A new option is available to specify a fully developed profile (in Refine) for circular velocity inlets. The laminar or turbulent inlet profile is determined from the turbulence model.

A new option to specify the X, Y, and Z components for velocity inlet is available. It provides additional control for defining the inlet flow direction.

Mass flow rate specification at a flow inlet is now supported in compressible flow simulations in Explore. The new capability to combine mass flow inlet with the ideal gas law provides additional flexibility for defining flow conditions for subsonic gas flows or flows with large temperature variations.

You can now select a point, edge, face or body to define remote points for structural conditions, including force, mass, and displacement. The centroid of the geometry selection defines that remote point location. This option improves the workflow for the remote force, remote mass and remote displacement conditions.

New conditions for voltage and current were added. Voltage and current can only be applied to faces. Circuit and mode port are disabled when voltage/current is selected.

To add voltage or current: select one or more faces. Press Enter.

New monitors for electric simulations were added for Voltage, Current Density and Joule Heat.

New contours were added for electrical simulations to display Voltage, Current Density, or Joule Heat.

New vectors were added for electrical simulations to display Current Density.

Electrical Conductivity were added as a new material property for Electric Simulation. Additionally, Electrical conductivity is available to be user-defined on contacts using the Contact Review Tool.

The recently introduced Electric conditions can be used along with the existing Thermal conditions. The integrated Thermal-Electric Simulation provides settings, monitors, contours, and various results visualization options from both the existing Thermal Simulation features and the new Electric Simulation features

For Thermal-Electric Simulations, both Electrical conductivity and Thermal conductivity are available to be user-defined on contacts using the Contact Review Tool.

In Explore you can now simulate fluid-solid (conjugate) heat transfer using faceted geometry with automatic interface detection. This new capability enables the evaluation of fluid and thermal performance of high efficiency gyroid heat exchangers.

You now have the option to specify a Face overlap allowance for fluid-solid interfaces, useful when you have very small contact points, especially near curved edges. This option defines the percentage that faces are allowed to overlap during interface detection.

The default for this field is set in the Physics Settings.

In Explore, you can specify the convergence settings by entering the Target stopping criteria. Solution convergence is achieved when the percentage change in the solution variables is less than the specified tolerance. A default value of 0.01 (or 1%) is used in the application.

The ability to monitor your GPU memory usage while solving is now available in Explore. Additionally, for fluid flow simulations, you can monitor GPU memory usage in Refine when using the LiveGX GPU solver. Discovery displays the current GPU memory usage in the status bar. It will also warn you if your current simulation exceeds your GPU's available memory. Excessive GPU memory usage can lead to instability or dramatically slower solve times due to paging to system memory.

Local fidelity for fluid flow simulations in Explore can now be applied to bodies, including cutter bodies, as well faces. As a result, thin fluid channels and small components are easier to capture.

Defined variations and parameter studies can now be applied to local fidelity inputs.

Defined variations can now include materials as input parameters.

In Explore, GPU meshing is now the default meshing algorithm for all fluids and fluid-solid heat transfer simulation with or without local fidelity. Additionally, fluid simulation in Explore now includes the ability to apply a local fidelity on bodies, which can be combined with local fidelity on faces. The new GPU meshing algorithm combined with local size controls makes it easier to discretize thin fluid channels and small components, while simultaneously improving accuracy with a more efficient use of GPU memory.

Additional modeling documentation that was originally developed for SpaceClaim is available in the Discovery Documentation's Table of Contents. This change provides easier access to detailed conceptual and reference information about modeling functionality in Discovery.

You may notice anomalies in the modeling documentation when accessed from Discovery. Improvements are ongoing.

Clearance Detect. The upgraded Clearance Detect feature now operates faster to more effectively pinpoint gaps within the model.

Group Named Selection. A new tool option to Group named selection was added to the Detect tool. This option is only used if you choose to create a named selection from the HUD. Select it to create a single named selection for the detected areas. Deselect this option to create a named selection per detected area.

Detect Sweepable Bodies. The Detect HUD now includes a tool for detecting bodies that can be swept. Sweepable bodies have free (unstructured) source and target faces opposite each other and mapped faces on the perpendicular sides between. They can be filled with an all hex and/or prism mesh that is interpolated between the source and target faces. This feature helps you prepare your model for hex meshing and reduces the need to return to Discovery from a downstream tool.

Additional options are now available for the following modeling tools:

In the Design tab, Origin was renamed to Coordinate system.

The performance of the Share tool has been improved at Release 2025 R1.

The Beams feature now includes the following new functionality to expand and ease the specification of beams:

 

2.7.5.2. Remove a Beam Profile

You can now remove a beam profile by right-clicking it in the physics tree.

 

2.7.5.3. Split Beams

You can now use the Split tool to find connections between solid (extracted) beams, where the end of one beam lies somewhere in the middle of another beam.

For any connections found, the beam with the smaller cross section is split by the beam with the larger cross section. Beams with the same cross section are not highlighted. Cross sections that are not the same but are of similar size are also disregarded. You can specify the percentage size difference used to consider any two beams to be similar. You can also choose to ignore beams that meet at end points.

 

2.7.5.4. Custom Beam Definitions

You can now create a new beam definition, rather than relying on standard library definitions. You can either select and then edit a standard library definition, or select a beam type and modify default values populated based on the selected type.

 

2.7.5.5. Beam Types

You can now select a type for your beam. Types include Beam, Cable, Spring, Link/Truss, Pipe, and Thermal Fluid. The type can be applied to any beam. This attribute is then passed on to downstream applications.

 

2.7.5.6. Local Library Support for Beams

Once you have created a custom beam definition, you can save it from a local library. Custom definitions are then available for other projects. The local library folder is set in the Physics Settings.

Materials Data for Simulation (MDS) is available through an optional license that provides access to simulation-ready materials data for a broad coverage of materials classes, enabling engineers to create more accurate simulations with trusted data. For easy access, MDS is embedded directly into Discovery and currently contains 771 materials covering a wide range of material classes.

Developments for 2025 R1 have focused on continuing to provide accurate and reliable simulation-ready materials data with standard updates to point and curve data.

There are no new materials in the 2025 R1 release of MDS, but some data values have been updated.

The Materials Data for Simulation (MDS) Sample library provides 39 materials free of charge to Discovery users with basic room temperature point data for mechanical and thermal properties.

There are no new materials in the 2025 R1 release of MDS, but some data values have been updated.

Tree improvements include:

Changes and additions have been made to Licensing settings, which were moved from Advanced to their own Licensing section:

Also see Installation and Licensing for broader changes related to licensing.

In the Physics Settings, you can now specify a default for the Face overlap allowance in fluid-solid interfaces. For more information, see Face Overlap Allowance.

Generate default scenes: You can control the generation of default physics saved scenes globally through the Settings panel. There you can also set the default view orientation for scene capture. Options include home, isometric, trimetric, right, left, top, bottom, front and back.

A new section was added for sheet metal settings. Set Basic and Relief defaults, settings for Export, and for Lines and Colors for Layers and individual sheet metal elements.

Maximum undo steps: Undo/redo improvements include a scrollbar to navigate the undo/redo list. The number of items in the undo/redo list is customizable but the maximum will depend on local display settings. Set the Maximum undo steps in Advanced Options on the Advanced tab of the Settings panel.

Detail monitors and standard monitors are now based on node values. Prior to this release, the detail monitor value was a face-based result while the standard monitor value was a node-based result.

Detail monitors are now available in Explore for reviewing engineering quantities of interest as a function of solution iteration. Use monitor details to judge solution convergence in steady-state fluid flow and fluid-solid heat transfer simulations.

Enhancements have been made for displaying contour results on planes, which improve the speed of display and robustness. Contour results on planes are shown in Explore and Refine modes for all physics except electromagnetics. Planes for LiveGX are also supported, with results being updated as the geometry changes.

Saved scenes has expanded functionality to generate scenes automatically for most physics conditions. You can control the generation globally through the Settings panel or, for a given document, through the Scene dropdown list in the Simulation tab. You can also set the default view orientation for scene capture.

In the Explore stage, reaction resultants are now available for remote displacements, which enables you to review static equilibrium for structural models.

In the Refine stage, you can now monitor reaction resultants on individual support faces, which gives you more flexibility for defining supports and monitoring results.

Performance is improved when working with large models. You can:

Also worth noting is Discovery’s improved hardware support with the ability to run on a wider array of hardware configurations. Discovery will attempt to run with the existing hardware configuration. If resources are inadequate to solve simulations in Explore or Refine, Discovery will, at a minimum, run in the Model stage. This is particularly relevant for remote sessions.

Discovery is now more responsive when using modeling tools on complex geometries. A progress message box may now display so the current operational status is clear. Also, the SpaceClaim API progress tracker will now show a progress message box if the add-in requests it.

Background tasks and their progress can be observed and cancelled.