All Modules
- Load Case Manager for easier load case setup
- Envelope Results, to quickly find extreme values among many load cases
- Units style is saved with project file
- Text report is always available in a tabbed view, even when no results are calculated
- Input validation checks in the Text Report
- Simplified Main Menu and Tool Bar buttons
- Improved Window Management
- Quick Start Wizard to simplify getting started
- Numerous minor bug fixes, performance and stability improvements
- Customer data (e.g. company address & phone) in report header
Plates (Rectangular Plate / Mat Footing)
- Thick-Plate Element Formulation (for more accurate results)
- Improved diagnostics for unstable models/load cases
- Easier specification of grade beams under mat footing
- Now allows point supports under mat
- Generate a line of point supports (wall support) automatically
- Filter supports graphically
- Graphical display improved for easier selection of items
- Results scale better, fly-by tips
- Pressure loads default to "Downward" direction!
- Easier entry of holes with top, bottom, left, and right input options
Beams
- Improved Moment/Shear Diagrams for Beam Projects with loads, deflections and reactions and inflection points shown
- Report # of Sections along each member, customizable
- Easier Shape selection, per span
Shear Walls
- Can Switch Walls in Result View
- Different Eccentricity in X and Y
- Flexibility analysis allows for multiple-story shear walls!
- Simplified model input for Flexibility analysis
- Wall displacements in Rigidity Analysis
- Pier stresses, forces, and overturning moments are shown now
- Walls are numbered graphically
- Different Eccentricity in X and Y
- Easier entry of wall openings with top, bottom, left, and right input options
Circular Tanks
- Click on water and surcharge graphically to edit properties
Two "Dead Features" Removed
A couple of features in version 2.5 were removed to simplify the software and technical support. These features are still available in version 2.5, which may be installed side-by-side with version 3.0. Customers upgrading from the previous version may wish to leave 2.5 installed for continued access to these capabilities.
- MathCAD integration
- AnalysisGroup "COM Engine" for direct integration with MS Excel