The Fall 2014 update to Version 9.2 provides the cumulative improvements made during 2014, including: significant improvements or additions to some functions, additions to the API, and bug fixes
Note that the bugs only applied to a few specific models and did not affect most customers. However, the net result of the fixes is a more stable, better working program.
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General updates include:
- LORENTZ: The emittance calculation now uses the Plane Manager instead of prompting for coplanar points.
- LORENTZ: The emission files now contain directives and comments, for example to specify the units used
Functions added to the API include:
- Geometry_SetSegmentRadius_BySegment();
- Physics_SetSegmentVoltageMagnitudePhase();
- Physics_SetSegmentVoltageMagnitudePhase_BySegment();
- Mesh_Assign1D_AutomaticAll();
- Object_Get2DRegionFromSegmentArray();
- Analysis_GetNumberOfPoints_OnStreamline2();
- Analysis_GetStreamlineData2();
- Mesh_AssignTetrahedral_AutomaticAll();
- Mesh_AssignTetrahedral_AutomaticLocal();
- Geometry2D_GetLinePointCoordinates();
- Geometry2D_GetArcPointCoordinates();
- Geometry_HealOverlappingPlanarSurfaces_All();
- Mesh_AssignQuadrilateral_AutomaticAll();
- Mesh_AssignQuadrilateral_AutomaticLocal();
- Analysis_Get2DElectricFields();
- Analysis_Get2DMagneticFields();
- Analysis_GetVoltages();
- Analysis_GetElectricFields();
- Analysis_GetMagneticFields();
- Physics_SetFloating();
- Physics_SetFloating_BySurface();
- Geometry_DefinePlanarSurface_FromSegments();
- Geometry_SweepSurface_Linear();
- Geometry_SweepSegment_Linear();
- Geometry_GetSegment_FromPoint();
- Geometry2D_GetSegment_FromPoint();
- Physics_DeleteBoundaryCondition();
- Physics_DeleteBoundaryCondition_BySurface();
- Analysis_GetCurrentThroughSurface_ByVolume();
- Physics_SetPermanentMagnetRemanence();
- Mesh2D_Assign1D_BySegment();
- Mesh2D_Assign1D_AutomaticAll();
- Physics_SetPermanentMagnetCoercivity();
Bugs resolved after last release of V92:
- “Add/Delete” button not active for Constant Speed setting
- “Analysis > Scatter Plot” Not Working
- “Apply Settings” button in Field Analysis Result dialog not working properly
- “Show Step” in Output Manager doesn’t show plot
- 1-point rays on emitter surface – BEM field solution
- 2D and 3D magnetic solvers give difference results for same model
- 2D R-Z view not working
- 3D elements are regenerated while displacing, rotating, mirroring, and scaling the geometry in 3D programs
- Adaptive solvers crash with space charge elements
- Alt+Mouse zoom not working for model
- AMPERES: cone locations making surface plots
- AMPERES: Energy in parametric not what expected
- AMPERES: Surface Force Density
- API Command Geometry_SetSegmentRadius bug
- API does not report the same real or imaginary values as compared to values calculated from Field Analysis window
- API function Analysis_Get2DTorque_ByRegion outputting 0 torque
- API function Physics_CreatePointCharges gives error
- API functions cannot set particle type for point emitters
- API: Sweep along Y doesn’t give Surface Number
- Bad ray drawing with 5th order smoothing
- Beam 1’s collectors stop the rays but in iteration 2 some of the rays go through collectors
- Beam display not working
- Beam Display update
- Beam power contour plots in Output Manager
- Boundary menu crashes program
- Bug – Estimating J
- Bug with Physics_CreatePointCharges()
- Buttons greyed out in Discrete Point Emitter Definition window
- Cannot change parameter name without changing first character
- Cannot display background
- Cannot get the right display of current assignment in the coil
- Cannot work with Solution Details Dialog in V93
- Can’t change plot transparency
- CHRONOS: the buttons “Assign”, “Inquire”, and “Delete” of the dialog box “Matched Terminator” don’t work
- Code that fails in C# but not in VBA
- Command line while solving for trajectories
- Complementary color for ray markers
- Contour plot from Define Output window
- Contour plot from Define Outputs missing parts
- Coordinates/Kinematics data missing in Solution Details, Markers tab
- COULOMB: crash while running parametric
- COULOMB: crashes with adding field probes by file
- Crash – New Point Emitter
- Crash after adding a plot on plot object
- Crash at the end of the parametric run
- Crash defining parametric value at point parametric postprocessing
- Crash during ray tracing
- Crash importing STP File
- Crash opening model(s)
- Crashing problem in performing overlapping surface check
- Crashing problem when plotting E-field contour inside a volume
- Creating connected surface current flow
- CSV and XML export from parametrics – file extensions
- Define Outputs plot doesn’t conform to surface
- Define Plot Objects – list messed up
- Dipole Moment crashes output dialog
- Display background beam checkbox state isn’t remembered
- Displaying wrong Surface Charge Density units
- Dots disappear when using Inquire > Segment Tangent in 2D Programs
- ELECTRO: Linear Voltage leads to QNaN in model
- ELECTRO: crashes while displaying paramters
- ELECTRO-KELVIN: client-specific model fails to solve
- Emittance units
- Emitter size unit
- Error after “Show Step” from Output Manager
- Error using Model_Delete_All
- Failed merge volumes in a specific model
- FARADAY: crashes during inductance calculation
- Field Analysis Results – Plot user range not properly maintained from a saved file
- File crashes on assigning tetrahedral elements
- First step of parametric
- For this model, API command Window_Close() prompts file save and crashes program
- For this model, contour plot always appears behind the geometry
- Free form curve not going through points in 2D
- Geometry > Healing > Intersection in 2D Mode
- Geometry display data for outputs not saved
- Geometry Tolerance setting causes solver to fail from “overlapping” segments
- Hang at 100% refinement of tetrahedral elements
- How to determine whether a point is inside a (curved) cell or not
- Impressed field display
- Impressed field not giving right answer
- In 2nd iteration rays go through collector (3D)
- Inappropriate B Field Change when volume is deleted
- Inconsistent solving times
- Inquire Segment Tangent in 2D Mode
- Interior material colors can be affected by hidden geometry in this model
- Intersection fails
- Isosurface seems to have an initialization problem
- Length Unit not parsing correctly
- Look at point function; model vanishes
- LORENTZ: “Define Outputs”/”Output Manager” windows hide behind main window
- LORENTZ: Mesh fails in V9.2
- LORENTZ: model from customer had problem with sweep out 1.5 nm arc
- LORENTZ: Segments not forming surface in GUI
- LORENTZ: solves much slower for this model than it used to
- LORENTZ: templates don’t seem to work
- LORENTZ: wrong toolbars in 2D Mode
- LORENTZ-2EM: crashes when it completes its ray calculations
- LORENTZ-2EM: V9.2 crashes for specific model
- LORENTZ-LFE: Error occurs upon attempt to “add plot” in Define Output window
- Magnetic Optical Solver – initialization issues
- MAGNETO: nonlinear problem
- MAGNETO: program crashed upon attempt to import the inventory file
- Meshing problem with specific model
- Missed collector in gap
- Missing background beam options
- Model that won’t solve in v92
- Model_SetAnalysisMode() sets the right mode but outputs error 100
- Model_SetAnalysisMode() sets mode but outputs error 100
- Multiple launch crash
- Multiple launch problem
- Needless re-solving of V91 model
- Not reading particle type from V91 model
- Not using ODE Setting
- Offset launch always in m regardless of the Model Distance Unit
- On Surface View the surface vanishes rather than turning white
- Opening with the type set as *.*
- Output causing spurious crashes
- Output Manager greyed out with entry in Define Outputs
- Output Manager: Mesh underlay doesn’t show in Hidden Lines view
- Overlapping healing hangs for more than one completely enclosed surface
- Overlapping planar tool disconnects surfaces from the part
- P+ Particle in customer’s model won’t save
- Percent; Analysis_GetBeamCenterAndDiameter
- Perpendicular line tool makes zero length connection
- Phi not readable when scroll bar opens in Multiple Launch Dialog
- Plot contours very messy around geometry in symmetric case
- Problem with elements on surface
- Profile plot from Define Outputs doesn’t show
- Program crashed when tried to get a contours plot on a region
- Program freezes when re-assigning 2D elements to region
- Pull point doesn’t update Segment Emitter Discretization
- Rays fail to launch
- Rays go through symmmetry axis set as reflector
- Rays permanently displayed in black
- Rays with just one point on emitter surface
- Reading particle from point emitter in older model
- Renaming key points
- Repeated solving of the same model gives different E-fields
- Rounding corners generates a distorted geometry
- RS Collectors not working
- Saved views not working
- Scale solution doesn’t change the voltage in Physics > Boundary Conditions
- Segment beam axis not working with model
- Self-adaptive test-meshing may get stuck or crash
- Small geometry doesn’t save in the model
- Solution Refine crashes with quad elements
- STP imported model cannot be meshed/solved
- Stretch Mode and Physics/Solver Setup
- Surface emitter
- Surface partly disappears after setting user range on plot object
- The existence of t(s)- streamlines files
- Trouble assigning tetrahedral elements with FEM solver for this model
- Trouble with user-defined grid
- Turn off “Intermediate Output” not working in this model
- Two points pulled together but segments still disconnected
- Unrealistic beam power plot with User Defined Grid in Define Ouputs
- Updating line width in contour plots
- User-defined grid doesn’t work in Define Outputs
- V93 RK4 solver doesn’t do assigned time step
- V93: Can’t open model in LORENTZ-3D
- Values at point not working in batch
- View limits not saving when automatically increased
- View manipulation during ray/marker selection
- Viewing of a STEP import
- Voltage automatically removed
- Weighting lost with undo
- With the Output Manager, changing the current doesn’t change current related plots
- Writing restart file crash for t=0
- Wrong current reported
- Zero integral for contour plot
- Zoom and sections of rays to plot