Romax Technology has released an update to R17 release of their world-leading software suite, with new capabilities leading to faster and more powerful design, simulation and analysis for electrified and conventional drivelines, within a streamlined and integrated environment.

Software Update for Romax 17.0.0 (Update 13) build 149 - Issued: 29/11/2018

Fixes:
- An issue with the roller bearing truncation calculation has now been fixed.
- Fix for trying to get micro-geometry results for unloaded gear meshes.
- Added extra reporting for mesh misalignments affected by crowning helix modification (ISO 6336:2006).
- Fix for ShaftSupportSCResults object failure message when using Customised Reporting with detailed planet carriers.



About RomaxDesigner R17. RomaxDESIGNER is the CAE product of choice for drivetrain development for passenger cars, electric and hybrid vehicles, trucks, motorsport, motorcycles, off highway, aerospace, marine, bearings and rail.

RomaxDESIGNER enables faster and more accurate simulation and analysis of transmissions and drivelines: Users can simultaneously assess and optimize strength, durability, efficiency and NVH (noise, vibration and harshness) of individual components and the complete system.

With a multitude of new features and enhancements RomaxDESIGNER, R17 provide our customers with new opportunities to optimise electro-mechanical transmission designs, increase accuracy of analyses and performance prediction.

New features include enhanced electro-mechanical design capabilities for total driveline engineering. There are also improved functionalities for advanced driveline analysis in NVH, efficiency, gear and bearing performance and process optimisation.

Electrification - for total driveline engineering
- Electro-mechanical design trade-offs at the concept design stage
- NVH powertrain response to gear and electrical machine excitation
- Multi-fidelity modelling for optimum simulation speed and insight
Pioneering technology - for advanced driveline analysis
- NVH: advanced planetary sideband dynamics
- Gears: detailed root stress analysis
- Efficiency: new FVA 345 calculation methods
- Bearings: journal bearings, and advanced analytical models for roller and roller rib contact
Integration - for process optimisation
- Enhanced batch execution capability for automated design and analysis processes
- Export structural response for acoustic analysis: Transfer housing vibration responses from RomaxDESIGNER into acoustic software packages, for faster prediction of radiated noise

Overview promotional video of the key new features in R17

About Romax Technology Limited. Romax Technology is a global provider of software and services for the design, analysis and simulation of gears, bearings and driveline systems to automotive, off road, heavy vehicle, bearing, aerospace, marine, rail and wind energy. Romax head office is in the University of Nottingham Innovation Park, UK and it operates 12 offices globally.

Product: RomaxDesigner
Version: R17 (Update 13) Build 149
Supported Architectures: 32bit / 64bit
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Language: english
System Requirements: PC *
Supported Operating Systems: *
Size: 1.3 Gb

Before installing your Romax software, you must ensure that your computer meets the following minimum system requirements:

Operating System

RomaxDESIGNER can run either as a pure 32-bit process, or as a mixed 32-bit front-end application, with static analysis and FE analysis run in a separate 64-bit process. The following are the supported Microsoft Windows Supported Operating Systems:*

- Windows 7 (32-bit)***
- Windows 7 (64-bit)**
- Windows 8, Windows 8.1 (32-bit)***,****
- Windows 8, Windows 8.1 (64-bit)**
- Windows 10 (32-bit)***,****
- Windows 10 (64-bit)**

* The Windows operating system requirements follow the Microsoft Windows lifecycle policy which can be viewed at:
** Supported as a 32-bit application runningin the 64-bit OS. Support included for Intel EM64T compatible processors.
*** Not supported if CADFUSIONis installed
**** For full details of which software functionality is supported in a 32-bit architecture please refer to the R17 Release Notes

RAM
Minimum: 4GB RAM for
- Basic models
- Models including small FE components
- NVH Analysis
Recommended: minimum of 8GB RAM for
- Very large models
- Multiple large FE components
- Complex models with large duty cycles
- Complex NVH Analysis
- Models that exceed the process size limit of 32-bit architecture

Please also refer to Section 2.1.1 for details of the required machine configuration for different purposes

Video
- A certified OpenGL workstation graphics card and driver with 256 MB of graphics memory or higher, 32 bits per pixel.

The following commonly used video cards support the above requirements:

Radeon
- ATI Radeon R300, R420, R520, R600, or R700 series.
- Radeon 9x00 cards (9700, 9800, ...) or newer
NVIDIA
- NVIDIA GeForce FX, 6, 7, or 8 series. NVIDIA FX5200s or newer
AMD
- AMD FireGL T2-128 or higher (including the 'Mobility' series for laptops)
Screen Resolution
- Minimum: 1280x 800 pixels (horizontal x vertical)
- Recommended: 1920 x 1080pixels (horizontal x vertical)
CPU
- Minimum: 2GHz x86
- Recommended: 2.5GHz + x64 based processor, 4+ cores
- NVH & Large FEA analysis:
2.5GHz + x64 based processor, 8+ cores
Intel Pentium (8), Intel Xeon (8), and Intel Core
AMD Athlon, AMD Opteron, and AMD Turion
Mouse
- 2 button mouse withscroll wheel