Version 10

Main news from version 10 to version 11. (See Detailed news from 10 to 11 for the full list of news).
General

• Ttk themed windows (experimental 'Dark GiD theme' and 'Classic theme')

Classic theme window

Dark theme window

• Faster drawing using advanced OpenGL features (Vertex arrays and Vertex buffer objects) and textures

• Plugins: new postprocess import plugins: PLY, OFF and OBJ formats

• OffScreen: to run GiD in background with graphic features without any window (.e.g. to create images in batch mode)

• Sphere and circle element support enhanced: draw as texture and more generation options

• Ground plane: can be used as floor (shadows are drawn on it) or as mirror (window View->Advanced viewing settings..)

• Automatic check if a new version is available when starting GiD.

Preprocessing

• Tetgen volume mesher inside GiD, based on Delaunay algorithm.

• Meshing in parallel. The volumes can be meshed in parallel using the number of threads wanted by the user (set at Preferences->General).

• Join volumes for geometric edition, and join surfaces preserve applied conditions.

• Edit NURBS: conversion to Bezier form for curves and surfaces.

• Draw curvature of curves by colors.

• Cartesian volume mesh with non-uniform grid spacing, size ratio, settings in preferences window and support of cartesian 'face' and 'edge' elements.

• Draw higherentity on mesh edges. (View->Higher Entities->Edge).

• Structured lines: allow to assign real size to set the equivalent number of cells.

• Option for manual creation of nodes and elements.

• GDAL plugin to import GIS files as geometric or mesh entities.

• EMA3D plugin to import cartesian meshes generated by CADfix

• STAR-CD plugin to import STAR-CD meshes

• Improvements in most meshers: rfast, rsurf, semi-structured, boundary layer, quadrilateral mesher, etc.

Postprocessing

• Results cache: Avoid load all results simultaneously in memory, and allow set maximum memory to be used.

• Node tracing: Draw of the path followed by a node in along time steps.

• Saving postprocess state (isosurfaces, stream lines and view information is saved between sessions).

• Integral: more options available in numerical integration of results.

• Creation of boundary mesh of currently visualized mesh.

• Separate connected parts in different sets.

• Render: Added two new fixed lights (switchable separately).

• Results support complex numbers: ComplexScalar and ComplexVector.

• Animation: new Macromedia Flash Video (.flv) export format.

• Create Results: added more operators (sqrt, log10, db10, db20, abs, exp, inverse, dFT).

• Creation of statistical result calculating the minimum, maximum, average or the standard deviation of other result.

• Create Graphs window: to create a graph applying some operator to another graph.

• Read of postprocess files with GiD postprocess HDF5 format written by the GiDPost library, and files with Amelet HDF5 format.

• Contour Fill/Contour ranges: option to display the range just under the cursor.

• VTK plugin to import mesh and results.

• PDF output: now outputs images in pdf format.

• PLY export: shown meshes and current nodal result can be exported in the Polygon File Format, aka. Stanford Triangle Format.

• Improvements in several algorithms: stream lines, etc.

Customization

• GiD dynamic library plug-in mechanism to load/unload dynamic libraries (developed an interface to create postprocess mesh and nodal results).

• New GiD-Tcl commands:

  • GiD_Geometry now allow also create and ask for contact-surface and contact-volume and to list the problematic un-rendered surfaces.

  • GiD_Cartesian to get and set cartesian grid properties.

  • GiD_BackgroundImage to handle background image.

  • GiD_MeshPost to create and inquire postprocess mesh.

  • GiD_Result, new 'gauss_point' and 'result_ranges_table' sub-commands to manage them.

  • GiD_Graph to handle postprocess graphs.

• Tcl-GiD events:

  • New events AfterCreateMaterial, AfterRenameMaterial, BeforeDeleteMaterial, AfterChangeMaterial, AfterAssignMaterial, BeforeMeshErrors, BeforeResultReadErrors.

  • GiD_Info events: to know the full list of raised events.

• Global Tcl variables:

  • GidPriv(HideQuadraticTypeLevel) to disable quadratic options .

  • GidPriv(PostSpaceDimension) to disable 3D results.

• Tcl packages:

  • GDAL Tcl package to read/write GIS digital terrain models from multiple formats (Arc/Info, tiff and most image formats ,etc.).

  • Vtk Tcl package to wrap vtk functionality.

  • Most Tcl packages updated to latest versions.