LS-OPT 3.3 released
Release Notes: LS-OPT Version 3.3
The following new features are available in Version 3.3:
- Radial Basis Function networks are available to create surrogate models. The building of these metamodels is significantly faster than Neural networks.
- Multi-Objective optimization (MOO) for converging to the Pareto optimal front is supported as both a direct and metamodel-based solver.
- Robust parameter (Taguchi) design is supported. The variation of a response can be used as an objective or a constraint in the optimization process.
- Mapping of results to the FE mesh of the base design the results are considered at fixed coordinates. These capabilities allow the viewing of metal-forming robustness measures in LS-PREPOST.
- The ANSA morpher is supported as a preprocessor.
- The truncated normal distribution is supported.
- Extra input files can be provided for variable parsing.
- A library-based user-defined metamodel is supported.
- Interfacing to a Windows Compute Cluster Server (CCS) is supported.
- Statistics can be calculated for checkpoints using an existing metamodel.
- The 3-D Metamodel plotting including point plotting has been significantly enhanced.
- Constraint plotting on 3-D metamodels is available with color-coded feasible/infeasible regions.
- Regression statistics for metamodels (Mean, PRESS, R-squared) integrated with metamodel "Accuracy" plots.
- The file viewing option (menu-bar) has been significantly enhanced. "lsopt_report" summary file refined and expanded to more types of analyses.