Software Update Log
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Program: GenDist
Date: March 13, 2024
Activity: Improvement: Turn off current weighting automatically when loading SRC or PRT files to avoid
a plotting error message.
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Program: GBView3
Date: February 8, 2024
Activity: Corrections: 1) Error preventing display of scan plots in Slice menu, 2) Display and setting of DSnap in Slice Menu. Added the option for symbol point display in Scan plots.
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Program: GenDist
Date: February 8, 2024
Activity: Added new features to generate uniform and Gaussian circular beams. Corrected Converge command for rectangular beams so that a minus sign corresponds to a diverging beam as stated in the manual.
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Program: Trak
Date: January 22, 2024
Activity: Improvement: Circular beam tool. Open a standard Save dialog for user specification of the output PRT file.
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Program: GamBet
Date: January 11, 2024
Activity: Corrections: 1) cancel function in the Radioactive Source Tool and Beam Tool dialogs, 2) comment material in the default document of the Create Inut File command and 3) editor options in the File menu.
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Program: GenDist
Date: December 17, 2023
Activity: Fixed formatting crash when doing a 1DBin plot of the quantity f(R)/R.
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Program: Nelson
Date: December 11, 2023
Activity: Minor fixes in the listing file and instruction manual. Improvement of quantities in the analysis configuration files (i.e., add total current amplitude and time-averaged magnetic field energy).
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Program: GenDist
Date: October 1, 2023
Activity: Add the number of parts that pass the current filter to all plot types, giving the user an immediate indication of the effect of the filter.
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Program: EMP
Date: September 23, 2023
Activity: Correct crash problem with the Open data file command. Correct error in the color key display for element plots. Brighten color display for all plots.
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Program: Mesh
Date: June 24, 2023
Activity: Improvements to the foundation mesh window of the drawing editor. Add shift boundary commands to the popup menu. Add option to set boundary locations to an exact value by pressing F1.
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Program: Aerial
Date: May 27, 2023
Activity: Correction: line scans in the Slice menu. Correct limits when the scan extends across the solution volume. Ensure that the calculated quantity equals zero when the scan passes through a metal region.
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Program: Aether
Date: April 12, 2023
Activity: Correction: Eliminate the incorrect Jr model for element drive currents, update the Reference and Tutorial manuals.
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Program: MagWinder
Date: March 17, 2023
Activity: Improvement: Add the new COILBOX model for representations of multi-turn windings on a rectangular mandrel.
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Program: MagWinder
Date: January 15, 2023
Activity: Correction: The program was not recording correct values in the CDF for the TORUS coil model.
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Program: WaveSim
Date: January 10, 2023
Activity: Correction: Error report when the mesh contains more than 1000 elements in either direction and exceeds the capacity of the inversion matrices.
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Program: EStat
Date: July 3, 2022
Activity: Improvement: the Region Surface Field function to list electric field values on electrode surface can now be called from an analysis script.
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Program: Aether
Date: June 22, 2022
Activity: Correction: the Res Mode script setup dialog was not transferring region values and DUnit correctly.
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Program: GamBet
Date: February 15, 2022
Activity: Correction: fixed a parsing error in the EscapeFilter command that prevented the definition of multiple pass conditions.
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Program: Geometer
Date: January 29, 2022
Activity: Correction: the program should not include the suffix of STL file names when writing a MetaMesh (MIN) file.
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Program: Geometer
Date: December 29, 2021
Activity: Correction: the program did not read Part names correctly from a MIN file when it contained the #skip/#endskip script command.
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Program: HeatWave
Date: November 14, 2020
Activity: Corrected: the program failed to implement time dependent thermal sources defined by a table in initial-value calculations.
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Program: EStat, Nelson, PerMag, Pulse, RFE2, TDiff
Date: July 14, 2019
Activity: Correction: programs did not read parameters in the right order for the MATRIX command in the script mode.
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Program: Geometer, MetaMesh
Date: May 31, 2019
Activity: Compatibility with FreeCAD. Recognize files with extension AST as text-format STL files.
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Program: Mesh
Date: May 30, 2019
Activity: Compatibility with LibreCAD for DXF file export/import. Fix errors reading floating point numbers written as integers.
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Program: FPController, GBLaunch, Xenos
Date: May 21, 2019
Activity: Revise the Create Task functons of the program launchers. They now add quotation marks around the full paths of the data files, allowing folder names with spaces.
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Program: Mesh
Date: May 20, 2019
Activity: Ensure compatibility with LibreCAD for DXF file transfer.
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Program: Geometer, MetaMesh
Date: March 27, 2018
Activity: Correct error in assigning region currents to a SECONDARY region when the field prevents low-energy electrons from leaving the surface.
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Program: Geometer, MetaMesh
Date: March 15, 2018
Activity: Correct a bug to ensure that an error is reported if negative values appear in the outline definition for a TURNING.
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Program: Boilerplate
Date: February 12, 2018
Activity: Change startup so that an existing clipboard item is stored when LIVE mode is active.
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Program: TDiff, HeatWave
Date: November 15, 2017
Activity: Modify the intepretation of modulation tables for source files and region temperatures and sources. If the time t exceeds the maximum value in the table tmax, then the time is taken as t = mod(t,tmax). The feature facilitates the definition of periodic waveforms and pulse trains.
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Program: RFE3
Date: September 7, 2017
Activity: Correct error preventing parallel processing operation.
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Program: RFE3
Date: August 18, 2017
Activity: Correct errors when reading a previous solution in response to the INITVAL command.
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Program: HeatWave
Date: August 1, 2017
Activity: Program correction. Ensure that the normalization factor SFact is applied when loading a thermal source file from RFE3, GamBet or Aether.
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Program: HeatWave
Date: July 24, 2017
Activity: Correct an error introduced with the time-dependent source motion feature -- an access error when loading GamBet and Aether source files for static-mode calculations.
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Program: All Amaze and TriComp solution programs
Date: May 21, 2017
Activity: Revise the algebraic function interpreter so that it strips tab characters as well as spaces from expressions.
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Program: HiPhi, Magnum
Date: April 13, 2017
Activity: Correct an intermittent problem with convergence when running the programs with parallel processing in the interactive mode.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: February 6, 2017
Activity: Make operation of REFERENCE diagnostic command consistent with the instruction manual. In the absence of specific values for XRef, YRef or ZRef, the code uses average values of the beam position. Dimensions for XRef, YRef and ZRef should be entered in the units set by DUnit.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: January 31, 2017
Activity: Extend operation of the BTable3D and ETable3D commands to load and sum multiple tables.
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Program: Magnum
Date: January 30, 2017
Activity: Correct error listing the position of a current element that penetrates an iron region.
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Program: GBView2
Date: January 5, 2017
Activity: Store program settings in the registry to be restored the next time it runs.
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Program: GamBet
Date: January 4, 2017
Activity: Added tools to generate large distributions to represent radioactive sources and beams.
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Program: GBView3, GBView2
Date: January 2, 2017
Activity: Corrected operation of the SmoothDose function.
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Program: GenDist
Date: December 30, 2016
Activity: Add the capability to read and write PRT/SRC files and to perform distribution transformations and filtering under script control (background operation).
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Program: GamBet, GB_Sow
Date: December 18, 2016
Activity: Extend escape file filtering to include components of the particle direction vector, (Ux, Uy, Uz).
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Program: HeatWave
Date: December 18, 2016
Activity: Add the capability to specify time-dependent motion of source distributions from GamBet, RFE3 and Aether. The components of motion the source displacement vector can be specified through tabular functions or functional expressions.
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Program: GamBet, GB_Sow, GB_Reap
Date: November 27, 2016
Activity: Add comprehensive error checking for numerical quantities read from the control script.
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Program: EStat, Nelson, PerMag, Pulse, RFE2 and TDiff
Date: November 16, 2016
Activity: Add a mechanism for users to enter custom interval values via the clipboard for contour-line and filled-contour plots.
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Program: GamBet
Date: November 14, 2016
Activity: Include progress indicators in the listing file to allow users to check the status of long background runs.
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Program: All Basic solution programs and post-processors
Date: June 22, 2016
Activity: Correct error parsing command-line parameters in batch file operations.
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Program: HWV, PhiView, MagView, RFE3View, Aerial, GBView3
Date: June 7, 2016
Activity: Correct error in listing the slice plane position in surface plots.
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Program: Universal Scale
Date: May 7, 2016
Activity: Graph window: correct choice of scientific notation when an axis is set to log scaling. Modify the program and installer to read a copy of the instruction manual on the computer rather than on the Field Precision Internet site.
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Program: Aether
Date: April 25, 2016
Activity: Fix slice plots of time-averaged electromagnetic field energy.
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Program: Mesh
Date: April 22, 2016
Activity: Correct problems with error reported for invalid vector outlines.
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Program: Aether
Date: April 20, 2016
Activity: Added a new VOID special material to present high-impedance materials and open-circuit boundaries. For clarity, Aerial does not plot field values in VOID materials.
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Program: HeatWave
Date: March 7, 2016
Activity: Overhaul the implementation of perfusion sources in BV and IV solutions. Remove a spurious table-interpolation error message in parallel processing runs.
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Program: TDiff
Date: March 5, 2016
Activity: Correct errors in writing test interpolations when loading tables and handling modulation tables with 256 entries.
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Program: HeatWave
Date: February 29, 2016
Activity: Correct failure to write region names in the initial-value and boundary-value setup dialogs.
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Program: TriComp program launcher, Pro
Date: January 26, 2016
Activity: Correct button conflict between RFE2 and Probe.
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Program: GamBet, GamBetMP, GamBet_Sow
Date: October 5, 2015
Activity: Correct logical error in escape filter specifications (EscapeFilter command). Filter conditions like ElecP and PhotS now work according to the description in the instruction manual.
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Program: All solution programs
Date: September 26, 2015
Activity: In the script setup dialogs, ensure that the range of accepted number for regions properties is 1-250.
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Program: GenDist
Date: September 19, 2015
Activity: On load, skip data lines in SRC and PRT files with invalid numerical entries.
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Program: GamBet, GB_Sow, GBView2, GBView3
Date: September 3, 2015
Activity: Added support of command line parameters in command-line operation from batch files.
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Program: All TriComp and AMaze programs
Date: September 3, 2015
Activity: Increased the number of pass parameters in command-line operation in batch files to 24.
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Program: GamBet
Date: July 17, 2015
Activity: Expand the FORCE command for variance reduction through interaction forcing to cover all interaction types of all particle types. Add new KILL command to turn off selected interaction types.
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Program: Mesh, MetaMesh
Date: June 16, 2015
Activity: Added routines to correct small errors in the specification of arcs for outlines. The start and end points are preserved. The center point is moved to ensure that it is equidistant from the start and end points.
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Program: Aether
Date: May 16, 2015
Activity: Corrected error reading MetaMesh files in text format.
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Program: Trak
Date: April 7, 2015
Activity: Corrected assignment of thermal energy when emission from portions of the cathode is cut off by a control electrode. Included methods to handle electrons with low or negative energy at the emission surface.
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Program: GenDist
Date: April 6, 2015
Activity: Added a new plot type for 1D histograms, f(R)/R. Added registry entries so that the program remembers the last plot type and quantity.
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Program: GBView2
Date: March 18, 2015
Activity: Fixed format error when exporting smoothed dose file.
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Program: Xenos program launcher
Date: March 18, 2015
Activity: Ensured that TDiff, HeatWave and HWV buttons are active.
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Program: Trak, OmniTrak
Date: February 10, 2015
Activity: Fixed problem in RECORD and RECORDPLANE commands. An error occurred opening multiple PRT files with long file names, particularly in command line operation.
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Program: MagWinder
Date: December 9, 2014
Activity: Add the sperm plot option (showing the direction of current flow) for 3D coil plots. Add a sperm plot tool to the toolbar.
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Program: TC, Amaze, GBLaunch, Xenos
Date: December 6, 2014
Activity: Improve appearance of the task dialogs in the program launchers. Also improve handling of long path names in the list boxes.
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Program: Geometer, MetaMesh
Date: December 2, 2014
Activity: Simplify specifications for fitting of extrusions and turnings. Improvements to the display of the Geometer Outline Editor. Rewrite the MetaMesh manual to clarify procedures for extrusions and turnings.
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Program: Geometer
Date: November 25, 2014
Activity: Make part clipping at the edges of the solution volume the default. Correct OpenGL routines so that objects at the edges of the solution volume are plotted correctly.
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Program: HiPhi, HeatWave
Date: November 18, 2014
Activity: Added automatic correction of the node identities of fixed-potential or fixed-temperature elements in case the user forget to include Coat commands in MetaMesh.
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Program: PerMag, EMP, EStat, Pulse, TDiff, Aether, HeatWave, HiPhi and Magnum
Date: October 11, 2014
Activity: Eliminated program crash when the user omits the ENDFILE command from tabular files (non-linear materials, waveforms,...).
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Program: Aerial
Date: October 10, 2014
Activity: Corrected error for the screen listing of power for a point calculation in the RF mode.
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Program: Mesh and MetaMesh
Date: September 29, 2014
Activity: Diagnose problem of orphan elements in Mesh regions and MetaMesh turnings and extrusions. Add error routines to warn of unconnected boundary-vector sets.
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Program: All TriComp and AMaze technical programs
Date: September 29, 2014
Activity: New capability to pass run parameters directly to input and analysis scripts when running from the command line or under batch file control.
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Program: Mesh
Date: August 30, 2014
Activity: Add information to the listing file (MLS) to record the total number of elements and the cumulative area of elements (globally and by region).
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Program: Trak
Date: August 11, 2014
Activity: Extended the maxumum number of steps in a search from the ZeroPoint in the RelBeam mode to avoid errors of the type "BB calculation: search for inner boundary failed" for large meshes.
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Program: Aether, HiPhi, Magnum, HeatWave, RFE3 and OmniTrak
Date: July 3, 2014
Activity: Professional programs, improved the logic for choosing the number of processors in parallel runs to optimize performance while preventing memory overlap.
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Program: PerMag
Date: April 15, 2014
Activity: Corrected errors reading previously-calculated solution files in response to the SUPERPOSITION command.
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Program: EStat, Nelson, PerMag, RFE2, Pulse, TDiff
Date: March 10, 2014
Activity: Correct errors for manual plot limit settings. The programs can now set individual limits for spatial and scan plots.
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Program: Mapper
Date: March 10, 2014
Activity: Add capability to construct maps from experimental midplane field values.
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Program: Mapper
Date: March 1, 2014
Activity: Correct error, EXPORT PLOT command failed to make a plot file.
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Program: MagWinder
Date: February 26, 2014
Activity: Corrected errors in processing LIST type parts.
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Program: Geometer, MetaMesh
Date: February 24, 2014
Activity: Added a check and error message if negative values of radius are entered for the outline of a TURNING.
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Program: HeatWave
Date: January 29, 2014
Activity: Corrected error loading source files generated by GamBet.
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Program: Trak
Date: January 20, 2014
Activity: Corrected error in runs using secondary emission listing the position in z for planar runs (always 0.0).
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Program: GBView2
Date: January 19, 2014
Activity: Add option to display dose in logarithmic intervals (contour and element plots).
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Program: Aether,Aerial
Date: December 14, 2013
Activity: Aether can export power-density information in RF type solutions to HeatWave for thermal analysis. Power-density has been added to the quantities stored in the Aether output file. Aerial has been modified to recognize the new data.
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Program: WaveSim
Date: December 10, 2013
Activity: Correct error in saving renormalized file. Break out electric and magnetic field energies in volume-integral listings.
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Program: GamBet (Pro)
Date: November 11, 2013
Activity: Fixed file-read error when assembling 3D dose files after runs with parallel processing.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: November 6, 2013
Activity: Program corrections, SCharge and RelBeam script dialogs. Better default values for parameters, create BBDUMP rather than BDUMP script command.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: November 3, 2013
Activity: Improvements to the Circular and Rectangular Beam tools. Add option for beam divergence/convergence. Better number formatting and option to specify output file name and location.
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Program: MagWinder
Date: October 13, 2013
Activity: Interactive build mode: corrected error in saving FAB parameters for the ELBOWR model.
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Program: Mapper
Date: October 7, 2013
Activity: Slice plots: fix color coding in element and contour plots and the legend.
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Program: OmniView
Date: October 7, 2013
Activity: Fixed program crash, loading a named plot view when a field map is loaded for display.
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Program: Mapper
Date: October 7, 2013
Activity: Fixed program crash if a map is loaded for plotting immediately after processing a map-creation script.
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Program: Trak
Date: September 27, 2013
Activity: The ballistic mode (set by the BOUNDARY command) is not compatible with the SCHARGE, RELBEAM and PLASMA tracking modes. Adding error trap to the program.
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Program: Trak
Date: April 19, 2013
Activity: Add RSEED command, option to set a specific random number seed. In this case, runs of a calculation with emission from a thermal source generate identical results.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: March 16, 2013
Activity: Added the capability to load microscopic HiPhi solutions derived from a macroscopic solution using the BOUNDARY method. OmniTrak correctly interprets the fixed-potential boundaries.
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Program: Trak
Date: March 9, 2013
Activity: Corrected the Trak manual to include the ZeroPoint command, required for the calculation of boundary currents in the RelBeam mode.
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Program: Trak
Date: December 20, 2012
Activity: Corrected errors in the Plasma mode setup dialog and improved default entries in the fields. Added current convergence table in Plasma mode calculations.
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Program: Trak
Date: December 5, 2012
Activity: Corrected error were Trak recorded information in the current column of the PRT file in the Track mode. This should be starting time information that is recorded only when there are field modulations. The StartTime flag was accidentally set.
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Program: Trak
Date: September 15, 2012
Activity: Improved error reporting. Also, an error message is issued if a particle source point for space-charge-limited emission is on the outer boundary of the solution volume, preventing the construction of an emission surface.
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Program: Mesh
Date: September 10, 2012
Activity: Correct error: if mouse coordinate input was turned off in the plot/repair menu, the setting persisted in the drawing editor (making it impossible to enter coordinates with the mouse). The program was changed so that coordinate values are entered manually in the drawing editor only when the F1 is pressed in coordinate mode.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: August 5, 2012
Activity: Correct write error that terminates the program for calculations in the FLINE mode.
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Program: Trak, OmniTrak
Date: August 4, 2012
Activity: Add the PLOTSKIP command to Trak and generalize the function of the command in both Trak and OmniTrak. The command has two parameters: NPlotSkip and (optionally) NPartSkip. NPlotSkip is the number of time steps per recorded vector in the TOU file. The default is NPlotSkip = 5. A larger number may be used for solutions with very small time step. The choice NPlotSkip = 1 records all details in the TOU file. The parameter NPartSkip limits the number of trajectories recorded. For example, if NPartSkip = 5, only trajectories 5, 10, 15, ... are recorded.
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Program: Mesh
Date: July 6, 2012
Activity: Correct error in drawing editor. The program did not save the vectors of regions that were not currently visible in exported DXF files and the file TEMP.DXF. These vectors therefore were lost when an UNDO command was issued. In the corrected program, the visible flag is ignored and vectors for all regions are saved.
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Program: Mesh
Date: June 4, 2012
Activity: Expand the function of the TRANSFORM MESH command to allow mirror reflections.
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Program: Geometer, MetaMesh
Date: May 25, 2012
Activity: Increase the number of resolution zones along each axis in the foundation mesh from 25 to 75.
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Program: GDE
Date: May 9, 2012
Activity: Add a program gb_sow_32.exe to the GDE package so that both 32 and 64 bit machines may be used as worker computers.
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Program: HiPhi, Magnum
Date: April 24, 2012
Activity: Corrected SCR file examples to use new convention for surface integrals (positive and negative numbers to show internal and external regions with respect to the surface).
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Program: EStat, PerMag, Pulse, TDiff
Date: April 24, 2012
Activity: Correct the ReadTable routines to handle long file names so that error reports do not cause a program crash.
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Program: Magview
Date: April 16, 2012
Activity: New command COIL FORCES in the Main/File menu. If solution and a coil files have been loaded, the program performs a force integral over all current elements and displays the net forces organized by coil number.
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Program: TDiff, HeatWave
Date: April 9, 2012
Activity: Correct labels in setup dialogs to show that standard input is in deg-C.
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Program: Trak
Date: March 28, 2012
Activity: Add deposited power to the regional quantities listed by the RegList diagnostic command (in addition to the number of model particle hits and the current). This feature is useful for the design of collectors for electron-beam microwave sources.
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Program: Geometer
Date: March 26, 2012
Activity: Fix several minor bugs in the outline editor. Add checks and removal of redundant vectors when loading and saving outlines to reduce error messages. Save the name of the SolutionVolume region if a new script is saved without adding parts.
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Program: Magwinder
Date: February 24, 2012
Activity: Add the option to show current elements as arrows in 2D plots. The feature is useful to check polarity of current in coils composed of several parts.
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Program: Magwinder
Date: February 16, 2012
Activity: Correct error where coil rotations were not applied correctly for runs in the background.
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Program: EStat, Nelson, PerMag, Pulse, RFE2 and TDiff
Date: February 7, 2012
Activity: Correct error causing a program crash when calculation were performed with Solution Display active.
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Program: Mesh
Date: February 4, 2012
Activity: Correction: program did not update current MIN and MOU file names when using SaveAs in the drawing editor.
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Program: All solution and analysis programs
Date: January 10, 2012
Activity: Update all programs that can run in the background to recognize input file specifications with full path information. This feature supports the definition of Tasks in the program laucnhers.
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Program: TC, AMaze, GBLaunch and Xenos
Date: January 4, 2012
Activity: New program launcher feature for multi-core and multi-processor machines. Quickly create solution sequences and run them in the background. The sequences are saved as standard DOS batch files that may be reused or edited.
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Program: OmniView
Date: December 16, 2011
Activity: Add NPSkip (fraction of orbits plotted) and the orbit plot type (projection or intersection with a plane) to saved views.
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Program: EStat
Date: December 5, 2011
Activity: Restore capability from Version 6.0: automatic generation of electric field profiles along the surfaces of electrode regions. The routine identifies surface facets of a region, calculates electric field values, arranges facets in the best order for display and writes the results in the data file (command ANALYSIS/REGION SURFACE FIELD TOOL).
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Program: Nelson
Date: October 25, 2011
Activity: Correct syntax errors in the configuration files nelson_complex.cfg and nelson_phase.cfg. Correct window background colors during field solution operations.
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Program: GamBet
Date: October 22, 2011
Activity: Implement action of the EMult and BMult parameters in the commands EFILE2D, EFILE3D, BFILE2D and BFILE3D. Also, correct a program crash when the MCA feature is enabled and no particles deposit energy in the specified region.
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Program: Mesh
Date: October 18, 2011
Activity: Increase dimensions to enable processing of long line vectors in large meshes.
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Program: Geometer
Date: September 23, 2011
Activity: Correct the program so that it recognizes all current MetaMesh global commands when importing an MIN file.
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Program: GenDist
Date: September 23, 2011
Activity: Add three new plot styles to the 2D histogram type. The feature improves the display of the spatial distribution of particle flux from GamBet escape files.
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Program: HeatWave
Date: September 18, 2011
Activity: Correction: ensure that errors are reported in the program window in the interactive mode.
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Program: Geometer, MetaMesh
Date: September 3, 2011
Activity: Extend the extrusion model with the option to make direct projections of outlines in the x and y directions.
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Program: EStat, Nelson, PerMag, Pulse, RFE2 and TDiff
Date: August 6, 2011
Activity: Correction: programs did not record quantities when executing the SCAN command in a script run from the command prompt.
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Program: Aether
Date: July 17, 2011
Activity: Program correction: reading a HiPhi solution in response to the EInit command. Modify the input routine to recognize the format of files created with HiPhi 3.1 (BINARY and TEXT).
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Program: Trak
Date: July 13, 2011
Activity: Add capability to save named views (i.e., complete plot parameters), including both field and orbit parameters.
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Program: EStat, Nelson, PerMag, Pulse, RFE2 and TDiff
Date: July 13, 2011
Activity: Add capability to save named views (i.e., complete plot parameters) for spatial and scan plots. Feature similar to that in the AMaze postprocessors.
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Program: Trak
Date: June 13, 2011
Activity: Expand the PARTFILE command to include the option REVERSE. In this case, the momentum vector is reversed in the PRT file. The option is useful for solutions with backtracked orbits.
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Program: Trak
Date: May 18, 2011
Activity: In the Distribution Plot menu, 1) correct current density units for planar beams, 2) enable user-specified plot limits in current-density plots.
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Program: GBView2
Date: April 13, 2011
Activity: Correct color coding in element and surface-type plots.
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Program: GamBet
Date: May 2, 2011
Activity: Correct the program gambetmp (used for parallel processing in the professional version) to recognize and to implement the ESCAPEFILTER command.
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Program: GamBet
Date: April 12, 2011
Activity: Increase secondary stack size from 2000 to 5000 entries. Include warning in code if the stack size is exceeded. In this case, the code does not track all showers to completion. The condition may result if the user chooses excesively high values of forcing factors for variance reduction.
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Program: GamBet
Date: April 11, 2011
Activity: Improved precision in the identification of boundaries in 3D calculations. Better representation of short range phenomena like electron backscatter.
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Program: Trak
Date: April 7, 2011
Activity: Modify new copy protection method so that programs can access data files on USB drives and hard disks other than C:
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Program: April 6, 2011
Date: April 6, 2011
Activity: Method to modify Windows 7 parameters for plotting very large meshes. For detailed information, see this Blog article.
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Program: Trak
Date: February 26, 2011
Activity: Correct operation of the RECORDPLANE command when particles move in the DOWN direction.
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Program: GenDist
Date: February 18, 2011
Activity: Correct plots of angular distributions for particles with angle greater than 90 degrees.
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Program: Finite-element Methods in Electromagnetics
Date: February 17, 2011
Activity: Add bookmarks to the PDF textbook. In addition, table and figure numbers, the table of contents and the index are now active links.
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Program: All programs
Date: February 12, 2011
Activity: PDF instruction manuals now show chapters and sections in the bookmark display. In addition, the text contains active links to sections, figures and tables.
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Program: PerMag
Date: February 9, 2011
Activity: Correct error calculating H in the analysis menu in nonlinear and anisotropic materials.
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Program: Geometer, MetaMesh
Date: January 27, 2011
Activity: Correct error: programs did not correctly identify the format of some binary files.
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Program: Geometer STL Viewer
Date: January 27, 2011
Activity: Correct error: the program did not reset plot parameters when all models were cleared while in the perspective view.
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Program: GamBet
Date: January 24, 2011
Activity: Monte Carlo physics package upgraded from Penelope 2001 to Penelope 2006.
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Program: All solution programs
Date: January 13, 2011
Activity: When run from the command line, solution programs would issue an error message after 15 days under a trial activation. Corrected to allow command line operation for the full 30-day period.
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Program: HWV
Date: January 10, 2011
Activity: Remove compilation dependencies so that program does not require the Open MP library.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: December 24, 2010
Activity: The STLMETHOD analysis procedure (LINE or PROXIMITY) may be applied globally or to individual parts. This makes it possible to deal with problem imported STL parts without affecting others.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: December 22, 2010
Activity: Support for parallel processing added. Multicore operation applies to electric field recalculation and particle tracking the RelBeam mode.
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Program: TriComp programs
Date: December 16, 2010
Activity: Correct error: the programs displayed the name of the plot quantity rather than the scan quantity name in the scan plot and oscilloscope mode information windows.
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Program: EMP, Pulse and TDiff
Date: December 15, 2010
Activity: In the initial-value programs, add a command to save a set of BMP files during a solution to create a movie. The plot files show EM field lines, magnetic flux density lines or isotherms.
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Program: EMP
Date: December 15, 2010
Activity: Save analysis parameters (e.g., include grid, plot type, plot quantity,...) to the Registry and restore them the next time the program runs.
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Program: Geometer
Date: December 9, 2010
Activity: Correct error: the 64 version crashed if the user cancelled out of the EDIT PART dialog.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: December 8, 2010
Activity: Correct error: grid intervals listed in the information window lagged the display.
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Program: TriComp programs
Date: December 6, 2010
Activity: Correct error where the STOPRUN dialog appears in response to any Windows message while running a solution.
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Program: EStat
Date: December 6, 2010
Activity: Correct error loading primary solution file in response to the BOUNDARY and SUPERPOSITION commands.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: November 30, 2010
Activity: Correction to SCHARGE, RELBEAM and FEMIT modes. Particles were launched from emission surfaces with random angular displacements on the final cycle under the EDIRECT = Surface option.
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Program: HiPhi, HeatWave, RFE3
Date: November 30, 2010
Activity: Correct script setup routines to write the region names assigned in MetaMesh rather than generic names.
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Program: Mesh
Date: November 25, 2010
Activity: Correct error in endpoint snap option in Version 7.0. Simplify the exit procedure from the drawing editor. Option to save MIN file if any changes have been made.
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Program: TriComp programs
Date: November 17, 2010
Activity: Correct error: programs displayed the plot quantity name rather than the scan quantity name in the information window of the scan plot menu.
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Program: Mesh
Date: November 16, 2010
Activity: Correct error: the Rotate Selected function in the drawing editor did not function in Version 7.0.
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Program: TriComp programs
Date: November 8, 2010
Activity: Improve zoom and pan operations to fill maximum plotting area where possible.
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Program: MagView
Date: October 31, 2010
Activity: Add tool to load coil files (WND). Improve displays to show positions of coils with respect to objects in the assembly. In a slice view, the intersections of coil elements with the slice plane are shown as points. Surface plots have been improved, with hidden line removal for both the current elements and surface facets.
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Program: EStat, Nelson, PerMag, Pulse, RFE2 and TDiff
Date: October 22, 2010
Activity: Correct problem in contour and filled-contour plots that resulted in bad values near slanted or curved solution-volume boundaries.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: October 21, 2010
Activity: Increase number of NEON objects to 16 and the maximum number of vectors in a path to 500.
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Program: OmniTrak, OmniView
Date: October 21, 2010
Activity: Error in the PLOTSKIP command: if NpSkip was greater than NPart, the program created an invalid plot file (OOU). Correct by setting NpSkip = NPart if the user-specified value is too large. Added traps to OmniView to prevent a crash in the event of a bad orbit file.
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Program: EStat, Nelson, PerMag, Pulse, RFE2, TDiff
Date: October 18, 2010
Activity: Correct listing of the plotted quantity and other entries in the information section when solution display is active.
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Program: TriComp programs
Date: October 12, 2010
Activity: Create a utility program for automatic conversion of input files for EMP, EStat, Nelson, PerMag, Pulse, RFE2, TDiff and WaveSim from Version 5.0 to the permanent standard in Versions 6.0 and 7.0.
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Program: All programs
Date: October 6, 2010
Activity: Detect computer activation when the data directory in tc.exe, amaze.exe, gblaunch.exe and xenos.exe is pointed to a drive other than C: (including USD drives).
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Program: Trak
Date: September 30, 2010
Activity: Correct error in phase space plots in the Distribution menu which caused all rp values to be displayed as 0.0.
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Program: GamBet
Date: September 29, 2010
Activity: Add EXCLUDE region type. When a particle enters such a region, it is immediately stopped and its properties at the region boundary are recorded in the escape file. This feature makes it possible to define non-planar boundaries in 3D simulations and to determine the flux incident on a region. Corrected program error reading the new 2D mesh format when preparing a script with the SETUP command.
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Program: Trak, OmniTrak
Date: September 28, 2010
Activity: Add automatic checking to warn the user if the time step is too short to resolve dynamics in strong magnetic fields.
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Program: Aerial
Date: September 18, 2010
Activity: Upgraded plotting features. Display of region names assigned in MetaMesh. Bitmap buffered plots for faster refresh and Windows 7 compatibility. Improved colors and mouse control. Options to save high-quality bitmap files of the current plot and to save and restore 2D and 3D plot views.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: September 7, 2010
Activity: Fix error in the RECORDPLANE command. Values of currents for individual particles were not recorded correctly in the resulting PRT file.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: September 5, 2010
Activity: Improved plot file export, incorporate Windows 7 standard for 3D plotting.
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Program: GenDist
Date: September 2, 2010
Activity: Extend range of plots of particle angle relative to the reference axis to 0.0 to 180.0 degrees.
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Program: All 3D graphics programs
Date: July 29, 2010
Activity: We have modified all 3D graphics programs (MetaMesh, PhiView, GBView3,...) to compensate for an error in Windows 7. When generating plots of huge meshes, Windows looses interest after a few seconds and wanders off to another task, leaving an incomplete plot. We have implemented bitmap transfer techniques to keep Windows on topic and to improve the user experience during long plot regenerations.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: July 29, 2010
Activity: Improved cutplane dialog for 3D plots, with the option to remove all cutplanes with a single click. On entering the 3D plot menu, the program calls the RegionPartDisplay dialog if no entities are currently displayed.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: July 25, 2010
Activity: New capability to save and to load view files of 2D and 3D mesh plots. Loading a view will exactly restore a plot if the same solution is in memory. For a different solution, MetaMesh will restore only those view settings that are consistent with the current geometry. Users can edit view files to create a custom view style.
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Program: MagWinder
Date: July 15, 2010
Activity: Graphical information has been expanded. Users may now load MDF files produced by MetaMesh. The 3D plot display shows hidden line plots of iron and permanent magnet structures as well as coils. This feature makes it easy to confirm that coils are in the correct position.
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Program: Magnum
Date: July 14, 2010
Activity: The new version of the program released on June 15, 2010 accidentally erased the EDF file early in the run. Element information is required throughout the run for solutions with nonlinear materials. If you downloaded Magnum after June 15, contact us for an update.
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Program: All solution programs
Date: July 8, 2010
Activity: Modify the DUnit command so that it recognizes unit strings like nanometer, cm, foot, kilometer,... in addition to the standard option for a numerical conversion factor.
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Program: All
Date: July 1, 2010
Activity: Seven new tutorials have been added to the technical library at https://www.fieldp.com/library.html. They cover a variety of practical applications of our codes. The library has also been reorganized to make it easier to find information.
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Program: Geometer (32 bit)
Date: June 23, 2010
Activity: Recognize the new MetaMesh command STLMETHOD when loading an MIN file. Correct an array writing domain error that adds a spurious global command "500" when an MIN file is loaded and rewritten.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: June 20, 2010
Activity: Add error trapping and reporting when open parts (LINE, ARC, DISK, ...) are completely outside the solution volume.
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Program: MetaMesh, HiPhi, Magnum, RFE2 and HeatWave (64 bit)
Date: June 18, 2010
Activity: When running 64-bit programs with OpenMP support, some users have reported that a terminal window opens and displays the message:
OMP: Warning #2: Cannot open message catalog "1041\libiomp5ui.dll":
OMP: System error #126: Could not find the specified module.
OMP: Info #3: Default messages will be used.
The problem, caused by Intel compilers, affects users on non-English-language computers. We have applied and tested a fix. Please contact us for corrected updates if you have observed this issue.
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Program: Magnum 7.0
Date: June 15, 2010
Activity: De-emphasize the dual potential calculation to improve the program ease-of-use. With double precision arithmetic, the reduced-potential calculation is sufficient for most problems, even with high-mu iron. In the default mode, Magnum now performs onlt the reduced-potential calculation. Replace the OMITIRON command with DUALPOT. The default interpolation mode in MagView uses only the reduced potential.
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Program: Pulse 7.0
Date: June 12, 2010
Activity: Add interactive dialog to compute magnetic skin depth quantities.
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Program: All postprocessors in the AMaze 3.0 and TriComp 7.0 series
Date: June 11, 2010
Activity: Improve the display of the color-coded legend in slice plots. If the number of contours (in filled contour and contour line plots) is less than the maximum number of legend entries, the program will list only entries for the displayed contours and show the exact numerical values for the contours.
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Program: HWV
Date: June 11, 2010
Activity: Add a new command "Load from series" to the main menu. The command is active after at least one output file from an initial value run has been loaded. The command calls up a dialog which shows a list of all members of the series along with the recording time. The user can then load a file at the desired time by choosing an entry from the list.
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Program: TriComp 7.0 solution programs
Date: June 5, 2010
Activity: The option for animated solution display has been added to EMP, EStat, Nelson, PerMag, Pulse, RFE2 and WaveSim. For boundary-value solutions, the display shows the convergence history with automatic time step. In initial-value programs, the display is updated at each data dump.
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Program: Mesh 7.0
Date: June 1, 2010
Activity: Add option for an animated display showing operations performed during the generation of conformal meshes. For each region, the display illustrates shifts of nodes and element-facets to define boundaries and then the final boundary and element fill status. The user can activate the display and control the animation speed. Several additional Mesh operating parameters (including the view settings) are now stored in the registry and restored at the next session.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: May 15, 2010
Activity: Restore all examples to the input library and update the syntax. Correct particle clipping and option to remove the slice-plane plot in 3D OmniView plots.
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Program: HiPhi
Date: May 14, 2010
Activity: Correct VOID region model for correct operation with both internal and external insulators in conductive solutions.
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Program: Trak 7.0
Date: May 6, 2010
Activity: Complete update of routines for the calculation of beam-generated magnetic fields in the RelBeam mode. Improved speed, realiability and representation of radial current flow in disordered beams. Expand options for assigning self-consistent feed current on the inner boundary.
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Program: Trak, GenDist
Date: April 21, 2010
Activity: Add routines to the PartDist and Beam analysis commands to determine a radial emittance quantity for circular beams that remains invariant for beam rotation in the solenoid lens.
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Program: TriComp and AMaze solution programs
Date: April 17, 2010
Activity: Add routines to correct nodes connected to fixed-potential elements if the user places parts in the wrong order in Mesh or MetaMesh scripts.
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Program: TriComp programs
Date: April 6, 2010
Activity: Set tests for array limits that could cause errors or program crashes in contour plots with very large meshes.
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Program: Geometer
Date: April 1, 2010
Activity: Correct error limiting the number of selected parts in the COPY operation.
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Program: PerMag, EStat, Magnum and HiPhi
Date: March 16, 2010
Activity: New tutorial added to the technical library derives the Maxwell stress tensor and explains why it is used to determine forces in numerical field solutions.
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Program: HWV, PhiView, MagView, RFE3View
Date: March 8, 2010
Activity: Make a formatted copy of the results of point calculations on the Windows clipboard.
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Program: Video library
Date: March 7, 2010
Activity: The training videos at https://www.fieldp.com/videos.html have been regenerated in MP4 format. There are three advantages: 1) the file size is reduced almost an order of magnitude compared to the old AVI files, 2) the files will play on all media software (not just Windows Media Player) and 3) the videos may be viewed in a browser with FlashPlayer or downloaded.
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Program: MetaMesh, Mesh
Date: March 1, 2010
Activity: The reliability of the routine to identify elements internal to extrusion and turning outlines (MetaMesh) and region boundaries (Mesh) has been increased, eliminating the problem of phantom elements.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: January 13, 2010
Activity: We have developed an advanced algorithm for analyzing whether an element is inside an STL object, a critical operation for data import from 3D CAD programs like SolidWorks. The method runs four times faster and achieves very high reliability, even for complex objects.
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Program: PerMag
Date: January 16, 2010
Activity: Add option to display Bz and Br in contour and element plots.
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Program: All programs
Date: January 14, 2010
Activity: All programs have been tested and are 100% compatible with Windows 7. Parallel versions of the AMaze programs (to be released in February) have passed performance tests on an 8-thread Intel machine under Windows 7.
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Program: Mesh
Date: November 30, 2009
Activity: Apply snap mode in picking zones and zone boundaries in the Foundation Menu of the Drawing Editor. Add Shift Zone Boundary commands to the floating menu.
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Program: MagWinder
Date: November 24, 2009
Activity: Correct error writing the current start position for the LINE model to the Edit part dialog.
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Program: HeatWave
Date: November 22, 2009
Activity: Correct error in assignment of temperature-dependent conductivity and specific heat that caused in a shift of thermal properties to the adjacent element.
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Program: Magwinder
Date: November 4, 2009
Activity: Improve the choice of the viewpoint for 3D plots. Add the option to change perspective.
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Program: Geometer,MetaMesh
Date: October 29, 2009
Activity: Modify routines to view and to load STL files to recognize the format of ProE.
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Program: Geometer
Date: October 21, 2009
Activity: Improve options for part clipping in the main display or model clipping in the STL viewer. Each objects may have up to six clipping planes at specified positions (XDn,XUp,YDn,YUp,ZDn,ZUp). Add quick option to clip at the solution-volume boundaries in the perspective view.
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Program: All
Date: October 16, 2009
Activity: Correct a Windows reporting error that has affected a small number of computers. Programs reported the error INVALID MACHINE PARAMETER when running executables, even when activation was performed correctly.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: October 12, 2009
Activity: Test parallel processing of STL objects with the 64-bit program. On a dual-core machine, the run time is reduced by almost a factor of two.
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Program: Geometer
Date: October 12, 2009
Activity: Add support for MetaMesh script directives (global translations and rotations of blocks of parts).
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Program: Trak
Date: October 11, 2009
Activity: Fix error in secondary emission model where electrons were emitted in the direction of the incident electron. Emission is now normal to the surface (consistent with the OmniTrak model).
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Program: Aether
Date: October 5, 2009
Activity: Add option to change the safety factor for the calculation of the Courant time step to prevent instabilities in meshes with large differences in element dimensions. Allow multiple current sources in resonant mode calculations.
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Program: Probe
Date: October 4, 2009
Activity: Add error trapping so that the program does not enter an infinite loop when creating grid lines if the default plot quantity contains only numerical noise.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: September 6, 2009
Activity: Increase number of regions to 250, implement standard save dialogs for plot files, improve color selections, fix the timer dialog during save operations, add error message if help file is not available, standardize tools in the Slice and Surface menus, add thumbnail sketch to the slice plane orientation display.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: September 6, 2009
Activity: Correct 3D plot logic problems by improving the default selection of DView, the perspective control parameter.
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Program: All
Date: August 26, 2009
Activity: The reason there has been a long period without program changes is that we are working on a new product, FE Builder. The package is designed to provide a mesh-generation and post-processing envelope for researchers building their own finite-element applications. In the work on FE Builder, we have developed a wide range of new features that will be added to the existing programs. One of the most exciting is the option for users to define their own calculated quantities for plots and analysis. FE Builder will be released October 1, 2009. Major upgrades of the TriComp and AMaze programs will be released on February 1, 2010 and June 1, 2010 respectively.
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Program: WaveSim and TDiff
Date: July 18, 2009
Activity: Implement transfer of power density profiles from WaveSim solutions to TDiff.
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Program: PhiView
Date: June 14, 2009
Activity: Modify plot and interpolation routines to show variations of electrostatic potential inside fixed-potential regions. The motivation is to make it easier to check solutions that contain regions with user-specified spatial variations of potential.
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Program: OmniView
Date: May 24, 2009
Activity: Improve color assignments to trajectories and field quantities to increase contrast in 2D and 3D plots.
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Program: Trak and GenDist
Date: May 22, 2009
Activity: In Trak, add consistent emittance listings in response to the PartDist command for cylindrical beams. Add emittance calculations with respect to the reference axis in GenDist in response to the Beam distribution command when PRT files are loaded.
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Program: MagWinder
Date: May 19, 2009
Activity: Correct format error when writing large negative angles in the ROTATE command of the CDF file.
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Program: Magnum
Date: May 5, 2009
Activity: Add the new BUni command to initiate a uniform applied field. This feature is useful for modeling ferromagnetic objects immersed in a field, such as magnetic shields.
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Program: All non-linear TriComp and AMaze programs
Date: April 27, 2009
Activity: Add error trapping to prevent duplicate values of the independent variable when reading numerical tables of material properties. A duplication would cause an error in cubic spline interpolations.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: April 22, 2009
Activity: Fix 3D plot routines to show open parts even if there are no displayed filled part facets. Fix errors tracing ARC type open parts.
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Program: RFE3View
Date: April 20, 2009
Activity: Complete update of AMaze postprocessors. Add full set of 2D plot types (filled contour, contour line and element). Support the full set of displayed quantities in 2D and 3D plots. Improve plot color selection. Add vector tool set.
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Program: GenDist
Date: April 14, 2009
Activity: Improve the default choice for the number of bins in statistic plots. Add a tool to set the number of bins.
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Program: Aether
Date: April 7, 2009
Activity: Fix memory allocation during FFT analysis of multiple probes in a RES mode solution.
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Program: OmniView
Date: April 6, 2009
Activity: Convert element search and field interpolation routines to double precision to prevent missed elements in large meshes.
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Program: GenDist
Date: April 5, 2009
Activity: Add a unit-conversion tool and dialog to modify the units of spatial quantities recorded in PRT and SRC files.
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Program: Mesh
Date: March 28, 2009
Activity: Expand the maximum number of regions to 250 in preparation for improvements to the entire TriComp suite of programs.
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Program: GenDist
Date: March 27, 2009
Activity: Add the Beam Section Tool, which makes it easier to connect different types simulations in Trak, OmniTrak and GamBet through PRT and SRC files. The tool can convert the output from a Trak run in cylindrical symmetry to a full circular beam suitable for OmniTrak. OmniTrak planar beam calculations in the first quadrant may be expanded to fill the full x-y plane.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: March 24, 2009
Activity: Add error trapping if an input particle list (PRT) does not contain current information for runs in the SCHARGE, RELBEAM, FEMIT and PLASMA modes.
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Program: HWV
Date: March 22, 2009
Activity: Add full set of 2D plot types (filled contour, contour line and element). Support the full set of displayed quantities in 2D and 3D plots. Improve plot color selection. Add vector tool set.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: March 18, 2009
Activity: Correct intermittent problem of an infinite loop in the 3D display controls. Deactivate the slice menu to show when the Coordinate Tool is active. Improve appearance of plots.
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Program: OmniView
Date: March 16, 2009
Activity: Add full set of 2D plot types (filled contour, contour line and element). Support the full set of displayed quantities in 2D and 3D plots for both field solutions and field maps. Improve plot color selection.
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Program: PhiView
Date: March 13, 2009
Activity: General improvement in slice plot capabilities. Add the Filled contour plot style and the set of vector tools developed for MagView.
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Program: Geometer
Date: March 13, 2009
Activity: Correct error when loading an MIN file with STL parts. The program misinterpreted the STL file for statements of the form TYPE STL FPREFIX when the FIT parameter was absent.
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Program: AMaze postprocessors
Date: March 10, 2009
Activity: Improve slice plot methods for higher reliability and smoother edges. Halve the plot refresh time.
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Program: Magnum/MagView
Date: March 8, 2009
Activity: Complete package update to Version 2.8. Add new plot styles (contour, filled contour and vector arrow), simplify the choice of plot quantities, organize vector tools and add the Magnaprobe, correct the MuTable tool and add nine new non-linear materials.
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Program: All programs
Date: February 27, 2009
Activity: Rewrite syntax highlight files for the ConText editor with several improvements: better color choices, support for new programs like Aether and inclusion of all recent commands. Resolve conflict between GamBet and Magnum. Create a new distribution package included with trials and purchases.
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Program: All programs
Date: February 26, 2009
Activity: Review all Field Precision programs to ensure that they use a consistent length for input and output files. The standard maximum length for a file prefix is 46 characters (total file length 50 characters). Check all status bar routines to avoid an internal write error for long file names.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: February 23, 2009
Activity: Completely revamp the calculation of beam-generated magnetic fields (RelBeam mode). Improve efficiency to reduce run time by an order of magnitude, simplify the program instruction set and rewrite the related chapter in the instruction manual.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: February 17, 2009
Activity: Correct memory allocation errors for FreeSpace magnetic fields in the RelBeam mode.
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Program: HiPhi, Magnum
Date: February 5, 2009
Activity: BOUNDARY function, expand the range for element searches in the Global solution to eliminate interpolation errors for very large meshes.
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Program: GamBet
Date: February 4, 2009
Activity: Tighten the method for computing boundary tolerances for better automatic parameter choices for models of surface interactions (e.g., backscatter at low energy).
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: February 4, 2009
Activity: Fix the format for recording the integer particle number recorded in the plot file (OOU) to allow plots of runs with a large number of particles.
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Program: GenDist
Date: February 3, 2009
Activity: Add a forth option (General) to the Transform distribution command. In this case, general displacements and rotations about the Cartesian axes may be applied. The option is useful to transfer PRT files between Trak, OmniTak and GamBet calculations that use different coordinate systems.
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Program: MagWinder, GamBet and GBView2
Date: February 2, 2009
Activity: Add floating menus (right click).
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Program: TriComp, AMaze, GamBet and Xenos
Date: February 2, 2009
Activity: Standardize the menu entries and tools for viewing the PDF instruction manuals for all programs.
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Program: MagView
Date: January 30, 2009
Activity: Add option to choose recorded quantities in line scans. Add tools to open and close data record files in the Slice menu.
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Program: Probe
Date: January 26, 2009
Activity: General overhaul: better plot appearance (including the option for a Tektronix 556 scheme), floating menu, improved choice of autoscale limits, restore plot settings from the registry.
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Program: PhiView, MagView, HWV, RFE3View and Aerial
Date: January 25, 2009
Activity: Tune up the oscilloscope-mode display to include correct distance units and to display values at the ends of the range.
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Program: HiPhi, Magnum, HeatWave, OmniTrak and RFE3
Date: January 23, 2009
Activity: Assign unique names to the element definition file so that simultaneous calculations may be performed on multicore processors without conflicts.
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Program: GBLaunch
Date: January 23, 2009
Activity: Ensure that the program writes the location of the program directory in the registry so that GamBet can locate the Penelope reference files.
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Program: All (TriComp, AMaze, GamBet)
Date: January 21, 2009
Activity: Improve the selection of colors for the display of region elements and boundaries. Use a consistent set of region colors in all programs.
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Program: Mesh
Date: January 20, 2009
Activity: Improve the display in the Plot and Drawing menus. Choose more modern, muted region colors and add borders between regions.
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Program: EStat, EMP, Nelson, PerMag, Pulse, RFE2, TDiff
Date: January 16, 2009
Activity: Add the option to choose the computed quantities that will appear in data file records of line scans and matrix files.
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Program: Aether
Date: January 16, 2009
Activity: Adjust the safety factor used for automatic computation of the time step to reduce the possibility of a numerical instability.
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Program: Aerial
Date: January 11, 2009
Activity: Add option for logarithmic intervals in plots for radiation calculations. The option applies to positive-definite quantities (|E|,|H|,...) in slice, plane and surface plots. Correct plotting of surface quantities on region boundaries in the Pulse mode.
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Program: Geometer
Date: January 9, 2009
Activity: Improve format when writing an MIN file. Do not make entries when all shifts or all rotations equal zero. Do not record a FAB statement for an STL object if the parameters have not been specified.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: January 8, 2009
Activity: Add a chapter to the MetaMesh manual on importing 3D shape information from SolidWorks.
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Program: Xenos program launcher
Date: December 29, 2008
Activity: Ensure that the program writes the location of the program directory in the registry so that GamBet can locate the Penelope reference files.
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Program: Mesh
Date: December 26, 2008
Activity: Remove script error checks on Save or SaveAs when exiting the drawing editor. Errors will be reported when the script is processed. Enable editing of MLS files when a processing error has occurred.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: December 16, 2008
Activity: Correct error implementing the #SKIP/#ENDSKIP script directive structure.
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Program: Aether, Aerial
Date: December 10, 2008
Activity: Correct problem with recording E-field values in the output file that entered with the introduction of the eddy-current mode. Fix errors in field interpolations in the 64-bit version of the programs.
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Program: Pulse
Date: December 9, 2008
Activity: Correct error setting coupling coefficients for solutions with non-rectangular boundaries.
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Program: EStat
Date: December 5, 2008
Activity: New capability - specify spatial variations of potential, dielectric constant, conductivity and/or space-charge density from data tables.
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Program: EMP
Date: December 1, 2008
Activity: Test examples and put in standard format. Create example index. Correct initialization error that occasionally caused an access error.
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Program: RFE3, RFE3View
Date: November 28, 2008
Activity: Add electric field line plots to RFE3View. Test examples and add an index to the example library. Correct an error in RFE3 when implementing the Boundary command that entered with the addition of region spatial variations of dielectric constant and conductivity.
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Program: Geometer, MetaMesh
Date: November 27, 2008
Activity: Tune up STL file operations in Geometer. Use a consistent file name length and change the working directory when opening a file. Correct the section of the MetaMesh manual on STL parts. The parameters FitToler and CutOff should be included in the Fab command rather than the Type command.
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Program: HiPhi
Date: November 23, 2008
Activity: New capability - specify spatial variations of potential, dielectric constant, conductivity and/or space-charge density from data tables. The feature is particularly useful for setting boundary values of potential in microscopic 3D solutions from a global 2D EStat solution.
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Program: MagWinder
Date: November 19, 2008
Activity: Modify program to use the standard interactive 3D view controls of the Amaze programs.
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Program: Mesh
Date: November 19, 2008
Activity: Correct an error involving interactions between the Export DXF and Export MIN commands in the drawing editor resulting in a loss of vectors. Also, increase the floating point accuracy in the DXF files to prevent recording small vectors with identical start and stop coordinates.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: November 16, 2008
Activity: Add the capability to include two time-dependent voltage levels for the electric field in Track mode calculations. The feature has application to RF electron and ion extractors with biased electrodes.
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Program: TDiff
Date: November 13, 2008
Activity: Clean up example library. Fix memory allocation error that could cause a program crash in sequential solution analysis.
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Program: Mesh
Date: November 13, 2008
Activity: Drawing editor: fix error so that mouse does not return coordinates outside the solution volume in grid snap mode.
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Program: GenDist
Date: November 10, 2008
Activity: Enforce 30 degree limit in the DXDist and DYDist commands.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: November 8, 2008
Activity: Change program to plot open parts (nodes) under the Region display option. Assign default region names and suppress open-part plotting when an MDF file is loaded.
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Program: TriComp programs
Date: November 7, 2008
Activity: Modify programs so that they do not reset the number of scan points and the interpolation status when loading multiple input files under control of an analysis script.
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Program: Mesh
Date: November 1, 2008
Activity: Correct error in checking whether arc vectors are inside the solution volume for regions with XShift and YShift commands.
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Program: EStat, PerMag
Date: October 31, 2008
Activity: We have started a general overhaul of the example libraries supplied with packages. All files have been tested and updated. Each example directory contains an index file with description of the calculations and the techniques involved. EStat and PerMag have been completed.
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Program: Geometer
Date: October 25, 2008
Activity: Change the working directory in the dialog of the "Load STL model" command. In the "File/New script" command, start with a default definition of Region 1 and Part 1. The part is a box that fills the solution volume.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: October 15, 2008
Activity: Implement the option for dual modulation functions of the electric and magnetic fields. The total modulation function is the product of an algebraic function times and a table interpolation.
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Program: EStat, PerMag
Date: October 14, 2008
Activity: Remove unnecessary error message in the Region command of the Analysis menu. The programs will attempt to make a Maxwell stress tensor integral around the region surface, and will not list the forces if the attempt fails.
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Program: Mesh
Date: September 24, 2008
Activity: Drawing editor, correct the display of present coordinates in the Change limits dialog.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: September 24, 2008
Activity: Correct bug, surface fitting of shifted STL parts.
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Program: AMaze
Date: September 10, 2008
Activity: Add Aether and Aerial buttons to the program launcher. Add chapter in MetaMesh manual describing the program function.
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Program: GenDist
Date: September 1, 2008
Activity: Add a new distribution transformation option, projection to a plane normal to one of the Cartesian axis. Use standard save dialogs for transformed or filtered distribution files.
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Program: GamBet
Date: September 1, 2008
Activity: Improve entries on status bar and active status of menu items.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: August 18, 2008
Activity: Correct problems setting cut planes for part displays and simplify the dialog.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: August 13, 2008
Activity: Fix problem of non-responding controls in 3D views.
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Program: GamBet
Date: August 7, 2008
Activity: Correct indexing error so that assigns zero value to void regions in G2D and G3D files. Check compatibility with TDiff.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: July 14, 2008
Activity: Corrected error in script preparation in the RelBeam mode. Program was not loading the required dialog.
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Program: Probe
Date: July 12, 2008
Activity: Add option to smooth the currently-displayed trace. Smoothing affects the screen display and exported plots but does not change the data in the plot file.
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Program: Geometer
Date: July 11, 2008
Activity: Corrected error in recording the screen size and position in the registry.
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Program: GBLaunch, Xenos
Date: July 11, 2008
Activity: Corrected error in EPoint and EScan commands.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: July 10, 2008
Activity: Modification to update the registry record of location of the program directory immediately to avoid a file-find error launching GamBet the first time the programs run.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: June 29, 2008
Activity: Add conditions for stopping a particle orbit when tracking over an electric or magnetic field map. The command TABSTOP [E,B] [EMax,BMax] sets a condition for stopping the orbit if the magnitude of the field exceeds a value.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: June 20, 2008
Activity: Correct error when program checks the order of planes in response to the RecordPlane command.
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Program: Geometer
Date: June 19, 2008
Activity: Correct error in the display of truncated cones.
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Program: AMaze postprocessors
Date: June 18, 2008
Activity: Change the default plot style and resolution for Plane plots. Expand the allowed range of resolution values.
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Program: Pulse
Date: June 17, 2008
Activity: Add automatic check that there is no region with zero conductivity to prevent unstable solutions.
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Program: Geometer
Date: June 8, 2008
Activity: Complete overhaul of the Outline Editor to eliminate bugs and to bring it to the standards of the Mesh Drawing Editor. Added magnetic snap mode. In the Foundation Menu, improve the program choices of element sizes and resolution division locations.
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Program: Geometer
Date: June 10, 2008
Activity: Ensure that the program displays an error message when the vectors of an outline do not match. Relax the tolerance for vectors with small differences in the endpoint locations.
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Program: GenDist
Date: June 6, 2008
Activity: Change the default plot at startup from projection to 1D Bin (kinetic energy) to eliminate delays when loading large distributions. Cap the initial choice of the number of bins to 150.
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Program: GamBet
Date: June 4, 2008
Activity: Add a new tutorial on the application of GamBet for calculations X-ray generation and downstream dose for pulsed radiography.
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Program: GenDist
Date: May 26, 2008
Activity: Add record of the flux density in the data listing file for 1D bin plots as a function of radius and angle.
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Program: MagWinder
Date: April 27, 2008
Activity: Add command to set working directory. Correct error in the assignment of z coordinates in the ROD model.
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Program: Trak 7.2
Date: April 21, 2008
Activity: Correct setup routines and remove inconsistencies in the instruction for electric and magnetic field input. Modify the program for automatic correction if the user enters field file names in the wrong format.
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Program: FTabTool
Date: April 4, 2008
Activity: Correct several bugs, increase default file length to 50 characters and standarized numerical output to E13.5. Add a new tool for spatial rescaling of tables.
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Program: FTabTool
Date: March 25, 2008
Activity: Fix the function parser so that $r is correctly intepreted as sqrt($x^2+$y^2).
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Program: OmniView
Date: March 12, 2008
Activity: Correct error in 2D display. Plot limits now set strictly by those of the last file loaded (field or orbit) in X, Y and Z views.
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Program: Mesh 6.1
Date: March 8, 2008
Activity: Implement ZSHIFT and RSHIFT commands in mesh processing.
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Program: Trak 7.2
Date: February 28, 2008
Activity: Add the capability to superimpose information on particle orbits, electric fields and magnetic fields in a plot. Add style options for contour plotting.
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Program: Mesh 6.1
Date: February 24, 2008
Activity: Major overhaul of the drawing editor. Advanced selection and editing capabilities. Expanded snap modes with magnetic snap point display. Local and global snap modes. Automatic removal of redundant vectors. Correction of error in vector picking routines.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: February 3, 2008
Activity: Preserve 2D and 3D plot views (including displayed regions and parts) when a mesh is reprocessed.
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Program: PhiView, MagView, RFE3View and HWV
Date: February 1, 2008
Activity: The current plot view settings are preserved if a file is loaded with the same geometric limits.
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Program: Trak 7.1
Date: February 1, 2008
Activity: Option to main zoom or magnification plot mode settings when loading new data.
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Program: TriComp solution programs
Date: January 31, 2008
Activity: Maintain zoomed view when solutions with the same spatial limits are loaded.
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Program: Mesh 6.0
Date: January 31, 2008
Activity: Improve DXF import features. Add commands 'Move layout to current' and 'Change limits' in the drawing menu. Use standard Windows dialogs for MIN and DXF file export.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: January 30, 2008
Activity: Replace the DTheta command in the SCharge and RelBeam modes with the command TSource. The user specifies a source temperature rather than an angular divergence. Assign angles from a Maxwell distribution.
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Program: All packages
Date: January 29, 2008
Activity: Create executable installation files using Astrum Install Wizard that incorporate standard Windows features (shortcuts, uninstall program, ...).Include step-by-step instructions for getting started with software trials and purchases.
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Program: HeatWave, TDiff and Pulse
Date: January 25, 2008
Activity: Improve method for selecting and liading a file from a time series of solutions.
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Program: Geometer
Date: January 24, 2008
Activity: Correct error in Delect selected regions command.
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Program: PhiView, MagView
Date: January 22, 2008
Activity: Field line plots in Slice views: add a command to create an array of field lines at points along a scan.
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Program: PhiView
Date: January 13, 2008
Activity: Make choice of allowed quantities in slice plots automatic.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: January 13, 2008
Activity: Add option to specify number of turns per crossing record in the PeriodPlane command.
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Program: FPSetup
Date: January 12, 2008
Activity: Update the program sequence and simplify the instructions.
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Program: FTabTool
Date: January 8, 2008
Activity: Correct error in pasing functions in FTS scripts. Add FTabTool button in the AMaze program controller.
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Program: MagView
Date: December 16, 2007
Activity: Interactive magnetic field line plotting, element plot smoothing.
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Program: GamBet, GBView3
Date: December 18, 2007
Activity: Improve script preparation dialog to sort out materials and regions. Correct errors in power density transfer to HeatWave and format of saved smoothed dose files. Add example of coupled thermal 3D calculation to tutorials.
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Program: PhiView
Date: December 16, 2007
Activity: Interactive electric field line plotting, element plot smoothing, fixed problem with Zoom window command.
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Program: HeatWave
Date: December 14, 2007
Activity: Test and improve thermal source input from GamBet.
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Program: GamBet
Date: December 12, 2007
Activity: Conversion to double-precision arithmetic, improved view controls for 3D plots in GBView3.
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Program: PhiView, MagView
Date: November 22, 2007
Activity: Improved view controls in 3D surface plots.
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Program: Trak
Date: November 22, 2007
Activity: Correct error setting the first emission surface in the PLASMA mode.
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Program: PerMag
Date: November 12, 2007
Activity: Correct error in the Field Index tool.
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Program: Mesh
Date: November 12, 2007
Activity: Correct error when region rotations applied to arcs.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: November 11, 2007
Activity: Release version 2.5 supporting import of objects defined by STL files, including a collection of STL examples.
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Program: Geometer
Date: November 11, 2007
Activity: Release version 2.5 supporting import of objects defined by STL files. Correct error in the Divide Zone command of the Foundation menu.
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Program: GenDist
Date: November 2, 2007
Activity: Add commands to convert between PRT and SRC file formats.
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Program: Geometer
Date: October 18, 2007
Activity: Improve access to floating menus, improve appearance of 3D view control cursors
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Program: HiPhi, PhiView, Magnum, MagView, HeatWave, HWV, RFE3, RFE3View, OmniTrak and OmniView
Date: September 19, 2007
Activity: Add floating menus (mouse right-click).
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Program: All software packages
Date: September 6, 2007
Activity: The text editor ConTEXT will be distributed with all software orders along with syntax highlighting files for Field Precision programs.
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Program: All programs using intepreted functions
Date: September 5, 2007
Activity: Correct problems reading numbers in scientific notation and allow a variety of formats (4.567E5, 4.567E+05, ...).
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Program: OmniTrak 2.0
Date: September 4, 2007
Activity: Issue a detailed message when there is an error in evaluating a field modulation function.
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Program: Trak 7.1
Date: August 31, 2007
Activity: Update all entries in the Trak example library and add the file ExampleList.txt, a key to the examples.
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Program: Trak 7.1
Date: August 29, 2007
Activity: Modify the EMIT command in the SCHARGE, RELBEAM and PLASMA modes so that the user specifies a source temperature rather than an angular divergence. Assign angles from a Maxwell distribution.
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Program: RFE3 2.0, HeatWave 2.0
Date: August 22, 2007
Activity: Convert to double precision arithmetic.
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Program: Trak 7.1
Date: August 10, 2007
Activity: Improve plots labels: include dimension units, choose normal or scientific notation for values.
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Program: GenDist 4.0
Date: August 8, 2007
Activity: Add support for annular beam distributions.
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Program: GenDist 4.0
Date: July 31, 2007
Activity: Add Isotropic option for internal sources. Add command top explicitly set the random-number seed.
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Program: EMP 6.0, EStat 6.0, Nelson 6.0, PerMag 6.0, Pulse 6.0, RFE2 6.0, TDiff 6.0, WaveSim 6.0
Date: July 26, 2007
Activity: Add right-click menus, improve program response in the Oscilloscope mode.
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Program: WaveSim 6.0
Date: July 26, 2007
Activity: Add command to create SF7 files for former SuperFish users.
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Program: MetaMesh 2.0
Date: July 24, 2007
Activity: Rework parsing of CSV files from SolidWorks to support the latest version of the package.
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Program: Trak 7.1
Date: July 21, 2007
Activity: Bring orbit and field plotting functions up to the TriComp 6.0 standard. Add active coordinate display for mouse operations and a position window to show the current zoomed view. Add an interactive distribution plot menu that uses values from the plot file to display (and optionally to record) phase-space distributions and current density as a function of position along the beam axis. Standardize error reporting in the interactive and background modes.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: July 13, 2007
Activity: Rework the 3D plot display to increase speed and to make user interactions more intuitive. The onscreen controls are now identical to those in Geometer.
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Program: Geometer
Date: July 9, 2007
Activity: Complete overhaul of the FOUNDATION menu to improve interactive functions and to make it easier to specify element sizes. Automatic correction of element sizes when zone boundaries are changed to ensure correct plotting.
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Program: EMP
Date: July 7, 2007
Activity: Correct problem with inline resistors. Add support for spatial variations of material properties over regions. Add element, vector and surface plots of the Poynting vector.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: June 26, 2007
Activity: Correct problems and expand capabilities for conversion of parts defined by unstructured tetrahedron meshes to the MetaMesh conformal hexahedron mesh.
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Program: MetaMesh
Date: June 13, 2007
Activity: Correct problem with correction of inverted elements when running the program in the command-prompt mode.
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Program: EMP, EStat, Nelson, PerMag, Pulse, RFE2, WaveSim
Date: May 28, 2007
Activity: Add floating menus (mouse right-click). Correct error in line scan routine and expand control capabilities of the oscilloscope mode.
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Program: Mesh, GenDist
Date: May 23, 2007
Activity: Add floating menus (mouse right-click).
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Program: GBView2
Date: May 19, 2007
Activity: Expand plot information listing and add new entries to toolbar.
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Program: TDiff
Date: May 19, 2007
Activity: Add option to set the integration time step actively from a modulation function. The main application is modeling of trains of short source pulses loaded from FRE2, Nelson or GamBet.
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Program: Geometer
Date: May 16, 2007
Activity: Corrected several errors in the outline editor (display of the number of vectors, operation of the ARC SER command, and vector numbers when the rectangle command is aborted).
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Program: Magnum 2.5
Date: May 15, 2007
Activity: Corrected error where MagView would not display total field values for Free mode calculations. Eliminated the AddFree mode and corrected instruction manual.
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Program: OmniView
Date: May 10, 2007
Activity: Correct errors in magnification mode. Add memory of slice position and magnification parameters when switching slice axes.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: May 6, 2007
Activity: Added listing of the current convergence history in the OLS file for runs with space-charge-limited or field emission.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: April 11, 2007
Activity: Corrected listing file information for model particle properties from a space-charge-limited emission surface.
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Program: Xenos
Date: April 11, 2007
Activity: Add window properties such as "Minimize" to the TriComp, AMaze, GamBet and Xenos program launchers.
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Program: Xenos
Date: March 13, 2007
Activity: Modify program launcher to set up registry entry for the GamBet data directory. Create manual with instructions on the program launcher and an orientation on the components of Xenos.
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Program: OmniTrak 2.0
Date: March 3, 2007
Activity: Add option to record crossing points of a periodic orbit and save as a particle distribution. Application to cyclical accelerators.
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Program: SATE
Date: February 22, 2007
Activity: Complete update of programs.
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Program: EStat 6.0
Date: February 22, 2007
Activity: Add environment for interactive plotting of electric field lines.
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Program: Magnum 2.5
Date: February 19, 2007
Activity: Modify code logic so that BOUNDARY command is consistent with nonlinear materials. Improve plot colors in MagView.
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Program: HiPhi 2.0
Date: February 13, 2007
Activity: BOUNDARY command: improve method of field interpolations in the macroscopic solution, set initial values of potential for all points in the microscopic solution to reduce run time.
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Program: GenDist
Date: February 5, 2007
Activity: In the Beam distribution command, add a calculation of the RMS position spread about the mean position as well as the reference axis.
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Program: OmniTrak 2.0, OmniView 2.0
Date: February 4, 2007
Activity: Expand capabilities for field tables. Add utility FTabTool to modify and to create field tables with specified mathematical properties. Add a new chapter on field tables in the OmniTrak manual. Add PlotSkip command for plots of representative orbits in large distributions. Reorganize commands for field tables in OmniView and add contour plot capabilities.
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Program: Version 6.0 TriComp programs
Date: January 29, 2007
Activity: Correct errors running solutions or analysis script from the command line and from GCon. Programs can now accept either the prefix or full name of the input script.
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Program: OmniTrak 2.0
Date: January 28, 2007
Activity: Improve stopping, reflection and diagnostic planes. As an example, with the StopPlane XDn command, a particle stops when it moves across the plane in the -x direction, independent of its initial position.
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Program: Magnum 2.5
Date: January 21, 2007
Activity: Correct error in Neumann boundary conditions on the solution volume boundary introduced with the nonlinear capability. Improve plots labels in MagView.
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Program: GenDist
Date: January 18, 2007
Activity: Add error checking to prevent phase space plots along the direction of the reference axis.
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Program: OmniView 2.0
Date: January 11, 2007
Activity: Add capability to read and to display field maps. General improvement of field and orbit plot apperance.
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Program: MagView 2.5, PhiView 2.0 and OmniTrak 2.0
Date: January 4, 2007
Activity: Improve format of matrix files (field maps) to transfer information to OmniTrak.
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Program: Xenos
Date: December 27, 2006
Activity: Correct xenos.exe program launcher. Confirm operation of all button functions.
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Program: Magnum 2.0
Date: December 26, 2006
Activity: Correct errors in mesh setup for the dual potential calculation and make the routines more robust.
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Program: MagWinder 2.0
Date: December 26, 2006
Activity: Correct errors in the plotting routines and Delete Part dialog. Add extensive error checking for the Add Part dialog.
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Program: Mesh 6.0
Date: December 20, 2006
Activity: Add option to set labels in program for cylindrical (z,r) as well as rectangular (x,y) coordinates. Add new commands ZMESH, RMESH, ZSHIFT and RSHIFT.
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Program: OmniTrak 2.0, OmniView 2.0
Date: December 18, 2006
Activity: Ensure that the programs are compatible with Magnum 2.5 (nonlinear materials). Improve the appearance of element outlines in slice and surface plots.
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Program: Magnum 2.5, PerMag
Date: December 16, 2006
Activity: Add the following tools to the Help menu: 1) Table Generator Tool for generating material tables from mathematical functions, 2) Mu Table Tool to convert H-B tables to the form B-MuR and 3) Field Index Tool to calculate the field index for weak focusing fields.
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Program: GenDist
Date: December 8, 2006
Activity: Ensure consistent use of the CONVERGE command in the setup dialog, program and instruction manual.
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Program: OmniTrak
Date: December 7, 2006
Activity: Angular distributions in SCharge or RelBeam modes -- correct operation of the DTHETA command.
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Program: Geometer
Date: November 28, 2006
Activity: Correct problem with loading and recording TRANSITION type parts.
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Program: PhiView 2.0, MagView 2.0, HWV 2.0 and RFE3View 2.0
Date: November 27, 2006
Activity: Enable user-defined resolution in normal surface plots of 3D views.
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Program: Magnum 2.5, PerMag 6.0
Date: November 21, 2006
Activity: Add Gamma = 1/MuR plots to show saturation levels in iron cores.
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Program: MetaMesh 2.0
Date: November 13, 2006
Activity: Improve appearance of 3D and 2D plots, correct errors in 2D projection plots.
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Program: HWV 2.0
Date: November 12, 2006
Activity: Expand 3D plot capabilities. Isothermal and region surfaces may be color-coded by any of the calculated plot quantities. Add plots for spatial variations of k, Cp and Q.
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Program: HeatWave 2.0
Date: November 9, 2006
Activity: Add blood perfusion terms in static and dynamic solutions for full representation of the Bioheat Equation.
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Program: HeatWave 2.0
Date: November 8, 2006
Activity: Test loading of thermal sources from RFE3 and GamBet in static solutions. Reorganize updates to include sources with modulation functions in dynamic solutions.
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Program: GamBet 2.0
Date: November 4, 2006
Activity: Option to open listing file in internal editor after a run error. Corrected errors in the Setup dialog.
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Program: EStat 6.0, PhiView 2.0
Date: October 28, 2006
Activity: Added automatic calculations of electrostatic forces using the Maxwell stress tensor.
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Program: Pulse 6.0
Date: October 18, 2006
Activity: Completion and testing of Version 6.0.
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Program: Pulse 6.0
Date: October 16, 2006
Activity: Complete new instruction manual.
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Program: TriComp, AMaze programs
Date: October 5, 2006
Activity: Improved method to define dimensions in the script SETUP dialogs.
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Program: Geometer
Date: October 4, 2006
Activity: Implement standard save dialogs.
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Program: Trak, OmniTrak
Date: September 24, 2006
Activity: Add support for individual particle starting times for Track mode calculations with electric or magnetic field modulations. Correct errors and improve script generation dialogs.
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Program: GBView3
Date: September 19, 2006
Activity: Fine-tune plotting color selection and options, improve 3D surface plots of dose.
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Program: Trak, OmniTrak
Date: September 8, 2006
Activity: Option to specify modulation functions for electric and/or magnetic fields from mathematical functions.
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Program: Trak
Date: September 6, 2006
Activity: Option to split particles generated from an emission surface with angular divergence to improve distribution statistics.
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Program: GamBet
Date: September 5, 2006
Activity: Revise reference manual for Version 2.0, add index.
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Program: GamBet
Date: September 3, 2006
Activity: Add a tabbed setup dialog for interactive generation of input scripts.
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Program: GamBet
Date: August 26, 2006
Activity: Convert quantities to double precision to improve accuracy of energy conservation statistics.
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Program: GenDist
Date: August 22, 2006
Activity: Improvements to program including a) interactive dialog to set up DST files, b) tool to create tabular function files to specify beam distributions from mathematical functions, c) option to read distribution tables from files and d) multiple colors in 1D and 2D historgrams.
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Program: RFE3 2.0
Date: August 12, 2006
Activity: Record element resistive power density in the output file to support spatial variations of conductivity and porting of source profiles to HeatWave 2.0
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Program: RFE3 2.0
Date: August 9, 2006
Activity: Complete instruction manual and upload to the Internet library.
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Program: RFE3 2.0
Date: August 8, 2006
Activity: Add support for variations of relative dielectric constant and conductivity specified by mathematical functions. Implement the INITVAL command.
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Program: RFE3View 2.0
Date: August 5, 2006
Activity: Improve 3D plots to show variations of calculated quantities over the surfaces of regions.
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Program: Trak 7.0
Date: August 1, 2006
Activity: Add contour plots of |E| and |B|
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Program: EMP 6.0
Date: July 29, 2006
Activity: Add capability to define spatial variations of dielectric constant, magnetic permeability and electrical conductivity over a region from mathematical functions. Correct error in treatment of conductive material boundaries in H type pulses.
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Program: TDiff 6.0
Date: July 17, 2006
Activity: Define modulation functions for power density from Nelson, RFE2 or WaveSim from either tables or mathematical functions. Correct and post revised instruction manual.
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Program: Nelson 6.0
Date: July 16, 2006
Activity: Revised Nelson manual posted in the Internet library
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Program: Static-field Analysis Toolkit (Educational)
Date: July 12, 2006
Activity: Create educational versions of Mesh/EStat/PerMag. Set up automatic Internet download site.
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Program: Nelson 6.0
Date: July 9, 2006
Activity: Code extensions to treat eddy-current losses in windings.
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Program: EMP3, EStat 6.0, OmniTrak 2.0, Trak 6.0
Date: July 5, 2006
Activity: Expand the function parser for inclusion in EMP3, OmniTrak 2.0 and Trak 6.0. Update the EStat 6.0 program and instruction manual.
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Program: OmniTrak 2.0
Date: July 5, 2006
Activity: Complete the OmniTrak 2.0 Instruction Manual, post on the Internet library page.
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Program: EMP3
Date: July 3, 2006
Activity: Reformat the Internet download page and simplify the procedure.
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Program: OmniTrak 2.0, Trak 6.0
Date: July 2, 2006
Activity: Automatic script preparation -- write a PLIST/FLIST template appropriate to the tracking mode if PFILE or EMIT are not specified.
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Program: OmniView 2.0
Date: July 2, 2006
Activity: Implemented particle filtering -- color-coding orbits by particle mass, current or charge.
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Program: Trak 6.0
Date: June 30, 2006
Activity: Corrected error finding emission surfaces for planar simulations with a symmetry boundary at y = 0.0.
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Program: FPSetup
Date: June 30, 2006
Activity: Added RESET button for easy transition from trial to purchase.
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Program: Geometer 2.0, MetaMesh 2.0
Date: June 30, 2006
Activity: Resolved inconsistency in DISK model between the two programs.
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Program: OmniTrak 2.0
Date: June 29, 2006
Activity: Record information on particle charge, mass and current in the plot file for filtering in OmniView.
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Program: MagView 2.0
Date: June 28, 2006
Activity: Make surface plots consistent with PhiView standard. Corrections entered in Magnum instruction manual.
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Program: PhiView 2.0
Date: June 28, 2006
Activity: Improve 3D surface plots. The full range of plot quantities may now be displayed on region boundaries as well as slice planes. Boundary and slice plots may be superimposed. Corrections entered in the HiPhi instruction manual.
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Program: MagView 2.0
Date: June 27, 2006
Activity: Improvement and extended testing of the force and torque calculations via Maxwell stress tensor integrals.
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