Release Notes
This document contains release notes which explain modifications and enhancements between EnSight releases.
Release notes from EnSight 9.1 to EnSight 9.1.2a
Installation
EnSight 9.1.2a no longer includes EnSight CFD. If you want to run EnSight CFD, you need to install it separately and start it from its own icon. EnSight CFD 3.0 is the corresponding version to EnSight 9.1.2a. It is also no longer possible to start EnSight and switch to EnSight CFD or vice versa in the middle of a session.
New and Improved features
EnSight Usability Enhancements
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Several new right click enhancements:- Right click on a query marker to hide it
- Sliders available for adjusting several attributes such as:- Transparency
- Vector arrow length
- Animated particle trace length and speed
- Contour levels and label spacing
- Legend text size
- Probe marker size
- Text Annotation size
- Modify the title for legends and plotters
- Modify the text for text annotations
- Quick text option now brings up a create/edit dialog
- A way to set the font on a text annotation
- Modify the text for text annotations
- Quick text option now brings up a create/edit dialog
- A way to set the font on a text annotation
CFD Data Readers
- The Fluent reader now recognizes units.
- The Fluent reader now correctly reads multiple DAT files.
- Improved Overflow Reader
- Improved Ascii STL Reader
- Improved Wavefront OBJ Reader
- Improved Flow3D Reader including Flow3D particle data, cylindrical coordinates, and correct handling of ghost cells
- Improved handling of Converge data
- Improved CFF/Wind reader for 64-bit Windows
FEA Data Readers
- A new ANSYS Results reader has been added. Command files using the old reader names will continue to use the old readers for compatibility. However, through the GUI the default behavior will be to use the new reader. The new reader is more compatible with ANSYS result files than the previous readers.
- A new reader is available for MSC.Software Marc data. It is off by default and must be turned on in Preferences. Edit > Preferences > Data in order to turn it on and have it appear.
- The ABAQUS Reader now supports ABAQUS 6.10 and is significantly faster for many datasets.
- The MSC.Software Dytran Reader is now 8x faster for some datasets.
EnSight Minor Enhancements and Corrections
- EnSight 9.1.2a and later use significantly less memory than previous versions of EnSight 9.X
- An EnSight administrator can now create a file in $CEI_HOME/license8/accept_IP_addrs that contains lines indicating which subnets to only accept. Preventing people from other departments from using your EnSight licenses.
- When adding a case it is possible to specify the Job Launch Config (JLC) to use for the server connection. Also available when replacing a case.
- Right click and select "Adjust Size" to change the size of a Query > Probe marker
- Probe queries are now correctly handled by auxiliary clipping. In previous versions Probes were always visible and this leads to confusing information because the probe can look like it is attached to another portion of the model.
- Part Color can now be the color of a part when a variable is undefined for that part.
- EnLiten Scenario files sizes are smaller when saving with animated traces.
- Dash shell of Ubuntu Linux now supported by EnSight launch scripts for starting remote servers, SOS, and clients.
- Saving a view from a single viewport can now be restored back to the active viewport, even if currently in a multi-viewport situation. Making View > Save more useful for reusing views.
- Plotter text (axis labels, titles, etc) have been updated to use the bitmap font capability resulting in higher quality annotations on the plots. The font has also been changed to use Arial.
- Language selection. When EnSight starts up, it looks for a language preference for the selected GUI. If there is no preference, it should switch to the default system language if a translation exists. The default will be English, but there is an option for System Locale which will use the system settings.
- Using saved views on different geometry. There is now a new toggle button in the views restore dialog "Rescale views" (on by default) which will set the center of transform, look at/from points and global translate matrix to be a proportional value based on the x/y/z and diagonal distance of the bounding box of the view vs. the currently loaded geometry. The toggle does not attempt to modify camera positions and local transforms.
- EnSight no longer does an update, for performance reasons, if the geometry is steady state and have transient variables only for a dist_to_part or a dist_to_part_elem variable when a time change occurs.
- Rigid-body models are now much faster when changing timesteps. Example MSC.Adams data.
- Rigid-body models use less memory now when animated by flipbook animation.
- EnLiten scenario files are now smaller for rigid-body models.
- VRML files export is working again.
- Case Gold export is correctly exporting constants.
- Fixed a problem with rebounding massed particle traces.
There were also over 100 fixes made to minor bugs.
EnSight DR
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Distributed Volume rendering is now supported with prdist compositor configurations.
- Context files with multi-panel DR configurations, when using dconfig DR configurations. Prdist configurations still do not allow context files.
- Software rendering support added when in compositing mode, specify: client <hostname> Executable="ensight91.client -X" to specify software-rendering on the render node.
EnLiten
- If viewports are linked when the scenario file was written, EnLiten will now keep them linked. Unfortunately, old EnLiten files are not compatible with this enhancement. New EnLiten files will have to be created.
- EnLiten Scenario files sizes are smaller when saving with animated traces.
EnVideo
- Some conditions which cause EnVideo when running in DR mode to crash have been fixed
- Pack-n-go was broken in 9.1.1b but is now fixed.
Reveal
- Reveal timestep endpoints correctly reset now when reading a new transient dataset.
- A condition which causes Reveal when running full-screen in DR mode to crash has been fixed
- Pack-n-go for Reveal was broken in the EnSight 9.1.1b release but is also now fixed.
- Chinese language support
EnSight CFD 3.0
- A new Variable Calculator was created for EnSight CFD
- Structured IJK meshes can now be loaded in EnSight CFD
- Text Annotation Editor added to EnSight CFD to create and modify text labels
- A new part list widget was added to EnSight CFD so that if a user does not load "all parts" (the default) then the user can select parts manually to be loaded directly within the Part list.
- Plotting Enhancement. When a query is assigned or deleted from a plotter the plotter should initialize it's x/y/ ranges.
- Plotting Enhancement. When creating a new query assigning it to an existing plotter the list filters itself based on distance or time, i.e., if you have a query over time you will not be tempted to assign it to a variable vs. distance plotter.
- EnSight CFD allows you to change language of menus, it will pop up a message box informing the user that the change will take effect on restart.
- Shipping with EnSight CFD 3.0 is English and Chinese
- Free version now more robust, some issues with checking for permitted model size were eliminated
- Free version no longer partially reads models which are above the permitted model size, to increase robustness, these now fail, with a warning about exceeding the permitted model size.
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Python Integration
Added CAD support 
Export to JT Format
Extensibility
Click-n-Go Interaction
Element Blanking Options
Support Tool 
Skyboxes
