GiD what's new : From v 11.1.1d to 11.1.2d


What's new from version 11.1.1d to 11.1.2d
General:

  • File 'download.xml' to get a problemtype on demand from the 'Internet retrieve' repository
  • New KML plugin, to import 'Google Earth' .kml meshes in preprocess, and export results in postprocess, .kmz compressed files are supported.
  • Plugin Ema3D, fixed bug with some special description of cartesian meshes.
  • Grey images: Corrected problem with grey images when they were used as textures or background.
  • new command line option -noredirect : to avoid redirection of stdout and stderr messages and print them in the console.
  • Linux: some redraws avoided when a tooltip or a menu is displayed over the graphical window


Preprocessing:

  • Material window: added a button to allow rename a material
  • Import xyz files: option to triangulate points or nodes after import, and allow XYZ first line header.
  • Allow generate structured mesh on surfmeshes of 4 or 3 sides.
  • Bugs fixed in octree volume mesher.
  • Parallel processing used in octree mesher (unstructured volume mesher). (Number of threads to be used defined by the user in the Utilities->Preferences window, General tab).
  • Fixed bug in the creation of ContactVolumes when its surfaces have holes.


Postprocessing:

  • New Calculix plugin, to import 'Calculix' .frd mesh and results in postprocess (Files->Import->Calculix...)
  • Labels of results: corrected problem which appeared sometimes with labels of results, when the timestep was changed the label of the result change to label of node number.
  • Spheres: when drawing sphered / particles / points in nice mode, the quads now are drawn as 4 triangles, instead of 2, so the render quality has been increased a bit.
  • Textures: when applying textures, if the render mode is vertex array or vertex buffer object, it is changed to display lists, because textures mapped on meshes are still not supported in va/vbo mode.
  • Textures --> ScreenMap : if GeoReference information is present, it can be shown and used to project the image to the mesh, f.i. applying terrain images to a terrain mesh.
  • Textures : corrected problems: when changing mesh style, texture now remains on; and when applying a texture, draw no results ( c.fill & co) --> c.fill hides texture
  • Results: corrected bug when result's name is > 100.
  • Reading TIFFs : ( for textures or background) support for tiff using color maps and inverse black-white maps.
  • XYZ import : option to triangulate/tetrahedrize the point cloud after importing.
  • line graphs: corrected bug for line-graphs when triangles are aligned and "very close" to the line.


Customization:

  • .bas template command *FileId to provide the channel of the calculation file to a Tcl procedure to directly print data.
  • GiD_File fopen|fclose|fprintf|list command to allow print data from Tcl in the calculation file opened from a .bas template
  • GiD_EntitiesGroups get , new options:

-count to get only the number of objects instead of its list.
-element_type <types_allowed>: to filter the types of elements to be taken into account

  • GiD_Groups edit|get, new 'state' option with possible values: normal, disabled, hidden
  • new function gid_themes::GetImageModule, retrieve images from module according to GiD theme, more info on customization manual.
  • Fixed bug overwriting .spd file when using 'Save as' (current file get from memory data was overwritten with old .spd disk file)