GiD - The personal pre and post processor

From v 11.1.4d to 11.1.5d

Owned by Enrique Escolano
Last updated: Jun 09, 2021
3 min read


What's new from version 11.1.4d to 11.1.5d
General:

  • New button to create a new interval inserted in the specified location
  • High-resolution pictures: corrected problem which arised on Intel graphics and on Linux and on MS Windows.
  • Initial GiD window: adjusted size of first-time initial configuration window for small screens.
  • File dialog: now the last used directory is remembered for images, graphs, postfiles besides normal files and projects.
  • TTFonts: a list of the TTF fonst is saved between GiD sessions. The TTF fonts of the system are queried if the list does not exists or at user request, from the preferences window. With this option the font preferences panel will open faster.
  • Draw legend with names when drawing Groups

Preprocessing:

  • Utilities->Swap normals, new option to set normal of skin surfaces/curves of selected volumes/surfaces pointing inside
  • Circles and spheres: also drawn as points when using the quick draw mode for those elements, besides the internal textura and nice options.
  • Legends: new options for condition and material legends, as in post: draw with opaque background and with a surrounding border. They are also in the preferences windo, under Graphical --> Appearance. Both are also used in postprocess legends.
  • Fixed bugs in boundary layer meshing.
  • Fixed bugs in octree volume mesher.

Postprocessing:

  • Results cache: improved performance when results are retrieved from disk by sorting the accesses.
  • Comments: new parameter for comments %tcl() to evaluate a tcl command and display it's result as comment, for instance: "Step id = %sv, correct step value = %tcl(expr $sv * 2.5 + 3.4)" --> will translate to "Step id = 1, correct step value = 5.9".
  • 2D Polygonal cut ( former Cut Wire): polygonal cuts can be done on triangular and quadrilateral surfaces, any point can be selected and not just over element edges like the 'cut wire' option. These cuts can be imported and exported and are saved between sessions, like normal cut planes. Quadratic elements are handled as linear ones, like normal cut planes. Nodal results and 1gp results are passed to the new cuts as well.
  • Circles and spheres: corrected error when drawing these elements as quick points using the Vertex Array ( VA) or the Vertex Buffer Object ( VBO) methods.
  • Utilities-->List: corrected bug when listing cached results
  • Result surface: corrected problem when drawing extruded result surface with va/vbo drawing method.
  • Binary results: added support for indexed binary postprocess files to speed-up the results cache mechanism and the reading process.

Two new preferences has been added under the Results' cache label:

    • Use indexed binaries: uses the index file just to access the data
    • Use indexed results information: if present in the index file, the results information will be used instead of reading it directly from the whole postprocess binary file.

If the index file is not present, then it will be created ( if the 'Use indexed binaries' option is enabled). The index file will be regenerated if the original binary file is newer than the index file. The user can also recreate the index file by using Files-->CreateBinaryIndex in the right buttons menu.
A new command line option has been added 'gid -createindex results_binary_file.post.bin' to create the index file from the command line or in a script.

  • Change orientation: new option to change orientation, and their normals, of surface meshes ( triangles, quadrilaterals and circles) under Options->Geometry->Swap orientation of visible surfaces.
  • Display vectors: corrected drawing error when drawing as vectors a component of a resullt vector with fxed size vectors.
  • Graphs window enhanced:
    • graphs selection: double click -> edit selected graph, right mouse -> contextual menu to delete or edit graph
    • graphset preferences of legend:
    • combobox to set position instead of swap it, and allow also hide the legend
    • allow hide graphset text of the legend
    • access to opaque-transparent variable (common to all legends)

Customization:

  • GiD_IntervalData create ?<number>? ?copyconditions? : new option <number> to be inserted in the specified location
  • GID_Info condition, new suboption -count to return the amount of enties with the condition instead of the list of values
  • New Tcl command: GiD_Info opengl to get info about Opengl/glew version and renderer.
  • New Tcl subcommands related to graphs:
    • GiD_GraphSet edit <graph_set> legend_location|title_visible <value>
    • GiD_Info postprocess get graphs_option LegendLocation|TitleVisible
    • GiD_Graph selection set|get|swap <value> <graph_name>
    • GiD_Graph get_name <num> ?<graph_set>?

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