6SigmaET Release 16 offers many important innovations to use an engineer’s working time efficiently and not to block it by long waiting times during modelling or solving.

For this reason, the incredible performance of nVidia graphics cards and their GPUs has been integrated more and more into 6SigmaET. This has made the user interface for modelling simulation projects much faster. This enables a completely new kind of data processing, which has long since arrived in the 3D gaming world thanks to current, high-performance graphics cards. The modelling process, calculation process and evaluation process have been accelerated many times over through the use of the GPU.

The following overview of the highlights from Release 16 should give you a first impression of how 6SigmaET has developed in one year alone:

• The user interface is now accelerated directly by the GPU for the most part
  • Construction window reacts many times faster during modelling
  • Graphic representation of the models look very realistic
  • Calculated surface temperatures are projected onto the model faster
  • Smart, advanced editing options for colour legends
• In addition to the heat radiation calculation (also 2.75x faster), the potential calculation for Joule heat sources such as energised PCBs or copper rails is now also outsourced to the GPU (up to 325x faster!).
• Extended script programming via 6SigmaCommander now available for free for all 6SigmaET users! Thus, the solver as well as the model evaluation can be controlled via external access
• Automated report function has been greatly expanded to shorten the time engineers have to manually create results reports. This means that results from several model versions can be exported simultaneously at the push of a button.
• 1D flow network can now be coupled with the 3D solver. In cooling systems, for example, the pressure ratios of the supply and discharge lines are also included in the CFD model in a fast, elegant way.
• Extended menu options when importing PCBs via ODB++ or IPC2581 to filter details per signal layer already during import.
• Accelerated calculation of a solar radiation via a new back-tracing method (up to 30 times faster)