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Sim4Life light V7.0 Release Notes
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Release Date:
02.03.2022


Sim4Life light V7.0 is a student edition of Sim4Life V7.0, 
a specially tailored solution for students to gain insight into 
the world of computational modeling and simulation. The software is 
time-limited but free of charge and can be used to simulate various 
applications applying different physics solvers.  

This document summarizes the features and specifications of this 
release.


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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. Installation Requirements
2. Supported OS
3. Specifications & Features
4. List of Changes Since V6.2 Release
5. List of Main Bugs Fixed Since Last Release
6. Known Issues

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1. Installation Requirements
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- Administrator rights are required during the installation process.
- NVIDIA graphics card, with support for OpenGL versions higher
than v3.0.


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2. Supported OS
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- Windows 10 64 bit
- Windows 11 64 bit


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3. Specifications/Features
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- Sim4Life Framework (GUI, Modeling, Postprocessing, ARES)
- 3D modeling environment (based on the ACIS toolkit) and CAD 
  translators
- Postprocessing and visualization of the simulation results 
  (2D & 3D viewers, 2D planar slice, volume rendering, streamlines, 
  surface fields on arbitrary 3D structures, radiation and far-field 
  data)
- No restrictions on the number of modeling objects
- Simulation of modeling projects up to 20 million grid cells
- Solvers & Tissue Models
  * P-EM-FDTD: Electromagnetics Full Wave Solvers
  * P-EM-LF: full EM finite element method (FEM) low frequency solver
    suite (Electrostatic and Electro quasi-static, Magnetostatic 
    and Magneto quasi-static)
  * MMT: Mode-Matching Technique
  * P-Thermal: Thermodynamic Solver based on Pennes Bioheat 
    equations, for both stationary and transient heat transfers
  * P-Acoustics: Acoustics Solver
  * T-Neuro: Neuronal Tissue Models, allowing neurostimulation 
    investigations based on arbitrary field distributions as 
    electromagnetic sources
- Multi-parameter and multi-goal optimization framework
- Computational anatomical model Yoon-sun, the first Korean phantom 
  of the IT'IS Virtual Population
- Material database
- Python scripting
- Not available in this Light version: 3rd-party Tools, High 
  performance, Cloud computing, Additional ViP models, Functionalized 
  ViP models, Unstructured P-EM-LF

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4. List of Changes Since V6.2 Release
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3.1. Modeling

- New tool to draw splines on the surface of triangle mesh models
- New tool to extract the outer surfaces of CAD models in the 
form of simplified triangulated meshes
- Key-Frame tool to record camera and model visualizations settings 
enabling the use of screen capture software for replay and record

3.2. Simulation

- Integration of SPEAG Material Database V1.1

3.3 Analysis

- New functionality to compress 3D field data for output files of 
FDTD simulations and consume far less disk space
- Total current flux normalization option for low-frequency 
simulations driven by a potential difference 

3.5. Python

- Extended and improved Python API

3.6. Interface

- Further polished UI design for ease-of-use and better 
user-experience 

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4. List of Main Bugs Fixed Since V6.2 Release
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- Case 130689: Fix the entities naming when Merge tool is used
- Case 138514: Fix a UI issue when the Explorer window is resized
- Case 156942: Fix the issue preventing some connections to work 
properly in the Workbench when Sweeper/Optimizer is used
- Case 159924: Adding back the missing Visual Studio Code extension
- Case 160712: Fix of slow waveguide sensor initialization before 
running simulation
- Case 162311: Fix the units issue when Paste-Replace tool is used
- Case 165755: Fix how CPU RAM usage is reported in the simulation 
logs
- Case 165770: Fix the frequency unit and scale read from Touchstone 
files
- Case 165809: Fix the issue preventing to mask results when 
node-value is selected in the Analysis
- Case 166024: Fix in the Excel Exporter for Statistics tables
- Case 166537: Fix in Trim Wire tool to allow snapping to trimmed 
wires if original spline has a transformation
- Case 166782: Fix issues in fields’ naming when ‘Node-Valued’ 
in selected in the Analysis

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5. Known Issues
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- Case 120457: Unable to write to input file in simulations with
waveguide sources