GiD what's new : From v 11.1.7d to 11.1.8d


What's new from version 11.1.7d to 11.1.8d
General :

  • File dialog: new options to sort files and folders alphabetically ( exaple: a1 a11 a2), by dictionary ( understanding integers within name, example: a1 a2 a11), by modification date ( newer first) and by size ( bigger first). These options are accesible using the right buttom mouse menu.
  • New preference: 'checkbox updated version' variable in General preferences window.
  • New key bindings:
    • Control-1 to 4 for common views
    • Control-t to set the focus in the command line to write commands.


Preprocessing :

  • Selection 'Children of', to select child entities of a picked parent.
  • Entities of frozen layers drawn in gray
  • Fixed bug with orthogonal view to z axis, the model is drawn in a wrong place.
  • Fixed error saving a mesh with only nodes but not elements (nodes were not saved)


Postprocessing :

  • New Vtk format export (xml version .vtu, .vtp) and enhanced the Vtk import.
  • Open Multiple files: corrected problem when reading an unordeder list of files.
  • Several analysis, different results: corrected problem which arised when doing first a result visualizacion ( c.fill, display vectors) of a results of analysis/step AS1, then deforming the model with another results of another analysis/step AS2, and then gid tries to actualize over the deformed model the first result visualization.
  • Polygonal cut: corrected crash when a polygonal cut was deleted and another postprocess model was loaded.
  • Iso-surfaces: corrected problem when a mesh is drawn as points, and it was switched off, it was still drawn if it had an isosurface.
  • Iso-surfaces : corrected problem when all meshes were switched off and a zoom frame was selected, the iso-surface was moved out of the view.
  • Line Thickness: support for several gauss points in line elements, before only 1 gp was handled.
  • Line Thickness: correct drawing of thick+nice lines for render flat and for render smooth.
  • Line Thickness: correct update of line thickness visualization when some result surface/line thickness options were changed.
  • Smooth Contour Lines: added this new result visualization, to draw contour lines using smoothed gauss points results, like Smooth Contour Fill.
  • Iso-surfaces: corrected problem ( too much memory was used) when converting iso-surfaces into cuts ( proper meshes).
  • Contour lines: new option to set the widht of the lines of this visualization, they will also be scaled when creating high resolution images.
  • Animating smooth contour fill: corrected crash when fixing global limits when several meshes are used at different time steps.


Customization :

  • New command GiD_Book material|condition create|set|exists to create a book, check if exists or set the book of a condition or material
  • GiD_Info materials: new option to list materials of a book: GiD_Info materials($book)
  • GiD_ModifyData: new option -book to change a material or condition to other book
  • GiD_CreateData: material now return the number of the new material
  • GiD_Info Mesh -post NumElements: implemented missing option -post -step $step_index
  • GiD_Info Mesh -post Nodes: added -step $step_index option