Highlights and experiences regarding the latest Ansys update on Electronics LF.
Ansys 2023 R2 - Electronics LF
Here is an excerpt of new features and further developments from the area of Electronics LF.
At a glance
Among the new features, the following have to be highlighted:
- Transient Thermal solution (Beta)
- Enhancements to Parasolid geometry commands and workflows
- Improved handling of ECAD data for 3D fields simulations in Maxwell
- Improved Workflow Maxwell-Fluent for electric arc co-simulation
- Generated of a standalone FMU from Moto-CAD Lab
- Maxwell Integration into Motor-CAD Lab
in Detail
Ansys Electronics Desktop
- Enhancements to Parasolid geometry commands and workflows
Icepak
- Joule Heating enhanced meshing & convergence
- Major improvements to Solver Performance
Mechanical in AEDT
- Slider meshing for Thermal
- Support for trace mapping in Thermal (Beta)
- Transient Thermal solution (Beta)
Maxwell
- Improved handling of ECAD data
- Shell element for modeling airgaps
- Machine Toolkit speedup
- Improvements in mesh technology
- General TDM for the A-Phi transient solution
- Improve magnetization workflow in target design with nonlinear Material
- Electric Arc Simulation based on Maxwell-Fluent co-simulation
Motor-CAD
- NVH capabilities for ESM (SYNC)
- Standalone Lab FMU
- Maxwell Integration with Lab
Ansys Charge+
- Electrostatic Discharge and arc extinction; Advanced Plasma and Gas Flow Modeling
- Mesh Engine Updates
- Integration with Ansys Chemkin-Pro
All information has been prepared to the best of our knowledge. Data without guarantee.
2023 R2 update webinar
We recommend you the CADFEM Ansys 2023 R2 update webinar on electronics low frequency.
Notes on installation and licensing for Ansys product updates
NOTES ON INSTALLATION
Since Microsoft has officially terminated the maintenance of Windows 7 as of 14 January 2020, Windows 7 is also no longer supported by Ansys. For security reasons alone, an update to Windows 10 is recommended.
The software can be downloaded as usual via the Ansys Customer Portal:
Software Download
For new customers, a user login is required before downloading. For this registration the current customer number is required.
To download the Ansys software, we recommend downloading the ISO images. With this download option, you will receive all data and do not have to assemble single modules to an installation archive. It is not necessary to burn a DVD, because the downloaded ISO images can also be unpacked with appropriate tools like 7-Zip (please use the latest version!) or WinRAR. Please do NOT use the Windows own Zip Utility or WinZip, because they might not unpack the images without errors. The individual ISO images must always be unpacked into their own folders to avoid overwriting files with the same name.
Further information about the current Ansys Release 2023 R1 is available in the download menu under the item "Getting Started". These notes contain information about the topics: Highlights of Release, Platform Support Documents, Important Notices, Downloads & Prerequisites, Installation;
With Ansys 2023 R1 only 64bit operating systems are supported. This applies to the licensing as well as to the client / server installation of the Ansys software. Further information about platform support is available under the following link:
Platform-Support
The Ansys Inc. release notes contain the following important messages:
Compatibility with Previous Releases
Ansys 2023 R1 was tested to read and resume databases from the following previous versions: 2021 R1, 2021 R2, 2022 R1, and 2022 R2. Note that some products are able to read and resume databases from releases prior to 2021 R1. See the specific product sections below for more information. For those products that cannot directly read an earlier database in 2023 R1, first resume it in a supported version and then resume that database in 2023 R1.
Upward/Forward Compatibility: No previous release has the ability to read and resume a database from a more recent release.
Advisories
In addition to the incompatibilities noted within the release notes, known non-operational behavior, errors and/or limitations at the time of release are documented in the Known Issues and Limitations document, although not accessible via the Ansys Help Viewer. See the Ansys customer site or online Help for information about the Ansys service packs and any additional items ot included in the Known Issues and Limitations document. First-time users of the customer site must register to create a password.
For a list of issues and limitations in previous releases that have been resolved in Release 2023 R1, refer to Resolved Issues and Limitations document on the Ansys Help site.
For the most recent version of the current release's Release Notes document, see the Ansys, Inc. Release Notes section of the Ansys Help internet documentation website or download it here. Ansys Help (https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/) will not be supported on the Internet Explorer browser after the release of Ansys 2020 R2.
NOTES ON LICENSING
Before updating the license server, please check if your license key is suitable for this use. The release date of the new version 2023 R1 must be before the maintenance expiration date of the corresponding license increment.
More information about Platform Support at Ansys
For all license keys issued after January 12, 2023 the installation of the new license manager of 2023 R1 is required.
When ordering a maintenance extension, the ASC (Ansys Support Coordinator) automatically receives a current license file. If required please contact our contract department: lizenz@cadfem.de. After each maintenance extension the received license files must be imported to ensure availability of the current licenses and compatibility to newer Ansys versions.
- "Ansys Common Licensing" (ansyscl.exe) replaces the "licensing interconnect"
- New Licensing Client Settings Utility ("elastic licensing" supported as failover, reduced license manager upgrades, industry standard "FlexNet Publisher" (FNP) implementation)
The file setupLM.exe was replaced by the -LM command option. This command can be used in connection with setup.exe for both command line and silent installation (example: setup.exe -LM or setup.exe -silent -LM).
Questions about licensing?
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in Detail
Ansys Electronics Desktop
- Official migration to Parasolid modeling kernel
- Enhancements to object oriented property scripting
Icepak
- Automatic Export of Icepak or Mechanical Thermal Project from HFSS/Maxwell/Q3D
- ECXML export supported.
- New Toolkits for Snapping and Heatsink Creation.
Mechanical in AEDT
- Now thermal contacts are supported
- Workflow Enhancements: Thermal Design Creation
Maxwell
- Speed Up Solution for PCB Analysis
- Enhanced magnetic latching workflow with maxwell and motion
- Support thin impedance layer for 3D DC conduction solution
- Support winding for maxwell magnetostatic solution
- Integrate ROM based efficiency map for induction machine
- Core-loss dependent ROM for induction machines
- Improved force calculation on conductors
- User Defined Primitives (UDP) development for Ansys Motor-CAD
Motor-CAD
- Automation and workflows
New pymotorCAD automation interface
New JSON-RPC communication interface
Upgraded internal scripting
More flexible custom outputs
Enhanced automated export to Maxwell
- New features for machines types, hairpin windings and oil cooling
Improved models for induction machine electromagnetics
Multiphysics optimization for wound field machines
Enhanced winding definition and loss calculation
New geometries and cooling methods
- Mechanical and NVH enhancements
Induction machine Noise Vibration Harshness (NVH)
Housing and winding stiffness included in the mechanical NVH model
Improved mechanical stress analysis for optimization workflows
All information has been prepared to the best of our knowledge. Data without guarantee.