Release Notes

What’s new?

• Users can now export designs as shell models for Ansys.

• The export functionality for 3D solid‐element FEA models now supports generating portion models based on a user‐defined angle around the rotational axis.

• A direct link to the software’s online video playlist has been added.

Improvements:

• Element quality checks for FEA exports.

• Configurable circumferential mesh size for 3D meshing.

• Faster and more memory‐efficient 3D model export.

• Zero‐volume elements no longer present in exported FEA models.

• Using loaded materials across layers without library registration.

• Streamlined production simulation panel.

• Combined profile location adjustment.

• Flexible decimal input.

Bux fixes

• Corrected tool‐orientation errors from machine‐path filtering

• Improved handling of unsupported DXF entities

• Improved profile visibility in 2D plots.

Improvements

• Support for alternating direction of zero-degree paths on rounded-rectangle mandrels.

• Enhanced TCP (Tool Center Point) correction for CNC machines without a vertical axis.

• Unified appearance of pattern tables.

• Improved visualization after closing a panel.

• Consistent term for payout axes.

Bug fixes

• Accurate identification of start and end points on steep profiles.

• Fixed FEA 3D export error with XY symmetry.

• Fixed trajectory computation error for CNC machines.

• Corrected filtered fiber length at the top of bridging sections.

• Correct geometry display in the machine library.

What’s New?

• Editable build-up profiles across design sessions, giving significantly enhanced flexibility.

• Transition path generation from the previous layer, ensuring continuity in winding paths, saving time and reducing errors.

Improvements:

• Orientation-only movements now supported in smart filtering.

• Enhanced visualization of filtered points.

• Improved smart filtering eliminates closely-spaced points.

• Trajectory settings persist after reset.

• Panel lock during Helical Path with Pattern computation.

Bug Fixes:

• Ensured correct identification of known materials in the loaded project file.

• More accurate final point calculation in path generation.

• Improved stability of mesh generation for axi-symmetric and 3D elements.

• Smoother tool orientation at path start and end.

• Faster filtering of long hoop paths.

• Friction detection fixed on steep profiles.

• Better error handling for initialized parameter values.

What’s New?

• New Zero Degree Panel support for placement on non-axisymmetric rounded-rectangular tubes, enabling zero-degree path generation and placement trajectories on such mandrels.

• Visualization of machine and mandrel movement in production simulation for rounded-rectangular geometries.

• Extended post-processor syntax to support production file generation for user-defined machines.

Improvements:

• Connectivity check now highlights radius and distance between paths.

• Projects previous layer end point onto new profile.

Bug Fixes:

• Base position computation for doily patterns

• Incorrect material consumption for doily patterns in a loaded design

• Corrupt file in one of the libraries (machine/material) no longer prevents startup of the software

• Opening layup table prevented when doily patterns were present in the design

• Added catching of error in trajectory configuration panel for non‐supported envelope type or winding radius

• Profiles could not be uncombined

• Fix for incorrect ply stacking in HyperWorks Shell Export

What’s New?

• New Doily Pattern panel allows users to create a doily pattern type, enabling the repetition of a single path multiple times, equally spaced around the profile circumference.

• New Netting-based analysis options allow quick analysis of pressure vessel performance.

Improvements

• Improved FEA export for concave regions.

• Direct sorting of paths when transition path is connected to an existing path.

• Initialize layer names with an increasing number appended.

• Allow definition of Transversely Orthotropic material model.

• Required parameters updated for the Orthotropic material model.

• Collision detection can now be aborted midway.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed transition path generation bugs.

• No more unexpected design reset when adding process materials to the library.

• Fixed pre‐processing of HyperWorks shell model.

• Fixed updating of reference point after turn‐around zone is enabled.

• Fixed incorrect export of 𝜈31 material parameter to HyperWorks.

What’s New?

• New layup estimator based on netting theory for pressure vessels has been introduced. Allowing users to estimate the required number of helical and hoop layers for a pressure vessel, given the target burst pressure.

• New AllLoops repetition tag has been added to the Post‐Processor. Allows position data for each winding loop to be written separately

Improvements

• Improved workflow to generate machine paths and trajectories

• Faster software start‐up

• Scrolling enabled in panels displayed on screens with low resolution

• Renaming of nodes made easier

• Product node shows 2D layer profiles by default when node is selected

Bug Fixes

• Added indexing check to equation parsing in post‐processor

• Corrected machine orientations for transition paths

• Fixed bug causing profile buildup panel doing nothing

• Other minor bug fixes

What’s New?

• Machine movement in concave mandrel regions can be significantly smoothed using a new path bridging correction technique.

Improvements

• Added buildup void factor warnings to the 2D-axisymmetry and 3D FEA export panels

• Enhanced example machines

• Enhanced transition path functionality

• Reduced opening time for the Motion Profile panel

• Corrected gr unit symbol to g and updated linear density descriptions

Bug Fixes

• Resolved compatibility issue with older TaniqWind Design versions

• Resolved Motion Profiling bug

• Resolved dongle connections issues after sleep mode

• Fixed error in machine path filtering for double points

• Corrected blocking issue with envelope and constant tension machine paths

• Improved handling of motion profile errors

• Enforced positive friction values in the Transition Path panel

• Prevented interruptions during table sorting

• Other minor bug fixes.

What’s New?

• Visualize bridging of a path over concave profile regions.

• Support switch between Metrics and Customary unit systems for design and analysis.

Improvements

• Streamlined product loading when unknown materials exist in the loaded product.

• Path creation option reordered for faster design generation.

• Parameter values of material models required FEA export are required before saving the material.

• Warning displayed for irreversible actions.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a disappearing of payout geometry when changing payout definitions of a machine.

• Editing of machine paths properly blocked when using smart filtering.

• Fixed friction path calculation to avoid creation of long paths.

• Fixed failed product loading if the associated machine contains unlicensed features.

• Fixed irregular behavior of 2D plots when selected after 3D plots.

• Fixed writing in wrong unit of relative yaw/twist coordinates for robotic tool axes.

• Other minor bug fixes.

What's New?

• Support free grouping of layers for bulk operation of assigning materials, and computing machine paths and trajectories.

• Support setting product‐dependent winding speed in post‐processor definition files.

Improvements

• More informative interface for generating a coverage path.

• Enable users to define certain robot geometry parameters as negative or zero.

• Uncombine option removed from context menu when no longer applicable.

• Remove irrelevant settings in the panel for creating a new general layer.

Bug Fixes

• Updating the license from within the software no longer shuts down the software.

• Visualization and computation in Hoop Path panel made more robust.

• Creating a buildup profile from a profile reaching zero radius is now more robust.

• Fixed production computation issues when using a CNC machine with reduced degrees of freedom.

• Fixed error that blocks the creation of an offset profile.

• Editing the filtering condition of a single machine path now works correctly.

• Improve input parsing robustness in panels.

• Ensure correct visualization of payout axis rotation direction.

• Other minor bug fixes.

What's new?

• Updated hoop path panel to support creating multiple hoop passes at once.

• Added context menu option to path node to delete all path nodes in the layer at once.

• Enabled machine path parameters setting and computing for all layers at once.

• Added support for robot to motion profiling.

• Added velocity and acceleration as parameters of the robot TCP position, orientation, mandrel axis and track.

Improvements

• Improved orientation cut‐off when using combination of yaw and twist to minimize shear and/or twist in the material.

• Limited support of certain yaw settings for robotic machines to ensure computational integrity for orientation.

  • Stop supporting using only the yaw axis on the tool.

  • Stop supporting trajectory orientation settings using twist orientation with extra yaw axis.

• Upgraded to MATLAB Runtime version R2024a.

• Added footnote to error dialog box for sharing files.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed axis resolution sign in robot extra axis panel in the machine library.

• Fixed displayed tape width for multiple tapes per bundle in simulation and suspended tape plot.

• Other minor bug fixes.

What's New?

• Plot options that shows shear, twist, twist per meter and tape for trajectories.

• Support for floating software licenses.

Improvements

• Polynomial approximation to path coverage plot.

• Support for triangular elements for shell export.

• Proper error handling to motion profile panel in case orientation out of bounds.

• Removed Export button from toolbar Home tab.

• Project saving process abortable with no TPA created.

• Improved check between existing paths and edited materials when closing material libraries.

• Better functionality to contact Taniq and sending error reports.

• Updated motion profile panel to delay computation of a layer when opening the panel.

• Updated motion profile panel to disable controls for non‐existing axes.

• Updated check for profile validity when loading from file.

• Updated robot reachability check to include track within limits check.

Bug Fixes

• Updated preferences panel to check whether user has write access to set folders.

• Fixed ellipses from .dxf file to be loaded incorrectly in some cases.

• Fixed profile corner rounding to fail for some cases.

• Fixed trajectory filtering showing a duplicate point error in some cases.

• Fixed object reference counter not to be reset when looping through objects with repetition tag.

• Other minor bug fixes.

What's New?

• Option to initialize the material of a new layer material from the previous layer.

• Display winding position, velocity and acceleration of individual CNC axes of the current design.

• Support user geometry for the payout element of the tool for both CNC and Robots.

Improvements

• Consistency and clarity of FEA export panel plots.

• Contact Taniq button added for directly emailing Taniq for support.

• CNC post‐processor example based on a Siemens controller added to CNC_4AxisEye_cnc2To4Axis.tmsd.

Bug Fixes

• Minor bug fixes.

What's New?

• Start winding position is now indicated in 3D plot of the selected path.

• Mandrel is visualized at location defined by axial offset in the machine 3D plot.

• Support winding with multiple units per bundle.

• Buildup profile computation supports user defined polynomial smoothening in the turn‐around zones.

Improvements

• HyperWorks

  • Nominal winding angle of a ply now uses the angle at the reference position of the corresponding path.

  • Correct unit conversion implemented.

  • Improved uniformity of the mesh seed.

  • Added a warning when mesh size is larger than the tape width.

• Abaqus

  • Improved uniformity of the mesh seed.

  • Added a warning when mesh size is larger than the tape width.

• HyperWorks 3D solid export

  • Supports exporting the design using 3D solid elements for Hyperworks.

• Abaqus 2D‐axisymmetric and 3D solids export

  • Supports exporting the design using 2DA and 3D solid elements for Abaqus

Bug Fixes

• HyperWorks

  • Fixed incorrect drape angle and thickness assignment when the winding angle of the ply does not start at 90 deg.

• Abaqus

  • Fixed incorrect drape angle and thickness assignment when the winding angle of the ply does not start at 90 deg when using tow‐tracking.

  • Fixed incorrect drape angle assignment by correctly considering the tape width when using axisymmetric option.

• HyperWorks 3D solid export

  • Fixed a known issue where the meshing process is unstable in concave product sections (e.g. connection between the vessel and the boss).

• Abaqus 2D‐axisymmetric and 3D solids export

  • Fixed a known issue wh the meshing process is unstable in concave product sections (e.g. connection between the vessel and the boss).

• Other minor bug fixes.