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Caedium Release Notes

Release notes provide descriptions of enhancements and bug fixes for each release of Caedium and its add-ons.

If an enhancement or bug fix is specific to an add-on, the add-on is listed in square brackets, e.g., [Builder]. Note that all enhancements and bug fixes are included in the Professional add-on, which is a collection of all Caedium add-ons.

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Caedium Version 6.0.3 Release Notes

Submitted by symscape on March 24, 2020 - 10:23

This release contains an update to some of the Caedium subsystems and a number of bug fixes as listed.

New Features and Enhancements

Realize faster and more robust operations with major updates to the Caedium subsystems: Open Cascade, and wxWidgets

Bug Fixes

  • Fan condition failed with an unable to open file error [RANS Flow]
  • Unable to just mesh faces without also meshing attached volumes [RANS Flow]
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Caedium Version 6.0.0 Release Notes

Submitted by symscape on April 25, 2019 - 08:05

The latest Caedium release has a mix of new features, enhancements and bug fixes. The highlights of this release are a new conjugate heat transfer (simultaneous fluid and solid heat transfer) capability, a new passive scalar transport solver, and major updates to all the Caedium subsystems: Open Cascade, VTK, wxWidgets, and OpenFOAM®.

New Features and Enhancements

  • Improve your heat transfer predictions with conjugate heat transfer that solves for heat transfer between fluids and solids simultaneously [RANS Flow]
  • Track passive fluids (e.g., smoke) released into a dominant flow with a passive scalar transport capability [RANS Flow]
  • Save and restore custom/modified Substances [RANS Flow|Panel Flow]
  • Provide a fan curve to control a cyclic fan boundary condition [RANS Flow]
  • Improve your plots with anti-alias (smooth) lines
  • Easily identify what tools apply to what entities with new entity-based grouping in the Physics Tool Palette
  • New link geometry tool to couple cyclics and shared boundaries [Builder]
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Caedium Version 5.2.0 Release Notes

Submitted by symscape on January 20, 2014 - 13:28

The latest Caedium release has a mix of new features, enhancements and bug fixes. The highlights of this release are an improved heat transfer capability and major updates to all the Caedium subsystems.

New Features and Enhancements

  • Improve your heat transfer predictions with the option to include radiation [RANS Flow]
  • Realize faster and more robust operations with major updates to the Caedium subsystems: Open Cascade, VTK, wxWidgets, and OpenFOAM®
  • Create 'bullet time' animations with the particle freeze option [RANS Flow|Panel Flow]
  • Specify mass flow rate directly for incompressible simulations [RANS Flow]
  • Mark non-rotating Moving Reference Frame (MRF) boundaries for rotating simulations [RANS Flow]
  • Generate better triangle surface meshes that account for poorly aligned face geometry [RANS Flow|Panel Flow]
  • Try the CUDA GPU linear solver option using CUDA 5.5 with support for the latest NVIDIA Tesla cards [RANS Flow]
  • Generate stunning ray-traced images with support for the latest version of POV-Ray 3.7 [Viz Export]
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Caedium Version 5.1.3 Release Notes

Submitted by symscape on June 25, 2013 - 18:28

This release contains a bug fix for groups containing double-sided faces.

Bug Fix

Saving a group that contained double-sided faces failed to restore [Builder]

Caedium Version 5.1.2 Release Notes

Submitted by symscape on June 25, 2013 - 08:00

This release contains a bug fix for stitched volumes.

Bug Fix

Saving a topology only stitched volume with a connected face failed to restore [Builder]

Caedium Version 5.1.1 Release Notes

Submitted by symscape on June 15, 2013 - 08:00

This release contains a bug fix for importing STL binary files.

Bug Fix

Importing STL binary format caused a crash [Exchange]

Caedium Version 5.1.0 Release Notes

Submitted by symscape on June 13, 2013 - 19:03

The latest Caedium release has a new Helix tool, an improved Sweep tool, improved mesh element sizing, and a couple of bug fixes.

New Features and Enhancements

  • Use the Helix tool to create cylindrical or conical helices for your CFD simulations, e.g., helical strakes on a chimney [Builder]
  • Use the improved Sweep tool to better maintain orientation of the source along a path [Builder]
  • Better control your mesh element sizes with improved localized geometry bounding [RANS Flow|Panel Flow]
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Caedium 5.0.0 Release Notes

Submitted by symscape on May 21, 2013 - 15:42

The latest Caedium release has a range of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. The main theme of this release is improved interaction through the introduction of scripting and the new tabbed toolbar GUI.

New Features and Enhancements

  • Improved Interaction
    • Automate repetitive tasks and perform parameter studies with Python script recording and playback
    • Interact with a more intuitive GUI using ribbon-like tabbed toolbars
    • Link multiple simulations to control them as a group with the option to run them simultaneously
    • Undo and redo multiple levels in a single operation
    • Select standard Fit-All views, such as front and back
    • Use a 3Dconnexion 3D mouse to control the view on Windows. 3Dconnexion Space Navigator donation credit: Per Hassel Sørensen, University of Stavanger, Norway
    • Transfer your license to another computer by first deactivating it on your current computer
  • More Physics
    • Realize faster and more robust simulation convergence using the polyhedral (dual mesh) conversion option [RANS Flow]
    • Control the mesh size across many entities using a maximum element size for the Accuracy tool [RANS Flow|Panel Flow]
    • Set time dependent boundary conditions for primary variables, such as velocity [RANS Flow]
    • Set a partial slip condition for a wall boundary condition [RANS Flow]
    • Use the latest NVIDIA CUDA 5.0 release with support of the Kepler architecture for the CUDA GPU linear solver option [RANS Flow]
  • Updated Translations
    • French, credit: Pierre Castellani, TEOtech
    • German, credit: Gregor Matl and Niklas Hagenow
    • Italian, credit: Giampiero Porro, Datamed srl
    • Japanese, credit: Sei-Ichi Tanabe-Tanabu, Visual Technology
    • Portuguese (Brazil), credit: Fernando Prevedello, XCAE
    • Spanish
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Caedium 4.0.2 Release Notes

Submitted by symscape on July 31, 2012 - 18:14

The latest Caedium release has a broad range of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. It includes an array of new flow solver options for multiphase, moving reference frames, and porous media. It has new boundary conditions for fans and cyclics. It also includes internationalization support for a selection of popular languages.

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Caedium 3.0.2 Release Notes

Submitted by symscape on October 16, 2011 - 14:57

The latest Caedium release has a broad range of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. The new release includes an array of topology-based operations that support a new hybrid modeling scenario where you can build your flow volume from a mixture of faceted and analytic (CAD) geometry. Also there are a selection of new ways to run simulations, with two cloud-based services using Windows Azure and an experimental GPU option for NVIDIA hardware.

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