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Feature |
Version 2 |
Version 3 |
Version
4 |
Version 5 |
| Integrated Concrete
Design (Beams, Columns and Plates) |
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Frequency Analysis |
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Auto-Generated Standard Load Combinations Based on Design Codes |
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| Standard
Material Database |
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Gray-Scale Contour Plots |
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| Beam and
Plate Design Criteria Annotation |
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| K-Factor
Calculator |
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Verification Manual |
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| Area
Load Distribution |
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| Fluid
Load Generator |
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| Pattern
Load Generator |
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| Moving
Load Generator |
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| Command
line interface |
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| Quick
Draw key-in commands |
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| Named
Selection sets |
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| Enhanced
spreadsheets |
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Comment/labels placed in model |
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| View
event log command |
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| New
Origin command |
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Calculator "Tools" |
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| Sparse
solver |
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| Insert
Nodes at Intersections command |
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| Drawing
target cues |
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| Object
Snaps on members |
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| Enhanced
model integrity checks (zero-length members, mergeable nodes, etc) |
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| Company
info input for steel design reports |
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| Index
for manual |
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| Render
the gap between double angles to scale |
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| Improved
Non Prismatic beam generator to handle beams with irrational lengths |
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| AISC
13th Edition ASD & LRFD design (in addition to ASD 9th and LRFD 2nd
Editions) |
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| New
shape optimization engine no longer requires Width inputs to
optimize tubes and angles |
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| Updated
AISC 13th Edition database includes new HSS shapes as well as legacy
TS shapes |
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