CUBIT 11.1 Announcement

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The ITEM wizard, introduced last year has been enhanced to include powerful diagnostics for detecting and resolving small features and misalignments in complex assemblies.

Announcing

Released October 20, 2008

The CUBIT Team is pleased to announce Version 11.1 of the CUBIT Geometry and Mesh Generation Toolkit. This version includes a variety of new tools aimed at improving the efficiency of preparing models for analysis. Building on the ITEM wizard introduced in 11.0, new tools have been introduced to better detect and resolve small features and misalignments in complex assemblies. Also included is the ability to import and manipulate free meshes without the need for geometry, as well as a host of new tools for defining and visualizing boundary conditions. Interactive visualization has also been dramatically improved so that large models with millions of elements and thousands of geometry entities can be more easily manipulated.

Here's What Else is New...

The following is a sampling of some of the main new capabilities introduced with CUBIT 11.1. See the CUBIT 11.1 Release Notes for a complete list

Free Meshes: In previous versions of CUBIT, meshes could only exist as part of an owning geometry. Cubit 11.1 now provides the ability to import and manipulate mesh without the need for geometry.

Exodus II Sizing Function: Ideal for adaptivity studies, a 3D scalar field can now be used as input to Cubit's tetrahedral mesher to control element sizing.

Tet Cleanup: Tet meshes can now be improved and "cleaned up" using the new tet cleanup facility.

Misalignment and Small Feature Detection: New tools for detecting and resolving small features and misalignments have been added to the ITEM wizard

Graphics Performance: Cubit 11.1 includes major improvements in the graphics allowing interactive manipulation of large assemblies and meshes.

NASTRAN and ABAQUS Boundary Conditions: The ability to specify and visualize specific physics-based boundary conditions is now available in Cubit.

Interactive Clipping Plane: A tool for interactively clipping the model to visualize the interior of meshes and solid models in now available in Cubit 11.1

Here's How to Get it...

CUBIT is available to anyone on the Sandia LANs. CUBIT 11.1 will now run automatically from the UNIX command prompt, replacing CUBIT 11.0. It is also licensed free of charge for government use and academic/research purposes outside of Sandia. A distribution fee is however charged to cover administrative costs. If you are a current CUBIT licensed user, you may download CUBIT 11.1 from the CUBIT website. Sandia staff may also obtain the latest version from the internal dropzone. See CUBIT Licensing for information on obtaining a license.

Here's How You Can Learn More...

CUBIT 11.1 Release Notes

A description of all new features included in CUBIT 11.1. For detailed information follow the links to the online users manual.

CUBIT 11.1 Kick-off Meeting
Monday, October 20, 2008, 1:00-2:30PM
Sandia National Labs, JCEL/1811

Join us as we demonstrate some of the key new features in CUBIT 11.1. Bring your questions and requests.

Introduction to CUBIT Tutorial
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Sandia National Laboratories, CSRI/90

A one-day hands-on tutorial introducing important concepts and usage of CUBIT as well as introducing new features in CUBIT 11.1. Contact Susan Richardson (syricha@sandia.gov) to sign up.

For more information contact Steve Owen sjowen@sandia.gov

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