GRANTA MI:Materials Gateway for ANSYS Workbench Version 2.0

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1 Release Notes GRANTA MI:Materials Gateway for ANSYS Workbench Version 2.0 January 2014

2 Introduction GRANTA MI from Granta Design is the leading materials information management software system for engineering enterprises. GRANTA MI meets the disparate needs of the materials experts, product designers, engineering analysts, data publishers, and other professionals who work with information related to metals, composites, ceramics, plastics, and other materials. GRANTA MI:Materials Gateway enables data and tools from GRANTA MI to be accessed from within CAD, CAE, and PLM software. Users can access and browse a corporate materials database (and/or Grantasupplied reference data on materials properties), choose applicable materials, and assign those materials to parts within their design or simulation model. A variety of analytics, dashboard, reporting and data output tools are available, depending on the host system and the GRANTA MI modules licensed for your corporate installation. GRANTA MI:Materials Gateway for ANSYS Workbench is an application running within the ANSYS Workbench platform from ANSYS Inc. Scope of these Release Notes These Release Notes cover the following versions of this release of MI:Materials Gateway for ANSYS Workbench: Version 2.0.0, which is compatible with GRANTA MI Version 2.0.1, which is compatible with GRANTA MI Version 2.0.2, which is compatible with GRANTA MI Version 7 All of these 2.0.x versions of MI:Materials Gateway for ANSYS Workbench support ANSYS Workbench version 14.0, 14.5, and For comprehensive instructions on installing and configuring this software, see the document Installing and Configuring GRANTA MI:Materials Gateway, included in your MI:Materials Gateway installer package. For full end-user resources and User Guide see: In particular, users are recommended to consult the Before you Start: Using MI:Materials Gateway with ANSYS section of the User Guide. How can installing this release help you? Version 2.0 of MI:Materials Gateway for ANSYS Workbench features a new user interface for enhanced ease of use and productivity, support of materials version control and notification, and a variety of other enhancements. Table 1 on page 4 summarizes the benefits to specific categories of user. Listed by function, new capabilities introduced in Version 2.0 include: Support for ANSYS Workbench 15.0 is added at this release. A new User Interface, providing an enhanced user experience: o New modern look & feel, toolbars and icons o Faster, more responsive operation 2014 Granta Design Ltd 2

3 o More intuitive context (right-click) menus o Double-click default actions on menus o Context-sensitive menus for single or multiple selection o Imports page showing CAE models imported o Configurable columns in tables, including option to display/hide o Filtering on column contents o Progress bars showing status of many actions o Search results ordered by rank o Page sizing on search results. Enhanced support for materials data Version Control, and associated notification. Note that this requires Version Control to be activated in the relevant databases. o When working with a version-controlled database, imported models are checked against the database on opening an ANSYS project. o Out-of-date imports are notified to the user, who can choose to update them all, or consider and update each one individually. o Filters may be applied to the imports page to show only out-of-date imports. o (Version and only) Datasheets for materials display the record version, where the record is versioned in the database. o (Version only) Version control support also now extends to versioning of the FEA exporter programs themselves, where this has been implemented by your GRANTA MI administrator. Datasheets for materials respect the MI:Materials Gateway currency setting. Better replacement of previously-imported models. Replacement is made using a Refresh command, which replaces the contents of the material in the Engineering Data component, while preserving any existing assignments to geometries. Individual debug log files o An individual debug log file is now created for any 24hr period in which one or more MI:Materials Gateway sessions is run making it quicker and easier to identify an issue in system operation, should one occur. The name of the resulting file (previously simply "debug.log") now has the format gateway.hostname.yyyy-mm-dd.log. For example, gateway.ansys log Granta Design Ltd 3

4 Table 1 Benefits of this release, categorized by applicability to specific interest groups Interest group Relevant features Key benefits Business process owners, for Materials Data Management Simulation/CAE community CAE systems administrators Enhanced support of materials data Version Control New User Interface, with refreshed look and feel, and faster operation Enhanced interaction with imported CAE materials models Support of materials data Version Control Individual debug log files Ability to ensure full traceability of materials information used in CAE Ability to ensure relevant stakeholders are informed of materials updates, preventing risk of using out-of-date information Enhanced user experience, and productivity Better insights including version, if applicable of the CAE materials models imported to simulation models Ability to ensure full traceability of materials information used in CAE Ability to ensure relevant stakeholders are informed of materials updates, preventing risk of using out-of-date information Quicker and more straightforward software support Installing MI:Materials Gateway for ANSYS Workbench There are two aspects to installing MI:Materials Gateway: ensuring that your company has the appropriate server components installed, and installing the MI:Materials Gateway clients. Server installation Check with your GRANTA MI system administrator that your company s MI:Server installation includes the correct versions (see Table 2 below) of the MI:Service Layer and reporting package, and any appropriate Granta reference data modules. Client installation on the host CAD machines Follow the installation instructions available with the download. Note that, especially for installations on multiple machines, it is likely that your deployment may be required to follow procedures relating to deployment and support of the host CAD system. On completion of the software installation, make sure that configuration settings have been updated, as applicable. For comprehensive instructions on installing and configuring this software, see the document Installing and Configuring GRANTA MI:Materials Gateway, included in your MI:Materials Gateway installer package. If you have any problems, questions or feedback, please contact us: Granta Design Ltd 4

5 Prerequisites and supported platforms Table 2 MI:Materials Gateway for ANSYS Workbench Version 2.0 software prerequisites Host system version: ANSYS Workbench 14.0, 14.5, or 15.0 Client operating systems: ANSYS Workbench 14.0, 14.5: Windows Vista 32-bit Windows 7 32-bit Windows XP 64-bit Windows Vista 64-bit Windows 7 64-bit Client web browser: Granta software versions: ANSYS Workbench 15.0: Windows 7 32-bit Windows XP 64-bit Windows 7 64-bit As per GRANTA MI support policy MI:Materials Gateway installer version MI:Server version (min) MI:Service Layer version (min) Important notes: This MI:Materials Gateway may require an MI:Service Layer version more recent than that supplied with your original GRANTA MI installation please check the specified versions above. In particular, if you are running GRANTA MI Version 6, you must ensure that you have obtained and installed the minimum Service Layer version specified above. MI:Materials Gateway requires Gateway-ready versions of GRANTA MI databases. This is a straightforward configuration, which is done already for Granta-supplied reference data modules. If you are accessing Granta reference data modules and wish to take advantage of the latest data and features, you should also ensure that you have installed the latest version of these data modules that are compatible with your GRANTA MI version Granta Design Ltd 5