This is especially helpful when grids are adaptive or irregular. Vectors can be distributed evenly, making the flow easier to understand. And it will query the neighboring volume data for velocities before drawing the surface restricted streamtraces. Tecplot 360 2020 R1 will auto-detect a no-slip surface (a surface with zero velocities). Understanding surface flow is now much easier. Rendering speed when using software-rendering saw a 2.3x speedup due to a newer version of the Mesa software rendering library.
A 4.6x speedup was seen in hardware-rendering tests. Linux users exporting images in batch mode can take advantage of hardware-accelerated graphics, yielding faster image export. Mac users will be especially happy about this! The software has been updated to the Qt 5 GUI (graphical user interface) toolkit, which has support for retina displays and 4K monitors. Tecplot 360 2020 R1 natively supports high-resolution monitors. Even Vector Spacing in Tecplot 360 2020 R1.