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Ansys 2024 R2 release#

The 2024 R2 release includes feature improvements:

  • View geometry from dsco files. Variables are not supported.

  • Add VR support for 3D scenes.

  • Add 3D visualization properties: exploding views, scaling geometry factors, linking cameras.

  • Add new plot rendering types: Sankey diagrams, parallel coordinates and heat map.

  • Command line tools: nexus, nexus_launcher have been renamed: adr, adr_launcher. The previous names have been retained for backward compatibility.

  • JS events are generated when the user interacts with the data filter plots.

  • JS events are generated when the user interacts with the data slider report.

  • New template type exposed the HTML structure of the report, to allow user to inject custom user-written HTML into the report.

  • Add a new environment variable CEI_NEXUS_TRUSTED_ORIGINS for remote deployments.

Ansys 2024 R1 release#

The 2024 R1 release includes feature improvements:

  • Plot filtering template: fully released

  • Plot filtering enhancements: support for non-numberical tags in the pull down widget for filtering

  • Renaming from Nexus to Ansys Dynamic Reporting (ADR)

  • Improve control over renaming rows in the Merge Template

  • PyDynamicReporting: first official release of the pydynamicreporting module

  • Powerpoint export enhancements:

    • Allow user to register a comment to each template that will be entered into the slides

    • Allow for a tree structure to the Powerpoint layout

    • Allow logarithmic values on plot axis

    • Expand set of item properties that can be customized

    • Add breadcrumbs to show position of slides in presentations

    • Ability to select single image, panel, plot to export to a slide

    • Improvements in the plot item hover text

Ansys 2023 R2 release#

The 2023 R2 release includes feature improvements and a new template type:

  • Capability to add tags to both rows and columns in table items

  • Improved PPT export:

    • Add HTML support for the titles of slides for duplicated slides

    • Improve HTML support for the slide title

    • Add REST API for the PPT export capability

    • Add ability to set title for overflowing slides from item tags

    • Add support to link back to Table of Content

    • Add mapping feature from HTML item to equivalent PPT text

  • Beta release: data filtering template. A new template type that allows for a shopping-style menu for selection of plots based on tag values.

Ansys 2023 R1 release#

The 2023 R1 release is generally bug fixes and a few requested features:

  • Greatly improved Nexus Tree performance for large trees

    • tree_condensed property was also removed due to the new implementation limitations

  • Improved 3D scene viewing

    • Report authors can choose client or server side rendering for most scene items

    • PLY and STL files can now be displayed using the embedded EnVision viewer as well as the WebGL viewer

  • Command line tools for HTML and PDF export of reports

  • Many bug fixes

    • Improved SSL support

    • Improved server launching stability

    • Security updates for known CVEs in third party libraries

Ansys 2022 R2 release#

The 2022 R2 release is generally a reflection of user feedback and quality of life issues:

  • Support proxy images for 3D scenes.

    • For scdoc, avz and evsn files that include proxy images, Nexus will display the proxy image when the associated viewer is not in an active state.

  • Improvements in image comparisons:

    • Adding hint for probe

    • Skip all invalid values in the variable buffer

    • Update pin even if hidden

  • Improvements to SQL query generator:

    • Error handling for SQL query sent to table as message

    • Added validate method for connection to SQL

    • Error handling port value passing.

  • Automatically expand collapsed elements when following links

  • Improvements in Nexus launcher:

    • Full complement of launcher options in python API

    • Improvement of kwargs in launch_local_database_server

    • Support iframe embedding of Nexus reports

Ansys 2022 R1 release#

Image comparison enhancements, 3D scene viewer improvement, Command line Nexus tools

Building on the framework laid down in the 2021 R2 release, the 2022 R1 release has a focus on improved image comparison and 3D rendering as well a a new collection of command line tools that enable command line orientated scripted interaction with Nexus databases:

  • The deep pixel comparison state (palettes, ranges, etc) can now be set to default values in a report template.

  • RGB image comparison is supported.

  • Many improvements in the GUI for comparative operations.

  • Browser-based 3D scene renderingengine has been entirely replaced with the Ansys Viewer WebGL engine.

  • Support was added for proxy images in 3D scenes for activation control and printing.

  • A new command line tool 'nexus' has been added. It supports operations such as listing entities, copying entities, deleting entities, importing data, etc.

Ansys 2021 R2 release#

New Nexus launcher application, Deep pixel image support, Image slider comparison enhancements

There are a lot of new features in the 2021 R2 release, but some of the most important highlights include:

  • An entirely new launching mechanism. Nexus servers are now launched using the nexus_launcher tool. This tool includes a GUI and CLI that allow for the configuration and control of all of the core Nexus server features.

  • The updated image comparison slider template is covered here. Many new features and options.

  • Support for EnSight "Deep Pixel" images is now included, allowing image pixel values to be interactively interrogated.

  • Conditional formatting can be applied to tables and tree cells for more informative display. Many other new customization options were added to tables and trees in particular.