Major enhancements in the latest HX solver include:          
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| o | User Defined Functions in FORTRAN/C for: |  
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| ▪ | Up to five nodal results |  
 | ▪ | Up to five elemental results |  
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| o | Viscoplastic Friction Model |  
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| o | Improvements to bearing profile friction computations to improve the accuracy of stick/slip behavior |  
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| • | Nose Cone Prediction in steady state analysis |  
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| o | Criminale-Ericksen-Filbey viscoelastic model |  
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Major enhancements in the user interface include:
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| o | Support for layered CAD in the Extrusion Wizard |  
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| o | Automatic mesh size estimation in the Extrusion Wizard |  
 | o | Improve Mesh utility in Extrusion Wizard |  
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| o | Create bearing lines from bearing curve |  
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| o | Material constitutive data for SineHypInv material model from flow stress tables (as function of strain rate and temperature) |  
 | o | Hensel Spittel material model added under constitutive model |  
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| o | Project Browser for Extrusion Wizard |  
 | o | Tool Deflection Analysis  |  
 | o | User Interface for editing Bearing optimization data |  
 | o | User Interface for editing Billet data |  
 | o | User Interface for creating Billet |  
 | o | User Interface for Quick Solid Edit |  
 | o | Redesigned Create/Edit BCs panel |  
 | o | Bearing profile gap thickness computation |  
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| o | Material constitutive model from viscosity tables (as function of strain rate and temperature) |  
 | o | Melt Flow Analysis Wizard |  
 | o | Project Browser for Plate Meshing Wizard, Coextrusion Wizard, Runner Balancing Wizard and Melt Flow Analysis Wizard |  
 | o | Capability to start from an existing mesh in Plate Meshing Wizard, Coextrusion Wizard, and Melt Flow Analysis Wizard.  |  
 | o | Improve Mesh utility for Plate Meshing, Co-extrusion and MeltFlow Wizards |  
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