Ansys Product Release
& Updates

The 2025 R1 release of Ansys Structures introduces a suite of new features designed to provide holistic advantages to our customers, categorized by product.

• Powerful enhancements in solver capabilities.
• Comprehensive integration for NVH (Noise, Vibration, and Harshness) applications.
• Advanced tools for material and crack growth analysis.
• Empowers engineers to handle large, demanding models with improved accuracy, efficiency, and reliability across various industries.

• New solvers and methods that accurately describe real-world applications.
• Covers applications from gas flows to adhesives and batteries.

• New features centered around Thermal-Mech life predictions for BGA packages.
• Updates to PySherlock with new APIs.
• Automation of specific workflows.

Ansys Fluids 2025 R1 continues to deliver critical enhancements to meet our customers’ performance and productivity needs.

• FGM combustion model.
• Particle and droplet modeling with the discrete phase model (DPM).
• Surface-to-surface radiation.

• Significant performance improvements.
• New multi-physics integrations.
• Additional optimization options.

Accelerate your time-to-market and drive innovation with new capabilities that boost simulation speed and accuracy while enhancing user experience.

• Enhances meshing accuracy and speed for electric machines.

• Simplifies 3D-IC modeling.

• Faster solver for DC-biased frequency domain analysis tailored for power electronics.

• More flexible and accurate simulations.
• Quicker IC design evaluations.
• Streamlined PI analysis workflows.

• Time and memory predictions that optimize performance.

Ansys Discovery 2025 R1 introduces powerful new features, enhancing the entire design exploration and simulation workflow.

• More efficient with features like detecting sweep meshing feasibility and creating custom beams.

• Accelerate simulations with GPU-based automated meshing and expanded electromagnetic capabilities.

• Investigate more designs in less time and effort with the ability to burst to cloud and solve thousands of simulations in minutes.

Ansys 2025 R1 enhances its digital twin capabilities with hybrid analytics, scaled deployment, and new features for improved flexibility and usability.

• Ansys Unified Installer.
• Scriptable Python interface for Reduced Order Models (ROMs).
• Enhancements to hybrid analytics post-processing.

• Supports SysML v2 snippet export.
• Menu-based help.
• Expanded file export options.
• New examples for PyAEDT and PyTwin to streamline development.

We are excited to announce the integration of Ansys’ advanced simulation technology into Materialise Magics, a strategic partnership poised to transform metal additive manufacturing.

• Enhances product quality.
• Reduces costs.
• Drives innovation by mitigating risks.
• Predicts and addresses part deformation and thermal stress early.

The 2025 R1 release considerably speeds-up almost every semiconductor product, while PowerArtist™ introduces a powerful new methodology for analyzing and fixing glitch power.

• A new software product for parasitic debugging of semiconductor power devices.

• Partnered with eShard™ to expand side-channel security analytics.

• Collaborated with TSMC™ to develop a flow for evaluating thermal manufacturing stresses in 3D-ICs.

Continuing the momentum from our last release, Ansys Embedded Software 2025 R1 release takes the innovations one step further.

• Notable improvements for certified/qualified code generation for DO178C and ISO 26262 safety standards.
• Continues to lead in certification/qualification for automotive and aerospace industries.

• Latest release delivers a complete workflow for testing.
• Introduces PyScadeOne.

2025 R1 brings new UX and UI features across the Ansys Safety Analysis product collection to offer an improved way of working and new levels of efficiency. As safety projects become more complex, our solutions aim to evolve with customers’ needs. Our model-based safety solution enables users to perform FMEAs faster and more effectively with smarter navigation in the tool, allowing them to quickly update the analysis even as their hardware evolves.

• Now offers customer-defined safety KPIs.
• Feeds live-reported Ansys medini data to bridge the gap between safety engineer and manager.

• Make your safety analysis a visible part of the product development process.

Ansys Granta 2025 R1 introduces many new features and enhancements, bringing a unified experience for Ansys Granta MI users across CAD, CAE, and PLM platforms.

• Significant improvements for search functionality.
• Introduction of new material data in the following areas:
  • Polymers.
  • Electromagnetics.
  • Sustainability.
• Helps engineers and designers be more productive without leaving their preferred engineering tools.

Ansys Optics has released its 2025 R1 release, focusing on unified multiphysics analysis, streamlined workflows, and improved user experiences.

• Stress birefringence in STAR.
• Design for manufacturing – mechanical pivot points (MPVT).
• Pervasive Insights – Dark Theme.
• X-Rite AxF support.
• Python-based API.
• Advanced optical lens design for headlamps.
• Multi-GPU performance and meshing enhancements.
• Modern user interface for Lumerical FDTD.

• Improve simulations, accuracy, and collaboration.
• Solidify Ansys Optics as a leader in optical simulation and design.

• The updated software is available on GitHub for easy adoption into simulation pipelines and bespoke GUI development.

Ansys AV simulation for 2025 R1 enhances autonomous systems’ safety, efficiency, and usability.

• Accurate 3D sensor placement.
• IP protection for camera imagers.
• Standardized interconnects for radar sensor interface.

• Enhanced interoperability and connectivity with AVxcelerate Autonomy ensures seamless integration.
• Improved adaptability for better performance and user experience.

• Driving the autonomous industry forward with robust, secure solutions that meet high safety standards.

This release enhances the digital engineering enablers with Materials (Granta) and Simulation (Minerva) data now more readily integrated with CAD, CAE and PLM with an enhanced UX to improve search and export.

• Extended SysML v2 support and model management in the Ansys System Architecture Modeler.
• Deeper integration with Ansys ModelCenter.

• New distributed computing options.
• Advanced algorithms adding flexibility and performance to a customer’s engineering workflow.

Ansys Digital Mission Engineering introduces several notable updates and enhancements for 2025 R1, empowering users to tackle various mission design challenges.

• Enhanced mission design and analysis capabilities.
• Improved RF modeling.
• Deeper systems engineering integration.

• Addressing the growing complexity and scope of development in aerospace and defense systems.