Thermal Desktop 5.3
What's new in Thermal Desktop 4.7
The following new capabilities have been added in Thermal Desktop 4.7:
- Mapping capabilities have been enhanced with variable tolerancing and user definition of which entities to map to. Detailed diagnostics are also output which tell users which surface a point was mapped to.
- Conductors can now be set to use natural convection heat transfer correlations that are available as SINDA subroutines.
- MLI-Insulation has been added FD Solid Bricks, Cylinders, and Spheres.
- A component has been added to aid in the evaluation of Thermal Electric Coolers (TECs).
- Insulation properties can now be Ablative.
- A global parameter has been added to quickly turn off all surfaces.
- Density and conductivity scaling factors have been added to the thin shell primitives, as well as the finite elements.
- Color contouring of surface primitives (i.e. rectangles, disks, cones, etc...)
- The maximum number of colours in the colour bar has been increased from 10 to 15.
- A general approach was made to allow the user to input more comments into the model.
- Previous “name” or “comment” fields have been enhanced so that if the user double-clicks in these fields, a text editor window will come up, and the user may enter a comment of any length.
- Multi-Edit mode has been added to the Case Set Manager which allows the user to edit more than one case set at a time.
- Filtering options have been added to find nodes that are not connected to anything, or to find nodes that are not connected to geometry.
- Contactor graphics have been improved to show each surface "from" and "to" markers that are color coded. The "from" markers are drawn from the proper face which should aid in the contactors being created more accurately.
- Area based contactors now have a ray tracing calculation option in order to speed up these calculations for the situation where normal rays from the "from" surface will hook up properly to the "to" surfaces. Tested models are running 30 times faster for these calculations.
- An importer has been written to import Harvard Thermal TAS-PCB models.
- An importer has been written to import ANSYS finite element models.
- Utility functions for finite elements have been added to split quad elements, refine elements, and shift the starting edge/node have been added.
- An unmerge nodes option has been added.