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Service Pack 2 for Autodesk® Simulation CFD 2014

September 13, 2013

Release Notes - Read Me file

Autodesk, Inc.

Contents

 

Installation Requirements

Download Location

Installation Instructions

Issues Addressed in this Service Pack

Legal Notice

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Installation Requirements

To use this service pack, Simulation CFD 2014 must already be installed on the system. This service pack installs over the existing Simulation CFD installation. Note that you can install this service pack over the released version of Simulation CFD or over Service Pack 1.  Service Pack 1, however, is not a requirement for this service pack.

Autodesk® Simulation CFD supports the following operating systems:

·           Windows 8 Enterprise x64

·           Windows® 7 Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate (SP0 or SP1 for x86 and x64)

·            Windows XP Professional (x86: SP3, .net 4.0; x64: SP2, .net 4.0 SP1).

 

Verify that you have administrator privileges on your local machine to install Simulation CFD 2014.

 

For a complete list of installation requirements, consult the System Requirements document available from the installer.

For Windows® 7 and XP, the 32-Bit and 64-Bit versions of Autodesk® Simulation CFD are delivered in separate installation packages. It is important to install the correct version for your system. The 64-bit version of Autodesk® Simulation CFD cannot be installed on a 32-bit system, nor can the 32-bit version be installed on a 64-bit system.

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Download Location

You can download the Autodesk Simulation CFD 2014 Service Pack 2 installation by clicking here.

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Installation Instructions

1.         Log in to the computer using an account with Administrator privileges.

2.         Exit any Autodesk® programs that are currently running.

3.         Navigate to the service pack file, and double click on it.

4.         On the dialog box that states that CFD 2014 Server is running, either choose the option to stop the service (and attempt to restart it later automatically) or to leave it running and reboot after the installation is complete. Click OK.

 

When the installation is complete, the version number displayed in the “About” dialog is 14.2.

If you should need to uninstall the service pack, you should uninstall Simulation CFD 2014 completely.

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Issues Addressed in this Service Pack

 

·         The Thermal Comfort topic in the Help documentation was clarified to indicate that running radiation as a “0-iteration” analysis after the simulation is complete can improve accuracy in some cases.

·         The Simulation CFD launch command does not appear in the SolidWorks 2013 user interface.

·         The transient harmonic boundary condition does not produce the correct results distribution on the applied surface. 

·         The UGNX CAD Connection license is not being checked out correctly when launching from UGNX into Simulation CFD.

·         The average temperature reported on a Summary Part in the Decision Center is incorrect and different from the value reported in the Parts dialog box and in the Component Thermal Summary (CTS) file.

·         Absolute Pressure is displayed incorrectly when solid parts are included within the simulation.

·         The Help documentation contains an incorrect description of the path needed to manually configure the Simulation CFD launcher in UGNX.

·         A simulation that contains periodic boundary conditions exits unexpectedly and fails to complete.

·         Simulations that contain distributed resistance surface parts and are run with an analysis length unit other than meters do not predict the correct operating pressure for the fan

·         Locally installed Help documentation does not load on XP.

·         When opening a Simulation CFD 2013 Design Study file that was created on a non-English OS into Simulation CFD 2014, the localized string for “CAD Volume” appears as garbled text.

·         A particular Design Study causes Simulation CFD 2014 to crash when the simulation is opened after having finished running. 

·         In a design study containing multiple scenarios, right click on a non-active scenario, enable Adaptation and set the Solver Computer to Local. A crash occurs when activating this scenario after the simulation is complete.

·         Simulation CFD crashes if no solver computer is selected prior to clicking Solve to start the simulation.

·         The indicated progress percentage is incorrect for a transient simulation that includes multiple inner iterations per time step. The indicated progress percentage can surpass 100%.

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Legal Notice

Autodesk Simulation CFD, Autodesk Simulation, Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Fusion, Autodesk Vault, Autodesk Moldflow Insight, Autodesk Moldflow Advisor, AutoCAD, and Mechanical Desktop are trademarks or registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.

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 All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Thank You

We thank all our customers who identify issues and report them to us. These reports give us the opportunity to improve the product and provide you with the best solution in simulation. We also thank you for your continued business and for the feedback regarding the content of this release.

Respectfully,

Autodesk® Simulation CFD Team

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