Service Pack 2 for Autodesk Simulation Mechanical and Multiphysics 2013 - Readme

Service Pack 2 for Autodesk Simulation Mechanical and Multiphysics 2013

October 10, 2012

Release Notes - Read Me file
Autodesk, Inc.

In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk has released Service Pack 2 for Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2013 and Autodesk Simulation Multiphysics 2013, which fixes or addresses a variety of issues pertaining to the program. This file highlights how to install the service pack and what has been fixed.

Notes About Installation

Download Location

Installation Requirements

Installation Instructions

Issues Addressed in this Service Pack

Linear Static Stress (LSS)

Mechanical Event Simulation (MES)

Install only the bit-type version of Autodesk Simulation Mechanical or Multiphysics 2013 Service Pack 2 that corresponds to the bit-type version of your operation system. This will also be the bit-type version of your existing installation of Autodesk Simulation Mechanical or Multiphysics 2013.
For deployed installations, append the Service Pack to your existing deployment image instead of merging it, as suggested for all service pack releases.
In case you are prompted for the original installation disc or network image during installation, or uninstallation, keep them readily accessible.
There are no Client Updates associated with this service pack release.

On English operating systems, if you install Autodesk Simulation Mechanical or Multiphysics 2013 under a path with non-English characters, it does not launch.
On some Windows 7 operating systems, when uninstalling Autodesk Simulation Mechanical or Multiphysics 2013, Windows Explorer shuts down.

Locate Autodesk Simulation Mechanical or Multiphysics 2013 Service Pack 2 here: Autodesk Simulation Updates

Autodesk Simulation Mechanical and Multiphysics 2013 Service Pack 2 supports Windows 7 32bit, Windows 7 64bit, XP 32bit SP3, XP 64bit SP2, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008. If your operating system does not meet these requirements, please update it before you begin the installation.
Autodesk Simulation Mechanical or Multiphysics 2013 Service Pack 2 includes all prior updates produced since the initial 2013 release. Therefore, Service Pack 2 can be installed over Autodesk Simulation Mechanical or Multiphysics 2013 or 2013 Service Pack 1, whether or not any hotfix has been applied.
Verify that you have administrator privileges on your local machine attempting to install programs or service packs.
For Windows 7 installation, in the User Account Control settings, select Never Notify Me.
The 32-bit version of Autodesk Simulation Mechanical or Multiphysics 2013 Service Pack 2 is approximately 45 MB in size. A minimum of 100 MB of free disk space is required on the drive where your temporary files are directed.
The 64-bit version of Autodesk Simulation Mechanical or Multiphysics 2013 Service Pack 2 is approximately 60 MB in size. A minimum of 120 MB of free disk space is required on the drive where your temporary files are directed.

To install Autodesk Simulation 2013 SP2:

If required, update your computer to one of the supported operating systems (as listed in the Installation Requirements section above) and reboot before installing Autodesk Simulation Mechanical or Multiphysics 2013 Service Pack 2.
Uninstall Autodesk Simulation Mechanical or Multiphysics 2013 Beta if you installed it previously.
Download the appropriate version of Autodesk Simulation Mechanical or Multiphysics 2013 Service Pack 2. (32-bit or 64-bit version, depending upon the bit-type of your operating system).
Double click the .msp file to update Autodesk Simulation Mechanical or Multiphysics 2013 Service Pack 1 to Service Pack 2. A progress bar displays while the installer updates the files on your system.
When the installation is done, click Finish.
If required, reboot the system after the service pack installation is finished.

To verify the installation was successful, start Autodesk Simulation 2013. On the Help panel, select About. If the About box displays: Build 2013.02.00.nnnn, the installation was successful.

Crash

A crash may occur when remeshing a part that includes a bolt.
A crash occurs when trying to connect two centroids of two surfaces in the Centroid Creator.
A crash occurs when performing design optimization.
A crash may occur when clicking on the Application Button if the network connection is lost.
A crash report may pop up when importing an Inventor Simulation model, though the import is successful.
A crash occurs when trying to measure length by using the endpoints of a rectangle in a sketch plane.
For Structured Mesh commands, a crash occurs when pressing Enter on the keyboard before the required number of objects is selected.
A crash occurs when drawing a rectangle in a sketch plane that overlaps another existing sketch plane.
A crash occurs when using radiation in a heat transfer simulation.

Linear Static Stress (LSS)

Displacement results are wrong if Nodal Weight is combined with Centrifugal Acceleration.
When copying a design scenario with beam elements, custom K-node coordinates are not copied properly to the new design scenario, causing an analysis failure.
An error occurs during the analysis when adding loads from ASCII XYZ results files.
A Pin Constraint applied to multiple parts that contact each other at a cylindrical surface may add unwanted constraints to the model.
An error occurs, and the analysis aborts, if Frictionless Constraints are applied to a model with one or more suppressed parts.

Mass Transfer

The Material Diffusivity cannot be edited in the Part Mass Species Definition dialog box.
The solver always uses the default material diffusivity instead of the user-defined one.

Mechanical Event Simulation (MES)

After updating an MES model from an earlier version to 2013, the analysis fails with an invalid error message "The duration is smaller than a time step!"
Running certain MES models on a remote Windows system may not produce results.
Models containing Spring elements may not run to completion and report an access violation error.
Advanced Impact Planes do not display at the correct position in the Results environment. Results are based on the incorrect plane location.
Impact Planes may be displayed in the wrong position within the FEA Editor environment. The incorrect displayed position is based on the opposite sign of the plane offset distance. This is a visual problem only – calculations are based on the correct plane location.
An Input/Output (IO) error may be generated by the solver during the contact element creation phase.
MES models with a large number of contact surfaces, even when the surfaces are combined into a selection group, may experience poor performance.

Report

An error message may pop up when importing a report format from another model.

Results

3D Visualization cannot be turned on or off in a single operation for multiple beam element parts.
Cannot select any surface of a part using the browser within the Results environment.
An error occurs when trying to operate on presentations in Design Scenario 20 within the Results Environment.

User Interface

The Thermal Coefficient of Expansion is incorrectly displayed in the material applicator of Isotropic Shell elements in MES.
When more than one surface is selected for applying Surface Refinement, the surface with the lowest surface number is excluded and remains unrefined.

Others

The global intersect command causes lines that were previously deleted to reappear.
Cannot run the AVE verification script.
When attempting to run a scheduled analysis, an error is produced and the model is not solved.

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

Respectfully,

Autodesk Simulation Team

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