of this version reside in the folders named “BETA_CAE_Systems_v25.1.1”, “KOMVOS_v25.1.1”, “SPDRM_v25.1.1”, “ANSERS_v25.1.1”, “FATIQ_v25.1.1” and “RETOMO_v25.1.1” and are dated as of March 20, 2025. These files should replace any pre-releases or other files downloaded prior to that date.
The distribution of this version of our pre- and post-processing suite is packaged in one, single, unified installation file, that invokes the respective installer and guides the procedure for the installation of the required components.
For the installation of the software on each platform type, download from the respective folders, the .sh file for Linux or the .msi file for Windows.
In addition to the above, optionally, the META Viewer is available to be downloaded for each supported platform.
The tutorials and the example files reside in the folder named “TUTORIALS”. This folder includes a complete package, and one with only the updated files.
The Abaqus libraries required for the post-processing of Abaqus .odb files are included in the installation package and can be optionally unpacked.
Earlier software releases are also available in the sub-directory called “Previous_Versions” or in a folder named after the product and version number.
About BETA CAE Systems
BETA CAE Systems is a private engineering software company committed to the development of state of the art CAE software systems that meet the requirements of all simulation disciplines. The company’s products, the ANSA pre-processor/ EPILYSIS solver and META post-processor suite, and SPDRM, the simulation-process-data-and-resources manager, hold a worldwide leading position across a range of industries, including the automotive, railway vehicles, aerospace, motorsports, chemical processes engineering, energy, electronics, heavy machinery, power tools, and biomechanics.
Committed to its mission to produce best-in-class CAE software systems, BETA CAE Systems offers products that consistently exceed expectations and provides exemplary technical support to its customers. The company’s continuously growth attest to the high level of customer satisfaction and user confidence. For more information, visit http://www.beta-cae.com.
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