============================================================ Updates to Volume I between March 12, 2026 and June 12, 2026 ============================================================ We describe in the following how Volume I of the DRAFT User's Manual has changed since the last DRAFT manual. We categorize the changes into New and Error Fixes and Clarifications. We exclude typo fixes and prosaic rearrangements from this document. New === *ALE_STRUCTURED_MULTI-MATERIAL_GROUP: Added keyword options 1DAXISYM, 1DUNIAXE, and 1DSPHERE. *BOUNDARY_SPH_HEAT_CONVECTION: New keyword. *BOUNDARY_SPH_TRACK_SURFACE: New keyword. *CONTACT_...: Added to the note under Allowed values for OPTION2 in the in Options for *CONTACT keyword section that THERMAL and THERMAL_FRICTION are available for AUTOMATIC_SINGLE_SURFACE. Modified the first sentence of Remark 1 under the THERMAL section to include AUTOMATIC_SINGLE_SURFACE. *CONTROL_ADAPTIVE: Added ADPMIC and ADPTGEN to Card 2b. *CONTROL_CONSTRAINED: Added SKPCNRB. *CONTROL_FORMING_DRAWBEAD_TRANSITION: New keyword. *CONTROL_FORMING_ONESTEP: Added description for IDRAW > 0 on Card 1b. Added PADID to Card 1b. *CONTROL_IMPLICIT_DYNAMICS: Added 187L to Remark 4. *COSIM_FMI_INTERFACE: Added FIELD TMPT to the table in Remark 4. *COSIM_SYC_CONTROL: New keyword. *COSIM_SYC_INTERFACE: New keyword. *DATABASE_D3MAX: Added NFAIL. *DATABASE_ENVELOPE_BEAM: New keyword. *DATABASE_FATIGUE_RAINFLOW_MATRIX: New keyword. *DEFINE_BIRTH: New keyword. *DEFINE_SPG_TO_SPG_COUPLING: New keyword. *FATIGUE_{OPTION}: Added the D3PART and STATIC keyword options. Added that Cards 1 and 2 are included for the STATIC keyword option. Renamed Card 3a to Card 4. Added to FILENAME on Card 4 how it is used for the STATIC keyword option and also put that the card is included for the STATIC option, regardless of the choice of RESTRT. Added Card 5. Modified INDEX = 1 to indicate absolute. Added INDEX = 3, -1, -2, -3, -4, -5, and -6. Added Remarks 1, 4, and 6. Modified Remark 5 to included D3PART and STATIC. Modified the first sentence of Remark 7 and added second paragraph to this remark. *FREQUENCY_DOMAIN_ACOUSTIC_BEM: Removed IPFILE = 10, 11, 20, 21, 31, and 41. Removed METHOD = 211 and 311 as they have been integrated into METHOD = 2 and 3, respectively. Added to descriptions of RSTRT = -3 and -30 that they are supported for METHOD = 0. Added to description for RC which values of METHOD it is supported for. Note that it was always supported for METHOD = 2. Removed (previous) Remarks 7 and 8. Added variational indirect method to Remark 17. *FREQUENCY_DOMAIN_ACOUSTIC_DIRECTIVITY: Added to AC_intensity_directivity_n to the first sentence of Remark 2. Added fourth sentence to Remark 2. *FREQUENCY_DOMAIN_SSD: Added VAD = 15 to Card 7. Added Card 7.1. *INCLUDE_STAMPED_PART_SOLID_TO_SOLID: Added SET_LIST keyword option. Added third paragraph in the purpose. Added Cards 4, 5, and 6. Added sentence to PID on Card 1 about this field being option for the SET_LIST keyword option. *INTERFACE_COMPENSATION_3D: Added Card 1a.3 and Remark 17. *INTERFACE_COMPENSATION_TRIMMING_CURVE: New keyword. *ISPG_TO_ISPG_CONTACT: New keyword. *ISPG_TRANS_CPL: New keyword. *LOAD_BEAM_OPTION: Added to the purpose about using this keyword for discrete elements. Added Remark 2. *LOAD_EXTERNAL_VARIABLE: Added second to last sentence to the purpose. Added NEMP to Card 1. Added Card 4. Renamed Cards 4 and 4.1 to Cards 5 and 5.1. Added Remark 7. *LOAD_HEAT_LASER_ABSORPTION: New keyword. *LOAD_MASK: Added Remark 1. *PART_MOVE: Added N2N keyword option which includes Card 1b. *RVE_ANALYSIS_FEM: Added BC = 3. *SENSOR_DEFINE_ELEMENT: Added CTYPE = AREA. *SET_NODE: Added fifth sentence to SALECPT description. *SET_SEGMENT: Added fifth sentence to SALECPT description. *SET_SEGMENT_N8: New keyword. *SET_SHELL: Added fifth sentence to SALECPT description. *SET_SOLID: Added fifth sentence to SALECPT description. *TERMINATION_FATIGUE: New keyword. Appendix Z: New appendix. Error Fixes and Clarifications ============================== *ALE_STRUCTURED_MESH_MOTION: Made the description of COVER_LAG in the card summary section clearer. *BOUNDARY_PRESCRIBED_MOTION: Added clarifications descriptions of DOF = -4 and -8 that the rigid body case is only for explicit analysis. Added in explicit analysis to the first sentence of Remark 7. Added last two sentences to the first paragraph of Remark 7. *CONSTRAINED_NODAL_RIGID_BODY: Fixed last sentence of second paragraph in Remark 4. Added clarification to the first sentece of the third paragraph in Remark 4. Added last sentence to item a of Remark 4. *CONTACT_...: Added last sentence to the description of OPTION = 6 on Card: AUTOMATIC_..._TIEBREAK. Added clarification to the first sentence of subsection When segment-to-segment contact is available in the section About SOFT = 2 following optional Card A. *CONTACT_FORCE_TRANSDUCER: One field on optional Card C applies to this keyword. *CONTROL_IMPLICIT_AUTO: Added warning about default values. *CONTROL_IMPLICIT_DYNAMICS: Added warning about default values. *CONTROL_IMPLICIT_FORMING: Added warning message about default values. *CONTROL_IMPLICIT_GENERAL: Added warning message about default values. *CONTROL_IMPLICIT_SOLUTION: Added warning message about default values. *CONTROL_IMPLICIT_SOLVER: Added warning message about default values. *CONTROL_IMPLICIT_STABILIZATION: Added warning message about default values. *DATABASE_BINARY_OPTION: Fixed type for CYCL ion Card 1 and added last sentence to the description of CYCL. *ELEMENT_SEATBELT_PRETENSIONER: Fixed typos in the descriptions for LMTFRC and LMTPIN. Both should have said pretensioner instead of retractor. *RVE_ANALYSIS_FEM: Added to description of IMATCH that it is available for BC = 2. Added Remark 2c. *SECTION_BEAM: Fixed descriptions of SAS and SAT on Card 2c. APPENDIX P: Changed SAST to PENMAX in the bullet points under Checklist.