Introduction

This upgrade is an incremental step forward to improve productivity and eliminate minor trouble-spots prior to a major rewrite of VisualAnalysis that is expected in the next upgrade cycle.

Added Features

• Concise Member Force and Displacement report tables (one line per member)
• Member Graphs: cleaner look, easier to use, filter improvements
• Steel Design per CSA S16 (2014)
• Wood Design allows parametric rectangle and round shapes
• Report Wizard is smarter about load cases and result cases
• Clipboard Exchange: will now Modify or Delete nodal or member loads
• SDNF 3.0 (Steel Detail Neutral File) import / export
• Cold-formed Steel updated to CFS 8.0
• Import Custom .scl files directly (right-click on shape database tree)
• Custom Load Combination: automatically "clones" a selected combination
• Nodal Settlement loads appear in the Find Tool window
• Manually editing a Design Group, removes it from the 'Auto-Group' feature
• Improved diagnostics in Check Model for Errors
• Added support for VisualFoundation 6.0 features

Optional 64-Bit Version

Good for larger memory-intensive projects: Time History, AISC-Direct, or hundreds of Load Combinations might exceed the 2GB (theoretical) memory limit of the 32-bit version. The 64-bit version does have some limitations, so you may not want to use it for everyday projects.

• No STAAD import/export feature
• No SDNF import/export feature
• No Cold-Formed Steel design
• No performance improvement over 32-bit version
• You *may* install both versions on a 64-bit machine
• Not included in the IES Updater list, install updates manually
• Does not automatically open .VAP projects from Windows Explorer: right click to use Open With

Fixes or Changes (Since Version 11.0)

• Parametric I-Beam, plastic modulus was incorrectly calculated for steel design (by 10-15%)
• Missing toolbar problem eliminated
• Project Manager remembers it's width on exit/restart
• Find Tool window remembers it's height on exit/restart
• Find Tool window uses more concise member result tables (one row per member)
• Overlapping member loads (linear and/or uniform) are detected in various places
• Result tables default to 'extreme rows only' (use Tools | Preferences, Reports to change default)
• Parametric Angle shapes were reporting Geometric rather than Principal stiffness
• Editing table column unit-precision was not working properly
• Double-click result report is no longer the "Complete Member" report
• Footnote added to "Member Extreme Results" table to explain load case numbers in ()'s
• STAAD (.std) Import, would not read Steel database shapes properly
• STAAD and SDNF commands have their own menu-items.
• Split Member might sometimes "mess" with Design Groups
• Time-History analysis now works properly with one-way members
• Fixed AISC shear check on double-angle shapes
• Fixed Aluminum combined stress ratio bug fix
• Wood design reports now show the full material name
• Aluminum design: more intermediate values are reported
• Clipboard Exchange: minor improvements to display in dialog box

Removed Features

• Customize member graph option in Filter (confusing, settings would randomly change)
• Ability to persist custom member graph settings across VA sessions (didn't work well)
• Saved window layout (toolbars would go "missing" far too regularly)