The following loads/supports/conditions enhancements were made at Release 2025 R1:
Apply Remote Boundary Conditions to Rigid Bodies. Now, when you apply a Remote Force, Remote Displacement, or a Moment, to a body whose Stiffness Behavior property is set to Rigid, a new property displays: Apply to Rigid Body Pilot Node. Supported for body selection only. When activated, the application applies the remote boundary condition to the pilot node at the centroid of the rigid body which avoids any unwanted moments.
RPM Selection. For a multiple step Harmonic Response analysis, when you set the Multiple Step Type property of the Analysis Settings > Step Controls to RPM, the RPM Selection property now provides a drop-down list of available selections. Previously, you had to enter the desired load step value to specify the frequency.
Rotational Velocity. The Substructure Generation Analysis analysis now supports the Rotational Velocity loading condition.
Mass Source. You can now scope the Mass Source excitation directly to nodes or to a node-based Named Selection.
Convection. The Convection load now supports the following features:
- Element APDL Name
This property enables you to assign an APDL parameter name to the surface element type number so that you can programmatically identify the convection element type and real constant set. You can then reference and use these parameters in a Commands (APDL) object.
- Tables for Film Coefficient and Ambient Temperature Magnitudes
You can now use multivariable tables of data to specify the magnitudes of the film coefficient and/or the ambient temperature for a convection boundary condition.