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What's New in MapleSim


MapleSim is updated several times a year, as we continually improve the product and respond to customer requests, to make new features available as soon as possible. On this page, you will find details about the latest enhancements and product developments in MapleSim that make it easier and faster to create models and run your simulations.


Getting the Update
The first major MapleSim release of the year is automatically sent to all MapleSim customers who are members of the Maplesoft Elite Maintenance Plan at that time. You will receive an email with instructions once the release is available. Subsequent updates throughout the rest of the year are issued through the Check for Updates mechanism built into MapleSim. Update releases can also be found by visiting Download Product Updates.
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MapleSim 2026

MapleSim 2026 offers a series of enhancements to save you time and effort when building, analyzing, and sharing your simulations.

This release includes a streamlined modeling interface, expanded FMI connectivity, new components and capabilities in the Web Handling Library, and a single installer that brings MapleSim, its toolboxes, and the Maple engine together.

Streamlined Interface: Context-Sensitive Hover Bars and Consolidated Menus

  • The interface has been streamlined to give more of the main window to the model diagram and to place commands closer to where you are working.
  • Context-sensitive hover bars appear next to the current selection and display the commands most frequently used. Commands can be run directly in the diagram, without moving the cursor to a menu or toolbar elsewhere on the screen.
  • The menu has been consolidated, with related commands grouped together in fewer locations.

New Split Pane: Live Component Details and Results
  • The main window now includes a split pane that can be arranged horizontally, vertically, or as a separate window. Its live views update as each component is selected in the diagram.
  • Live views show the selected component’s help page, its Modelica code, or plots of any of its variable in the time or frequency domain.

Stronger Connectivity: Expanded FMI Support and the Latest CAD Formats
  • FMI import and export now support string and discrete parameters, inputs and outputs. These updates are built on improvements to the underlying math engine, which makes simulations more consistent and robust.
  • The MapleSim CAD Toolbox now supports the latest file formats from Catia® V5, SOLIDWORKS®, Creo®, NX™, Inventor®, Solid Edge®, Parasolid®, and other CAD tools.
Powered by Maple: AI Assistance, Faster Math, and More
  • This release works with the latest Maple interface, including ribbons, AI assistant, and faster performance, all available as part of the latest Maple release.
Simplified Installation: One Installer for Everything
  • MapleSim, all MapleSim toolboxes, and the Maple engine are now included in a single installer, providing everything needed to get started in one installation.
Updates to MapleSim Apps
  • The Optimization app now displays live system plots while the optimization runs, along with a time history of the objective function – giving you insight to how the system is changing as optimization is progressing.
  • The Directional Control Valve app has been extended to create pneumatic valves as well as hydraulic valves.
  • The in-product apps have been refreshed with a more vertically compact layout that works better alongside the split pane.

Available to: MapleSim customers who are enrolled in the Maplesoft Elite Maintenance Plan at the time of its release. (Customers who were not under EMP at that time can contact Maplesoft sales to obtain an upgrade.)
Updates to the MapleSim Web Handling Library
  • Web Handling Model Creation App - builds a complete web line model automatically from a tabulated data file. The app validates the data, calculates wrap angles, span lengths, and roller mass and inertia, and generates the MapleSim model faster – ready for drives, dancers, and control loops to be added.
  • New components – the library now supports noncircular winding and unwinding, delamination of one web into two, web-on-web friction, and tendency drives. Additional components include a Node Friction component and enhanced position and speed sensors.
    • Coating machine with a delamination of the liner layer before the web converting and a lamination of a new liner layer after the converting.


  • Library improvements – the library includes several updates that make it easier to use and deliver more accurate results:
    • a reorganized Rollers sub-palette, now grouped into Rollers, Nip Rollers, Multi-Web, and Parameters, makes the right component easier to find.
    • Sequential and S-Wrap Nip Rollers offer a simpler way to model S-wrap configurations.
    • A per-unit option adds flexibility to Drives and Controls sub-palette.
    • Improved handling of span tension loss and special nip roller configurations delivers more accurate results.
    • TwoWebNipRoller
    DelaminationNipRoller
Updates to MapleSim Ropes and Pulleys Library
  • Reorganized library – components are now easier to locate, improving workflow when building rope and pulley systems.
  • Pulley components – Pulley Edge extends the Pulley component to model sheave/rope side contact, and Pulley Multi-Turn models multiple rope turns for added friction, with visualization.
    • Pulley Edge
    Pulley Multi-Turn
  • Variable Winch 3D – a new component that works like Winch 3D but lets you define the shape of the drum.

Updates to MapleSim Multibody Library
  • New organization - the Multibody Library has been reorganized to improve navigation and component discovery.
  • New Gear Forces sub-package – found under Forces and Moments, it includes simplified models for spur, helical, bevel, and crossed gear pairs, as well as a ratchet wheel model.
Updates to MapleSim Insight
  • MapleSim Insight gives machine builders powerful, simulation-based debugging and 3-D visualization capabilities that directly connect to your automation tools. The 2026 release of MapleSim Insight adds support for models using any new MapleSim 2026.2 features.

Available to: MapleSim Insight customers who were enrolled in the Maplesoft Elite Maintenance Plan at the time of its release. (Customers who were not under EMP at that time can contact Maplesoft sales to obtain an upgrade.)

Learn about new features in previous releases of MapleSim

MapleSim 2026
MapleSim 2025
MapleSim 2024
MapleSim 2023

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