{"id":607,"date":"2019-12-29T05:36:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T05:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/?p=607"},"modified":"2019-12-29T05:36:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T05:36:26","slug":"openvsp-3-20-0-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/announcements\/2019\/12\/29\/openvsp-3-20-0-released","title":{"rendered":"OpenVSP 3.20.0 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenVSP 3.20 just in time for 2020! Start off the new year with a new version with one really cool feature (Smart Input) and a bunch of fixes.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this update is very small. It wouldn&#8217;t cause a .20 bump except that the new feature also adds a new library dependency and that warrants a little more attention.<\/p>\n<p>You may be asking, &#8220;What is Smart Input?&#8221;. Input boxes (the white box with parameter values) are now smarter. They can now can do simple math (+-*\/^).<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you want to nudge a parameter by 0.375 &#8212; just click in the input box and put &#8216;+.375&#8217; after the current value. Maybe you want to double something &#8216;*2&#8217;, increase by 10% &#8216;*1.1&#8217;, convert units on the fly &#8216;\/2.54&#8217;. This is a really handy feature that will find many uses.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Smart Input, there are a handful of build fixes, code cleanups and improvements to the automation of the build process.<\/p>\n<p>Features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Smart Input for simple math in input boxes<\/li>\n<li>API examples in documentation<\/li>\n<li>Draw cg from mass prop screen<\/li>\n<li>CEDIT improvements<\/li>\n<li>Make wing section projected area an output Parm<\/li>\n<li>Add get parent\/child to API<\/li>\n<li>Fix VSPAERO crash for Uber CRM example case<\/li>\n<li>Lots of cleanups identified through static analysis<\/li>\n<li>Travis deployment<\/li>\n<li>Update Travis MacOS build to match release builds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Library Updates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Include expparse simple expression parsing library<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bug Fixes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t crash structures STEP\/IGES output when no structure defined<\/li>\n<li>Parasite drag for identically named geoms<\/li>\n<li>DegenGeom crash when subsurfaces extended beyond [0,1]<\/li>\n<li>CEDIT fixes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenVSP 3.20 just in time for 2020! Start off the new year with a new version with one really cool feature (Smart Input) and a bunch of fixes. Overall, this update is very small. It wouldn&#8217;t cause a .20 bump &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/announcements\/2019\/12\/29\/openvsp-3-20-0-released\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}