One more small bugfix release of fixes backported from 3.45.X. One fix might be enough for some people to see fixing it as a feature — but I’m calling it a fix so it can go in this version too.

Version 3.45.X is going well. All new features are going into it and fixes will not be back ported to 3.44.X after 3.46.0 is released. The big change in 3.45 is the update to VSPAERO. The only reason you should stick with 3.44.X is if you are a production user of VSPAERO who can not update their processes to 3.45.X at this time. If that describes you, you should be excited about 3.45.X and eager to upgrade as soon as possible. So, you should really be testing it now and updating your processes to the new version.

3D backgrounds now work with photos and filled images (not just line drawings anymore).

Two bugs were found when looking at the FEAMesh mass calculation. The cross sectional area for beam elements was not being calculated. Instead, the default value was used. The conversion factor for g/cm^3 was 3 orders larger than kg/m^3 instead of 3 orders smaller. And people think metric is easier…

RoutingGeom would crash because it doesn’t really have surfaces.

Calling UpdateGUI() from the API when the GUI is not running should no longer cause a hang.

Bug Fixes:

• 3D backgrounds with filled images
• FEA Beam properties (including area) were not calculated, fixes mass
• g/cm^3 conversion factor fixed. Fixes FEA mass calculation.
• RoutingGeom crash due to no surfaces fixed.
• API UpdateGUI() hang when GUI not running fixed.