What's New in MapleSim 2015.2
The MapleSim 2015.2 family of products includes important updates to MapleSim, MapleSim connectivity tools, and specialized MapleSim libraries. It also introduces a new product, the MapleSim CAD Toolbox, which helps you understand and improve your mechanical designs by making it easy to import your CAD models directly into MapleSim.
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MapleSim 2015.2 provides a variety of enhancements that make it even easier to create, simulate, and analyze your multidomain, system-level models, including advanced diagnostic tools, new components, and many improvements requested by customers.
Enhanced Diagnostics
MapleSim now includes more advanced diagnostic tools to help you identify the source of problems in your model and simulation, and improve your model’s efficiency and robustness.
Identifies which variables and components were involved in inconsistent systems identified during model formulation
Indicates which variables and components were involved in the events and integration steps just prior to any simulation failures
Provides a list of the variables most often involved when the integrator was forced to decrease the step size
Provides a list of the variables most often involved with the most frequently occurring events
For more information, see Using Solver Diagnostics for Inconsistent Systems and Using Solver Diagnostics for Run-time Issues and Performance.
New Components
MapleSim has over 50 new components, including:
Support for fundamental waves in the Magnetic library
Additional heat transfer resistors in the Thermal library
Added support for lossy machines and sources in the Electrical library
Expanded Signal Block library
For more information, see MapleSim 2015.2: New and Updated Commands and Components.
Connections Manager
Allows you to manage port variables on either side of a connection
Makes it easy to discover exactly which ports on which components are connected, even in complex diagrams
Enables you to make connections between arrays of different sizes
For more information, see Using the Connections Manager.
Modelica
Improves support for the Modelica 3.2.1 Standard Library
Adds support for expandable keywords
Handles runtime assertions
MapleSim API
New options in GetCompiledProc() let you set limits on step size and number of function evaluations in variable step integrators
Improved error handling in GetCompiledProc() returns both partial results as well as the reason for the failure, making trouble-shooting easier when doing batch simulations such as parameter sweeps and Monte Carlo analysis
New GetProbes() command returns a list of all probed variables
Linearize() and GetIC() include improvements to their options and algorithms
MapleSim CAD Toolbox
With the new MapleSim CAD Toolbox, you can see how your mechanical CAD models will behave as part of a larger, multidomain system, and apply MapleSim’s advanced analysis tools to improve your designs. This toolbox makes it easy to import CAD models into MapleSim, automatically capturing the kinematic and kinetic properties of the model components.
Easily import your CAD models into MapleSim, including kinetic and kinematic properties, and spatial relationships between components
Investigate how your mechanical models will behave when part of a larger system by incorporating them in a multidomain, system-level simulation model
Use MapleSim’s analysis tools to investigate and optimize your CAD designs and final application
Toolbox Features
Imports CAD models directly into MapleSim, automatically recreating the model components using MapleSim components
Automatically extracts inertia, mass, and available frame properties from the CAD model
Offers feature detection, allowing users to easily add new coordinates at points of interest, such as the center of a hole or along the edge of a component
Makes it easy to share coordinate frames between separate bodies, ensuring the bodies will be properly aligned when joined
Automatically creates STL files from the imported model, which are attached to the corresponding MapleSim components
Updates your MapleSim model with a push of a button when the underlying CAD model is changed
Allows you to easily share the MapleSim version of your CAD model with other MapleSim users, even if they do not have access to the original CAD file, CAD program, or this toolbox
Imports directly from Inventor®, NX®, SOLIDWORKS®, CATIA® V5, Solid Edge®, 3D ACIS® Modeler, Pro/Engineer® / PTC Creo Parametric™, and Parasolid®
Imports STEP and STL files, which can be exported from virtually any CAD system
MapleSim Battery Library
Lithium-Ion models can now include a user-input electrode type, for positive and negative electrodes, which allows an advanced user to directly define the voltage and entropy versus. state of charge
The Electrochemical Battery ID template, which is used to fit data to a battery model, has been improved in several ways:
Improved fit algorithm
A progress meter that provides useful feedback when waiting for the fit to complete
A separate plot window for the state of charge (SOC), for easier viewing
Parameter ranges that can be extended arbitrarily, when appropriate
Other Add-ons and Connectors
MapleSim Driveline Library has new translational detent, cone clutch, and beveled teeth dog clutch components, and a new example which uses these components to create a synchromesh clutch
MapleSim Tire Library provides improvements when starting the vehicle from zero velocity
MapleSim Connector, for connectivity with Simulink®, and the MapleSim Connector for FMI both generate code that provides more detailed run-time error reporting to assist in trouble-shooting on the target platform
MapleSim 2015.2: New and Updated Commands and Components, Compatibility Issues in MapleSim 2015.2, Trademark Attributions
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