| Section 4.1 | Enhancements to orientations for material orientations and composite layups |
| Section 4.2 | Enhancements to distributions |
| Section 4.3 | Selection of individual faces for repair of face normals |
| Section 4.4 | Geometry repair for shells and solid parts that contain multiple cells |
| Section 4.5 | Improvements to repair of small edges and small faces |
| Section 4.6 | Ability to select attachment points for additional modeling tasks |
| Section 4.7 | Automatic validity check after geometry repair |
| Section 4.8 | Querying mass properties for beams and trusses |
| Section 4.9 | Stitching gaps in non-manifold parts |
| Section 4.10 | Enhancements to the extended finite element method to model fracture mechanics |
| Section 4.11 | Enhancements to the Datum toolset |
| Section 5.1 | Streamlined part and assembly import from Elysium Neutral files |
| Section 5.2 | Model import from ANSYS input files |
| Section 5.3 | Running CAD software in the background after changes to CAD parameters |
| Section 5.4 | Automatic geometry repair during part import |
| Section 5.5 | Importing models from stereolithography files into Abaqus/CAE |
| Section 6.1 | Iterative equation solver |
| Section 6.4 | Dissimilar mesh support for Abaqus/Standard to Abaqus/Explicit co-simulation |
| Section 6.10 | Direct cyclic analysis in Abaqus/CAE |
| Section 7.1 | Mohr-Coulomb plasticity in Abaqus/Explicit |
| Section 7.2 | Critical state (clay) plasticity model in Abaqus/Explicit |
| Section 7.3 | Cast iron plasticity in Abaqus/Explicit |
| Section 8.1 | Support for cylindrical elements in Abaqus/CAE |
| Section 9.1 | Eulerian mesh motion in Abaqus/Explicit |
| Section 9.2 | Eulerian boundary conditions in Abaqus/CAE |
| Section 10.1 | Support for Eulerian surfaces in Abaqus/CAE |
| Section 10.5 | Support for element and contact pair removal and reactivation in Abaqus/CAE |
| Section 10.7 | Improved connector performance in Abaqus/CAE |
| Section 11.1 | Mapped meshing performance |
| Section 11.2 | Mesh verification, queries, and saved sets |
| Section 12.1 | Visualization of shell thickness |
| Section 12.2 | Element nodal forces in beam section orientations |
| Section 12.3 | PSD and RMS Mises stress contour and history plots from random response analysis |
| Section 14.1 | Scripting command changes |