ANSYS, Inc. Release Notes
The known limitations for ANSYS POLYFLOW 14.0 are as follows:
The Interrupt action in ANSYS Workbench has no effect on an ANSYS POLYFLOW solver run.
You cannot perform any actions that modify an ANSYS POLYFLOW system (e.g., saving or closing a project, duplicating an ANSYS POLYFLOW system) while an ANSYS POLYFLOW tool is open. In some cases, ANSYS Workbench will allow such an action, but an error is generated.
CutCell meshes are not compatible with mixing or volume of fluid (VOF) tasks, viscoelastic flow sub-tasks, contact detection, internal radiation, the Narayanaswamy model, flow-induced crystallization, or the adaptive meshing technique. Moreover, the interpolation for the velocity field is limited: for a pure CutCell mesh, it must be the linear element; for a portion of a CutCell mesh that has been converted into a sliceable mesh, it can be either the linear element or the mini-element.
Due to some modifications of the contact algorithm to accommodate the needs of the automatic contact release feature, you may need to make small revisions to the contact parameters of a blow molding or thermoforming problem that was originally set up using version 13.0, in order to run it using version 14.0.
IGES files exported by POLYFLOW always use millimeters for the unit of length. When planning to export an IGES file from POLYFLOW, it is highly recommended that you use millimeters in your original CAD model or when creating the geometry in ANSYS DesignModeler. You should then use the mm/g/s unit system in POLYFLOW. If another unit systems is used, you may have difficulties importing the IGES file of the deformed geometry back into ANSYS DesignModeler or any other CAD tool.
If you are using Windows XP, POLYDATA may
crash when importing a material data file. This can be avoided if
you change the default TEMP directory to
a directory that is not deeply nested in other directories (e.g.,
change it to D:\temp).