Whats new in Ansys 2024 R1?

 Ansys 2024 R1 focuses on improvements in several key areas, aiming to enhance user experience, streamline workflows, and deliver better simulation accuracy. Here's a breakdown of some key highlights:

* **User Interface:**

    * **New Themes:** Ansys Mechanical now offers dark and light theme options for a more personalized and modern look, aligning with other Ansys products.  

    * **Standalone Ansys Mechanical:** You can now launch Ansys Mechanical directly without needing to go through Ansys Workbench. This improves efficiency, especially for scripting and specific analysis tasks.

* **Meshing:**

    * **Mesh Workflow in Ansys Mechanical:** This new feature streamlines the meshing process, allowing users to define and navigate through each meshing step. It also enables reverting to previous steps if needed. Predefined workflows exist for various scenarios, with customization options available.

* **Specific Solvers:**

    * **Ansys Discovery:** This release focuses on "effortless precision," allowing users to target areas requiring high accuracy while reducing it in less critical regions. This optimizes computational resources and speeds up simulations. ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4nsI5vgt08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4nsI5vgt08))

    * **Ansys Fluent:** The update offers solver performance enhancements and a new Fluent web UI. This web UI allows real-time post-processing results visualization directly through a web browser. ([https://www.ansys.com/products/release-highlights](https://www.ansys.com/products/release-highlights)) 

    * **Ansys Rocky:** This release introduces improvements for Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations, enhanced Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) capabilities, and a new user interface with a dark theme as the default.  ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOKH_6QGeUM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOKH_6QGeUM))

* **Other Areas:**

    * Enhancements were also likely made in Ansys solutions for Electromagnetics, Optics, and other engineering disciplines. 

For a more detailed look at specific features and products, you can refer to Ansys resources like:

    * Ansys 2024 R1 Release Highlights: [https://www.ansys.com/products/release-highlights](https://www.ansys.com/products/release-highlights)

    * Ansys Webinars on What's New in 2024 R1 for specific products (e.g., Ansys Mechanical, Ansys Discovery): [https://www.ansys.com/products/release-highlights](https://www.ansys.com/products/release-highlights)