3D Design
Ansys Discovery’s newest update significantly boosts geometry modeling speed, enhances simulation confidence, and debuts advanced GPU meshing for improved accuracy and reduced memory footprint. Model preparation is now 10X quicker, with improved workflows and tools simplifying complex tasks. The innovative GPU meshing ensures accurate fluid simulations, balancing detail capture and memory use. Automated bolt assessment and visualizations enhance simulation reliability, streamlining the design process for better, faster insights.
Additive
We are excited to announce the integration of Ansys’s advanced simulation technology into Materialise Magics, a strategic partnership poised to transform metal additive manufacturing. This collaboration enhances product quality, reduces costs, and drives innovation by mitigating risks and predicting and addressing part deformation and thermal stress early.
Autonomous Vehicle Simulation
Ansys 2024 R2 innovations expand the capabilities to address the critical safety needs of our customers. Improvements in the sensor’s domain address the challenges of enhanced radar digital twin IP protection for secure sharing and adaptive grid sampling to facilitate long-range object detection; AVxcelerate Autonomy introduces enhancements in the operation design domain (ODD) to enable more comprehensive scenario-based simulations, along with multiple UI ease-of-use improvements that help expand the scope of ADAS/AD validation.
Connect
Superior Multiphysics simulation needs superior connectivity. The 2024 R2 for the Connect collection builds on the capabilities required to construct best-in-class multiphysics workflows with our Ansys solvers. Ansys Connect offers the tools to quickly create and publish new workflows and manage simulation and material data traceably while offering robust AI-enabled optimisation and analytic capabilities.
Digital Missions Engineering
Ansys Digital Mission Engineering (DME) offers exciting new capabilities focusing on expanding support for systems engineers across multi-domain mission simulation and engineering analysis. With an emphasis on extending interoperability across the Ansys portfolio of products, 2024 R2 provides new capabilities for advanced system-level design and analysis, AI capabilities, and streamlined methods for connecting and collaborating across enterprise-wide organizations.
Digital Twin
Ansys introduces Ansys TwinAI, a new addition to Ansys Digital Twin’s product portfolio that seamlessly integrates the accuracy of physics models with insights from real-world data powered by cutting-edge AI/ML techniques. Ansys TwinAI now supports Reduced Order Models (ROMs) and integrates Ansys Design Language with new UI/UX improvements. Moreover, there are several improvements in hybrid analytics, handling of state-less FMUs, and ROM initialisation.
Electronics
Ansys Electronics continues to demonstrate its leadership in computational electromagnetics and multiphysics simulations. The 2024 R2 capabilities include:
- New cooling methods and a new solution technique for electric machines
- New EV powertrain design and simulation platform.
- New solutions and improved workflows for the design of consumer electronic devices
- New product for chips-to-system design and advanced packaging/3DIC
- New product for large-scale radar and wireless networks
- New mesh fusion for electrothermal analysis and enhanced mesh fusion performance for complex electromagnetics designs
Embedded Software
This release brings enhancements to safety-critical software development, especially SCADE Suite. ARINC 661 compatibility is now updated to Supplement 9. Developers gain a Python API for programmatic connections between graphical panels and logic models. Moreover, AUTOSAR code generation and modeling achieves ISO 26262 ASIL D qualification. SCADE Suite benefits from a new Extension Manager. Scade One enhances user experience with block alignment, easy duplication, and automatic test harness generation features.
Fluids
Ansys Fluids 2024 R2 delivers updates that improve solver performance and provide new complex use case capabilities. The Fluent Multi-GPU Solver now supports AMD GPU cards, parametric studies, and expanded physics to accommodate new industry applications. Fluent Web Interface has new usability and productivity enhancements to improve user experience. Finally, advancements in fluid multi-physics workflows include expanded integrations between Rocky, Mechanical, Thermal Desktop, and STK.
Materials
With a continued focus on how materials can drive sustainable design early, 2024 R2 adds analysis and comparison of a Bill of Materials (BoM) to quickly compare the environmental impact of materials chosen for different designs. Additional sustainability, temperature-dependent, high-temperature alloy, polymer, and electromagnetic materials are added across Material Libraries. Granta MI users can now subscribe to their favorite materials list in MI Material Gateways.
Optics
Ansys Optics 2024 R2 bridges the gap between theoretical design and real-world application, ensuring that systems can be designed, evaluated, and optimized with higher accuracy and reliability. Here are the key features:
- Streamlined Data Exchange from Ansys Zemax OpticStudio to Ansys Speos
- Enhanced Tolerancing Capabilities
- Improved Light Guide Design for Automotive Lighting Systems
- Enhanced Workflows for Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs)
- Enhanced Workflows for Modern Chip Design
Safety Analysis
The improved collaboration server in the Ansys Safety Analysis product collection offers a powerful collaboration feature. Your team can work concurrently on the same project, streamlining your safety-critical workflow.
The enhanced connectivity lets you seamlessly import models from various sources, such as Cameo and Codebeamer. The beta version of the generic SysML importer, loads SysML models based on scripts, opens up more possibilities.
Digital safety management (DSM) offers project templating with sophisticated updates and your safety management with project templates, nested hierarchies, and initial reports – all designed to boost team productivity and project efficiency.
Semiconductors
The semiconductor product line delivers significant advances in performance, speed, and capacity for advanced node chips, introducing new features for AMS design analysis and multi-die design’s thermal and multiphysics analysis.
- The SigmaAV capability revolutionizes voltage drop signoff by offering comprehensive local and global noise coverage
- Reduced Order Models (ROM) enable a high-capacity analysis of chip and package systems with significantly reduced compute resources
- New multiphysics enablement with a thermal flow for integrated silicon photonics
- Ansys Totem-SC is 7x faster and offers 3x memory reduction
- Constraint checker in Ansys ParagonX enables systematic verification of parameters against specification
Structures
Discover the cutting-edge features in Ansys Structures 2024 R2, designed to excel in One-Stop-Shop, Advanced Simulation Capabilities, and Interoperability Advantage. Enhancements include advanced Noise Vibration and Harshness (NVH) tools, new fluid penetration pressure load, and expanded multiphysics with LS-DYNA solvers. Seamless data integration is now possible with support for ABAQUS and LS-DYNA models and improved Rocky functionality. These updates, aligned with our Digital Engineering initiative, ensure that Ansys Structures remains the top choice for robust and innovative engineering simulation solutions.
Ansys 2024 R1 distinguishes itself through a unified interface that simplifies complexities and enhances efficiency. Our native integration breaks down barriers in collaborative engineering environments, fostering real-time interactions and elevating project outcomes. The inclusion of a visually appealing Dark Mode and a modern design demonstrates our commitment to innovation, providing users with an aesthetically pleasing and more productive experience. Watch the video below to learn more.
3D Design
Ansys Discovery’s latest release focuses on effortless precision, smart model preparation, and accelerating design exploration. Effortless precision enhances simulation accuracy up to 10X with local fidelity refinement, reducing GPU memory requirements. Smart Model Prep cuts setup time by 50X with automated weld creation and associative physics transfer. Accelerating design exploration introduces the optiSLang plug-in for optimization, sensitivity studies, and one-click burst to cloud capability, allowing up to 100 parallel simulations on Ansys Cloud.
Acoustics
Ansys Acoustics 2024 R1 gives all Mechanical enterprise users access to Sound Analysis and Specification (SAS) to perform acoustic analyses and create more pleasing sounds quickly. Data Processing Framework (DPF) Sound now includes psychoacoustics indicators, enabling users to estimate how humans perceive sound.
Additive
Ansys’ latest Additive Manufacturing (AM) release enhances 3D printing through Fidelity, Usability, and Optimisation. Focusing on Fidelity, it ensures precision in capturing process parameters like LPBF and DED. Usability enhancements include streamlined workflows and tools like LPBF Setting Template Save/Load, simplifying job setup. Optimisation features like Distortion Compensation restart and DED Auto-dwell time boost productivity by automating complex processes. This release underscores Ansys’ commitment to advancing additive manufacturing.
Autonomous Vehicle Simulation
Continuing the momentum for Autonomous Vehicle Simulation from our last release, 2024 R1, takes the innovations one step further. Keeping safety as the first and foremost objective, most improvements in this release deliver on the critical aspects that elevate the development of ADAS/AD features. With notable enhancements in overall integration and connectivity, radar sensor simulation, and industry-mandated virtual headlamp regulation, this release covers many innovations to help our users design the most robust industry solutions.
Connect
Ansys 2024 R1 introduces AI-powered optimisation, MBSE connectivity, and sustainable Material Intelligence to simulate earlier in design, enabling faster product development to Ansys Connect. The system allows engineering analysis of verified requirements using ModelCenter, connected to the Ansys Systems Architecture Modeler. The new sustainability add-on, Granta MI, helps make earlier material decisions. The enhanced UI/UX accelerates collaboration and integrates process and data management, requirements verification, optimisation, and materials management capabilities into the everyday simulation UI.
Digital Missions Engineering
The 2024 R1 release of Digital Mission Engineering (DME) introduces new features for mission-level simulation, including enhanced subsystem and sensor payload modeling, updated tools for large platforms, asset grouping, and Python scripting and API enhancements. These improvements improve workflows, fidelity, and performance analysis and align with space mission design and operation needs.
Digital Twin
Ansys 2024 R1 Digital Twin offers simplified optimization algorithms for parameter calibration, improved fusion workflow with multi-file selection, transient response for static parameters, visualization in SRB interface, and support for new Mechanical applications through LS-DYNA.
Electronics
This release includes significant advances in simulation performance, meshing, and automated workflows. It covers various applications such as combined chip-package-PCB simulation, RF, HPC, 3D IC, and electric motors. New capabilities include ECAD-MCAD integration in Ansys Maxwell for flex and rigid PCBs, adaptive templates in Ansys Motor-CAD, and multi-solver interoperability for multiphysics and multiscale solutions.
Embedded Software
Ansys is launching a new product called Scade One, a model-based solution for developing embedded applicative software. Scade One enables a seamless Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) process thanks to its openness and reliance on standards. Building on decades of experience in safety-critical systems development, Scade One is accessible to any company developing safe and reliable embedded software, thanks to this brand-new, entry-level offering. Accessible to system designers and embedded programmers, Scade One bridges the gap between the ease of use of model-based tools, with an intuitive user interface, and the power of generic-purpose programming languages to develop applications from traditional control software to complex mission and autonomy software.
Fluids
Ansys Fluids 2024 R1 updates include enhancements across solver performance, end-user productivity, and complex application workflows. The Fluent GPU solver now supports new physics and a new Fluent web UI that allows you to view post-processing in real time via a web browser. Ansys CFX and Turbo Tools have improved blade modeling features, while Ansys Rocky offers enhanced DEM simulations and improved SPH capabilities.
Materials
Design for sustainability with material intelligence. The new sustainability add-on for Ansys Granta MI offers a rich toolset and the data to support sustainability experts, materials experts, and designers in their engineering efforts to reduce product environmental footprint early in the design phase.
Optics
2024 R1 Ansys Optics enhances simulation capabilities for optics and photonics designers. The release includes new features for high-efficiency multiscale optics simulation and analysis, including metalens simulation, streamlined straylight analysis, and compatibility with other Ansys products.
Safety Analysis
Ansys Medini analyze includes two new components for the 2024 R1 release: the Digital Safety Manager (DSM) and a Digital Collaboration Server. The DSM is a web application for safety managers, while the DCM provides a centralised project management platform. The scripting API is improved for easier customisation.
Structures
For 2024 R1, the structures product line introduces new features, enabling users to solve more complex problems efficiently. Mechanical introduces new dark and light user interface themes to increase flexibility and maintain a consistent user experience across Ansys products. Mechanical also has significant enhancements to streamline vibro-acoustics workflows, including a dedicated noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) meshing workflow and expanded product packaging capabilities. The fast Lanczos solver in LS-DYNA drastically improves speed and accuracy for large models with many computed modes. With PySherlock, Python programming is made easy, and Sherlock is now compatible with Linux.
