------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM 8+ DEVELOPMENT HISTORY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8+ Release 4g 22 May, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Corrections - Envelope of surface support forces were calculated only for Rz components. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8+ Release 4f 05 May, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Corrections - Tensioning load calculation enhanced ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8+ Release 4d 12 Februar, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Corrections - Punching analysis report contained a few words not translated to the report language - Cancelling a buckling or vibration analysis an empty item was added to the list of results - Adding a new load case to the modal caused a shift of load combination index in load combination result tables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8+ Release 4c January 31, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New developments - VISTA/64 and XP/64 compatibility - Optimizing file opening process Corrections - Automatic removal of zero area holes - Transformation of nodal loads in reference directions fixed - Incomplete error message appeared when a gap element stiffness component out of range - Iterative setting of editing tolerance until surface load distribution is successful - Sparse access violation errors during nonlinear analysis fixed - Running nonlinear analysis for more than one load case sometimes caused damage in results - If section plane fell on a finite element edge display of section might get wrong - Table of surface support forces was empty - Smoothing of results is allowed even if different supports found on neighbouring surface elements - Position of maximum value and description of combination was sometimes wrong in critical beam and truss result tables - Building of automatic combinations corrected - Stirrup distance calculation according to EC2 fixed - Default value of lower security factor according to SIA is 0.8 - Tooltip displaying amount of reinforcement according to NEN fixed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8+ Release 4b December 12, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Corrections - Sector selection improved - Improved tolerance check when distributing surface load to beams - Edge hinge can be defined on edges of holes - Changing the envelope composition automatically recalculates reinforcement and cracking - Physical memory exceeeding 4 GB was reported erroneously - Story names in the table of seismic sensitivity appear in the report language - According to the latest EC and SIA column slenderness is ignored in the column reinforcement check - According to SIA if column reinforcement area is over 8% an error message is displayed - Mirroring prestress tendons did not mirror the equivalent load exactly - TI prestress load case could not be calculated for ribs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8+ Release 4a November 1, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New developments - Optional PS prestress module (post-tensioning) - Optional high-level TI (Tekla Structures interface) for beam structures. Imports cross-section details, hinges, supports and loads. - CADWork interface in RCI module - EuroCode design according to Austrian and British EC implementation. - Short beam design table created for characteristic cross-sections along the beam displays all details. - Different web and flange thickness for double cross-sections - Ribs connected to walls can be designed as beams Corrections - Tab captions of the main window were not displayed under 64-bit XP and Vista operating systems - Deleting mesh does not delete edge nodes created by the user dividing lines. - Column and beam reinforcement needlessly recalculated critical forces when canceled. - Column reinforcement table lists results per column - Edge hinge critical force diagram in Envelope Min/Max and Critical Min/Max mode fixed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8+ Release 3f September 15, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Corrections - Punching analysis info window now displays element number instead of finite element number - Error messages of analysis display element number instead of finite element number - Error messages of punching analysis display element number instead of finite element number - Drawings Library items caused an error when closing a punching analysis - Drawings Library items have a default name including the element number instead of finite element number - If an invalid edge hinge was detected (e.g. at the edge of a hole) edge hinge numbers were wrong after analysis - Nodes where surface elements cannot be reinforced are marked even if labeling is turned off - Importing models created in Axis3D, AxisVM 5.0, 6.0 the value of plane tolerance was set to zero. - Aschwanden elements were not imported when importing another AxisVM model - After deleting a mesh, short arc segments with a small central angle were restored as full circles - The order of sections in the Display parameters dialog were wrong - Design reinforcement moments are available according to Swiss code - Error in labeling the maximum efficiency on beam efficiency diagrams corrected - If saving of derivative results was turned on critical combinations were sometimes reloaded and not recalculated - Rx line support reactions diagram over a section segment displayed average value instead of integrated value - Calculation of critical combinations for Von Mises stress in beams and ribs fixed - Section diagrams of calculated amount of reinforcement and design reinforcement moments could not be displayed in the plane of elements - Reference assigment errors after deleting references fixed - Tables of spring and gap elements and their results fixed - Steel design module accepts rectangular cross-sections rotated by 90°, 180° or 270° ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8+ Release 3e August 24, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Corrections - Pasting data into table of nodes did not work properly ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8+ Release 3d August 3, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Corrections - Property filtering of surface result tables had no effect - Color ranges was set to zero when displaying envelope of gap element forces - Cross-section interpretation improved in IFC import - Display of meshes and surface centerpoints was turned off after analysis. Now their status remains unchanged. - Due to a structural beam end identification problem the program sometimes did not run punching analysis - PIA export routines fixed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8+ Release 3c July 24, 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Corrections - The last cross-section missed from the Weight Report (The total weight was calculated correctly) - Copy/paste problems in tables fixed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8+ Release 3b June 15, 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- New developments - Undo actions can be forced into files to save memory - Seismic response spectrum can be copied from Excel via clipboard - Load combination and saving of derivative results is faster if it can be completed in memory - Parametric 2U, 2I and box shapes - 'Automatic cross-section shape update' can be turned on/off in the Edit menu of a cross-section table to help design of non-standard shapes - Thickness of wall segments can be changed separately for thin-walled cross-sections - Steel design module accepts cross-sections rotated by 90°, 180° or 270° - Beam reinforcement modul saves info window status and positions into the Drawings Library - Beam reinforcement is always calculated, sections with design problems (e.g. beam cannot be reinforced) are displayed as selected - Speed of beam reinforcement calculation improved - If numerical instability is detected the solution error is displayed in red in the info window - Min/max locations are marked with a thicker selection - NSP_HOST environment variable can be used with the newer Sentinel network key drivers Corrections - Handling of DXF layers having a name longer than 32 characters fixed - Problems with property filtering in tables fixed - Problems with weight report for selected elements fixed - Tables are copied to clipboard including fixed columns - Errors in surface load distribution on beams if the model used rigid bodies fixed - Drawing of parametric columns for beam relative supports fixed - Mass participation of vibration shapes fixed (sometimes the total was over 100%) - Workplane deletion fixed - After changing workplane info window is updated - Load superposition during copying of load cases fixed - In steel truss design a 'cannot be designed' message appeared if different critical load combinations resulted in the same extreme value - Beams with opposing local x directions sometimes caused errors in beam reinforcement calculation - Saving column reinforcement diagrams with multiple windows to the Drawings Library caused an error - Displacement and link elememnt internal force labels corrected - Undo operations were slow if there were critical combinations - Beam internal force or stress diagrams copied to clipboard displayed labels even if they had been turned off - Move and copy operation of holes between meshed domains - Seismic loads could not be calculated from nonlinear vibration analysis - Fluid load conversion from Version 7 files fixed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8+ Release 3a May 4, 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- New developments - Folders of a report can be renamed through the popup menu - Rectangular shapes in the Cross-Section Editor get b*h as default name - Edge hinges allowed on internal domain edges - Display of parts is not automatically turned off when modifying a part. It is to make it easier to reduce a part. To display the entire structure turn off this display option before modifying. - Network license key can also be used as a single-user license - Reinforced concrete beam design module reads nodal and line support parameters - Reinforced concrete beam design module allows design of adjacent beams with opposite local x direction - Load group table displays if load cases in the group are exclusive or additive - Beams are checked if end release is defined for the free end - Memory allocation for load combinations optimized Corrections - Corrections and improvements in surface load distribution to beams - Fixing relative origin position in reinforced concrete beam design - Drawings for nonlinear load combination results saved to the Drawings Library had wrong default names - Meshing a domain first time the default mesh size set in Settings / Preferences / Meshing is offered - Reinforced concrete beam design drawings and info window shows the cross-section parameters specified for the calculation - Error in beam numbers in steel design result dialog fixed - Drawing of section segments improved - Minimum/maximum labeling improved - Steel trusses design was not available for critical combinations - Fit in window routine checks the diagrams of surface loads distributed to beams - Reinforced concrete beam design upper and lower flange / concrete cover was changed in Release 3 - Geometric nonlinearity calculation for shells improved - Handling of rigid bodies in vibration analysis fixed - Info window was missing from reinforced concrete beam design drawings in report ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8+ Release 3 March 8, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New developments GEOMETRY, DIMENSIONING, RENDERING --------------------------------- · Associative arc length and arc radius dimensioning · Element transparency in rendered view can be set for walls, slabs, columns and beams · Move operations allow moving of rulers with the elements LINE ELEMENTS --------------------------------- · Structural members handled as single line elements. A structural member can be a meshed line element or a member built from existing line elements [Edit/Assemble structural members] · End releases for ribs · Variable cross-section end sections can be rotated or mirrored parametric shapes · Cross-section can be rotated using a beta angle reference · Asymmetric I and 2L shapes in Cross-section Editor · Changing parameters of a parametric cross-section in the table leads to immediate recalculation of physical parameters · Painting area calculated in the weight report table per section DOMAINS ------- · Redefinition of domain contours · Domains can be joined or cut OTHER ELEMENTS -------------- · Resistance can be defined for compression/tension only supports LOADS ----- · Load cases in a group can be made additive · Load cases can be rearranged by right-clicking the dropdown list or selecting Format/Order of load cases in the Table Browser · Selected loads can be moved/copied into another load case by changing the current load case during the operation · Torsion moment load for beams and ribs · Editing constraints (SHIFT key, locked coordinates, etc.) are available when drawing mesh independent loads · Associative mesh-independent line loads. Changing the geometry repositions loads. Deleting a line deletes the associated load. · Distribution of surface load over beams and ribs ANALYSIS -------- · Multiple load cases can be selected for nonlinear analysis · Multiple threads can be activated [Settings/Preferences/Analysis] · Number of the the current iteration is displayed during nonlinear / vibration / buckling analysis RESULTS ------- · Shear stresses and Von Mises stress calculated for beam cross-sections · Line-to-line link element and edge hinge internal forces · Diagrams of segment planes and sections can be displayed optionally in the element plane · Critical SLS and ULS combinations made selectable · Displaying critical results separately for all SLS and ULS critical combinations · Beam/rib force, displacement, stress diagrams, reinforced column or beam diagrams, punching, steel design, bolted joint design diagrams can be saved into the Drawings Library and inserted into a report ensuring automatic update · RTF file exported from Report Maker can use JPG format to store pictures created from drawings · Gridlines of tables exported into RTF files can be turned on/off · Checking if AXS and AXE files were saved together to avoid problems with non-compatible (older/newer) files DESIGN ------ · Reinforcement parameters listed in a table · Color legend can be configured to show all surface reinforcement distribution schemes or just those in the active parts · Reinforced concrete beam analysis for variable (tapered) cross-sections · Coordinate window in the beam design dialog to measure distances · Punching analysis: if the plate is too thin AxisVM determines the required thickness without reinforcement and calculates the contour of the mushroom head with or without punching reinforcement EXPORT/IMPORT ------------- · CADWork interface · IFC file can be used to overwrite or update the model · Active links in text boxes referring to files or websites · Dimensioning in imported DXF files is displayed according to AxisVM units and format settings MISCELLANEOUS ------------- · Faster loading of models, faster geometry tranformations and load check · Version history is available from the Help menu · Automatic update from the web · In case of network licences multiple copies of AxisVM can be run on the same machine without using additional licences Corrections,fixed bugs · Color legend of surface support forces sometimes displayed wrong values · Behaviour of color legend editor with values created from a step value improved · Handling the situation when multiple network keys are available on the network · Duplicated results in nonlinear stress calculation if the option 'Save derivative results' was checked · Now it is possible to overwrite a drawing in the Drawings Library specifying an exisiting name · Drawing of distributed load on deformed arced beams improved · Decimal dot is always accepted as decimal separator in the perspective settings dialog. · If domain cannot be created from the selection the selection is not removed · Changing a part defined in the model made associated drawings disappeared from the library and the report ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8 Release 2i ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New developments · IFC import and export according to IFC2x3 · Hebrew and Arabic report language can be selected. Reports will be printed in English but Hebrew or Arabic texts can be inserted · New EC combination method for Romanian design code · Structural members are splitted if beam end releases are detected · Memory allocation problems are reported if the memory required is not available before creating the system of equations. Corrections,fixed bugs · Surface support force color legend values fixed · After deleting the background picture the grid turned off permanently. Fixed. · Beam reinforcement moment diagrams turned upside down when local z direction pointed downwards · Rendering of full circles defined as ribs improved · Polygon handling errors fixed · Search for surface force envelope Min/Max values with parts turned on fixed. helyesen bekapcsolt részletek eseten · Calculation of k_r for punching analysis according to SIA improved · Section segment definition tolerance bug fixed. · Quasipermanent load combinations are generated using Psi2 instead of Psi0 (EC,SIA,STAS) · Enhanced editing rules for compressed rebars in reinforced column check according to SIA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8 Release 2h ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New developments · Unlimited number of modal shapes in the professional version Corrections, fixed bugs · Printing of punching rebar circles improved · Isoline labels are turned off on invisible parts · Storage of steel design parameters "d" and "Za" fixed · Drawing support reaction labels with hidden line removal improved · Load case icon menu contains seismic load cases as well · Error in deleting parts fixed · Coordinate values with 10 digits precision · Bugs in rib load division during the meshing process fixed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8 Release 2c ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New developments · Fastest nodal force generation during analysis · Process of determining critical combinations can be cancelled · Faster calculation of critical displacements, forces and stresses for big models · Identification of intersections of rulers and line elements or line supports Corrections, fixed bugs · Memory overflow when analysing big models (e.g. 25,000 beams, 100 load cases) fixed · Color legend for actual reinforcement did not always show different reinforcements if a scheme contained identical elements (e.g. ĝ12/200 + ĝ12/200) · Problems reading printer parameters from non-default printers fixed · Creating an RTF report with Drawings Library elements exported as BMP did not exported the picture properly · Selecting a load case from the dropdown list set wrong load case if load cases had been rearranged · Minor corrections in domain search algorithm · Stress calculation for variable cross-sections corrected · Shear capacity Envelope Max. and Critical Max. displayed always the minimum · Errors in defining line supports along the borders of nested domains corrected · Editing of triangular and trapezoidal beam loads in the Property Editor fixed · Assigning a rounding radius smaller than the half width of the wall results in square corners · Local system of beams imported from IFC and having -Z local z direction is automatically set to +Z · Reinforcement calculation according to NEN corrected · Network license handling corrected · PDF printing in A1, A0 format corrected ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8 Release 2b ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New developments · Animation of rendered view · Preview of drawings can be turned on and off in the Report Maker · Cached display of drawings makes preview much faster · Report Maker detects if stored tables (from column or beam reinforcement modules) or texts created from Bolted Joint Designer or Punching Analysis became invalid due to changes in the results and automatically removes them · The user can set the format of drawings in the RTF report (BMP or embedded WMF) · A warning is displayed if the DXF file contains too big coordinate values. · In the Cross-section Editor a rounding radius can be defined for custom thin walled polygonal cross-sections · Calculation of shear modulus for composite thin walled cross-sections · Order of load cases in the load combination table can be changed · Creation method of automatic combinations (ULS, SLS1, SLS2, SLS3) can be selected · Bolted Joint Design result text can be sent directly to the Report Maker · Latest dragging option from the pet palette is remembered · Line and domain mesh can be deleted separately in the Delete dialog · Defining a new domain (Domain2) inside another one (Domain1) Domain2 inherits all loads defined for the entire Domain1 · Steel design according to Eurocode 2003 · New materials for Eurocode 2003 · Designing for critical combinations checks all combinations resulting the same maximum value (in steel design, concrete column check, beam reinforcement design, punching analysis, bolted joint design) · Automatic setting of degrees of freedom for a beam with multiple supports or a truss girder is offered before the analysis only if loads are within the plane of the model · Handling of variable cross-section structual members in steel design Corrections, fixed bugs · Undo operation caused an error during dimension line definition if the main window was divided · Printing a report caused an error if the table of critical combinations was included · Moment capacity of edge hinges were not checked in analysis · Load case name was incorrect in punching analysis if envelope or critical values were displayed · Dragging or changing an arc the central angle remains the same by default · Copying of line loads on arced edges corrected · Display of arced line loads fixed · Error in conversion of line loads from AxisVM8 to AxisVM7 fixed · Mesh independent loads are displayed if at least one loaded element is displayed in the active parts · Surface supports are displayed even if internal force diagrams are displayed · SHIFT activates the angle constraint over a domain. In earlier releases it activated the plane constraint which made the angle constraint unavailable in these situations · Sometimes it was impossible to define a domain touching another one from the inside · It was impossible to define a hole for a circle shaped domain on an inclined plane · Import of angle dimension lines from DXF corrected · Import of arcs within a block in a DXF file as actual line failed · If the display of background layers was turned off it made interactive repositioning of a DXF practically impossible ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8 Release 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New developments · Location of temporary files created during analysis can be set in Settings / Preferences / Analysis · Undo saving and model check routines much faster than before · AutoCAD-like behaviour of the selection rectangle (drawn form left to right it selects elements falling entirely within the rectangle, drawn from right to left it selects elements falling partly or entirely within the rectangle). · Selection by drawing a line which selects crossing elements · Midpoint and Bisector constraints beside the Perpendicular and Parallel icons · Normal transversal funcion for two skew lines (on the Geometry tab) · Interpenetration lines of domains or intersection points for domains and lines (on the Geometry tab). These are also calculated internally when meshing domains. · Overlapping lines detected and intersected automatically before meshing a domain. · Importing object-oriented 3D architectural models from ArchiCAD, Auto Desk Architectural Desktop, Nemetschek Allplan or XSteel via IFC 2x and 2x2 files. If a hinge is assigned to upper or lower edge of the wall an edge hinge is created in the model. · Now upper and lower columns / walls can be specified in parametric nodal / line support calculation. Column / wall parameters are stored with the support element so they can be retrieved when performing punching analysis. These virtual columns and walls are also displayed as a wireframe (even in rendered view, if display of supports are turned on) and identified by the cursor · Beam / rib properties are assigned to structural elements. Meshed line elements (e.g. arced or variable cross-section elements) will handle changes in their properties as complex elements (e.g. changing the cross-section will recalculate internal cross-sections, defining an end release will place an end release only at the end of the structural element and not at the ends of internal beams). · Property Editor supports extending selection based on a property value. An example: How to change all IPE100 beams to IPE120? a.) select an IPE100 beam b.) in the property editor select the cross section (IPE100) c.) if you click the filter button it selects all beams with this cross-section d.) set it to IPE120. · Seismic analysis according to DIN 1045-1 (optional) · LINDAB C and Z shapes in the cross-section library · Also importing parametric support properties, reinforcement and punching parameters when importing from another AXS file · Decomposition of system of equations optimized also for Intel processors (speed increased by 15%) · Faster calculation of internal cross-sections for variable cross-section line elements · Table of contents can be turned off when printing a report Corrections, fixed bugs · No Fit In View is activated when setting perspective using the Perspective palette · It was impossible to modify references of domains by the dialog if more than one domain were selected · Shear capacity diagram of Critical Min. was displayed for Critical Min. and Max. diagrams. · Turning on and off a workplane caused an error in colour legend values · Display problems of beam end releases in perspective fixed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8 Release 1c ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New developments · Support stifness calculation parameters saved · Punching analysis for nodal supports · Punching analysis for supported plates · Geometric nonlinearity is avaliable for models containing rigid bodies (ribbed shells) · Columns and walls used for support calculation are also displayed as wireframe · New option for breaking table columns · Display of punching rebar circles · Analysis can be performed even if the model contains disconnected submodels Corrections, fixed bugs · Fixes in polygon handling routines · Fixes in rendering · Fixes in Property Editor · Fixes in Version 7 -> Version 8 conversion of structural members · Fixes in table of beam stresses, steel design results and load combinations · Fixes in meshing with collateral holes · Fixes in beam reinforcement for critical rib forces · Fixes in IFC import of walls · Fixes in DXF import · Eliminating 'Not Valid Printer' errors when changing printer · Fixes of 'broken' printing after turning on/off parts caused by unnecessary viewpoint recalculation · Improving memory allocation for analysis results · Loads referring to non-existing domains removed automatically · Report items referring to non-existing parts removed automatically · Domain definition is no more allowed for areas entirely covered by finite elements ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8 Release 1b ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New developments · Parametric C shapes Corrections, fixed bugs · Fixes in closed area routines of the cross-section editor · Fixes in result text boxes in reports and in the Drawings Library · Fixes in the Property Editor · Fixes in assembling steel structural members · Fixes in load conversion after meshing · Saving reports to RTF images are included with their relative paths ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxisVM8 Release 1a ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New developments · Both . and , can be used as decimal separator · When displaying deformed shape text boxes are aligned to the displaced position Corrections, fixed bugs · Fixes in tooltip windows · Creation of table of critical combinations can be canceled · Reinforcement parameters and actual reinforcement values now can be deleted from domains · Fixes in punching analysis according to MSz and DIN · Errors in the cross-section editor when thin-walled cross-section segments overlapped entirely fixed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inter-CAD Kft. 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