GiD - The personal pre and post processor
17.5.1d
What's new 17.5.1d
General:
Fix bug 'Session has expired and cannot be automatically refreshed'.
Update some C++ libraries to VCPKG_TAG=2026.03.18.
Linux : with USB checking, provide more information.
macOS : corrected crash when starting GiD on Sequoia, when compiled with XCode 26.x.
Linux : corrected problem when setting OpenGL Fonts from preferences Windows.
Pre-process:
Fix bug Shapefile import conditions in an existing model with geometry and assigned materials
Fix bug calculating normal of non-convex quadrilateral
Refactor Copy/Move window
Auxiliary tool to to facilitate find in disk models and open, save image,...
(-np- ExplorerModels::Window)
Post-process:
Fix bug creating menus if exists a result name parent “a_result” and some result name child “a_result//some_child”.
Local axis result, use same axis colors everywhere (x=red, y=green, z=blue).
Saving as hdf5 : do not write empty attributes, corrected crash when writting null GP definition for mirroed/copied meshes/sets.
Customization:
Preliminary version of a VS Code extension to debug Tcl based on ramdebugger (<gid>\scripts\ramdebugger\vscode-tcl-debug\tcl-ramdebugger-0.1.0.vsix)
Add to scripts tcl3d 1.0.2 basic packages of OpenGL wrapper
New subcommand GiD_Info mesh -post HasRepeatedElementId
New subcommand GiD_MeshPost edit renumber elements consecutive
New GiD_Sets edit, delete, list, window, exists subcommands:
New GiD_Result list subcommand
New .bas template commands *SetSeparatorCharacter ",", *SetDimension 3, *loop element_types/end element_types, *nelem(ElemtypeName), *set elems(ElemtypeName), *SetConvertUtfToExternal
HDF5 Tcl package 1.12 (new hdf5_file open | close and write and read attribute strings as variable length utf-8 encoded)
Install tclsh and wish for auxiliary uses, like new menu Utilities->Tools->Develop->Demos Tcl… showing interesting features