What's new from version 10.1.1d to 10.1.2d
Preprocessing

• Join volumes for geometric edition
• Edge Collapsing in triangles mesh. If the normals of selected elements are not coherent, now GiD make them coherent in order to be able to detect the sharp edges of the mesh.
• Quadratic type of the model (variable IsQuadratic) loaded automatically when the model is loaded.
• Added option to draw higherentity on mesh edges. (View->Higher Entities→Edges)
• Default element type in semi-structured volumes is tetrahedra (before, it was prism).
• Improvements in render mesh.
• Bugs fixed related with meshing compatibilities checking before meshing semi-structured volumes.
• Bugs fixed related with 3D boundary layer meshing.
• Improvements in Isosurface volume mesher.
• Cartesian mesher: added SizeRatio option and removed WeightStart/End
• Cartesian mesher: support to read cartesian 'face' and 'edge' elements (Amelet format)
• Bugs fixed related with semi-structured volume meshing.
• Structured lines: if ndivisions is zero (default), now the number of cells equivalent to the unstructured size is assigned. In previous versions 2 divisions were applied.
• Improvements in unstructured size transition regarding volume unstructured mesher.
• Improvements in the smoothing with HighGeom option (trying to minimize the chordal error in surface meshes).
• Background image is saved and restored with the GiD model, and new menu option to show or hide it.
• Correct sizes operations before meshing are faster because of improvements.

Customization

• New -elementtype and -higherentity options in GiD_Info layer command
• GiD_Info layer -entities elements -elementtype $type $layername1 $layername2 ...
• GiD_Info layer -entities nodes -higherentity $num $layername1 $layername2 ...
• BeforeDeleteLayer event: if it returns cancel the layer deletion is cancelled.
• GiD_Geometry get/create now allow also contactsurface and contactvolume
• New Tcl command GiD_BackgroundImage get|set show|filename|location <values>

Postprocess & General

• More, and bigger, bitmap fonts for PGF's PmFont style.
• Colours: changed first default color in pre (Layer0) and postprocess, corrected automatic color change/reset.
• Contour Fill: bugs corrected related to gauss points, using same minimum and maximum limits
• Plugins: New import plugins ( mesh and results): PLY format, OFF format, added a tcl progress bar in ply plug-in
• Plugins: Automatic load of plugins under Files --> Import --> Plugins, of the dynamic libraries located in $GID/plugins/Import/.../NamePlugIn/NamePlugIn.dll ( or .so)
• VA / VBO: improvements and bugs corrected in VBO / VA visualization mode, in pre and in postprocess mode.
• Results cache: when reading a big file, lasts steps remain in memory ( so many as memory pool specified by the user).
• Graphs: problems corrected related to title, point style visualization ( disconected node graph), repeated names.
• Selection in post improved.
• Linux / Mac: verify that the defaults files are owned by the owner of the directory where they are ( corrected problem when GiD is launched as root from a user home directory).
• Added option ( checkbox) to WarnWin window to 'skip these messages'.
• Corrected bug when selection analysis and steps.
• Plugins: added new function: GiD_GetTclInterpreter so the GiD's tcl interpreter can be used inside the client plug-in, PLY + progressbar example added.
• New PostProgressBar: using the 'tile' progress bar in postprocess, allows indeterminate progress too.
• Warning if contour fill uses textures and the user tries to generate a vectorial ( encapsulated) postcript file.
• Spheres & circles: corrected bug when drawing them transparent in c.fill.
• Page Setup window with information about the dimension of the image to be generated ( in mm/inches and pixels).
• Post Import plug-ins now also works in Apple's Mac OS X. Makefiles provided too.
• Read state: corrected problem while reading result surface parameters
• Result surface: now works with VA / VBO and, when drawing elevations, now takes into account diferent normals on boundaries
• Result surface: support for gauss points results and VA / VBO.
• Line graph: added option to use the x, y or z coordinates as 'x' axis, besides the already existant 'line variation' option.
• Create result window can mix results between different analysis and time steps
• Results cache & Merge: corrected bug using Results cache
• Results cache & Merge: check if some files uses mesh 'Group's and some no, issue an error if so.
• Render: Added two new fixed lights ( switchable separately): one orange and another blue, accesible throught the right mouse button menu.