November 4, 2025

BETA CAE Systems announces the release of
2025.1.1 version of its software suite

About this release

We officially announce the 1st Hot Fix of 2025.1 for ANSA, EPILYSIS, META, KOMVOS, SPDRM, ANSERS, FATIQ and RETOMO with critical bug fixes and selected implementations.

Follows an overview of the most important items:

Known issues resolved in ANSA
Known issues resolved in EPYLYSIS
Known issues resolved in META
Known issues resolved in KOMVOS
Known issues resolved in SPDRM
Known issues resolved in ANSERS
Known issues resolved in FATIQ
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Known issues resolved in ANSA

CAD Import / Export

ANSA would cease operating during the input of STEP files, output by Polyworks.

GUI

Unexpected termination would occur, when the Presentation Parameters toolbar - docked at the Bottom Area - was expanded to display “Draw Shell as Solid” option.

Database Browser

ANSA would cease operating after drag ‘n’ drop of non-empty Sets/Includes from a list in “Tree View” mode onto other models inside the Models window.

Geometry

Software abortion would occur, when using the API functions base.PlaneCut() & base.FacesPlaneCut() with the argument entities='all'.

Shell Meshing

Applying the Fix Quality on 2nd order solid elements could lead to an abnormal termination of ANSA.

Also, in case CONS were not aligned, ANSA would terminate upon hovering on CONS, when trying to select Source CONS.

Volume Meshing

Focusing on Volume Mesh/ Octree, ANSA would cease operating when deleting geometries, while having the “Hextreme” volume meshing window open.

Compare

Parts with empty Module Id could erroneously be matched based on Module Id.

Connections & Assembly

When executing the Autodetect Connectivity action on Subsystems with solid elements, the connectivity of Assembly points would not be correctly defined.

Data Management

While working with an SPDRM server-based DM, the saved Fastener features in DM would not be properly recognized by the automated procedure of the Feature Manager.

NVH

Upon execution of “Squeak and Rattle > E-line method”, wrong definition of the COORD entity of the last CBUSH of each E-line would cause error termination of Nastran solver.

Results Mapper

Using the feature “Preview Results” in Results Mapper Assistant would lead to an abrupt software abortion.

Kinetics

Unexpected termination would occur during the input of ADAMS/View command file in Adams Pre-Processing mode.

Morphing

ANSA would unexpectedly terminate by picking the “Morph Vectors” option in the History States context menu.

Optimization

Constraints with Expressions could not be created, if special characters (blank space) were included in the variables names.

 

 

Known issues resolved in EPILYSIS

Performance

One-calculation step has been drastically accelerated, leading to a significant speed-up in topology optimization with maximum size constraints (TVMAX); yet the overall time reduction depends on the job itself.

General

Contacts were not detected, if the user-specified value of COPTS, COPTM was invalid.

 

Known issues resolved in META

General

Unexpected termination would occur when launching META in OS with GPU memory less than 1GB.

Furthermore, running META with “-st” running option, would not read properly the main session file from the respective path.

Abaqus

Unexpected termination would occur when reading multiple result files with modified META defaults.

Issues occurred when reading .inp and .odb files saved under very long paths on Linux OS, where there is no character number limitation. Attempting to read these files on Windows OS would lead to unexpected termination.

Nastran

ERP results for panels from Nastran .pch files were not displayed properly in 3D.

Also, the contribution analysis plot for real panel participation results output as fractions from Nastran PCH was incorrect.

Moldex3D

Results from Moldex3D 2025R could not be read.

FRF Assembly

Execution of “Autoconnect” in FRF-Assembly would lead to unexpected termination, when Interface Sets Nodes were connected.

In addition, fluid modal matrices were not handled correctly, if structure and fluid were treated as separate components in FRF-Assembly.

Modal Response

FSI output from ANSA was not read correctly in Modal Response.

Moreover, Pressure Equilibrium FSI would not be calculated, in case there were some properties in the fluid model that were not in contact with the structure.

Automation

Since version 2025.1.0, the Template Manager didn’t allow loading a template with empty fields.

Script functions CurvesTypesIso() and CurvesTypesIsoWithNames() were not working properly on Linux OS.

Project Files & METADB

META would cease operating when reading results from a .metadb, which was initially read from Project Contents Browser.

An unexpected termination would also occur when trying to load a .metadb with “average at threshold” setting enabled.

Images & Video Handling

Abrupt software abortion could occur when trying to delete multiple markers from a video.

Also, correlation score between video and simulation could be erroneous.

Renumber

Renumbering a curve to an existing id would not work as expected.

 

 

Known issues resolved in KOMVOS

Data Management

Editing a compound entity through KOMVOS, would erroneously allow to modify the item’s properties. Now all primary keys are not editable in the “Edit missing properties” page of the wizard.

Machine Learning

The process “ML Training Improve” would fail to start, when "None" was selected for Curve results in the original Predictor training.

 

 

Known issues resolved in SPDRM

Process Design / Execution

Remote execution of nogui tasks would fail in Oracle-based environments when the system was configured to run these tasks on the SPDRM server’s machine.

Users Management - Security

When role-based visibility for accepted values was enabled, any newly added alias values through the "DM Structure Values" tool were not visible to any user roles. From now on, new values will be visible to all user roles by default. This enhancement improves usability and reduces the need for manual configuration of role-based access to new values.

 

 

Known issues resolved in ANSERS

Dashlet layout - Sections

Sections did not respond to collapse/expand actions. Visual overlap occurred between adjacent Sections or Sections and Panels.

List Panel

The button “Select all” will now select all items and not only the items of the current list page.

Media Panel

When two or three videos were displayed and animated in a single media panel, the animation was not smooth.

Installation

Updates from previous versions to 2025.1 caused several issues that have been successfully combated.

 

 

Known issues resolved in FATIQ

License Management

FATIQ license and respective credits were not released when executing the command “Release License”.

General

Sets imported from input file were not read properly.

Calculations

No results were returned in analyses with post.gz input since 2025.1.

 

 

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Where to download from

Customers who are served directly by BETA CAE Systems, or its subsidiaries, may download the new software, examples and documentation from their account on our server. They can access their account through the "download" link on our website.
Contact us if you miss your account details. The Downloads menu items give you access to the public downloads.
Customers who are served by a local business agent should contact the local support channel for software distribution details.

What to download

All files required for the installation of this version reside in the folders named "BETA_CAE_Systems_2025.1_1", "KOMVOS_2025.1_1", "SPDRM_2025.1_1", "ANSERS_2025.1_1", "FATIQ_2025.1_1" and "RETOMO_2025.1_1" and are dated as of November 4, 2025. These files should replace any pre-releases or other files downloaded prior to that date.
The distribution of this version of our pre- and post-processing suite is packaged in one, single, unified installation file, that invokes the respective installer and guides the procedure for the installation of the required components.

For the installation of the software on each platform type, download from the respective folders, the .sh file for Linux or the .msi file for Windows.

In addition to the above, optionally, the META Viewer is available to be downloaded for each supported platform.

The tutorials and the example files reside in the folder named "TUTORIALS". This folder includes a complete package, and one with only the updated files.

The Abaqus libraries required for the post-processing of Abaqus .odb files are included in the installation package and can be optionally unpacked.

Earlier software releases are also available in the sub-directory called "Previous_Versions" or in a folder named after the product and version number.