OOF Newsletter #14 (February 2006)

Dear Colleagues:

OOF2 version 2.0 beta 7 is now available for download at 

   http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/oof/oof2.html

Beta 7 incorporates a lot of new features and bug fixes.  Notable new
features include:

 * Skeletons and Meshes can now be saved in Abaqus format.

 * Images can be saved as PDF files. Postscript output is no longer
   supported.

 * A test suite is provided.

 * The manual describes how to create and use your own OOF2 material
   properties.  Examples are provided.

 * The OOF2 compilation process has been changed so that extensions
   can be built without modifying the OOF2 code.  The only way to
   build OOF2 now is to use the setup.py script -- the old "configure
   and make" scheme is no longer available.

For more information, see the change log at
   
   http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/oof/oof2changes.html

If you're upgrading to beta 7 from an earlier version of OOF2, you can
delete the oofcppcmodule.so library that was installed by the earlier
version.  It's not used in beta 7, and won't be overwritten or erased
when beta 7 is installed.

Please let us know if you have any difficulties installing or using
OOF2 by sending e-mail to oof_bugs@lurch.nist.gov.  This version is a
candidate for the final 2.0 release.

Thank you,
   The OOF team 
        Steve Langer
        Andrew Reid
        Seung-Ill Haan
        Edwin Garcia
        Rhonald Lua