What's new?

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 rendering engine 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.