Visual-Environment 16.5 is now available.  

Release Highlights:

• Support for CSM Solver in Visual-AM.
• Improved display with physically based rendering (PBR) across Visual-Environment.
• Better CAD handling during import and improved display of vectors and axis in Visual-Mesh.
• Selective model loading and improvements in FPM post processing in Visual-Viewer.
• Support for duplicate modules in Visual-Crash PAM.
• Co-design and workflow enhancements in Visual-Cast.
• Improved Friction Stir Welding program in Visual-Weld and support for import/export of Assembly Process from/into Excel file in Visual-Assembly.
• Press line display in Visual-Body Stamping.
• Creation of G Curve from Picture Frame tests in Visual-FORM and in Visual-RTM, 3D resin channel creation. Visual-SMC offers automatic forming process of charge material.
• Support for the latest release of OpenFOAM 2006 in Visual-CFD.
• Fracture mechanics advisor in Visual-SYSTUS.
• Dedicated support of Cartesian Mesh in Visual-CEM.
• Automatic Shoulder Mill editor in Visual-Machining.
• EuroNCAP 2020 protocol for Whiplash and FMVSS 207/210 for seatbelt anchorage in Visual-Seat.
• Stamping result visualization in Visual-Crash DYNA.
• Visual-SDK Batch 16.5 for Windows and Linux.

Visual-Environment 16.5.1 Patch: this update is for Visual-Viewer:

• Bux fix for Downloading of EPGD2 files from VDSS Cloud,
• Bug fix for CORA computation.

Visual-Environment 16.5.4 Patch: this update is for Visual Crash PAM, Visual Seat Solution, Visual DSS and Visual-Viewer.

•  Visual Crash PAM:

- In check control CKCTRL > GLOBAL_BOX, for Keyword such as INFO, WARNING, ERROR First global box size check parameter can be defined as ratio and value should be float.
Earlier VCP used to take only integer value. This is now fixed.
- In check control CKCTRL > GLOBAL_BOX, for Keyword such as INFO, WARNING, ERROR, global box size check elimination parameter can be defined as NCYCLE/TIME and for NCYCLE value should be Integer but earlier VCP used to take only float value.
This is now fixed now.

• Visual Seat Solution:

- ENSIGHT to CATGEN convertor
Export of HTC and Ambient Temperature variables from ENSIGHT to CATGEN files were not in the expected format for CSM solver. This is fixed now.
- Thermal Comfort: On the windows platform, the datacheck for thermal simulations involving human models was ending with an unexpected ERROR termination for some selected languages detected in particular Japanese systems. This is fixed.
- In Human on Seat process, when using CFD Mapping , the EXPORT cards created and the PYVAR update for the HMx Driver initialization were not in the expected format for CSM solver. This is fixed now.

• Visual DSS:

- Bug Fix for Missing images within reports generated by report_generator

•  Visual Viewer :

- Synchronization of plot windows in which curves are scaled using Absolute scale with model/video model was not working. This is fixed.
- Curve history dialog box was not supporting the modification of File or Entity in-case of ISO MME file curves.
- Curve Statistics was not updating x, y coordinate values on curve pick in a particular path, that is, when plot was picked and then curve was picked.
- Curve chase was not working properly when Chase All Curves and Chase Displayed Curves options were used from File View, (Directory or File folder).

For more detailed updates in all modules, please refer to the Visual-Environment 16.5 release notes and the 16.5.4 release notes.