What's New - C-Solutions, Inc. - Makers of SIMUFLOW, GMSWorks, AGILE, CAD/CAM/CAE Software Solutions

GMSWorks 4.4 released with following Enhancements

Added Qt File Selection Dialog. On Windows this displays the system File Selection Dialog. On Solaris it displays a dialog similar to the standard Windows File Dialog. Additionally, an environment variable (GMSQFILEDIALOG) has been added. Setting this variable to N, n, F, or f will restore the previous behavior (using the X/Motif File Selection Dialog).
Solaris SIGUSR1 signal processing (kill -USR1).
Show current FEM element thickness value during modification of a single element.
Increased non-cubic (non URC/NURC) splines from 50 to 200 control points.
Automatic STITCH after IGES solids input with option of UNDO.
Using latest Ricoh Designbase version 13 (see Solids below).
Replacement of the gmsfont1 file with gmsfont4.dat
- In GMS 4.4, gmsfont4.dat replaces the previous gmsfont1 file which stored character data for alternate character sets. The gmsfont1 supported only 96 characthers, while gmsfont4.dat supports the entire Latin-1 character set. However at this only a few characters in the Simplex Roman character set have been added. These are degree, plus/minus, diameter, and the umlauts used in German.

$BODY_VALIDATION_LIST topology error edge/face.
$PARTFILE_MERGE
Added $INTERSECT_BODY_BODY.
$draftdupview1box for duplicating view 1 drafting entities into another view of definition.
Added $DRAFTENTWINDOW.
engrave.agx
Added $GET_DIMENSION_TEXTEXTENTS to return geometric information about the various dimension text blocks.
Added $MODIFYTEXT_POSITION, which modifies the text position of an existing drafting entity

Creations of solid body directly from solid IGES data.
When gluing gaps between surfaces, the topology of the solid IGES is used instead of retrying tolerances of the gaps.
A triangluar surface with a degenerated edge may now be offset.
Avoidance of unintentional change of surface shape when gluing.
Improved midpoint calculation for better intersections.
Improved tesselation on faces with holes.
Improved performance on gluing of surface shells.
Improved processing speed (up to 6.7 times) for surface smoothing.

Plus/Minus sign does not appear in Dimension text on UNIX.
'$' inserted in front of '/' in $QUESTION text.
Nested groups were not completely deleted when the subgroup contained composite curves.
Fileselect accepting upper case suffix on Solaris.
Fileselect accepting .sa? on Linux.
IGES in of aux entities menu buffer overrun.
"Hidden Dialogs" problem, GMS File Selector, History Dialog, Truetype Fonts Dialog, and Lighting Dialog.
Drafting scales other than 1.0 has incorrect gemoetry for radius and diameter dimensions (type 33 forms 17,18,20,21,22).
Drafting zero supression of both leading and trailing zeros on upper/lower tolerances does not output one zero when value is zero (just outputs the sign with no digit).
Write Image File fails with Solaris 10.
Creating image file larger than window size not working properly on Solaris.
Problems with displaying circular arrowheads in Drafting.

When an edge-sequence is composed of two or more edges and those edges are slightly folded, the rounding operation for the edge-sequence may be hung up during the processing.
BODY CHECK topology error face/edge display.
When a face contains a degenerated P-loop composed of only two straight lines, tessellating the face into polygons results in a crash.
When an edge-sequence around a sharply-pointed loop is specified to the pldraft command, the operation may results in a crash.
When cutting an end of a fillet/chamfered face generates a triangular face, the resultant face may be distorted.
When a generated free-form fillet/chamfered surface neighbors a strip of face, the surface shape may skew.
When faceting a face that contains a degenerated loop composed of only two straight lines then the operations resulted in an error or crash.
During edge drafting the surface generation now succeeds when a sharp drafted surface mode is specified.
Rounding operations now succeed when an edge sequence is composed of two or more edges that are slightly folded.
A non-distored resultant face now is given when cutting an end of a fillet/chamfered face generates a triangular face.
A non-skewed resultant surface shape now is given when a generated free-form fillet/chamfered surface neighbors a strip of a face