Release Highlights & Details
Ansys 2024 R1 stands out with its unified interface that simplifies complexities for improved efficiency. The native integration removes obstacles in collaborative engineering settings, promoting instant interactions and enhancing project results. Incorporating a visually appealing Dark Mode and contemporary design underscores our dedication to innovation, offering users a visually pleasing and efficient experience.
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Electronics
In the 2024 R1 release, Ansys Electronics maintains its leadership in computational electromagnetics. With enhancements in simulation speed, meshing, and integration with other tools, Ansys continues to support innovation in electronics development across various markets.
It includes a range of applications like combined chip-package-PCB simulation, RF, HPC, 3D IC and electric motors.
New capabilities include ECAD-MCAD integration in Ansys Maxwell for flex and rigid PCBs, adaptive templates in Ansys Motor-CAD, and multi-solver interoperability for multiphysics and multiscale solutions.
Fluids
Updates in Ansys Fluids 2024 R1 bring improvements in solver performance, user productivity, and handling complex application workflows.
The Fluent GPU solver introduces support for additional physics alongside a new Fluent web user interface, enabling real-time post-processing visualization through a web browser.
Ansys CFX and Turbo Tools showcase enhanced blade modeling functionalities, while Ansys Rocky presents improved Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations and enhanced Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) capabilities.
Structures
In the 2024 R1 release, the structures product line unveils new features empowering users to tackle increasingly complex problems with efficiency.
Mechanical introduces fresh dark and light user interface themes to enhance flexibility and ensure a uniform user experience across Ansys products.
Additionally, Mechanical undergoes significant enhancements aimed at streamlining vibro-acoustics workflows, including a dedicated noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) meshing workflow, and expanded product packaging capabilities. The fast Lanczos solver in LS-DYNA significantly boosts speed and accuracy for large models featuring numerous computed modes.
Moreover, Python programming becomes more accessible with PySherlock, and Sherlock is now compatible with Linux.
Optics
Ansys Optics in the 2024 R1 release enhances simulation capabilities tailored for optics and photonics designers.
This update introduces new features aimed at improving high-efficiency multiscale optics simulation and analysis.
It includes functionalities for simulating metalenses, streamlining straylight analysis, and ensuring compatibility with other Ansys products.
3D Design
The newest release of Ansys Discovery emphasizes seamless precision, intelligent model preparation, and expeditious design exploration.
Effortless precision boosts simulation accuracy by up to 10 times through local fidelity refinement, thereby reducing GPU memory demands.
Smart Model Prep streamlines setup time by 50 times through automated weld creation and associative physics transfer.
To expedite design exploration, the introduction of the optiSLang plug-in enables optimization, sensitivity studies, and one-click burst to cloud capability, facilitating up to 100 parallel simulations on Ansys Cloud.
Acoustics
In Ansys Acoustics 2024 R1, all Mechanical enterprise users gain access to Sound Analysis and Specification (SAS), allowing them to conduct acoustic analyses and create more pleasing sounds rapidly.
Additionally, the Data Processing Framework (DPF) Sound now incorporates psychoacoustic indicators, empowering users to estimate how humans perceive sound.
Additive
Ansys’ latest Additive Manufacturing (AM) release elevates 3D printing with improvements in Fidelity, Usability, and Optimization.
Prioritizing Fidelity, it ensures accuracy in capturing process parameters such as Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) and Directed Energy Deposition (DED).
Usability enhancements streamline workflows and introduce tools like LPBF Setting Template Save/Load, simplifying job setup.
Optimization features like Distortion Compensation restart and DED Auto-dwell time enhance productivity by automating intricate processes. This release highlights Ansys’ dedication to advancing additive manufacturing.
Autonomous Vehicle Simulation
Building on the momentum of our previous release, 2024 R1 advances Autonomous Vehicle Simulation even further.
Prioritizing safety above all else, this release focuses on critical aspects that enhance the development of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD) features.
Significant improvements in integration and connectivity, radar sensor simulation, and compliance with industry-mandated virtual headlamp regulations are among the key enhancements.
These innovations aim to empower our users in designing the most robust solutions for the automotive industry.
Connect
Ansys 2024 R1 brings AI-powered optimization, Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) connectivity, and sustainable Material Intelligence to facilitate earlier simulation in the design process, expediting product development.
Through Ansys Connect, engineers can analyze verified requirements using ModelCenter, seamlessly linked to the Ansys Systems Architecture Modeler.
The introduction of the Granta MI sustainability add-on aids in making material decisions at an earlier stage.
The enhanced user interface and user experience (UI/UX) foster collaboration, integrating process and data management, requirements verification, optimization, and materials management functionalities directly into the everyday simulation interface.
Digital Missions Engineering
The 2024 R1 update for Digital Mission Engineering (DME) brings forth new functionalities for mission-level simulation.
These include enhanced modeling for subsystems and sensor payloads, updated tools catering to large platforms, asset grouping capabilities, and enhancements in Python scripting and API.
These improvements aim to enhance workflows, fidelity, and performance analysis, aligning closely with the requirements of space mission design and operation.
Digital Twin
Ansys 2024 R1 Digital Twin presents streamlined optimization algorithms for parameter calibration, enhanced fusion workflow featuring multi-file selection, transient response capability for static parameters, visualization within the SRB interface, and expanded support for new Mechanical applications via LS-DYNA.
Embedded Software
Ansys is introducing a new product named Scade One, designed as a model-based solution for developing embedded applicative software. Scade One facilitates a seamless Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) process by leveraging openness and adherence to standards.
Drawing from years of expertise in developing safety-critical systems, Scade One offers an entry-level option accessible to any company aiming to develop secure and dependable embedded software.
It caters to system designers and embedded programmers alike, bridging the gap between the user-friendly nature of model-based tools, featuring an intuitive interface, and the versatility of general-purpose programming languages for developing applications ranging from traditional control software to intricate mission and autonomy software.
Materials
Designing for sustainability is made easier with the introduction of material intelligence in Ansys Granta MI.
This new sustainability add-on provides a comprehensive toolset and relevant data to assist sustainability experts, materials experts, and designers in their engineering endeavors to minimize the environmental impact of products right from the early stages of the design process.
Safety Analysis
Ansys Medini Analyze introduces two new components in its 2024 R1 release: the Digital Safety Manager (DSM) and a Digital Collaboration Server.
The DSM serves as a web application tailored for safety managers, while the Digital Collaboration Server offers a centralized project management platform. Additionally, the scripting API has been enhanced to facilitate easier customization.
