General Updates

•	Improved stress calculation for 2nd order shell elements. PARAM,CURVSHL2,YES will activate this calculation.

•	New threshold option (PTHRESH) has been added. This new option takes PTHRESH*maximum response value as threshold. This is available for ESE, STRESS and THERMAL output request.

•	Threshold option (TOP, RTOP, RTHRESH, and PTHRESH) has been added to Normal mode analysis and Modal Frequency Response/Modal Transient Analysis with MODAL output option.

•	Corner Strain is now available for Modal Frequency Response/Modal Transient Analysis with MODAL output option.

•	Restart functionality added for Zooming (global-local). The results from global subcase can be saved and retrieved for local subcase job.

•	Fatigue Analysis can be included in Zooming (global-local) setup.

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Globalization of any ID group i.e. GRIDs will be available for Parts and Instance feature. With new I/O options entry IDGLOBAL is added. This card allows to disable treating specific group of cards as part-localized. For example, IDGLOBAL,GRID will treat all GRIDS as existing in a global part, and they can be referenced on other cards only by numeric ID, instead of qualified ID.