| Issue Type | Description |
| Fixed | Fixed failed to connect to server license when launching with Deb package of Trelis |
| Fixed | Fixed export to ANSYS format from GUI menu |
| Fixed | Fixed crash when using Simplify command |
| Fixed | Fixed problem with entering reset after Remesh action |
| Fixed | Fixed crash in ITEM wizard relating to the auto fix solution for removing small features. |
| Fixed | Fixed the right-click option in the entity tree. |
| Fixed | Fixed the problem with Boundary Layer webcutting using XY plane |
| Fixed | Fixed problem with using boolean unite of volumes with boundary layers |
| Fixed | Fixed problem with empty panel in Group Modify causes crash |
| Fixed | Fixed problem with creating boundary layer on a prism |
| Fixed | Fixed problem with modify curve (blend) on volume |
| Fixed | Fixed problem model lighting |
| Fixed | Fixed copy transform command |
| Fixed | Fixed pickwidget that required two clicks instead of just one |
| Fixed | Fixed Problem with mesh copy |
| Fixed | Fixed boundary layer problems when modifying intersection type |
| Fixed | Fixed issuue withy setting specific meshing scheme in the GUI leading to ERROR: No entity with ID 1 was found |
| Fixed | Fixed boundary layer issue when using "except" specifying surfaces |
| Fixed | Fixed problem when using thicken command in the GUI, cannot select surface |
| Fixed | Fixed boundary layer interval matching problem |
| Fixed | Fixed issue during healing in ITEM |
| Fixed | Fixed internal continuity problem |
| Fixed | Fixed boundary layer scale problem |
| Fixed | Fixed issue with boundary layer entity removal with continuity on |
| Fixed | Fixed issue with boundary layer hexes being squished |
| Fixed | Fixed issue when using thicken volumes/imprint and merge |
| Fixed | Fixed boundary layer partial mesh save/open problem |
| Fixed | Fixed issues with the 'set abaqus precision' command |
| Fixed | Fixed cubitids option in mesh export panels |
| Fixed | Fixed issue with "reset" journaling "volume" |
| Fixed | Fixed issue with boundary layers not being visible |
| Fixed | Fixed issue with BC nodeset disappearing from the tree when saving .cub file |
| Fixed | Fixed log file display option not working in GUI |
| Fixed | Fixed the Cancel button on the progress bar that didn't cancel the operation in certain cases |
| Fixed | Fixed Action menu setting to reset. |
| Fixed | Fixed boundary layer to move when moving associated volume |
| Fixed | Fixed the error messaged in the new Group panels |
| Fixed | Fixed the Preview button in new Group panels |
| Fixed | Fixed ITEM Setup FEA Model causes reset to journal volume |
| Fixed | Fixed Preview button in the Webcut panel |
| Fixed | Fixed issue in ITEM after issuing Imprint/Merge commands |
| Fixed | Fixed meshed boundary layer affecting the volume |
| Fixed | Fixed issue with any volume transformation excluding boundary layers on volume |
| Fixed | Fixed cone webcut option calls for Surface IDs instead of Volume IDs |
| Fixed | Fixed Undo Bug-Tweaking Doubler to Target Surfaces |
| Fixed | Fixed issue when adding boundary layers to all of a pyramid's surfaces |
| Fixed | Fixed boundary layer growth rate |
| Fixed | Fixed issue when adding boundary layers to conflicting surfaces on a brick |
| Fixed | Fixed issue when going around rounded surfaces, the boundary layer hexes are squished in the middle. |
| Fixed | Fixed issue with boundary layer meshing with sizing |
| Fixed | Fixed issue with the Thicken panel not selecting surface or sheet |
| Fixed | Fixed Linux shortcuts not working after install |
| Fixed | Fixed TrelisLM install problems |
| Fixed | Fixed the default install location to Program Files (x86) on Windows 32-bit and Program Files on Windows 64-bit |
| Fixed | Fixed issue when exporting to ANSYS format when no geometry or mesh |
| Fixed | Fixed imported Patran files do not read sidesets |
| Fixed | Fixed permissions problem on Linux Mint |
| Fixed | Fixed Preview in Power Tools |
| Fixed | Fixed issue in the Group Mesh panel, the Mesh button is a check box |
| Fixed | Fixed the Surface Webcut tooltip refers to Volumes |
| Fixed | Fixed the Sphere Creation Inverse button can be activated and then stays on even when not in use |
| Fixed | Fixed the Webcut a cross-hatching boundary layer leads to ERROR |
| Fixed | Fixed the issue with using the draw command while selecting volumes in the mesh scheme panel hides all volumes |
| Fixed | Fixed the Custom Tools buttons that include the reset command clearing the undo group |
| Fixed | Fixed the Volume Rotate command error brings up incorrect help prompt |
csimsoft Trelis
Trelis 15.0 New Features
Trelis 15.0 includes the latest enhancements that make Trelis more powerful and even more user-friendly.
New features were added to make geometry preparation easier and to offer support for importing and exporting more file formats. Core meshing and sizing algorithms have been improved to give better mesh quality. Significant improvements to the GUI makes Trelis even easier to use.
Geometry
- New GAMBIT geometry reader
- Added support for reading Parasolid, SolidWorks and Pro/E files (Sold separately)
- Improved STEP/IGES translation
- Updated geometry kernel to ACIS version 24
- Align command improvements
- New tolerance option for imprint tolerant
Meshing
- Added support for pyramids and wedges
- Improved boundary layer functionality
- Circle Scheme improvements for more control over circle meshes
- Improved Sweeping algorithm for better quality
- Added support for tet meshing with baffles and non-manifold geometries
- New auto-bias scheme and automatic smooth gradient triangle meshes
- New vertex sizing
- Improved Skeleton sizing
- New Verde mesh quality tools
- Additional Fluent metrics: tet equivolume skew and tet squish index
- Improved Paving algorithm
- New option for mesh refinement with n tets through thickness
- Add ability to unite meshed volumes
Mesh IO
- Improved exporter for Fluent, IDEAS, Exodus, Patran, Nastran, LS-Dyna, Abaqus
- Higher order element improvements including support for higher order wedges
- Sphere element support (Exodus)
- New material capabilities
GUI
- New icons for the pick filters
- New cursors for active pick widgets
- Replaced Quad/Tri with 2D element picking and Hex/Tet with 3D element picking in pick filters
- Various pick widget fixes to pick the right entity type
- Modified command panel groupings (ex: Sweep is now in geometry create and geometry modify)
- Modified the order that entities appear in the tree (Geometry now appears at the top)
- Removed multi-volume bodies from the tree
- New webcut tools (webcut with sheet, with plane from surface, with tool surface)
- New Surface->Modify->Reverse Normal panel
- Enable undo by default in the GUI (first time Trelis is opened)
- New Create Bounding Box in Volume->Create panel for easily creating a bounding box around a volume or volumes
- Improved responsiveness of the cancel operation button
- Changed Patran file type to list .neu instead of .ntr
- Added Geometry->Group command panels for group operations
- Improved Custom Tools
- Includes a shortcut button on the toolbar to the custom tools panel in the options dialog
- Added the ability to run a journal file or python script as a custom tool
General
- APREPRO function additions: block attributes, centroid, bounding box, closest node
- Significant performance improvements in various operations
- Mac 64 bit support with the updated geometry kernel ACIS version 24
- Improved ID-less support for using older CUBIT and Trelis .cub files
- New Reprise License Manager for more flexible license management options
OEM
- Complete rebranding of Trelis using xml file
- Internationalization fixes
- Improved SDK (Sold separately)
- Mesh import/export interface for creating custom importers and exporters
- Command plug-ins
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Release Notes
Trelis 15.0 Release Notes
Trelis 15.0.1 Release Notes
| Issue Type | Description |
| Fixed | Revise cylinder create command that fails on my linux. |
| Fixed | Fixed error in buffer size calculation for tets and pyramids. |
| Fixed | Regression in mesh graphics performance issue. VTK 5.10 upgrade causes rending speed to slow. |
| Fixed | Tree - Delete doesn't work for Materials -> CFDMedia |
| Fixed | Bad TETRA10 elements (negative jacobian) are generated |
| Fixed | Problem with pull-down menus for the Geometry Volume Create commands |
| Fixed | Problem with analyzing surfaces from the geometry power tools. |
| Fixed | Wrong beam element type in export to UNV |
| Fixed | Incorrect volume name displayed when model is imported (.stp) |
| Fixed | Problem with deleting a volume with "keep lower geometry" option in case the volume is merged with neighboring volumes. |
| Fixed | Problem with deleting merged surface. Failed to delete merged surface with "keep lower geometry" option. |
| Fixed | Group crash when element added to group |
| Fixed | Reset entity Bug after sweep operation |
| Fixed | Problem with analyzing surfaces from the geometry power tools, cannot select surfaces in the select box for Volume ID(s). |
| Fixed | Crash with sweep meshing with "redistribute nodes" option. |
| Fixed | "sweep surface" command with "include_mesh" has a problem with meshing volume, fail to create a volume mesh. |
| Fixed | Problem with Exporting Boundary Conditions to FLUENT. Fail to export boundary conditions to FLUENT of which surface has an internal area vector. |
| Fixed | Misspelled Tooltip in CFD BC Toolbar - "Symmetrys" |
| Fixed | Fix for opening .cub file with sidesets with exclusions (surface X without face Y). |
| Fixed | Partial fix for duplicated higher order nodes during import |
| Fixed | Fix for some new valgrind errors |
| Fixed | Fix sizing function initialization with boundary layers |
| Fixed | Fix for case where sheet body gets merged between two solid volumes and after deleting the sheet body and an adjacent volume, the surface normal on one of the surfaces of the remaining volume point in the wrong direction |
| Fixed | Fix for double rotation on merged away free entities |
| Fixed | Fix for hang when picking on a curve after skeleton sizing |
| Fixed | Fix for MRefGroup::expand_group function |
| Fixed | Fix duplicate name bug for import of STEP files |
| Fixed | Fixed the license folder location in Trelis installation |
| Improvement | Added methods to support drawing pyramids in support of pyramid transition meshing. |
| Improvement | Added method to erase tets from the container in support of pyramid transition meshing. |
| Improvement | Added methods to support pyramid transition methods. |
| Improvement | Added more graphics to help debug pyramid-pyramid intersection code. |
| Improvement | Revised draw_tris to call draw_tri like the other draw multiple entity methods. |
| Improvement | Added support for a bounding box of the pyramid. |
| Improvement | Added support for bounding box of the triangle. |
| Improvement | Added methods to get tets and pyramids from container. |
| Improvement | Added methods to add/remove pyramids to CMLVolNode in support of pyramid transition meshing. |
| Improvement | Revised calculation of surface quality to make it consistent with triangle |
| Improvement | Clarify Boolean Subtract Labels, graphics added for clarification. |
| Improvement | Reorganization of pull-down menus for the Geometry Volume Create commands. |
| Improvement | Add skin command changes to documentation |
| Improvement | In the GUI, the extend by sweep option should include a 'include mesh' or 'keep' option |
| Improvement | "Get Settings" button in the Curve Mesh panel-1. Bias/Intervals & Bias in which bias is equal to one 2. Equal (Approximate Size & Interval) 3. Bias/First Size & Last Size |
| Improvement | Finish pyramid support to work well with new boundary layer meshing. |
| Improvement | Display the maintenance release version in the Trelis About screen and short version in title |
| Improvement | RLM License Server reread command that automatically rereads when a server license is activated. |
| Improvement | Clarified labels and error messages to assist user in the product activation dialog |
| Improvement | Update csimsoft_cubit submodule for Trelis 15.0 |
Trelis 15.0.2 Release Notes
| Issue Type | Description |
| Fixed | Fixed Tetmesh optimization commands from GUI are incorrect. |
| Fixed | Fixed "sweep surface along curve" command with "include_mesh" has a problem with meshing side surfaces. |
| Fixed | Fixed Volume Heal command panel pick widget allow only voume type. |
| Fixed | Fixed Source and Target surfaces don't appear automatically in GUI if there is already a mesh on the volume. |
| Fixed | Fixed crash while saving the file after Regularize command. |
Trelis 15.0.3 Release Notes
| Issue Type | Description |
| Fixed | Changed "Proe" to "Pro/E" in file import dialog. |
| Fixed | Boundary layer compile fixes. |
| Fixed | Avoid writing invalid remote.lic file. |
| Fixed | Initializing previews. |
| Fixed | Restart RLM server when activating using GUI. |
| Fixed | Failure in import of SolidWorks files. |
| Fixed | Reading higher-order pyramids from Cub file. |
| Fixed | Reformatted list handling of spline function so that location method functions correctly |
| Fixed | Start vertex resetting on Intervals and Bias |
| Fixed | Mesh panel clears entity pick widget after mesh. |
| Fixed | Double-delete ACIS BODY. |
| Fixed | New parser with commands that start with entity lists. |
| Fixed | Reformatted list handling of spline function so that location method functions correctly. |
| Improvement | Add GUI to server activation and change name from TrelisLM to RLM-Server |
| Improvement | Trelis OEM translator package move Pro/E to direct translator. |
| Improvement | Updating Curve Mesh Bias GUI. |
| Improvement | Added Apply Size or Scheme Before Meshing option. |
| Improvement | Allow user to suppress the mesh warning dialog and remember choice. |
| Improvement | Add new Dual Bias functionality First Size & Bias, First Size & Last Size, First-Last Ratio and Last-First Ratio. |
| Improvement | Transparent highlight during transparent mode. |
| Improvement | Added auto-delete on mesh curve panel. |
| Improvement | Changed "Standalone" to "Node-locked" in Product Activation window. |
| Improvement | Edge meshing algorithm to allow for independent |
| Improvement | Added support for ID-less journaling to new parser. |
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