The new GiD16.0.7 official version has been released and is ready to download from our webpage.
Check what’s new in this version:
General:
- Corrected Utilities → status clipboard copy.
- adds support for macOS 14 Sonoma.
Preprocess:
- Export GiD mesh: new option -export_mesh_by_entities to write meshes by geometrical entities or a single mesh by element type.
- Fix bug writing and reading mesh of points with internal node not public.
- Fix bug sweep surface with closed line.
- Fix bug corruption meshing contact volumes.
- Local axis preserved in copy/move and orientation of surfaces is swapped using mirror.
- Abaqus import plugin 0.5 much faster and allow pyramids.
- Fix bug calculating boundary mesh faces sending elements to layer back.
- Binary mesh set file format 1.3 to allow store internal elements.
Postprocess:
- Legend size adapted to legend font size. Number of labels preference preserved when changing legends size.
- Legend correctly positioned when printing in high resolution, and text correctly renderer.
- Drag and drop of multiple post files will do a Postprocess→ReadMultiple, instead of loading each file one after another.
- Corrected error when reading multiple files with results cache and exporting as ascii or deleting meshes or sets.
- Corrected crash when reading multiple files with one file with mesh groups.
Customization:
- GiD_WriteCalculationFile elements -elements_faces faces implemented for prism and pyramid.
- New package parse_args : A fast argument parser based on the patterns established by core Tcl commands like [lsort], [lsearch], [glob], [regex], etc.
- objarray package updated to 1.17 : Check objarray changes here: What’s new .