Range Software

Range Software is software for Finite Element Analysis in engineering simulations.

Its main features are support for:

heat transfer and radiation

elasto-statics

elesto-dynamics

modal analysis

acoustics

electro-statics

magneto-statics

computational fluid dynamics

ground water flow

shape (geometry) optimization

3D mesh generation

parallel computing

an intuitive GUI

import and export functionality

The Range Software package contains several tools which helps the user to setup, solve, and analyze the engineering problem.

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Home page: http://www.range-software.com

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Version 2.3.0

New features:
1. Element - User can customize the toolbar icons and keyboard shortcuts
2. Element - Added 'Clone model' function
3. Element - Draw basic 3D objects (hexahedron, cylinder, cone, sphere)
4. Element - Create entities (mark element groups) from selected elements.
5. Element - Transform (scale, translate, rotate) parts of the geometry.
6. Element - Advanced geometry transformations.
7. Element - Setup and postprocess monitoring nodes/points.
8. Heat - Advanced convection boundary condition.
9. All - Possibility to set up monitoring points

Improvements and repairs:
1. Element - Display question dialog whether to really open an archived project.
2. Element - Additional information is provided when mesh generation has failed.
3. Element - When node number is entered in 'Move node' dialog it's coordinates are not displayed.
+ Plenty of fixes.

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Version 2.2.12

Improvements and repairs:
1. All - Faster model loading.
2. Mesh - several small fixes improving performance.
3. Stress - Output full stress tenzor (normal and shear stresses)

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Version 2.2.11

Improvements and repairs:
1. Element - User can specify an output file into which an optimized shape will be saved.
2. Element - Introduced "Maximum relaxation factor" for Radiative heat transfer calculation.

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Version 2.2.10

Improvements and repairs:
1. Element - New window for displaying mesh statistics.
2. Element - Model scaling by different factors in each axis.
3. Heat - Bodies can have Heat boundary condition assigned.
4. Heat - Improved convergence in radiative heat-transfer calculation.

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Version 2.2.9

Improvements and repairs:
1. Material database - "Poisson ratio" renamed to "Poissons Ratio" (Could cause zero poison's ratio in Stress analysis).
2. Stress - Fixed natural frequency calculation from eigenvalue.

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Version 2.2.8

Improvements and repairs:
1. Element - Message area can be optionally shown/hidden (View->Show message area)
2. Element - Mark offers more options. User can specify name of newly marked entity.
3. Element - Break intersected triangles
- More robust algorithm.
- Several problems causing program to crash were removed.
4. Element - Environment settings were removed from Problem' global settings. For setting an ambient temperature or gravity vector there is now a special window "Problem Environment".
5. Stress - Fixed incorrect calculation of thermal expansion.

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Version 2.2.7

Improvements and repairs:
1. Element - Post execute actions are taken after view factor calculaton is complete
2. All - Fixed problem with invalid file names
3. LINUX - Updated manual pages

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Version 2.2.6

Improvements and repairs:
1. Element - Fixed data and process synchronization

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Version 2.2.5

Improvements and repairs:
1. Element - Fixed several problems in View-factor setup window
2. Heat - Fixed radiative heat-transfer calculations

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Version 2.2.4

Improvements and repairs:
1. Element - New "dump results" function
2. Element - License can be now saved in $HOME/range-software/license
3. Element - Graph cursor is snaped to real values.
4. Element - Fixed several problems in "apply variables" window
5. Element - Fixed "Load from file" boundary condition values
6. Element - Fixed random crash in "Record selector" window
7. Element - Fixed random freeze
8. Fluid - Improved solver performance and stability

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Version 2.2.3

Improvements and repairs:
1. Element - Properly adjust applied time-dependant boundary and initial conditions when changing time-step size or number of timesteps
2. Element - If ASCII report contains unprintable characters report is not displayed - fixed
3. Stress - Incorrect calculation of natural frequency from computed eigenvalue

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Version 2.2.2

Improvements and repairs:
Fixed disabled displacement.

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Version 2.2.1

Improvements and repairs:
Fixed locale settings - could result into unreasonable values being read from a file.

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Version 2.2.0

New features:
1. Modal analysis
2. Binary file format - faster loading
3. Element - line split function

Improvements and repairs:
1. Element - Automatic detection which matrix solver is most appropriate for a given problem.
2. Element - When drawing body element edges some edges are not drawn.
3. Element - Remember full-screen state on exit and restore it once Element is started again.
4. Element - Multiple entity selection in boundary condition dialog.
5. Element - Fixed random crash on solver module termination.
6. Stress - Fixed crash when local rotations are applied.

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Version 2.1.9

New features:
1. New boundary condition - Heat flux per unit area.

Improvements and repairs:
1. Element - When external file format is imported program will automatically check for self-intersected triangles.
2. Element - Fixed face orientation synchronization algorithm.
3. Mesh - Faster mesh generator.

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Version 2.1.8

New features:
1. All - Parallel computing on user defined number of CPUs.
2. Element - PDF report generation.

Improvements and repairs:
1. Element - Automatically check if entered values are reasonable.
2. Element - If empty model is loaded no auto-repair should be possible.
3. Updater - Download full text of release notes.
4. Solvers - Invalid processing of temperature dependent material properties.

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Version 2.1.7

Improvements and repairs:
1. Element - Faster loading of the STL files.
2. Element - Faster algorithm for breaking self-intersected faces.
3. Element - Fixed incorrect rotation of the cut plane and the local coordinates.
4. Element - Check if loaded results correspond with the model size.

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Version 2.1.6

New features:
1. Element - If point has a volume assigned a sphere with a corresponding diameter. This also applies for line' area and face' thickness.

Improvements and repairs:
1. Element - More robust algorithm for breaking self intersecting triangles.
2. Element - Local coordinates for displacement are not saved - fixed.
3. Mesh - Faster mesh generation.

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Version 2.1.5

New features:
1. Element - Stream lines
2. Element - Concentration points

Improvements and repairs:
1. Element - faster file import
2. Element - fixed incorrect cuts preservation on model remove
3. Element - do not hide CFD Heat-transfer dialog when applying boundary conditions
4. Element - incorrect volume criteria for mesh generation
5. Element - fixed possible crash when closing and opening new project
5. Potential - include hydrostatic pressure

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Version 2.1.4

Significantly increased matrix solvers (CG and GMRES) performance.

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Version 2.1.3

1. Element - pick geometry entity from 3D area in boundary, initial and material set-up dialog
2. Element - fixed incorrect response on 'NO' in trace enable dialog
3. Element - if picking of entity is interrupted by switching to manipulate mode then returning to picking mode will cause the previous action to be restored
4. Element - added release notes dialog
5. gClient - changed font in the preview dialog to "monospace 8"

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Version 2.1.2

1. Element - added trace message box

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Version 2.1.1

1. Fluid - fixed incorrect scaling of particle concentration
2. Element - fixed wrong output from "Collapse Face Elements"
3. Element - do not allow to open model when no project is created
4. Element - create variables after the results are set
5. Element - add steady-state (ts=0) results to project archive file

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Version 2.1.0

Initial release.

* CFD solver (Incompressible viscous flow) - Fluid
* CFD heat-transfer model + wall/fluid heat exchange
* CFD contaminant dispersion model
* Temperature dependent material properties
* Unit conversion of imported models (m, mm, cm, in, ft, yd)
* New boundary conditions for stress analysis (Traction force [N], weight [kg])
* Gmsh mesh file import/export
* ISO surfaces
* 64bit IronCAD add-in
* + Lots of small improvements and bug-fixes