Workbench is now included with the install of ANSYS ICEM CFD. This makes it easier for users to access the Workbench Readers and other Workbench-related functionality.

The connection to the Workbench CAD readers has been enhanced and updated, including better support for mixed dimension (shells and solids) geometries.

ANSYS Workbench Meshing now supports “ANSYS ICEM CFD Interactive”. This allows users to export their geometry and mesh into ANSYS ICEM CFD for meshing, blocking or mesh editing. The final ANSYS ICEM CFD mesh can be saved and brought back into ANSYS Workbench Meshing. Scripts and batch mode can also be used.

STL files containing multiple parts are now imported with multiple part names.

The licensing check for STL export has been removed.

Error messages have been improved and minor error messages are now hidden by a Verbose mode setting under Hexa/Mixed Meshing Options.

A Hexa selection option to select by vertex has been added. This is most useful in conjunction with error messages that reference vertex numbers.

Handling of settings and edge parameters during the Load Blocking, Create Block, and Update Sizes operations has been improved.

Hexa smoothing has been significantly enhanced, particularly for unstructured Hexa.

Multi-zone quality, robustness and speed have been improved across the board.

The reliability of imprinting and sweeping has been improved.

The new ANSYS CFD “Orthogonality Quality” mesh metric has been added to ANSYS ICEM CFD.

Other quality metrics have been organized and several quality criterion and display defects have been resolved.

Unstructured smoothing has been enhanced in several ways, including enhanced min. edge smoothing for PI Tetra and gradient smoothing for unstructured nodes.

The Hexahedral mesh smoothing has been significantly enhanced.

Orthogonality based smoothing now handles curve projected nodes well and internal interpolation has been improved.

Structured smoothing methods such as Sorenson/Thomas & Middlecoff have also been added (beta options).

The capability to merge tetra and hybrid mesh has been added. Previously you could only merge tetra with pure tetra or pure hexa mesh, but now hybrid mesh (combination of quad and tri faces) is supported.

Multi-threaded (SMP) mesh generation and smoothing has been added.

.Octree Tetra can combine the Visible geometry option with the Use existing mesh parts option.

Delaunay, robustness, flood fill and fill from quad mesh have been improved.

Prism smoothing settings have been improved.

A number of other defects and minor feature requests have been taken care of.

A number of User Interface improvements have been made for easier accessibility of options.

Overall graphics speedup makes it significantly faster to enable/disable elements. Histogram display is also faster.