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3 Dymola 2015
3.1 Introduction
3.1.1 Additions and improvements in Dymola
A number of improvements and additions have been implemented in Dymola 2015. In
particular, Dymola 2015 provides:
• Extended FMI support:
o Support of FMI 2.0 Release Candidate 1 (page 25).
o All Dymola solvers supported for FMU Co-Simulation export for FMI 1.0
on Windows (page 25).
o Improved handling of external resources for FMU export on Windows
(page 26)
o String parameters are supported (page 28).
o Online tunable parameters supported for FMI 2.0 RC1 (page 30).
o Structured declaration of variables supported for FMI 2.0 RC1 (page 30).
o Improved import of FMUs with many inputs/outputs (page 31).
• New interfaces to Dymola on Windows:
o Java (page 24)
o Python (page 24)
• Model creation by copying, using the Split Model command, is now supported (page
10).
• Simplified zooming in the diagram layer (page 11).
• Extended plot support:
o User-defined time units (page 16).
o Headers defined as text objects (font etc. can be changed) (page 16).
• New compiler on Windows: GCC (limited support) (page 21).
• Improved declaration of variables (page 8).
• Improved handling of tables (page 13).
• Improved robustness of license borrowing for Windows: FLEXnet license server
upgraded (page 21).
• Selected commands (built-in functions) available as a library (page 8).
• Print preview available (page 13).
• Extended encryption of libraries to faster find the correct version of the libraries (page
22).
• On-demand loading of models and packages (Limited Availability) (page 14).