nTop 5.3 is here! This release features our new Mesh from Implicit Body 2 block, which uses our new experimental approach and bug fixes. As with every release, nTop's dedicated support team is ready to answer your questions. Please visit support.ntop.com to gain access to helpful tutorials and support articles.
Mesh from Implicit Body 2 [Beta]
A new, experimental approach to meshing implicit bodies.
- Block Name: Mesh from Implicit Body 2
- Location: Beta > Utilities
- Description: Convert an Implicit Body to a Mesh
- Body: Implicit Body to mesh.
- Tolerance: The maximum allowable deviation of the Mesh from the implicit geometry.
- Output: Mesh
An example of a mesh generated with the new Mesh from Implicit Body 2 block.
Block Updates
- We have updated the Unit System block to include units for Pressure, Frequency, Heat Flux, Thermal Conductivity, Power, Energy/Torque, Specific Heat, Volumetric Heat Generation, Convection Coefficient, and Density for CAE Interoperability. If Compound units are not provided, the base units (Length, Mass, Time, Temperature) will be used to construct the Compound units.
Bug Fixes
- We fixed an issue with the Equidistant Points on Curve block that caused portions of the curve to contain no points.
- We fixed an issue with the Translate Object block that caused translation to be lost when using the Implicit Body from Voxel Grid block.
- We fixed an issue with the Surface Area block that caused the result to be outside the relative error in certain cases.
- We fixed an issue with the Mesh from Implicit Body block that caused the block to fail with an error in certain cases when sharpening was turned on.
- We fixed an issue with the Export FE Model block that caused temperature units to be exported in Kelvin regardless of the units specified in the unit system block.
- We fixed an issue with the Cyclic Symmetry that caused an error when processing cyclic symmetry.
- We have updated the error message on the Topology Optimization block when zero-volume elements are detected to a warning message so that you can still run it. We highly recommend that element size be reasonable and uniform across the design space and that you use the Min Feature Size input to avoid zero-volume elements in your mesh.