## Status
Feature & Release Plan
Completed | In Progress | Planned | Cancelled
PreProcessor
| 3D Software or OpenGL accelerated graphics
| Geometric NURBS based modelling
| Delaunay and Structured meshing
| Nastran and Gmsh file format import
Solver
| Rod and Spring elements with damping
| Triangular and Quad Shell elements with thinning
| Tetra, Wedge and Brick solid isoparametric elements.
| Surface and Line contact elements with friction
| Elastic and Elastoplastic elements with strain rate capacity
| Trackers which mesures & prints element and nodal data
| Local coordinate systems with dynamic update capability
| Automatic time step control with optional override
| Rigid Body constraints
| Interface to GiD pre/postprocessor
| Supports Cluster and Multiple Cores / Processors
Optimizer
| Topology optimization through model parametrization
| Topology optimization through material removal
Post Processor
| 3D Software or OpenGL accelerated graphics
| Export to one or multiple .PNG pictures
Grapher
| Plot Element, Node and Tracker data
| Curve Addition, Subtraction and Multiplication
| Scale variability
Version 0.7: Stability & Performance
| Improved Matrix Assign methods to eliminate object creation
| Curve from point to point and tangent to a line
| Break a curve into two using a point
| Points created at equal spacing on a curve
| Curve created from two intersecting surfaces
| Join two connected curves into one
| 300% speed increase in hexahedron elements
| 30% speed increase in Triangular C0_3 shell element
| 30% speed increase in Quadilateral BT_4 shell element
| 30% speed increase of contact algorithm
| 70% reduction of memory usage (target: 1 kB / element)
| Improved shell quad element which passes twisted beam test
| Contact elements visible
| Beam_Spring element in pre-processor
| Interface with Salome Pre/Postprocessor
| Preloading pre/post through command line
| Hourglass control of one IP hexahedron element
| Implement contact line element OFF contact option
| Updated Programmers & Users manual
| Debugging to complete version 0.8
Version 0.8: Final Beta
| Validation of Solid_Iso_6 element
| Increased robustness in parsing indata files
| Improved error handling incl. check for non-physical effects
| Complete library of test files including accuracy test
| Improve pre-processor parser robustness (spaces etc)
| Contact sensitivity on Beam element
| Push rod spring element with integrated damper
| Filters for Grapher
| Postprocessor refresh button
| Translate and run 31.5 mph Neon car crash (TopCrunch)
| Update GID configuration for Fembic export
| Updated Programmers & Users manual
| Debugging to complete version 0.9
Version 0.9: Documentation
| Beam element
| Complete Preprocessor manual
| Complete Solver manual
| Complete Postprocessor manual
| Complete Grapher manual
| Modelling tutorial
| Solution example tutorial
| Updated Programmers & Users manual
| Debugging to complete version 1.0
Version 1.0: First stable release
| Translator of Dyna k-files -> Fembic
| Radioss -> .in translator
| Coon patch which is tangent to a line at the boundary
| ### NEWS New version Impact-0.7.06.016 released. In this release it is added new Post Processor with support Java3D Version Impact-0.7.06.012. 1. Solver speed increased by 5% .. 10% 2. Includes all libraries to run the cluster. 3. Added bash scripts to run the cluster. 4. Automatic preservation and possibility of continuation of calculation from an interruption point is added. 5. The documentation is updated. 6. Step changing at model restart if there was an error at calculation. 7. Automatic definition of release of new versions. 8. In block Controls the command is added allows to create points of restoration of calculation of model.