BETA CAE 2025.1.1 Software Release Available

The BETA CAE team has released its first Hot Fix of 2025.1 for ANSA, EPILYSIS, META, KOMVOS, SPDRM, ANSERS, FATIQ, and RETOMO with critical bug fixes and selected implementations.

Known Issues Resolved in ANSA

CAD Import / Export

• ANSA would cease operating during the input of STEP files, output by Polyworks.

GUI

• Unexpected termination would occur, when the Presentation Parameters toolbar - docked at the Bottom Area - was expanded to display "Draw Shell as Solid" option.

Database Browser

• ANSA would cease operating after drag ‘n' drop of non-empty Sets/Includes from a list in "Tree View" mode onto other models inside the Models window.

Geometry

• Software abortion would occur, when using the API functions base.PlaneCut() & base.FacesPlaneCut() with the argument entities='all'.

Shell Meshing

• Applying the Fix Quality on 2nd order solid elements could lead to an abnormal termination of ANSA.
• In case CONS were not aligned, ANSA would terminate upon hovering on CONS, when trying to select Source CONS.

Volume Meshing

• Focusing on Volume Mesh/ Octree, ANSA would cease operating when deleting geometries, while having the "Hextreme" volume meshing window open.

Compare

• Parts with empty Module Id could erroneously be matched based on Module Id.

Connections and Assembly

• When executing the Autodetect Connectivity action on Subsystems with solid elements, the connectivity of Assembly points would not be correctly defined.

Data Management

• While working with an SPDRM server-based DM, the saved Fastener features in DM would not be properly recognized by the automated procedure of the Feature Manager.

NVH

• Upon execution of "Squeak and Rattle > E-line method", wrong definition of the COORD entity of the last CBUSH of each E-line would cause error termination of Nastran solver.

Results Mapper

• Using the feature "Preview Results" in Results Mapper Assistant would lead to an abrupt software abortion.

Kinetics

• Unexpected termination would occur during the input of ADAMS/View command file in Adams Pre-Processing mode.

Morphing

• ANSA would unexpectedly terminate by picking the "Morph Vectors" option in the History States context menu.

Optimization

• Constraints with Expressions could not be created, if special characters (blank space) were included in the variables names.

Known Issues Resolved in EPILYSIS

Performance

• One-calculation step has been drastically accelerated, leading to a significant speed-up in topology optimization with maximum size constraints (TVMAX); yet the overall time reduction depends on the job itself.

General

• Contacts were not detected, if the user-specified value of COPTS, COPTM was invalid.

Known Issues Resolved in META

General

• Unexpected termination would occur when launching META in OS with GPU memory less than 1GB.
• Running META with "-st" running option, would not read properly the main session file from the respective path.

Abaqus

• Unexpected termination would occur when reading multiple result files with modified META defaults.
• Issues occurred when reading .inp and .odb files saved under very long paths on Linux OS, where there is no character number limitation. Attempting to read these files on Windows OS would lead to unexpected termination.

Nastran

• ERP results for panels from Nastran .pch files were not displayed properly in 3D.
• Contribution analysis plot for real panel participation results output as fractions from Nastran PCH was incorrect.

Moldex3D

• Results from Moldex3D 2025R could not be read.

FRF Assembly

• Execution of "Autoconnect" in FRF-Assembly would lead to unexpected termination, when Interface Sets Nodes were connected.
• Fluid modal matrices were not handled correctly, if structure and fluid were treated as separate components in FRF-Assembly.

Modal Response

• FSI output from ANSA was not read correctly in Modal Response.
• Pressure Equilibrium FSI would not be calculated, in case there were some properties in the fluid model that were not in contact with the structure.

Automation

• Since version 2025.1.0, the Template Manager didn't allow loading a template with empty fields.
• Script functions CurvesTypesIso() and CurvesTypesIsoWithNames() were not working properly on Linux OS.

Project Files and METADB

• META would cease operating when reading results from a .metadb, which was initially read from Project Contents Browser.
• An unexpected termination would also occur when trying to load a .metadb with "average at threshold" setting enabled.

Images and Video Handling

• Abrupt software abortion could occur when trying to delete multiple markers from a video.
• Correlation score between video and simulation could be erroneous.

Renumber

• Renumbering a curve to an existing id would not work as expected.

Known Issues Resolved in KOMVOS

Data Management

• Editing a compound entity through KOMVOS, would erroneously allow to modify the item's properties. Now all primary keys are not editable in the "Edit missing properties" page of the wizard.

Machine Learning

• The process "ML Training Improve" would fail to start, when "None" was selected for Curve results in the original Predictor training.

Known Issues Resolved in SPDRM

Process Design / Execution

• Remote execution of nogui tasks would fail in Oracle-based environments when the system was configured to run these tasks on the SPDRM server's machine.

Users Management - Security

• When role-based visibility for accepted values was enabled, any newly added alias values through the "DM Structure Values" tool were not visible to any user roles. From now on, new values will be visible to all user roles by default. This enhancement improves usability and reduces the need for manual configuration of role-based access to new values.

Known Issues Resolved in ANSERS

Dashlet Layout - Sections

• Sections did not respond to collapse/expand actions. Visual overlap occurred between adjacent Sections or Sections and Panels.

List Panel

• The button "Select all" will now select all items and not only the items of the current list page.

Media Panel

• When two or three videos were displayed and animated in a single media panel, the animation was not smooth.

Installation

• Updates from previous versions to 2025.1 caused several issues that have been successfully combated.

Known Issues Resolved in FATIQ

License Management

• FATIQ license and respective credits were not released when executing the command "Release License".

General

• Sets imported from input file were not read properly.

Calculations

• No results were returned in analyses with post.gz input since 2025.1.

Download

Where to Download From

BETA LM Toolkit and all the supported versions of the software of BETA CAE Systems are now available from Cadence.

• To access the Cadence Downloads and the Cadence Support (ASK) portals you are required to first create your CadenceID, if you do not already have one.

What to Download

• Login to Cadence Downloads using your CadenceID.
• Follow the options ANSAEPILYSISMETA 2025.1, Release Version ANSA EPILYSIS META 2025.1 HF1, Release Date 01-Mar-2026, select the required Operating System and get the available installers.
• The installed files should replace any pre-releases or other files of this release downloaded prior to that date.

Important

• The license files that are issued by Cadence from February 2026 require that BETA LM 7.3 be installed on the license server. All supported versions of the BETA CAE Systems software and previously released license files are compatible with BETA LM v7.3.
  BETA LM Toolkit and all the supported versions of the software of BETA CAE Systems are now available from Cadence. Login to Cadence Downloads using your CadenceID. New customers can download BETA LM v7.3 directly for Windows or Linux to produce the license server identification details required for licensing and a CadenceID.
• It is important that you download and deploy BETA LM v7.3, so you can renew or upgrade your license file.

Additional Resources

• Frequently Asked Questions: BETA_LM and ASK Registration
• CadenceID and Access ASK Support Portal
• BETA LM v7.3 Set Up and Installation Guide