GENESIS and Design Studio for GENESIS v.11.0 released

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GENESIS 11.0 and its companion Design Studio for GENESIS 11.0 have been released. CD-ROMs have been shipped out to current clients. Contact VR&D for instructions on how to download the new version if you did not receive one.

GENESIS New Features and Enhancements

    Freeform Optimization - this new type of shape optimization capability adds great variability to the design without requiring a lot of user input. The capability allows the user to easily impose fabrication constraints, and control coarseness and variability.

    New Mesh Smoothing Algorithms for Shape Optimization - the mesh smoothing algorithms have been completely redesigned to be more robust.

    Anti-distortion Constraints for Shape Optimization - a new procedure has been put in place that will prevent shape optimization from producing a distorted mesh. When combined with the new freeform optimization and the new mesh smoothing, this procedure makes it very easy run robust shape optimization of solid element components.

    Visualization Support for Sizing/Topometry Optimization - the new SIZING command prints all results of sizing and/or topometry optimization in the OPOST postprocessing file. In the past, only the thickness distribution of CQUAD4/CTRIA3 elements was available. Now, spring stiffnesses, rod areas, bar cross section dimensions, etc. can be visualized.

    Weld Element - a new connector element (CWELD) can connect shell properties even when the grids are not aligned. Also, by virtue of referencing MAT1 data, this element can also be designed with topology optimization, allowing, for example, determination of the optimum locations for welds.

    New Mass Matrix Types - lumped mass and coupled mass matrix formulations have been added to the 10-node CTETRA, 9-21 node CHEXA and the CTRIAX6 elements. Tests have shown that the new default coupled mass matrix produces more accurate eigenvalues.

    Relative Constraint Bounds - new data entries (DCONS2 and TCONS2) use bound values that are scale factors of intial response values.

    New User Supplied Equations for Topology - a new data entry (TRESP2) allows creation of synthetic responses for topology by writing equations.

    New User Supplied Subroutines for Topology - a new data entry (TRESP3) allows creation of synthetic responses for topology by using built-in functions or external subroutines loaded from a dynamic link library.

    New Design Variable Definition for Topology - a new data entry (TVAR) adds extra design variables to the topology problem.



GENESIS version 11.0 should run any input that was successfully running in version 10.1 with no changes.

Design Studio for GENESIS New Features and Enhancements

  • Interface to all new features of Genesis 11.0
  • New user interface configuration to reduce mouse travel
  • New mouse-button view control options
  • Enhanced domain list find filter
  • Model cutaway view
  • Improved flat shaded viewstyle
  • Create and edit frequency response data
  • Create mirror copies of elements or domains
  • Bias factors for nonuniform mesh generation
  • Option to automatically create new domain group when creating domains
  • Generate perturbations normal to surfaces or edges
  • Show topology region on top of isosurface display
  • Animate sequences of isosurface plots
  • Color displacements by the component normal to the surface
  • Displacement component coloring now uses the general coordinate system
  • Option to query element results by group
  • Option to import newly created post-processing files after running Genesis
  • Improved 64-bit version to allow very large post-processing result sets
  • Option to adjust y-axis range on design history plots

    For more information on our most recent version of GENESIS or Design Studio for GENESIS, or to evaluate our most recent version please contact VR&D.