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Dymola version 5.3 released

Dynasim just released version 5.3 of Dymola for Multi-Engineering Modeling and Simulation with many new features and model libraries which makes the use of Dymola even more effective.

The most important news are:

       
 

 

Improved plotting features

  • Titles can be added to the horizontal and vertical axis, in addition to the heading above the diagram. See Plot/Setup/Titles.
  • By default, units are shown either in the axis title or in the legend (if there are multiple units on one axis).
  • The variable description (when enabled) is shown along the axis, if it is the same for all signals.
  • Same increment on horizontal and vertical axes can be specified in Plot/Setup/Range.
  • Axis labels are printed in a more uniform format. Precision is increased when needed to show very small ranges.
  • Base number for relative axis is printed bold and underlined to make this mode easy to recognize, e.g. 0.6953 .
  • Space for vertical axis is increased if needed to fit all labels.
  • Diagram tooltips show units.
  • Logarithmic scaling of plot window axis.

 

 

 

Dynamic tooltips in plot window

  • Resting the cursor over a plotted signal displays a tooltip with information about the closest data point. The data point is also highlighted. If several signals are close to the cursor, data for all of them are shown; if possible a common value for the independent variable is used.
 

 

Improved color support in graphical editor

  • New color selection dialog with a better choice of standard colors.
  • Dymola supports true RGB color  for all graphical objects, offering improved capabilities to design icons. For backward compatibility, color information is stored both in true RGB form and mapped to a color index as in previous versions of Dymola. Note that RGB color is lost if models are edited in an older version of Dymola.
   
     

Modelica Standard Library 2.1 Beta 1

  • Including updated blocks library with simplified connectors.
  • New sublibraries: StateGraph and MultiPhase. See below.
  • Many updates and additions to other sublibraries.

 

 

 

 

New library StateGraph

The new StateGraph library is used to model discrete event and reactive systems in a convenient way. The StateGraph library has a similar modeling power as StateCharts but avoids some deficiences of action languages usually used together with StateCharts.

 

 

New library MultiPhase

This package contains packages for electrical multiphase components, based on Modelica.Electrical.Analog:

  • Basic: basic components (resistor, capacitor, inductor, ...)
  • Ideal: ideal elements (switches, diode, transformer, ...)
  • Sensors: sensors to measure potentials, voltages, and currents
  • Sources: time-dependend and controlled voltage and current sources

 

     

Other new features

  • Support for array of connectors.
  • Extended checking and diagnosis for structural singularities of the model equations and localization of erroneous submodel.
  • Improved Modelica-text window. The formatting of declarations, equations, etc is kept as default.
  • The diagram layer can be displayed in Simulate mode as well. A reduced view menu is shown in Simulate mode.
  • The base font size in Dymola can be changed in Edit/Options. Increasing the size makes the text more readable for presentations, for example.
  • Improved symbolic processing for intialization.
  • The parameter dialog in Export/HTML groups parameters according to tabs and groups and embeds images.
  • Improved handling of hiearchical parameter dialogs.

 

       


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