It is now possible to get the ideal (pointwise) thickness distribution when optimizing parison in blow molding/thermoforming simulations.

Error messages about inconsistencies between mesh and data files has been corrected in ANSYS POLYDATA.

A fix was introduced to avoid the solver crashes when solving a pressing simulation with the secant method.

It is now possible to display fields on PMeshes in CFD-Post.

Force fields on boundaries now have units in CFD-Post.

Error messages about problems during mesh conversion have been corrected.

A fix was introduced to avoid a crash of ANSYS POLYDATA when switching from the sliding mesh setup to steady state.

A fix was introduced for shell blow molding / thermoforming problems that use the non-isothermal KBKZ model, to ensure that the temperature dependence is applied to the additional viscosity.

A fix was introduced to avoid POLYDATA crashes as a result of double-clicking in the tree view.

The Set units for CFD-Post or Ansys Mapper menu item has been removed from the Outputs menu for mixing tasks.

The unsupported Mini-element for velocities, linear pressure interpolation for viscoelastic flows is no longer accessible in the Interpolation menu of POLYDATA.

The formulation and interpolation of the Lagrange multiplier for slipping and fluid-structure interaction has been corrected.

A fix was introduced to avoid POLYDATA crashes as a result of converting a viscoelastic VOF sub-task into a Newtonian VOF sub-task.

For shell blow molding problems in which evolution is applied on the inflation pressure, the EVOL summary menu (opened via the LSEV button) has been corrected so that it no longer reports an inflation pressure of zero.

A fix was introduced to avoid POLYDATA crashes as a result of reading a material data file for a contact case.

The POLYFLOW listing file has been improved for cases when the solver stops due to insufficient memory.

A fix was introduced to ensure that the POLYFLOW listing file reports the correct number of processors when running in parallel.

A fix was introduced to ensure that the mathematical library does not use more processors than the number you specified.

A fix was introduced to ensure that the ordering of input parameters in DesignXplorer is not inconsistent when template parameters are modified in POLYDATA.

The direction of the rotation axis of a moving part (that employs the mesh superposition technique) no longer affects its velocity.

Contact detection has been improved for shell molds.

A fix was introduced to avoid POLYDATA crashes when you modify the direction of generation during the creation of a 3D mesh from a shell result.

Running POLYFLOW in standalone mode under ANSYS licensing is now easier, as you no longer have to set the environment variable.

DOS windows no longer pop up repeatedly when updating a series of Design Points for POLYFLOW systems in Workbench.

The axis and speed of rotation of a moving part (that employs the mesh superposition technique) can now be flagged as a parameter of a user-defined template.

A fix was introduced to avoid POLYDATA crashes when you modify the type of a mold during a contact problem.

A fix was introduced to avoid POLYDATA crashes when a change of units is rejected.

It is now possible to define all components of the force applied on a mold as template parameters.

It is now possible to define independent time histories for the transient shear rate and the transient elongational rate when fitting material parameters to your data in POLYMAT.