Range Software package

Range Software package are software for engineering simulations.

The Range software team provides a range of design and analysis software products. Each of these products provides their own range of features and specialties.

With new features and capabilities continuously under development, in each product, Range software will continue to provide its licensees with benefits from the very latest technology.

Products:

Element, Material, Mesh, Heat and Stress
Element's screenshots, Material's screenshots

Motivation:

Our main goal is to provide users such as small and medium business companies with powerful simulation solver tools at affordable prices.

Currently there is a limited range of commercial software available, most of them are very expensive and therefore lots of small companies can not justify the expense.

What is new in this release:

• New features:
• Element - User can customize the toolbar icons and keyboard shortcuts.
• Element - Added 'Clone model' function.
• Element - Draw basic 3D objects (hexahedron, cylinder, cone, sphere).
• Element - Transform (scale, translate, rotate) parts of the geometry.
• Element - Advanced geometry transformation options.
• Heat - Advanced convection boundary condition.
• All - Setup and pos-tprocess monitoring nodes/points.
• + Lots of small improvements and bug-fixes
• Area of use (physical models):
• CFD (Incompressible viscous flow)
• Elasto-statics
• Elasto-dynamics
• Modal analysis
• Steady and transient heat transfer + radiation
• Electro-statics
• Wave equations
• Acoustic pressure problems
• Flow through porous media
• Shape (geometry) optimization

What is new in version 2.2.0:

• New features:
• Modal analysis.
• Binary file format - faster loading.
• New boundary condition for stress analysis (Displacement - normal to the surface).
• Element - Automatic detection which matrix solver is most appropriate for a given problem.
• Multiple entity selection in boundary condition dialog.
• Element - line split function.
• Lots of small improvements and bug-fixes
• Area of use (physical models):
• CFD (Incompressible viscous flow)
• Elasto-statics
• Elasto-dynamics
• Modal analysis - NEW
• Steady and transient heat transfer + radiation
• Electro-statics
• Wave equations
• Acoustic pressure problems
• Flow through porous media
• Shape (geometry) optimization
• iRaCS - Online computing:
• Users are able to solve all problems ON-LINE and for FREE!
• IronCAD integration:
• IronCAD users can use Range FEA plugin for IronCAD to automatically export their models to Element.
• Windows installer contains 32bit and 64bit plugin.

What is new in version 2.1:

• New features:
• CFD solver (Incompressible viscous flow) - Fluid
• CFD heat-transfer model + wall/fluid heat exchange
• CFD contaminant dispersion model
• Temperature dependent material properties
• Unit conversion of imported models (m, mm, cm, in, ft, yd)
• New boundary conditions for stress analysis (Traction force [N], weight [kg])
• Gmsh mesh file import/export
• ISO surfaces
• 64bit IronCAD add-in
• + Lots of small improvements and bug-fixes
• Area of use (physical models):
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) - NEW
• Elasto-statics
• Elasto-dynamics
• Steady and transient heat transfer + radiation
• Electro-statics
• Wave equations
• Acoustic pressure problems
• Flow through porous media
• Shape (geometry) optimization
• iRaCS - Online computing:
• Users are now able to solve all problems ON-LINE and for FREE!

What is new in version 2.0:

• Area of use (physical models):
• Elasto-statics
• Elasto-dynamics - NEW
• Steady and transient heat transfer + radiation
• Electro-statics
• Wave equations - NEW
• Acoustic pressure problems - NEW
• Flow through porous media
• Shape (geometry) optimization
• iRaCS - Online computing:
• Users are now able to solve all problems ON-LINE and for FREE!
• Gift from Range Software:
• All registered users have received two free gift certificates which can be converted to a valid license for any module.
• Also all new users which will register until end of September will receive two gift certificates.

What is new in version 1.9:

• NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS:
• Element:
• View icon-bar - View related actions were grouped into one tool-bar for better accessibility
• Auto-repair - New mesh repair functions.
• Archive project - Archive all project files into one compressed file.
• New directory structure - All user files and directories are now in one user directory "[User home]range-software".
• Auto Screen-Shot - In "record selector" dialog user can activate "Auto Screen-Shot" check box and every time new record is loaded screen-shot will be taken automatically.
• Material:
• New directory structure - Material database has been moved to "[User home]range-softwarematerials".
• Current - Electro-Static solver:
• Fixed extremely high Joule's heat.
• OTHER:
• lots of minor bugs were fixed.