CST Studio Suite 2021.03 SP3
CST Studio Suite 2021.03 Release Notes
General/Environment
– Fixed license usage reporting when running in batch mode in 3DEXPERIENCE cloud context.
CST Power\’By
– Fixed job name when license usage is reported to 3DEXPERIENCE cloud.
– Support import of content type "printed-circuit-board layout geometry", as authored in ECAD applications (e.g. -Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro), and provided through platform PLM Collaboration Services. New Feature!
– Improved plot quality for 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation Review.
Add 0D results to output for 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation Manager monitoring tab.
– "Connected to 3DEXPERIENCE" logo is now drawn in every view belonging to a Power\’By project. New Feature!
Fixed warning while saving project to 3DEXPERIENCE when cable data was imported.
CST Studio Suite Connected
– Fixed issue when cookie cannot be set while retrieving license data.
– Fixed error when trying to load a second project while the first one was still loading.
EDA Import/EDA Tools
– Added IPC2581-B Import. New Feature!
CST PCB Studio
– DDR4: Default JEDEC masks had wrong t1 values.
– CST Design Studio – General
– Fixed setup error in eye analysis task during creation of simulation project task.
CST Studio Suite 2021.02 Release Notes
General / Environment
– Fixed issue during module start on systems with Chinese Traditional language setting.
– Fixed issue with disabled Ribbon buttons.
– Improved stability when showing key tips.
– Upgraded 3D CAD import to support the latest versions. **New Feature!**
– The cluster integration scripts now support the CHT solver.
– Added Google Chrome for Linux on the list of supported browsers.
– The F7 modified message is now no longer shown, if a project with 0D monitors is saved and opened again.
– Adjusted fast model update behavior, if a "PEC" or "Vacuum" material is renamed.
– During Sub-Project import, the material name, which is used inside of a fluid domain, is now correctly adjusted.
– Improved stability when switching between 3D and Farfield plots .
– Improved display of patch notes in CST Update Manager and CST Studio Suite.
– Fixed wrong help calls in Options dialog box and updated images regarding new Library Paths section.
CST Power\’By
– Fixed upload of results when new version is created.
– Fixed creation of Lightweight Visualization with long file paths.
– Allow usage of conversion service for import. **New Feature!**
– Added support for CST Studio Suite Connected. **New Feature!**
System Assembly and Modeling (SAM)
– Do not show misleading warning "Sub-Project import: External reference cannot be found" in simulation projects for block import from the main project.
– Fixed unwanted invalidation of simulation projects using parameterized clone blocks on changing a project parameter used only by the cloned block.
– Field sources are now imported into simulation projects from blocks selected as 3D, which do not contain any other geometry. **New Feature!**
– Do not invalidate simulation project after running it when the project was from an older version.
– Filter Designer 3D assembled optimizations may have multiple S-Parameter producing tasks. **New Feature!**
– Fixed import of more complex assemblies from Antenna Placement App.
EDA Import / EDA Tools
– Fixed issue resulting in invalid bodies for certain complex geometries.
Distributed Computing (DC)
– Fixed parametric setting of distributed optimizer runs when using remote post-processing.
Biological Models
– CST Bio Models Extension 4.0 is now available for download from the Knowledge Base, it also contains the cst file for CST Phone 5G TLM Tutorial. **New Feature!**
– Adjusted values of exemplary thermal properties of several glandular tissues to be more realistic.
Post-Processing
– 5G Post-Processing Wizard: New option to export summary in csv file as well as images of power density plots. **New Feature!**
– ReportTool: restore 1D plot with multi-selected results in schematic.
– Improved handling for large A-solver results.
CST Microwave Studio – General
– Avoid endless loop in case of MPI for SystemCheck that leads to huge log files.
– Handle LSF command line arguments properly in case of spaces for cluster integration scripts.
– New option for HPC cluster simulations to retrieve temporary data and/or additional logging from all compute nodes.
– Adjusted firewall manager to support new MPI locations.
– Specify near field source coupling via tangential fields in online help.
– Enabled S-Parameter sensitivity dB plot.
– Updated online help text for densely sampled near field source data.
CST Microwave Studio – Transient Solver
– Fixed error in field source excitation touching open boundary.
– Fixed port mode plots if there is a slight offset between port coordinates and port grid location.
– Improved result handling for adaptive mesh refinement and line impedance adaptation before solver run.
– Fixed issue with discrete face port detection.
CST Microwave Studio – Transient Solver (TLM Mesh)
– Fixed slots with S-Matrix thin panel material.
– Fixed issue where solver fails when Radiated Power Stop criteria requested without Farfield monitor.
– For newly created models, the default TLM Mesh octree settings (cell lumping) have been modified.
CST Microwave Studio – Frequency Domain Solver
– Added support for conducting-wall boundary condition to the Spark3D export tool.
– In rare cases with close low frequency samples, the frequency sweep did not provide broadband results.
CST Microwave Studio – Frequency Domain Solver (Tetrahedral Mesh)
– Increased the results accuracy using non-rectangular numerical discrete face ports and lumped elements.
– Fixed rare performance degradation for the direct solver in setup phase.
– A protected frequency domain solver project can now import field sources from not protected projects.
CST Microwave Studio – Integral Equation Solver
– Enabled the use of preconditioner type 4 with thin-panel defined by S-matrix table.
– Generate error message for unsupported thin-panel type using reflection and transmission table.
CST Microwave Studio – Asymptotic Solver
– Fixed Farfield calculation for thick dielectrics when hardware acceleration is active.
– Added functionality to switch value for plotting trapped rays in dialog. **New Feature!**
CST Cable Studio
– Fixed issue with dragging of wires when creating a cable group.
– Show RLCG-values for discrete frequencies also for sets.
– Fixed tcf file read error that can occur in case current probes are defined.
– Repaired inconsistency with identifiers when creating materials.
CST EM Studio – LF Frequency Domain Solver (Tetrahedral Mesh)
– Corrected simulation of dispersive materials in broadband computations.
– Ensured that mixed setups composed of solid and eddy-current free CAD coils can be simulated.
– Ensured that mixed setups composed of current ports and solid CAD coil segments can be simulated.
– RMS source scaling is now handled correctly.
– React quicker on a user abort during the stationary current precomputations.
Fest3D
– Resolved behavior in coaxial cavity elements, which could not use parameters in rounding specifications of the element.
– Corrected the behavior where circuits from versions 2018 & 2019 lost their parameters if being imported directly in the 2021 version.
– Resolved loss of accuracy in results of a complex example with respect to Fest3D 2020.
– Resolved behavior when user uses copy/paste after changing to a different circuit.
– Removed warning message provided to the user once a tolerance analysis was finished.
– Fixed issue when updating results in CST Studio Suite using a project exported to DES by Fest3D.
– Fixed shape plot for Arbitrary Shaped Elements when parameters were used in the element to be plot.
CST PCB Studio
– Package with missing electrical connection can cause problems later on. Warn the user when manually creating such contradictions.
– Pick the correct differential partner pin in old projects and handle more cases in exiting checks.
– Fixed issue with updating of SP layout when running convenient workflow.
– Have additional net name in Eye and Timing result items.
– Fixed gap healing to have a 2DTL connection.
– Fixed issue with dialog boxes initialization on Linux.
CST Design Studio – General
– Schematic Editor text fields: The font name and font size comboboxes in the Ribbon now work as expected.
– Added hexagonal shapes for mask violation analysis in eye analysis task. **New Feature!**
– The block parameter \’Solver\’ and its children are now invalidated on other block parameter changes.
– The channel parameter of an IBIS AMI task is not always red anymore.
– Fixed wrong simulation results for some Coilcraft devices by considering ZO as alias to Z0 for ideal transmission lines.
– Fixed the pin layout of Microstrip/Stripline coupled lines.
– Fixed displaying wrong model type after switching a centered microstrip t junction block from 2D EM model to standard model.
– Enabled creation of stand-alone eye analysis task via source task selection. **New Feature!**
– Ensured that drag&drop is disabled in the View Pin Layout dialog box.
– Repaired add image workflow.
– Implemented IdEM service abort button.
– Fixed issues with unit display in the block parameter list.
– Automatically create mirrored groups when element symmetry is defined.
CST Design Studio – Hybrid Solver Task
– Fixed result invalidation on changing Hybrid Solver Task parameters.
– Do not overwrite observation sweep angles in local A-solver domains by Hybrid Solver Task.
– Automatically run with at least 2 samples if fmax > fmin.
– Prevent history error messages during start of Hybrid Solver Task in certain circumstances.
– Added description of NFD file format.
– Fixed missing simultaneous excitations with \'[…]\’ characters.
– Update Hybrid Solver Task UI on changes in local domains.
CST Design Studio – Machine Simulation Sequence
– Support rotor skewing for ROM Drive Scenario (also available in EMAG-ROM for Simpack). **New Feature!**
– Functional Mock-up Unit (FMU) of nonlinear ROM supports extrapolation to handle exceeding machine currents. **New Feature!**
– Operating Point Look-up FMU features new look-up modes, such as limiting to max motor curve or max generator curve. Moreover, support negative revolution speed and cover exceeding speed limits by extrapolation. **New Feature!**
– FMUs in general can handle non-trivial resource locations (space, non-ASCII).
– Various fixes for the user interface.
Product:CST Studio Suite 2021.03 SP3
Lanaguage:english
Platform:Win7/WIN10
Size:1DVD