Release Notes - November 18, 2024

Here's what's new in our latest update:

New Workflow-Based UI

We're excited to release our new workflow-based user interface. The interface has been restructured into logical stages, with visual cues to guide you towards completing necessary tasks before running simulations.

Read our introduction to the new interface here.

Note: Due to the magnitude of changes, you may experience some issues when first interacting with the app. If so, please refresh your browser by holding Shift and clicking the refresh icon. This will load the latest version of Luminary to your browser.

Tags for Geometry Management

Tags are Luminary's new mechanism for organizing and referencing geometric entities within the platform, replacing the previous grouping mechanism.

Tags are a useful enhancement for workflows that involve geometry modifications, saving/reloading settings, or referencing entities across different projects.

Read our guide for working with Tags here.

Other Enhancements

• We've implemented an interactive interface for creating and placing a sphere or cylinder. You can now simply drag the arrows to resize or move these shapes.
• Nodal gradient is now the default spatial discretization scheme for tetrahedral meshes, improving solver robustness with no loss in accuracy.
• Added an icon to the toolbar to allow you to show/hide the origin
• Updated default farfield size to be 20 times the bounding box of the model
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Fixed Issues

• Previously, certain stopping conditions could result in an unexpectedly expensive simulation. A warning will now be provided to notify you if your stopping conditions fit this criteria. Read more about this error in our Known Issues page here.
• Disable "Generate Mesh" button when no walls are defined
• The color bar would sometimes crash when trying to use the slider when the minimum value is equal to the maximum value
• In some cases, non-commercial Solidworks and Creo files would not import
• For some large projects, the visualizer would crash unexpectedly