What's New and What's Changed?

What’s New in 2025.1?

Convergence Detection/ Progression Control
Convergence is achieved at each resolution level of the optimisation process, resulting in a final design that better meets the constraints.
Smoothing for Casting Designs
Casting design surfaces are now smoothed to achieve higher-quality surfaces while maintaining the Tapering Angle constraint.
Strings and Wormhole Reduction
The geometry is refined to minimize the occurrence of strings and void-like imperfections.

Post Processing
In post, the iteration overview shows the available number of iterations as far as the optimization is run. The optimization will stop once a convergence is reached.
Enhanced minThickness Function
New advanced minThickness function that not only reduces material when the minimum thickness value is not reached but is able to grow material in relevant areas.
Enhanced Optimization Achievement Index
The Optimization Achievement Index considers information regarding the stresses, minThickness, maxThickness, max. displacement and eigenfrequencies.

Mumps Solver
The default CPU solver is now MUMPS which is a direct solver. The newly supported solver makes CPU solving competitive to the established GPU computation
Maximum Displacement (Advanced User Settings)
A maximum displacement can now be defined via the Advanced User Settings. Have a look here for further information.

Enhanced Maximum Thickness Function
The maximum thickness function has been improved, making it more accurate. This function controls the maximum allowable thickness in the generative design process.
Backend Change for RBE Elements
Backend changes have been made for RBE (Rigid Body Element) elements, which are used to simulate rigid connections in finite element models. These changes involve bug fixes that improve the accuracy of these elements.
Mass target update
Define absolute values as the mass target for the optimisation.