(17.09.2019) Finally.  Ceetron Desktop Components 3.0 was released last night.

Desktop Components is on one hand a renaming of Ceetron 3D Components, on the other hand a strong message to the market that Ceetrons continues to support the two major architectural paradigms in CAE, desktop-based and cloud-based, with equal emphasis.  Plus, we support anything in between, in the form of hybrid CAE architectures.

3.0 is really a performance release, something that makes my colleagues in dev particularly proud: i) optimized reader performance; ii) optimized display model generation, with 2x-5x improvements in speed when doing results application/switching between draw styles; iii) optimized handling of non-volume element parts and loading of VTFx files containing node blocks with ids; iv) 6x speed improvement in cee::ug::DataElements::addElements(); and v) optimized computation of isovolumes, isosurfaces and cutting planes.

The release contains also a number of functional improvements and fixes, including vi) updated support for third-party readers (including ANSYS 2019R2 and H3D), vii) support for ResultCalculator plugins (so that CDC users can add derived results implemented in C++ via .dll/.so/.dylib loaded at runtime into the CDC based app), viii) support for Data Provider plugins in UnstructGridModel (also with in-session data sources), and ix) expanded set of Python automation examples.

The release marks the deprecation of support for WIN32.  (Linux has been x64 only for a long time.)

For details see release notes, features and release notes, bugs.

To download the distribution, go to https://ceetron.wpengine.com/developer-zone-downloads/ (requires login).

We encourage our customers and evaluators to always stay on the latest release of our various software products.  Better for you, better for your customers, better for our support department.

Grim

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