The following lists provide a history of changes to AFPoly.
New Features/Enhancements
- None for this release.
Bug Fixes
- Made minor documentation and bug fixes.
- Edited command help files.
New Features/Enhancements
- Removed ATA Discussion Board from Help menu.
- Added Autonomous Pole Selection dialog.
- Added auto select poles tool.
Bug Fixes
- Made minor documentation and bug fixes.
- Edited command help files.
New Features/Enhancements
- None for this release.
Bug Fixes
- Made minor documentation and bug fixes.
- Edited command help files.
New Features/Enhancements
- FRFs set to have positive references direction.
- Preference for adding auto-selected poles to the pole list.
Bug Fixes
- Made minor documentation and bug fixes.
- Edited command help files.
New Features/Enhancements
- None for this release.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Matlab version compatibility issue.
New Features/Enhancements
- Link to the user guide from certain warning dialogs.
Bug Fixes
- Made minor documentation and bug fixes.
- Edited command help files.
New Features/Enhancements
- Reorganized preferences dialog into two columns.
Bug Fixes
- Made minor documentation and bug fixes.
- Edited command help files.
New Features/Enhancements
- Implementation of a new MEX/DLL external solver for the AFPoly algorithm. Each model order is assigned to its own thread and the DLL coordinates scheduling of the hardware threads to load each thread for optimal performance.
- Added the capability to exclude frequency ranges from the poles and residues processing.
- Added tool to exclude individual frequencies.
- Added tool to list exclude frequency ranges.
Bug Fixes
- Made minor documentation and bug fixes.
- Edited command help files.
New Features/Enhancements
- The external solver has been discontinued.
- Implemented a renovated and improved orthogonal polynomial modal parameter estimation algorithm.
- Reworked implementations of residue estimation algorithms and FRF synthesis.
- The modal participation factors are normalized to real vectors according to Ref. [6].
- A plotted line can be highlighted by selecting its corresponding line in the plot legend with the middle mouse button.
- Uneven frequency spacing is allowed.
- The references can be sieved by coordinate trace.
- Added 'enabled?' module and 'startok?' commands.
- Modified 'imat.ctrace?' command to return the coordinate trace names and to query for a coordinate trace by its name.
Bug Fixes
- Made minor documentation and bug fixes.
- Edited command help files.
Bug Fixes
- Added sortind.m and sortind.p, missing from the v4.5.0 release.
- Fixed bug so that shapes correctly inherit the ordinate numerator datatype from the FRF response.
New Features/Enhancements
- A plotted line and its associated entry in the plot legend can be highlighted by selecting the line with the middle mouse button.
- Added tools to clear the test display model, test-analysis model, and FEM shapes from the application.
Bug Fixes
- Made minor documentation and bug fixes.
- Edited command help files.
New Features/Enhancements
- Added tool on the Model menu to send the test display model to an IMAT FEM plot or a VTK plot.
- Added 'tdmplot' command to send the test display model to an IMAT FEM plot or a VTK plot.
- Added optional input argument to the 'reusers' command to specify the folder in which the User Tools are located.
Bug Fixes
- Made minor documentation and bug fixes.
- Edited command help files.
New Features/Enhancements
- Added single axes (modulus, phase, real, and imaginary) complex plot formats.
- When sending functions to a newly started spVIEW, coordinate traces are also sent.
- Added automatic registration of the external solver.
Bug Fixes
- Made minor documentation and bug fixes.
- Edited command help files.
- Implemented TIER report 1128.
- Fixed TIER report 1159.
New Features/Enhancements
- Added an input dialog to find and plot channels.
- Added two more window options to the Display menu and the axes context menus.
- Added SDOFit™ “single” degree of freedom parameter estimation tool.
- Added autonomous pole selection.
- Added tool to send mode indicator functions to spVIEW MIFs module.
- Added tool to send synthesized mode indicator functions to spVIEW MIFs module.
- Added tool to send synthesized frequency response functions to spVIEW MIFs module.
- Added several more animation preferences, including background color, axes view, and colored elements based on shape magnitude.
- Modified the 'polydata?' command to support SDOFit and autonomous pole selection.
Bug Fixes
- Made minor documentation and bug fixes.
- Edited command help files.
New Features/Enhancements
- Added tools to list shapes information and to verify real shapes scaled to unity modal mass.
- Added sieving by coordinate trace from the Responses listbox context menu.
- Added menu selection for clear all coordinate traces.
- Added a selection on the Responses dialog to filter on all table rows.
- Real shapes will always be written as real, even if to do so the modal mass must be negative.
- Added the 'setPolyrefFun'and 'setResidueFun' commands.
Bug Fixes
- Made minor documentation and bug fixes.
- Edited command help files.
New Features/Enhancements
- Added warning when one or more mode shape cannot be scaled for unity modal mass or modal A because there is not a driving point response with which to scale the mode shape.
- Changed filename extension for the CSV info file.
- Replaced deprecated fem structure with new imat_fem class.
- Modified send to IMAT plot tools to be compatible with the new imat_fnplot class.
Bug Fixes
- Made minor documentation and bug fixes.
- Fixed backwards compatibility for loading progress.
- Edited command help files.
- Modified the 'dialog' command.
New Features/Enhancements
- Added option for fixed or auto scaled Y-Limits for plotting FRFs in Verify module.
- Added selection of default axes panning option to Preferences dialog.
- Added Pick Poles selection to the Poles module axes context menu.
- Renamed 'normal' shapes to 'real' shapes.
- Added a warning if shapes are to be written that can not be scaled for unity modal mass or unity modal A.
- Replaced Forums/FAQ website on the Help menu with ATA Discussion Board website.
- Added help comments in the tool functions.
Bug Fixes
- Made minor documentation and bug fixes.
- Fixed compatibility with Linux operating system.
- Corrected shapes scaling for unity modal mass.
- Edited command help files.
New Features/Enhancements
- Replaced deprecated ideas_fn with new imat_fn class.
- Replaced deprecated ideas_filt with new imat_filt class.
- Replaced deprecated ideas_ctrace with new imat_ctrace class.
- Replaced deprecated ideas_shp with new imat_shp class.
- Added a context menu on the Freq Range edit boxes to set the full frequency range.
- Added the TIER, IMAT, and Forums/FAQ websites to the Help menu.
- Changed the Preferences menu selection on the x-cursors to Make Default.
- Implemented use of the external .NET solver.
- Added axes panning to the Setup, Shapes, and Verify modules.
- Added the Write Shapes Info Structure to CSV File tool in the Verify module.
- Added the following commands: 'lasterror?', 'lastwarning?', and 'lastnotice?'.
- Modified the following commands: 'display', 'doc', and 'haxes?'.
Bug Fixes
- Made minor documentation and bug fixes.
- Fixed bug that would not allow the GUI to be created if the screen resolution was too small.
- Corrected the format of some of the shapes CSV info file and structure contents.
- Corrected axes panning behavior.
- Fixed TIER reports 741 and 759.
New Features/Enhancements
- Initial release of new GUI, replacing previous uiafpoly interface.