Don’t forget to register for the OpenVSP Workshop. August 4-6 in Daytona Beach Florida.<\/p>\n
Mostly fixes, but a few creature comforts that may quality as features if these issues were causing you irritation.<\/p>\n
More options when placing Stack XSec’s. There is now an ‘Abs’ mode for position\/orientation of cross sections. These are in the Stack’s coordinate system (not the global coordinate system). This should make it easier to build up bodies in certain circumstances.<\/p>\n
Stack XSec’s also gained an option to change their vertical alignment. Setting the VAlign Parm to -1 will cause the XSec origin to be at the bottom of the section (+1 at the top, and 0 at the center like it is now). So, if you are designing a body with a flat bottom, set VAlign for those sections to -1 and you should have an easier time of it.<\/p>\n
The Planar Slice tool now ignores inlet\/exhaust extensions when automatically setting the bounds for slicing. It will also ignore landing gear ground planes and Aux Geoms intended to extend beyond the model.<\/p>\n
I noticed that changing XSec type was slower than I felt like it should be. I profiled it and made a few nice speedups, but it was still sluggish. I then realized that the slowdown was caused in 3.41.0 by some changes I made to preserve ID’s when changing XSec type. I was able to make an algorithmic change to this routine and now it is back to full speed.<\/p>\n
File\/New will now pop up a dialog to give you the opportunity to save or discard your changes.<\/p>\n
There is now an aspect ratio control for 3D background images. If your images are not 1:1, this should make life easier.<\/p>\n
There is now an option to not show the colored dashed lines indicating the designated propulsion station locations.<\/p>\n
When doing a discrete View From visibility analysis, the FOV of any viewpoints is not taken into account.<\/p>\n
Several bug fixes that have hit users. FEA Structures are now Update()’d when exporting STEP\/IGES files via the API. A bug setting up the slices for Planar Slice (introduced in 3.50) has been fixed.<\/p>\n
There was a mistake calculating the torsional stiffness constant for rectangle beam sections could actually cause an infinite loop and crashes. While fixing it, I also noticed that the torsional stiffness for box sections with un-equal wall thickness had an error.<\/p>\n
Also, a build fix for shiny new GCC – thanks fernape.<\/p>\n
So, nothing too huge, but pretty good for a .2 release. Everyone should update.<\/p>\n
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Don’t forget to register for the OpenVSP Workshop. August 4-6 in Daytona Beach Florida. Mostly fixes, but a few creature comforts that may quality as features if these issues were causing you irritation. More options when placing Stack XSec’s. There … Continue reading