Version 19.0 Upgrade Guide

Top Features

• Composite beam design overhaul
  • Full or partial composite design
  • Permanent pre-composite deflections
  • Full control of pre-composite loads
• CSA concrete design specification added
• ACI 350 concrete design specification added
• Cold-formed steel design updated to CFS 12
• More powerful extreme filtering in tables
• Added a '2D Design' purchase level option

Model

• Import CFS library now prompts before overwriting an existing file
• Shape selection box shows a weight to help with choices
• Drawing grid improvements
• Member offsets, new option to only offset the member graphically
• Improved named color mode with color preferences
• Insert a vertex between two selected vertices
• Improved graphics makes it easier to see member shapes
• Control the names of copied objects
• Meshing improvements at shared area boundaries
• Stiffness adjustment factors available for all members
• Stiffness adjustment factor available for plates (manual or auto)

Load

• Report generated area loads
• Improved performance of generated area loads

Analyze

• Result View inspector shows member results at any specified offset
• Result View inspector shows displaced distance between two selected nodes    
• Member forces can now be reported in the geometric coordinate system
• Hotkeys added to Precision button sets it to maximum or minimum
• Improved time-history analysis and documentation
• Improved time-history Node Graph view

Design

• Composite Steel Beams
  • Built in steel deck database
  • More accurate flexural capacity
  • Deflection checks correctly superimpose permanent pre-composite deflections
  • Full or Partial composite design
  • Shored or unshored construction
  • Full control of pre-composite loads
  • Ability to apply camber
  • Composite detailing checks added
• Concrete design per CSA A23.3
• Concrete slab design per ACI 350 for environmental structures
• Find/select ungrouped members using the find tool
• Cold-Formed Steel per CFS 12.0 using the latest AISI provisions
• Design Search dialog now offers size constraints
• Design Search now supports multiple categories of shape profiles
• Shortcut/Hotkey for toggling between select all in group or individual elements
• Number of legs can be specified for stirrups in concrete design
• Wood design offers increase for Le/d ratio per NDS 3.7.1.4
• Concrete column interaction capacities are more accurate

Report

• Improved filtering of table extremes
• Bill of Materials table now includes total weight
• Improved report footers with cleaner table breaks across pages
• Member graph includes project file name

Succeed! (Interface, Performance, Reliability)

• Support for Revit Structure 2020
• Export Welded Flange Plate connection to VAConnect 4.0+
• Documentation overhaul and update
• Easier to export to SketchUp (desktop or cloud)
• Improved performance of the preferences dialog for resetting graphics
• Improved responsiveness of the user interface
• Multiple instances of VisualAnalysis no longer generates the 'crash protection file found' message
• Less distracting task bar