• Restarting Optimizations

You can now restart an incomplete optimization to continue it from the point where it ended.

Optimizations might stop because of a license interruption, a lack of drive space, or they might reach the specified maximum number of optimization cycles. In any of these cases, you can now restart the optimization once you remove the blocking issue.

You cannot change the setup for an optimization and restart it. For example, if you change the convergence criteria or constraint values, you must start a new optimization.

Benefits: Restarting an optimization saves the time and computing resources used to reach the original stopping point. The completed optimization has all the data and options as if it completed in a single run.

For more information, see About Restarting Optimizations.

• Jog Creation

You can now create a jogged bend with a line or a sketch including a line.

Benefits: You can create several bends at once.

For more information, see Creating Jogs.

• Simplification of the Result When Creating a Wall or a Wall on Edge

When creating walls, tangent walls on edge, walls on edge with clearance, or sketch-based tangent walls on edge, the results faces are now simplified, provided the input support faces are planar.

Benefits: This capability improves the result of wall, wall-on-edge, pattern, and mirror features and eases the sheet metal design workflow.

• Mitered Wall on Edge

You can now create mitered walls from edges with profiles consisting of lines and tangent arcs.

Benefits: The command is enhanced as you can use not only segments as profiles but also lines and tangent arcs.

For more information, see Create Walls from Edges Along Adjacent Edges.

• Immersive Plot Viewer and User Interface for Design of Experiments

You can interactively customize graphical, curve, plot, and chart properties for greater visual clarity.

Benefits: Immersively view and customize graphs and their properties including for advanced stacks such as A2X with greater visual clarity.

For more information, see Interpreting Results.

• Managing Your Parameters

Three new commands let you handle the value of the parameters you create.

You can now:

• Write an equation to drive a value
• Define multiple values and switch between them
• Specify a range to limit the array of values

Benefits: The management of parameters is enhanced.

For more information, see Working with Parameters.

• Adding Notes and Images in the Graph Editor

You can now provide textual and visual indications in your graph by inserting notes and images.

Benefits: Notes and images are useful to annotate your graph and to provide explanations about your design.

For more information, see Notes and Images.

• New Operators

Several new operators are added to the library.

• Get Attribute returns the object's attribute using an attribute's name.
• Get Items If returns a filtered list according to a Boolean condition.
• If Then Else returns an input according to a Boolean condition.
• Inscribed Circle creates the inscribed circle of a polygon.
• List Attributes returns the list of available attributes' names of an object.
• Query Children retrieves objects of a given type inside a set of objects and converts them if needed.
• Set Closed Curve Origin defines the starting point of a closed curve.
• Slice Curve splits a curve into segments based on a list of points.

Benefits: New design capabilities are provided.

• Defining Mechanism Parameters and Formulas

You can create and manage mechanism parameters and use them in formulas to define specific properties of mechanism elements.

Benefits: It is easier to define a specific behavior for mechanism elements using mechanism parameters and formulas.

For more information, see Creating Mechanism Parameters and Formulas.

• Animating Screw Joints

You can open a model including manual or automatic screw joints created between two elements and animate the mechanism to move the elements along a rotation axis.

Benefits: It is possible to animate mechanisms with more complex configurations and to visualize the motion of mechanisms including screw joints.

For more information, see Previewing the Motion of Mechanisms.

• Animating Point-Surface Joints

You can open a model including manual or automatic point-surface joints created between two elements (a point and a body surface) and animate the mechanism to move the elements according to one another.

Benefits: It is possible to animate mechanisms with more complex configurations and to visualize contacts between two geometric elements using point-surface joints.

For more information, see Previewing the Motion of Mechanisms.

• Visualizing the Accuracy of Contact Meshes

The 3D accuracy option lets you visualize the effects of the mesh density on the accuracy of the contact surface in the 3D area. The 3D accuracy value cannot be edited and depends on the mesh density value.

Benefits: By providing information about the mesh accuracy, performance and robustness are enhanced, especially for contacts with a fine mesh density, and it is possible to assess the resulting quality of the mesh.

For more information, see Creating Contacts Between Bodies.

• Exact Geometry Domain Extraction

You can now create a watertight representation of your model and extract an exact geometric representation of its internal flow domain.

This enhancement includes two new features:

• Lids, which you can use to close gaps in the internal flow region.
• Internal flow extraction, which you can use to extract the geometry representation of the flow region once you have rendered the region watertight with lids.

Benefits: Closing gaps in the internal flow region and extracting its shape enables you to use the internal flow region more efficiently for fluid flow simulations.

For more information, see Defining a Lid and Extracting the Internal Volume.

Export 2D Drawings as DXF/DWG Output

You can export 2D drawings documents as DXF/DWG output.

Benefits: You can now share 2D drawing documents like DWG/DXF with manufacturing stakeholders.

For more information, see Creating 2D Output.

• Bookmark New Components Easily: 

While creating new components, you can now choose bookmark folders for the components from the home page of the app or by using the New command on the Standard section of the action bar.

Benefits: The ability to select a bookmark folder while creating components makes it easier to organize your work.

For more information, see Bookmarking Components.

• Snapping to Spline and Ellipse Geometry

While creating sketches, you can snap to spline and ellipse geometries within, and external to the active sketch.

Benefits: This snapping ability with splines and ellipses is available during the entity creation and in drag operations. The snap creates coincident constraints to the splines and ellipse curve.

• Opening Curve-Related Joints

You can open models including curve-related joints and animate them using the Kinematics Player.

Curve-related joints include the following:

• Curve Tangency 
• Point Curve 
• Point Surface 

Benefits: When working with motion models and switching between apps that include a Kinematics Player, you use the Kinematics Player to simulate the motion.

• Creating Mechanisms under any Product

You can create mechanisms under any product of your model and not only under the root product.

Benefits: It is possible to create and simulate complex models by creating mechanisms anywhere in the product structure.

For more information, see Creating Mechanisms.

• Animating Point-Surface Joints

You can open a model including manual or automatic point-surface joints created between two elements (a point and a body surface) and animate the mechanism to move the elements according to one another.

Benefits: It is possible to animate mechanisms with more complex configurations and to visualize contacts between two geometric elements using point-surface joints.

For more information, see Previewing the Motion of Mechanisms.

• Animating Screw Joints

You can open a model including manual or automatic screw joints created between two elements and animate the mechanism to move the elements along a rotation axis.

Benefits: It is possible to animate mechanisms with more complex configurations and to visualize the motion of mechanisms including screw joints.

For more information, see Previewing the Motion of Mechanisms.

Reference Video:

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