GiD Changelog

What's new in GiD 16.0.6

Jul 30, 2023

General:
Preprocess:
Fixed bug save/read mesh file of the model with ‘internal elements’ pointing to ‘internal nodes’
Fix bug import GDAL file if exists extra .prj file. Must set the environment variable PROJ_LIB to find ‘proj.db’ (its database of projections and coordinate systems)
Fix bug draw sizes Cartesian (zmesher)
Postprocess:
Fix crash read HDF5 results file with non-ASCII path
Calculate boundary faster
Customization:
Command line flag -no_splash_window to avoid splash window in some special cases (in general can be disabled in preferences)
command.exe define proc isalive and kill using gid_cross_platform for back compatibility

New in GiD 16.0.5 (May 31, 2023)

New in GiD 16.0.4 (Mar 24, 2023)

New in GiD 16.0.2 (Sep 19, 2022)

New in GiD 16.0 (Sep 19, 2022)

General:
Cloud models storage for logged users
Utilities->Status: buttons to open common folders (temporary, user settings)
Calculation do not require save with a name, its temporary folder is used for UNNAMED model
File browser: allow zip/unzip.
Html help disk size much smaller than previous versions
Avoid GiD lock starting/ending if login server has problems to answer requests, and faster asynchronous start.
Included problemtype interfaces Nastran, Abaqus and Ls-dyna that now don't require an extra Compass password.
Change theme do not require restart GiD
Black theme rebuilt using vectorial SVG images, to have better images with all theme sizes (small, medium, large,...), for high resolution screens
New 'GiD White Vectorial' theme
macOS: GiD build on macOS 10.15 Catalina, solved USB access problems.
macOS retina support.
Pre-process:
Each geometry entity store its mesh (avoid re-mesh if was meshes, update the mesh if required, copy also the mesh when copy a geometry, etc.).
IFC geometry format import (BIM standard format)
Undo enhanced (redo, undo last command, use backup as starting point, not lost history saving model, copy commands from undo multiple window, etc.).
Repair check contact volumes integrity, and do some repair in simple cases
Post-process:
Plugin to export results in shapefile format (GIS)
New option Convert Visible iso-surfaces to Cuts.
Fix lack of memory bug with results cache
Volume rendering: again functional and with some additions.
Fixed bug when cutting multiple meshes.
Corrected problem when importing multiple VTK files.
HDF5 corrected some errors when reading and writing results.
skipping steps when reading results: added option to read every X steps.
Customization:
Tcl/Tk updated to 8.6.12 version
windows: scripts/tk/demos/DEMO_widgets.vbs show a collection of tk widget demos and its source code
linux and macOS: $GID/tk_widgets_demo script added to show a collection of tk widget demos and its source code.
CustomLib
customlib problemtypes don't require embed used procs in the xml spd file.
correct_local_axes_with_lines command to modify assigned local axes based on the direction on some curves.
New GiD-Tcl events:
GiD_Event_BeforeCalculate, GiD_Event_AfterReadPreferences, GiD_Event_AfterSavePreferences, GiD_Event_BeforeExit, GiD_Event_AfterDataManagerSetCloudFolder
New Tcl commands:
GiD_AccessValueAssignedCondition ?-field_index? set|get {| ?? ... | ??}
GiD_GetUserSettingsCommonDirectory ?-create_folders? , return the main user GiD folder
GiD_Project backup save|read ?-ignore_must_save_flags?
GiD_Mesh list face (e.g. "GiD_Mesh list -normals_dotprod_threshold -0.9 face" to identify problems)
New Tcl sub-commands:
GiD_Info bounding_box new optional flags ?-geometry|-mesh|-post? ?-layers_off_also?
GiD_Info mesh nodes | elements new option -array2 : Instead of a plane list it returns the results as a list of objarrays (more efficient).
GiD_Info mesh -post -step_index $idx_step -set_name $name Elements $element (new optional flag -set_name $set_name)
GiD_Info mesh -post ?-step_index ? ?-step_value ? (new optional flag '-step_value')
GiD_Info variables ?-mesh? ?-expand_array_names?
GiD_Info check surface selfintersection ?-tolerance ? (new -tolerance optional flag)
GiD_Info check mesh contact_elements_connectivities, to check integrity of contact elements
GiD_Info postprocess get cur_step_index , to get the integer index of the current step
GiD_Groups get all_properties and GiD_Layers get all_properties
GiD_Geometry get: new sub-options label_on | selected
GiD_Geometry edit point|line|surface|volume material|label_on|selected
GiD_Mesh get: new sub-options label_on | selected
GiD_Mesh edit node|element material|label_on|selected
GiD_Project transform_problemtype
GiD_Sets get command: new element_type and element_num_nnodes options to get these values
GiD_Result get new optional flag -ignore_no_result, to avoid the result values that are unset
Packages:
package objarray new `-binary ` option
objarray foreach to easy loop on all array values
Added Tcl package vfs
promise package added, to allow run asynchronous procs with promises and async/await syntax
tksvg package added, to support vectorial images with svg format (scalable vector graphics)
New GiD variables ShowFigures(BoundingBoxLines), ShowFigures(BoundingBoxSurfaces), ShowFigures(BoundingBoxVolumes) to draw the bounding box of these entities.
GidUtils::OpenWindow , GidUtils::CloseWindow , etc handle classic data windows.

New in GiD 15.0.4 (Mar 31, 2022)

New in GiD 15.0.1 (Oct 5, 2020)

New in GiD 14.0.5 (Jul 3, 2020)

New in GiD 14.0.4 (Jul 3, 2020)

One of the main improvements for this version is the inclusion of the Chinese language translation.
With this new feature, the GUI messages can be displayed in three different languages, English, Spanish and Chinese.
BEASY:
The translation has been done with the collaboration of BEASY, an internationally recognised leader in computer simulation for Corrosion Control, Galvanic Corrosion, Signature Management, Defect Assessment and Crack Growth Simulation.
Working constructively with GiD team and BEASY’s agent in China, BEASY were able to efficiently exploit the latest version of GiD (14.04) in order to implement a Chinese language version of the BEASY Corrosion Manager and BEASY PolCurveX software products, both of which have now been released to customers.
The structuring of data and access to associated support tools (such as RAM Translator) from CIMNE, considerably facilitated the work involved, and BEASY certainly recommends any other providers of products incorporating interface to GiD to seriously consider the benefits of being able to offer products incorporating Chinese script as well as other languages.
How to change the language:
The language can be easily changed through the preferences window.
Just select Utilities -> Preferences… in the top menu bar, select the Language dropdown menu in the General branch and choose your preferred language.
You just need to click on the Apply button to confirm your selection.
More features in this version:
General:
Chinese GUI message catalog
Page and capture settings: corrected error and behaviour of the options Transparent background on images and Don’t save transparency layer on images. Now they can be used independently.
macOS: link in register window is working again.
linux installer: more corrections on systems with not installed packages.
linux: corrected crash when using ZFS as filesystem.
Preprocess:
Copy Move window on linux and macOS: now it’s not hidden by the graphical window when selecting entities.
Postprocess:
Cuts on collapsed hexahedra: solved introduced crash and corrected error in the creation of triangles.
Result Surface & Nice Spheres with VBO: corrected crash when visualizing contour fill with Result surface and error when using nice detail level in Spheres and Circles.
Results Animation: corrected error with a model with several analyses with different time-steps, when doing animation of a result of the first analysis.

New in GiD 14.0.1 (Mar 14, 2019)

General:
Progress bar tcl error solved.
Snapshots: red line when doing gif solved. Also happened with gif and jpg snapshots.
Undo: avoid that some file dialogs are re-opened while doing undo
Preprocess:
Frozen layers: avoid delete lowerentities on frozen layers.
Mesh menu options correctly placed: Create raster nodes and elements.
Zmesher: fix bug not meshing 2D isolated nodes
IGES import, fixed bug with unbounded plane entities
Fixed bug dividing a curve very close to an existing knot, better not to insert a new one.
DXF export, fixed bug with GiD arcs.
Postprocess:
Results’ cache + Convert cuts to sets: add warning and suggestion to increase memory and save model just after the conversions, otherwise the created results will be lost.
Complex results: solved crash when drawing complex matrices after drawing complex vectors.
corrected error: last selected result and automatic comments are wrong when selecting a contour fill of a different result thant the last used for deformation.
HDF5 read + results cache: corrected error when canceling the reading process.
Utilities–> Set Contour Limits corrected behaviour: it’s maintained when changing from post to pre and back, between sessions, in the legend it’s drawn different than user-defined limits, and has been added to the preferences window in the Contour Fill section.
Line graphs: correct calculation of the ‘line variation‘ option, i.e. solved loop problem. Line variation uses the 3D distance of the created graph as abcisses, for instance on non planar surfaces.
Line graphs: added option ‘Line projection‘, which uses the 2-clicked-point-line projected distances as abcisses.
Complex scalars: gid now calculates the modulus of complex scalars and shows it to the user for results visualization.
Complex vectors: GiD now calculates the modulus of each x, y, z component and shows it to the user for results visualization.
Complex scalars: also appear in vectors menu, to display the complex number as a vector, as well as Complex vectors components (x, y, z), which can be viewed as separated complex numbers.
Interior faces of volume sets: now enabling interior faces of hexahedra, prisms and pyramids they are drawn in va/vbo when visualizing gauss points results (contour fill).
Vtk export: fixed bug exporting a mesh without any result
KML export: fix Tcl error opening the file dialog.
Fixed memory bug saving cuts to file.
Customization:
Tcl-command: RestartGUI to restart Tcl/Tk gui after icons and fonts changes.
Raster GDAL import, fix error calculating z with no_data values
Tcl-command list entities: corrected changed format of output results information. New format is under -nice option to see.
Fixed bug drawing all materials, color of elements became corrupted
Fixed bug in .bas templates with variables with name starting like math funcions max, min, sin, cos,…
Transform: fixed bug transforming questions storing tables #N#
Transform: fixed bug transforming conditions with symbols associated

New in GiD 13.1.5 Dev (Mar 31, 2017)

New in GiD 13.0.1 (Nov 28, 2016)

New in GiD 13.0 (Jul 12, 2016)

General:
Apple's OS X official version
Html help and internal viewer
Antialiasing new OpenGL option in Preferences->Graphical->System
Preprocess:
New STEP export, and enhanced import.
Import XYZ nodes: option to triangulate/tetrahedrize connecting them.
Create a geometrical surface from each selected triangle or quadrilateral element.
'Granular' sphere/circle mesh generator plugin included in GiD.
New MinElem surface mesher. It tries to generate the minimum number of elements in a surface taking care of the given chordal error.
Octree-based volume mesher: added options to control whether lines or points should be skipped when meshing surfaces using Rjump.
Parallel meshing of surfaces.
List entities: new 'Lines uv' button to show the lines in uv parametric space of a trimmed surface.
Layers: allow deletion also if it has entities, parts in back, conditions or child layers.
Draw entities of frozen layers in grayed color.
Internet retrieve window: allow get plugins and other documents, and filters to hide incompatible or existent modules.
Post-process:
Basic support for Isogeometric analysis (IGA) on NURBS entities:
Postprocess variables of menu options moved to preferences window.
New Reload Icon to refresh results of a calculation in progress
Customization:
CustomLib library now freely available for all probletype developers (and documented in customization manual)
Tcl/Tk updated to last version: Tcl/Tk 8.6.5
Added new Tcl packages (sqlite database, etc.) and updated the versions of the old ones
New GiD-Tcl commands related to geometry, mesh, posprocess sets, results
New GiD_Events related to read project, transform, layers, intervals, conditions, graphs and graphsets, etc.
New command line flag -m to allow use different user macros file (e.g. for different problemtypes)
Plugin to import a new geometry format: CALCULIX .fbd format
Voro plugin that wraps the voro++ program to create Voronoi tessellations as GiD geometry.
Other:
Russian translation
New webpage
New user's support forum page