Uniform temperatures and field variables

You can now more easily define uniform temperatures and field variables as initial conditions and prescribed fields on nodes, node sets, and the whole model as required. The main advantage of this new functionality is for models with shell and beam elements. To define uniform temperature and field variables in prior releases, you were required to manually specify the value for every temperature or field point on the shell or beam section attached to each node. With the new functionality, you only need to specify the uniform value once. In addition, you can omit the node number or node set to apply the specified uniform temperature or field variable to all nodes in the model automatically.