Service Pack 1 for Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2014 - Readme

Service Pack 1 for Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2014

July 22, 2013

Release Notes - Read Me file
Autodesk, Inc.

In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk has released Service Pack 1 for Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2014, 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

CFD Interoperability

Linear Static Stress (LSS)

Material Library Manager

Mechanical Event Simulation (MES)

Moldflow Interoperability

Install only the bit-type version of Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2014 Service Pack 1 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 2014.
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 2014 under a path with non-English characters, it does not launch.
On some Windows 7 operating systems, when uninstalling Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2014, Windows Explorer shuts down.

Locate Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2014 Service Pack 1 here: Autodesk Simulation Updates

Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2014 Service Pack 1 supports Windows^® 8; Windows^® Server 2012; Windows^® 7 Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise edition (SP1); Windows^® XP Professional (32-bit: SP3); or Windows Server^® 2008 R2 SP1. If your operating system does not meet these requirements, please update it before you begin the installation.
Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2014 Service Pack 1 includes all prior (if any) updates produced since the initial 2014 release. Therefore, Service Pack 1 can be installed over Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2014.
Verify that you have administrator privileges on your local machine attempting to install programs or service packs.
For Windows 8 and Windows 7 installation, in the User Account Control settings, select Never Notify Me.
The 32-bit version of Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2014 Service Pack 1 is approximately 110 MB in size. A minimum of 230 MB of free disk space is required on the drive where your temporary files are directed.
The 64-bit version of Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2014 Service Pack 1 is approximately 130 MB in size. A minimum of 280 MB of free disk space is required on the drive where your temporary files are directed.

To install Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2014 SP1:

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 2014 Service Pack 1.
Uninstall Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2014 Beta if you installed it previously.
Install Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2014 if it is not already installed.
Download the appropriate version of Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2014 Service Pack 1. (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 2014 to Service Pack 1. 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 Mechanical 2014. Near the right end of the title bar, click the down-arrow next to the question mark icon to access the Help drop-down menu. Then, select About. If the About window displays: Build 2014.01.00.nnnn, the installation was successful.

Crash

A crash report may appear during verification of a surface mesh or during solid mesh generation.
A crash occurs when running simulation using a FEM file which contains Chinese/Japanese characters in the filename.
A crash may occur when working on multiple instances of Simulation Mechanical concurrently on systems with Autodesk Showcase installed.
A crash occurs when defining a Surface-to-Surface contact pair between two surface groups using the ribbon command.

CFD Interoperability

CFZ files (a native Autodesk Simulation CFD file type) are incorrectly associated with Simulation Mechanical during the program installation process.
Thermal stress results may be based on the wrong temperature step from a multistep Simulation CFD file.

Linear Static Stress (LSS)

User-specified Element Normal point coordinates for Thin or Thick Composite elements are discarded after the model is checked or analyzed, potentially resulting in incorrectly oriented loads for subsequent solutions.
Nodes along the edges of contact surfaces may become bonded when using Shrink Fit/No Sliding contact, causing the results to be incorrect.
Models with Shrink Fit/Sliding contact that include Friction fail to solve.

Material Library Manager

On certain computers ‘run-time error 91’, could occur while trying to start the Material Library Manager.
When exporting “Orthotropic” material data as an XML file, the “material model” value is missing, preventing the XML file from being imported into any material library.
XML files exported from the material Library Manager for Anisotropic materials are missing material properties.
Temperature values are not exported to XML files correctly for temperature dependent material models.

Mechanical Event Simulation (MES)

Applied Hydrostatic Pressure loads are ignored during the solution of non-linear analyses.
Surface-to-Surface Contact settings dialog cannot be accessed in MES when using Japanese or German display languages.
MES analyses that contain Pulley elements may produce unnecessary warnings in the log file.
The analysis of certain second-order brick elements (specifically, degenerate bricks), with the "Mass representation" specified as "Lumped" in the advanced analysis parameters, may produce incorrect results.
The default Tangential stiffness ratio for nonlinear contact was changed to improve solution convergence.
An MES restart analysis, when resuming from another simulation model or a different design scenario, will not run via Remote Submission to another workstation on the local network (applicable to desktop product only, not 360).

Moldflow Interoperability

Plastic models with Part Inserts simulated in Moldflow cannot be analyzed in Simulation Mechanical.
Simulation Moldflow Insight/Adviser cannot be launched automatically when pushing a model from Simulation Mechanical on a Windows 8 system.

Report

Centrifugal Loads are incorrectly reported in the Summary file for linear and nonlinear analyses.
In the Report environment, the "Probes" item has been moved. It is now a sub-item of the "Analysis Parameters Information" branch.
Deleting an item (image, movie, vrml or hsf) from the Report deletes the corresponding files from the report folder.
The formatting of the Mass Participation section in the Log file for Modal analyses has been improved for clarity.

Results

The calculation and display of Strain Energy Distribution for linear static stress is incorrect in the Results environment.
Surface temperature may be rendered incorrectly at the contact interface between two adjacent parts.
Isosurface plots cannot be displayed in the Results environment.

User Interface

Selection Groups are not recognized by the Mesh>Refinement>Add to Selection command.
The Selection highlight color does not work for Vertices or Lines.
The Selection highlight color does not work for Surface and Edge Refinement Groups when selected in the browser.
Thermal Resistance is incorrectly reported in the FEA Editor and Results environments. In addition, the magnitude for the Distributed Resistance option is not updated when the Units system is changed.

Others

The links for context-sensitive F1 help are broken.
The performance of "Isolate" and "Show All Surfaces" is poor when a model contains Selection Groups.
Archives created by Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 360 2013 for models that were stopped while running on the cloud cannot be opened in Simulation Mechanical 2014.
While an input dialog box is open (such as, those displayed when adding a load or constraint), the Simulation Mechanical interface cannot be accessed after using the Windows "Show Desktop" command.
Inventor materials with 2-bit Japanese or Chinese names cannot be imported correctly into Simulation Mechanical.
Weight and center of gravity calculation will not work on certain computers with large amounts of RAM.
Fatigue wizard does not run for models containing Brick elements with midside nodes.

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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 Mechanical Team

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