LUCERNE, Switzerland, May 21, 2025 – BETA CAE Systems is pleased to announce the release of v25.1.2 for ANSA, EPILYSIS, META, KOMVOS, SPDRM, ANSERS and FATIQ, with critical bug fixes and selected implementations.
Known issues resolved in ANSA
Geometry
Selected CONS belonging to meshed Laminate macro areas, were not highlighted.
Shell Mesh
During Direct Edit, providing tangential point would not work for mesh without underlying geometry.
Batch Meshing
When executing a layers’ scenario, volumes of any inactive sessions that were previously executed would erroneously be deleted.
CFD DECKs
Output of FidelityPBS meshes was exporting duplicate patches, when non-conformal interfaces definitions existed.
Laminate Tool
The contents of laminate layers on geometry would not be modified.
Modular Run Management
Performance has been significantly improved up to 40% in Saving Subsystems to SPDRM & FBDM, in cases where Smart Connectors have already been applied at the time of save.
Furthermore, focusing on the Simulation Model Build Performance, there is an acceleration of Build Action “Check Assembly Status” up to 70%.
Data Management
Upon downloading a Subsystem Group, ANSA would falsely use the model action specified in ANSA.defaults (inputparams.ModelAction) instead of displaying the “Merge Parameters” window. Now the respective window pops up and the user is allowed to decide on the Model Action.
Optimization Tool
Optimization tool charts and plots, open in separate tabs, were not one-to-one linked with the original charts that were open in the Results tab.
Scripting
Unexpected termination could occur when an Abaqus IMPORT entity type was used as an argument in this function.
Known issues resolved in EPILYSIS
SOL200
Unexpected termination would occur in case a response of type FORCE would point to a CBUSH element.
SOL112
Unexpected software abortion could take place in transient analysis with enforced excitation and two subcases as output request.
SOL105
Incorrect results could be generated when using PARAM, INREL, -1 for buckling analysis.
Contacts
Incorrect results could be calculated when using IGLUE=3 contact parameter.
Known issues resolved in META
Generic
Contact Gap data from .intfor files were not loaded properly when requested on specific interface sets.
When saving an .xlsx file, the font size of the row and column headers was not set to a readable size.
In addition, bad handling of type *ELEMENT_TSHELL_BETA led to erroneous properties and possible unexpected termination while saving METADB.
LS-DYNA
It was not possible to read parameter expressions within parentheses inside brackets, although correctly defined.
Abaqus
META would terminate unexpectedly when reading results without a description from .odb files, produced by AutoFENA.
nCode
Results on elements were not loaded correctly.
Also, results from .fer files containing mid-nodes were not read properly.
ParaView
Displacement results from VTU files were not read correctly.
Data Management
In DM Ribbon, parent DM Item Id was lost upon refresh action in DM Browser.
Identification of Entities and Data
META would cease unexpectedly when creating a stress linearization path from parametric point paths tool.
HTML3D
Flow paths were not updated properly upon label change.
Toolbar Designer
“Expand into User Toolbars” submenu option did not work properly since v25.0.0 and on.
Template Manager
Geometry and results were not loaded from .h3d files, using a template file.
Known issues resolved in KOMVOS
CAD Import/ Export
When the region format in the OS settings was different than the “English (Unites States)”, the transformation matrices were not read properly.
Data Management
Attached files/folders DM Attributes would not appear in the attributes list of the Import wizard.
Moreover, KOMVOS would create unnecessary copies in the TMP folder upon Export or Edit of compound DM items. Now, both performance and disk space utilization are improved.
Known issues resolved in SPDRM
Data Management
Exporting a Subsystem Group of solver File Type that contained adapted Subsystems with References in its Representation File Content would fail to export the source, “unadapted” Subsystems.
Data Migration/Archival
The import of SPDRM DM package would falsely be aborted in case the dataset included objects of type ‘changeset’.
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_v25.1.2”, “KOMVOS_v25.1.2”, “SPDRM_v25.1.2”, “ANSERS_v25.1.2”, “FATIQ_v25.1.2” and “RETOMO_v25.1.2” and are dated as of May 13, 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.
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