Change Log

Released on 2024-03-01

General

• File encoding converted to UTF-8.
• Placing an additional config.local under the user home directory is supported.
• Improved project regeneration speed.
• Closes Matlab when project is closed.
• Added function ‘linspace’ to Java-formula.
• Improved accuracy of periodic signals.
• Bugfix for encoding of LTSpice-results.

User interface

• Uncertain previews are marked as such.

WebGUI

• Previews are now supported.
• Conversion of parameters now possible.
• Parameters can be modified in the component view.
• Added Workflow-Components with settings.

Jobmanager

• Replaced HTCondor python-binding with commandline interface for HTCondor Version 8.8.

Optimizer

• Extended scripting for Optimizer control.
• All files of a project are used in the optimization (not only component files).

Femag

• Removed non-working option ‘GenerateSpecificPreview’.

Mechanic Simulation

• Added units to HOTINT plots.
• Reworked handling of ‘oversize’-boundary conditions.

Thermal Simulation

• Reworked handling of boundary conditions.

AC-Loss-Simulation

• Fixed rotation of wires for geometries without symmetry.
• Fixed rotation of rectangular wires.

Help

• Added installation instructions for OpenModelica.

Upgrades

• The following java packages were updated:
  • Integrated WebBrowser (JCEF) upgraded to 119.4.3.
  • Jyz3d library upgraded to 2.2.1.

Requirements

• HTCondor interface supported up to Version 8.8.17.

Released on 2023-04-28

User interface

• Remove Check from toolbar.
• Existing projects cannot be overwritten.

Electro-magnetic Simulation (FEMM)

• Error in simulation model with subparts was fixed.

Electro-magnetic Simulation (Femag)

• Bug in the iron loss simulation was fixed.

Thermal Simulation

• Error in thermal model if subparts are included was fixed.
• Fixed problem if thermal capacity for material pins with loss values was missing.

Mechanic Simulation

• If material ‘Air’ is assigned to a material pin (or a material without Young modulus) the domain will not be meshed.

Macros

• ‘export_model_description’ was updated.
• New macro ‘purge_dxf_geometry’ was added.
• When executing a macro the update of a selected parameter was ensured.

Help

• Added WebGUI section to the SyMSpace help.
• LTSPice installation instruction were included.
• The documentation for the Optimizer was extended.

Installer

• Parallel installation of multiple SyMSpace Versions is supported.

Requirements

• Update of the HOTINT version to 1.3.139.
• The following python packages were updated:
  • femagtools was downgraded to version 0.8.4.
  • Packages dash and ezdxf were added.
  • astroid, pylint and spyder were removed.
  • Version of matplotlib was updated to 3.2.2.

Released on 2022-11-03

General

• Enabled ‘RunSimulation’ and ‘RemoteCompute’ option by default.
• Bug where the 3d SyMSpace preview fully occupies the CPU was fixed.

Help

• Update of the installation-guide.

Installer

• SyMSpace versions can now be installed in parallel. It is possible have versions with different version number or flavor (i.e. stable or nightly).

Python

• New Jep version based on Java 8.
• Python distribution now includes the vtk-package.

WebGUI

• Pre-insert routines implemented in order to automatize component links.

Released on 2022-06-24

Bug-Fixes

• Error if python package Pillow is not installed was fixed.

Released on 2022-05-30

General

• An interface to the new WebGUI was added to SyMSpace.
• Simulation results are now stored in files.

Optimizer

• Excel-export was updated by adding description and unit.
• Update of the web-plot interface by modifying data exchange and add selection.
• Bug-fix when restoring solver-state.

JobManager

• Python jobs now only copy export files, which are used in the export mask.
• Improved job-handling to restore jobs after restart.
• Update status-bar for running jobs.

User interface

• Improved GUI-usability while gui is disabled during regeneration.

Web-gui

• Added JSON data format for data exchange.

Macros

• Implemented a macro to convert results file to a field.

Help

• Update of the installation-guide.
• Extended the developer-guide.
• Included additional information about the optimizer to the SyMSpace help.

Installer

• Restricting architecture for SyMSpace installer to 64bit in order to avoid problems with 32bit registry paths.

Requirements

• Changed Python Version from 3.6.5 to 3.6.8.
• Update of the HOTINT version to 1.3.139.
• Added freecad dxfImport libraries v1.39 for FreeCAD 0.16.

General

• Python packages, which are distributed as zip or egg files can be loaded
  • Only zip and egg files in the Python functions directory are considered
  • If multiple versions of the same package are detected only the latest is loaded
  • File names have to meet a specific pattern e.g.: lcm_general-1.0.300-py3.6.zip
•  Python package to perform tolerance analysis has been added (experimental state)
•  Reporting has been extended to further use latex distributions (e.g. Tex Live)
•  The output of report compiling has been added to the console and error detection
•  The behaviour of the PyTPeriodicMatrix “fromFit” method has been aligned with the TPeriodic/-Matrix implementation

Optimizer

• The Optimizer wrapper and optimizer scripts have been updated
  • Excel file import/export
  • Bokeh plotting of individuals
• Optimizer macros have been added
  • Fill buffer with individuals from other optimizations
  • Fill buffer with individuals from Excel files
  • Fill buffer with custom defined individuals (via GUI Input-Window)
  • Fill archive individuals from Excel files
  • Custom export of archive and problem individuals from Excel files
  • Custom comparison plots of archive and problem individuals

JobManager

• The Python Job capabilities have been extended
  • Additional files and directories (same as Python modules/packages) can be added to a Job
  • All zip and egg files in the Job directory are automatically unpacked
  • “preJob” and “postJob” methods can be defined
  • Result file handling has been added
  • Variation feature: create multiple jobs with different parameters
• Python Docker Jobs for local or cluster (Linux only) computation can be created
• Deadlocks when using new HTCondor versions, if Python was not recognized, have been resolved
• An interface to remote submit jobs on submit-server has been added
• The error handling for the interface to new HTCondor versions has been improved

User interface

• The 3D rotation of embedded matplotlib plots (Preview double-click feature) has been enabled
• “Run Macro” menu entry has been added to the Optimizer GUI (Requires config: OptimizerDebug=true)
• Macro to run tasks (update, reset, gen./del. DocFiles) on all project indices has been added
• The problem of closing the Optimizer, while saving is in progress, has been resolved
• The problems if Python is not recognized have been resolved
• Deadlocks during runtime have been resolved

Help

• More Help-Tutorials have been added
  • Distributable (Docker) Python functions
  • Electromagnetic and mechanical simulation videos (via LCM channel on youtube.com)

Installer

• The installer comes bundled with a Python 3.6.5 environment (as a replacement for Anaconda/SyMConda36)

Requirements

• Java Version 1.8 or higher
• (Optional) Matlab Version R2017b or higher
• (Optional) Python Version 3.6.5 with the Python Package Jep Version 3.6.3

General

• Java-version of config is used for all sub-processes
• Removed environment variable MagOpt_Home
• Changed documentation-tags to sym-style
• Added unit-conversion (optional)
• Expanded python-wrapper
• Speed improvement for Periodic
• Bug fixing
• Added and improved unit-tests

Optimizer

• Added python-wrapper for scripting
• Improved speed and threading
• Added new optimization macros

JobManager

• Added debug-information for local jobs
• Using Java-version from SyMSpace
• Added unit-tests

User interface

• Independent instances (no Environment-variable) to use different versions at same time
• Integration of the waitbar and deactivate parts of gui while update (basic operations are available)
• Added smart insert to Component-browser (insert on best matching location)
• Added new macros (update/create a project from an excel template)
• Added helper class to display matplotlib graphs

Help

• Update and extension
• Added tutorials
• Installation guide

Requirements

• Java Version 1.8 or higher