Major Enhancements

• Selection & editing of elements in 3D view

• Display of all types of loads in 3D view

• Improvement in 3D render view

• Facility of rotation about Z axis in 3D view

• Dynamic pan command in 3D view

• Section and elemental load creation and attach options in 3D view

• Slab fill effect in render view

• Changing colors of structural elements as well of background in render view

• Creation of vertically inclined element by clicking nodes

• Display of edge elements in 3D view

3D and render view related

• Notional method for wind load generation

• Floor load command for creation of slabs in single command for CAD imported

files

• Orientation of columns to any angle

• Facility to Modify shear wall on all floors regarding grade of concrete and thickness

• Under modify menu option to change the grid name is introduced

• In modify menu only the option to copy the newly added grid names on higher

floors using copy grid name option is given.

• STAAD file import is made easier and much stable

• Optimization resulting in element delete faster for high rise buildings

• Display of line and point loads in 2D view

• STAAD file export related problems solved for shear wall buildings

Preprocessor related

Design related

• Improvements in Shear wall Design

• Improvements in detailed drawings

• Modification of beam design when fails for minimum stirrups spacing

• Detail design report for shear walls provided for user selected floors

• Improvements in Column design

3D render view display improvements

• Option provided for

changing colors of

structural elements as

per requirement in

render view

• Option for changing the

background is also

provided for 3D view

Introduction of rotation about z axis and dynamic pan command in 3D view

Selection toolbar for selection and unselecting elements to see details.

• Select element option is given for single selection. Using this you can select an element of which you want to check the properties or modify those. Double click to get the dialog box.

• By window selection you can select few elements which you want to highlight.

• Active all is given to activate all elements. This can be used after selecting few elements to discontinue this command.

• Active selected is used to display the selected elements only.

• Active previous option is used to activate the previous selected elements.

• Inactive option is used to inactivate selected elements. Those elements will not be displayed on screen.

Display of loads in 3D view

• Display of loads in 3D

view is given

• Selection of floor in 3D

view option is also

given using which you

can see the loading on

a floor.

• Select the option of

load which you want to

display

• You can set the scale

factor to enlarge the

loading diagram

Introduction of floor load command

• Option of floor load is given to

create slabs in single step on a

floor in the file which is

imported through DXF format.

• Here you have to insert the start

and end dimensions and

loading as shown.

• On pressing F7 you will get

rectangular and general slabs

created on that floor.

Introduction Notional Method for wind load generation

• Total wind load acting on

single floor is calculated and

assumed to act at CG of that

floor. Depending on this the

load is distributed on all nodes

of that floor through diaphragm

action.

Introduction of scale factor in earthquake loads

• Concept of scale factor is

introduced by default for

earthquake load calculation by

response spectrum method. The

loads are calculated

accordingly.

• If you don’t want to consider

this effect you can make the

flag off.

Display of slab loads in 2D view

• Option to display

Line load and point

loads on slabs in 2D

view is provided

• Option to display

other loading on slab

is also given

• Slab properties

display is improved

compared to previous

version

Modify grid names and copy them on higher floors

• Option to modify the

grid name as per

requirement is given

under Modify ->

Building -> Grid

Name.

• Option to copy these

modified grid names

on all floors is also

given under Modify -

> Building -> Copy

Grid Names option

Which will give you

the copy multiple

floors dialog box on

the screen

Column Orientation to required angle

Modify Shear wall option

• Using this option

You can modify the

thickness of shear

wall for every floor

also you can change

the grade of concrete

used for shear wall

for required floors

• Based on those

values the shear walls

will be designed

Beam user defined detailing parameters

• In beam

design

parameters

user defined

detailing

option is

given

• All beam

DXF drawings

show detailing

according to

those

parameters.

Designing of beams when failed for spacing

• Dialog for beam design when it

fails in stirrups spacing is

changed

• Here you can increase the

diameter of bars or legs of

stirrups to overcome the

problem

Shear wall detail report for selected floors

• Facility to view the shear wall detail

report for selected floors by selecting

default levels for that particular floor

is given

• On unselecting the level the report will

not come for that particular floor.