Release Notes for Coreform Cubit 2025.3

Coreform Cubit 2025.3 is a minor release focused on bug fixes and small enhancements. (Download Coreform Cubit here.)

Released: 15 January 2025

Geometry transform 3-step align

The 3-step align code was refactored to better handle arbitrary geometry. There was a bug when transforming mesh-based geometry. This has been resolved. In addition, an additional command option was added for specifying the 3-Step align by location:

{body |volume |surface |curve |vertex |group }
align using location
collinear location
coplanar location [include_merged]

For more information, see:Geometry Transforms > Align

Supersonic inflow and supersonic outflow CFD boundary conditions

The previous release added new supersonic CFD boundary conditions. This release makes the GUI work correctly with these boundary conditions. This release also resolves issues with the .cub5 save file when saving and restoring old versions using CFD boundary conditions.

Improved plugin usage

Plugins now do a temporary change of directory while running. The change of directories allows plugins to import other files in the plugin install directory.

Simplified DAGMC installation

Due to the plugin usage improvement described above, the DAGMC plugin now only needs to be imported into Cubit from the plugins menu, without needing any additional install steps. This makes it functional on Windows as well as Linux.

Renumber rebar

A new command was added to renumber a rebar block starting with an initial node and initial edge element:

renumber rebar block {block} initial node {initial_node_str} node_start_id {node_start} elem_start_id {elem_start}

For more information, see: Entity IDs

Color boundary layer

A new command has been added to set the global color for boundary layers: Set color boundary_layer
The color can either be a standard color like “white” or “magenta” or an rgb specification using values between 0 and 1 like “rgb 1 1 .1”.

Note: There is currently no GUI implementation of this command.

Wireframe graphics label

Graphics labels in wireframe mode were being displayed at the incorrect location. This has been resolved.

Parallel geometry import

The set parallel geometry import command was changed to be off by default. (Note: The help syntax string for set parallel geometry import is not visible from the command line help.)

Python function get_last_id(‘group’)

The Python get_last_id() function now returns the correct last id if given the group argument.

For more information, see:get_id methods