Functional Value
New options for contact (e.g. interference fit with Explicit, surface properties and controls parameters) to increase the simulation fidelity
Support the generation of Substructures, collections of elements from which the internal degrees of freedom have been eliminated, useful in some cases for computational and organizational reasons
Support of the direct-solution steady-state dynamic analysis to allow such analysis when the modal superimposition cannot be used (i.e. dashpot elements, unsymmetric stiffness matrix)
New Parametric Design Study app providing parametric-based design improvement tools
User Experience Value
Geometry (point, axis, plane) creation allowed directly from meshing, abstraction or connections dialog boxes
Copy of existing mesh groups when using mesh transformation operators (e.g. translation, symmetry)
New option to restrict the number highlighted points on a contour plot with the Show Min/Max Values functionality at user convenience