Differences between version 9.00.022 and 9.00.023: - Fix: Default value of Gamma_C for concrete is set to 1.45 in Eurocode Danish annex. - Fix: Document Sheet had UCS which is now turned off and removed from Settings. - Fix: The Hungarian translation of "System strength factor" at timber material dialog was wrong. - Fix: In detailed result windows goups and members were not listed correctly in the combo boxes. - Fix: In timber panel detailed results wrong resistance values were displayed for compression verifications. - Fix: Punching calculation did not consider force of top column if there were columns both over and under the punching object. - Fix: Modification of system strength factor of timber elements did not work. - Fix: Automatic wind load generation in Predesign module did not consider correct reference heigths. - Fix: If local y and first principal axis did no coincide of a bar cross-section, its displacement results were not displayed correctly for load cases and max. of load groups. - Fix: The calculation of imperfection factor was inaccurate if safety factor was not exactly 1.0. - Fix: After some kind of transformation of line support group the support directions might be wrong. Differences between version 9.00.021 and 9.00.022: - Fix: Printing problem of surface load's hatch from documentation module is fixed. - Fix: Calculation of slab reinforcement ratio in punching design was incorrect in some special cases. - Fix: From the previous release version the material parameters of fictious bars were wrong during the calculations. - Fix: In the case of second order analysis the internal forces and stresses of bars could be wrong in some special cases. - Fix: In some cases Doc Module was very slow and always refreshed the icons under win7/Vista. - Fix: So called "Not responding" message in the dialog, while the program was working (such calculating, entering to Doc Module...) is fixed. It happened under Win7/Vista Differences between version 9.00.019 and 9.00.021: - Fix: The circle bars were not loadable by any kind of load. - Fix: Interaction check of steel bars with Class 4 section was not displayed correctly in detailed results in case of first order calculation. - Fix: Torsional limit values of reinforcement bars design calculation was not correct. - Fix: Torsional effect was not handled in design of reinforcement bars. - Fix: General materials were not considered correctly in calculation. - Fix: Under special circumstances punching utilization numeric value function did not work correctly. - Fix: 'Copy loadcase' command did not work for load that were in a block. - Fix: There was problem with saving at Settings/FEM/Mesh/Fuctions in Wall and Plane Strain modules. - Fix: The program forgot the starting code at Plane Strain module. - Fix: The listing of Fixed/Hinged status of the walls was wrong in the Plate module. - Add: From now the user can display the nx and ny design forces for reinforcement shells separatelly for tension and compression. - Fix: No cross-sections were displayed in RC Bar's "RC bar, sections" detail result window if there was at least one uncalculateable cross-section. - Fix: The program crashed, if Timesave started while printing. Differences between version 9.00.018 and 9.00.019: - Fix: Painted area of hollow sections was not calculated correctly for quantity estimation. - Fix: For compound steel sections lateral tosional buckling check results were displayed even if calculation was not performed and program may have crashed at displaying detailed result. - Fix: In Plate module Mx reactions of wall supports were not displayed correctly. - Fix: In some very rare circumstances the section utilization of reinforcement bar might be wrong at some discrete points. - Add: If Draw/Dimension command is started dimension layer is switched on automatically. - Fix: If a file was imported from 3D Structure module to Plate module and it contained steel column(s), the program crashed at steel design calculation. - Fix: In case of some special geometrical cases Section editor crashed at registering section. - Fix: In documentation module, at punching detailed results "Figure scale" option of display settings had no effect. - Fix: At punching design displaying circular stirrup was incorrect in case of eccentric columns. - Fix: For displacement results Numeric value/Find only maximum/minimum /Selected points options did not work. - Fix: Reinforcement drawing export into AutoCAD format did not work. - Fix: If results with numeric values were added to the documentation by "Add to documentation" function and new tab was selected without entering the documentation module, program crashed when user wanted to return to the original tab. - Fix: The seismic max. type of load case was wrongly handled in results belonging to the load combination, maximum of load combinations ang maximum of load groups. - Fix: The displacement figure could contain gaps at the ends of trusses in the case of temperature variation or stress loads. Differences between version 9.00.016 and 9.00.018: - Fix: If background color was set to black table text in table of punching detailed result was invisible. - Fix: The cracked section analysis could freeze if there were no shrinkage and dead load in a load combination. - Fix: In some special cases Steel design calculation was not performed because of numerical problems. - Fix: fdprocman.exe crashed during starting. - Fix: Seismic analysis: Lateral force method. The Qd factor was always 1.0. - Modify: Seismic analysis: Lateral force method. Lambda factors is developed to be given saperately in X and Y direction. - Add: Licence System has been updated to 3.0.9. - Fix: In Predesign module "Estimated reinforcement" function did not work correctly. - Fix: If you loaded the file from Revit (r2f), containing zero length bars, into FEM-Design and save it (*str), the program crashed during load the file. - Add: Patch installer contains the updated user manual. - Fix: If section library contained some special user-defined sections program crashed during updating section library. - Fix: In the case of surface reinforcement its directions were not transformed during editing the shells. - Fix: After uninstalling the default printer, program crashed while printing. - Add: From now the user will give a message when the imperfection calculation find steel bar with unknown cross-section type. These bars are ignored during imperfection calculation. - Add: From now the imperfection calculation is able to handle Z and welded rectangular hollow steel cross-sections. - Fix: When displaying numeric values for displacement results of max. of load combination program may crash. - Fix: Program did not recognize some types of sections with very small geometrical inaccuracies. - Fix: If 2nd order calculation with crack was performed in same time, and there wasn't any bar element in the structure, the FD tried to read non-existing file. - Fix: Section editor may have crashed at registration of some special sections. - Fix: In the case of shell geometrical anomalies (errors) the utilization of surface reinforcement might be wrong. - Fix: After using Edit/Paste function program may have crashed at calculation or displaying results. - Modify: Using steel bar detailed result all moment values were displayed in kNm instead of Nmm. - Fix: In second order analisys the My, Mz moments on truss elements could be nonzero up to now. - Fix: Punching design stops and sends warning if design fails due to to big compression or shear force. - Fix: The program crashed while saving template in documentation module if the MSXML 4.0 redistibutable package was not installed. - Fix: If 100 eigenfrequency shapes were calculated for seismic analysis, maximum results may have been incorrect. - Fix: Under some special circumstances program became instable in RC bar manual design window. - Fix: In seismic calculation the values of effective masses were wrong in Z direction in the table: Seismic analysis > Setup > Modal analysis. - Fix: With the Stretch command it was possible to modify the region of solid to be out of its plane. - Modify: For Class 3 steel bars stress check is carried out instead of cross-section resistance check. - Fix: From now the negative factor for seismic max. type of load case is not allowed. These negative factors could cause some kind of bugs. - Fix: The seismic calculation could crash, if there were no storey at the bottom and top of the model, when torsional and P-Delta effect calculation was asked. - Add: Text box in Documentation module accepts Enter for new line. - Fix: The solid drawing was unuseable for centric type of solids if the UCS was in general position. Differences between version 9.00.015 and 9.00.016: - Add: User Manual has been updated to 9.0. - Fix: In 3D modules the surface load conversion macro for rectangular with orthogonal load was wrong sometimes. - Fix: Impact import is able to communicate with 64bit Impact installations now. - Fix: Listing imperfection tables didn't worked. - Fix: If file contained Documentation with Fictious bar table, program crashed when file was loading. - Fix: If reinforced concrete bar was deleted after it was assigned to a design group and its reinforcement was designed, program may have crashed when other members of the group were selected for manual design. - Fix: Listing of nodal displacement result from max. of load groups was incorrect. - Fix: Listing of bar displacement result from max. of load groups/combinations was incorrect. - Fix: At listing of bar internal force result from max. of load groups/combinations location of maximum was not correct. - Fix: Steel bar design used incorrect buckling curve for some special type of user-defined welded hollow sections. - Fix: The applied reinforcement (and all of their derivatives) might be wrong at the edge of the shells in some special geometrical cases in the case of rare finite element mesh. - Fix: The calculation of anchorage length was wrong in the case of relatively short steel bars. - Fix: The calculation of anchorage length was wrong in the case of centric reinforcement in tangent directions. - Fix: Unexpected normal internal force came up in Cracked section analysis in beams, when there was no eccentric beam in the model at all. - Fix: If file contained surface support and analysis was run after displaying results of surface elements program crash. - Fix: When listing bar displacement results from max. of combinations or load groups, unit of displacement may have been incorrect. - Fix: When listing bar displacement results from max. of load groups, list of used load cases may have been incorrect. - Fix: Default Gamma M0 and Gamma M1 value for Steel material is set to 1.05 instead of 1.00 in Norwegian code. Differences between version 9.00.013 and 9.00.015: - Fix: If steel or punching design result were requested but no ULS load combination was defined program crashed. - Fix: During "Maximum of load groups" calculation for bars program used too much memory. - Fix: If "Next view", "Previous view" commands were used for 2D and 3D views after eachother drawing was not refreshed correctly. - Fix: If any "view" command was started when an other command was active, then "view" command was finished, tool window title of the original command disappeared. - Fix: It was possible to create layer with no name which caused problems later if user created documentation template. - Fix: When 'nonlinear' and 'imperfection' calculation was together, the program sent a file missing error. - Fix: When loading a 8.0 file with code that is obsolate in 9.0 into a module different from the one file was made in program crashed. - Fix: Displaying detailed result for groups of steel or timber bars or timber panels may not worked correctly. - Fix: In the case of Auto Design of surface reinforcement, unnecessary message could come up: "Reinforcement necessary for crack width calculation, but there is no reinforcement at the given point.". - Fix: The Auto Design of surface reinforcement might give less reinforcement than necessary in some special places. - Fix: Reinforcement steel qualities defined by the user were not available later. - Add: From this version there is possibility to "Disable all hardware acceleration" in Settings/Environment/General. - Fix: Program hanged if timber panel type was modified. - Fix: Timber panel type selected by the user was ignored at timber panel definition. - Fix: In Plate module punching design calculation for load groups was not correct. - Fix: Quantity estimation did not work for objects that were part of a block. - Fix: During cracked section analysis too much memory was used if structure contained RC bars. - Fix: In some cases there were impossible to run seismic calculation if there was load case with shrinkage. - Fix: Entering RC design tab where no section was defined for any bar may caused crash. - Fix: Sometimes part of the structure disappeared from some window. - Fix: Changing "Peak smoothing" status was not considered in some special cases (re-running load combination whithout requesting load case calc). - Fix: In documentation module combination result table names were incorrect and it may caused crash at template saving. - Fix: Program ocassionally crashed when stretching surface applied reinforcement regions. Differences between version 9.00.012 and 9.00.013: - Fix: The documentation module often crashed after Cut/Copy/Paste actions. - Fix: If steel design calculation failed for one of the selected bars, program did not proceed the other bars. - Fix: If servicibility limit state load combinations were mixed with ultimate limit state load combination, utilization tables for steel and timber bars may not displayed the correct combination name for maximal utilization. - Fix: Sometimes the program seemed to be frozen during opening a file, but there was a message dialog behind the main window. - Fix: In EuroCode/Hungarian load groups were not loaded correctly. - Fix: Program may not work correctly if documentation contained detailed result belonging to a design group. - Fix: If Edit/Special/Paste file... function was applied for a file with different code then the original materials might have been incorrect. - Fix: In punching calculation in Eurocode Norwegian annex, standard value was applied for v_min. - Fix: Earlier documentation templates did not work correctly if they contained design results and may have caused unexpected crashes. - Fix: If 2D view was set regions not visible in the view were still selectable and in special cases points outside the view may have been snapped on. - Fix: Hiding elements in documentation module may caused crash at returning to model if results were previously displayed. - Fix: At special cases calculation did not stop even if geometrical error was found in the structure and it caused crash later. - Fix: Snapping on axes in 2D views found points out of the plane. - Fix: In Eurocode/Hungarian reinforcment design was wrong in load groups. Differences between version 9.00.011 and 9.00.012: - Fix: Program could have crashed after resuming hibernaton or unlocking the computer if DirectX was set. - Fix: Images did not load at documentation module after resuming hibernaton or unlocking the computer. - Fix: In some special cases no result was displayed for dead load case. - Fix: RC bar design calculation for load groups may have crashed in some special cases. - Fix: Display settings for connections were not saved by "Save as default". - Fix: When loading 3D structure file to Plate module trusses were not deleted, and occasionally not only the requested columns and walls (above/below plate) were loaded. - Fix: If different units were used in two or more model windows it may have happened that values of color palette legend were not displayed in correct units. - Fix: If user renamed section library of section type, program crashed. - Fix: If documentation module contained RC shell utilization table, program may have crashed. - Fix: Reinforcement mesh library did not contained meshes. - Fix: At reinforcement bar manual design longitudinal bar check did not work correctly in some special cases. Differences between version 9.00.010 and 9.00.011: - Fix: Program could have crashed at hibernating the computer if DirectX was set. - Fix: Default settings for Display/Design were not correct in documentation windows. - Fix: In some special cases during calculation of shrinkage load division by zero occured. The result could not be displayed in these cases. - Fix: In Plate module "Delete all..." function did not work correctly for plates, beams and columns. - Fix: Program crashed at printing if the "graphic engine" was set to OpenGL or OpenGL Safe mode. - Fix: In Predesign module, deleting storeys did not work if more storeys were selected. - Fix: In Predesign module, Estimated reinforcement/Set reinforcement by dialog caused crash. Differences between version 9.00.006 and 9.00.010: - Fix: Program could have crashed at switching user without logging off or hibernating the computer. - Modify: In the case of Norwegian Eurocode the default Alfa cc and Alfa ct application concrete material constants are 0.85 from now. (Complete uninstall and reinstall needed.) - Modify: In the case of British Eurocode the default Alfa cc application concrete material constant is 0.85 from now. (Complete uninstall and reinstall needed.) - Modify: In the case of Finnish Eurocode the default Alfa cc application concrete material constant is 0.85 from now. (Complete uninstall and reinstall needed.) - Fix: In the case of Finnish Eurocode the ultimate strain of reinforcing steel (eps_ud) was 2.25% instead of 1%. - Fix: In punching calculation setting of "calculation perimeter distance" for too large may caused crash. - Fix: If bar belonging to a punching object was deleted and then plate properties was requested, program crashed. - Fix: If punching calculation contained NA dependent parts, not all data of detailed result window were correct. - Fix: Extra model view window was created during Tekla import. - Add: Hungarian Eurocode is available in FEM-Design from this version. - Add: Hungarian language pack is available in FEM-Design from this version. - Fix: In the case of Wall or Plane Strain module when the user pressed the File/New command a file missing error could come up. (This is only aesthetical and not functional problem.) - Fix: "Alt+PageUp" and "Alt+PageDn" words were misspelled somewhere ("Alt+DageUp" and "Alt+DageDn"). - Fix: After inversion of a region any kind of the region operation might be wrong. - Add: Built in reinfocement module is available in FEM-Design from this version. - Fix: In the documentation module the Cut/Copy/Paste functions could freeze. - Modify: We have reorganize the usage of the Cut/Copy/Paste functions in the documentation module. - Fix: The import of calculation parameters of surface reinforcements and surface applied reinforcement regions were not complete from previous versions of FEM-Design and contained bugs. - Modify: User Interface of the automatic error report sender has been developed. - Fix: After usage of Title information table command the program could freeze. - Fix: After usage of 2D view command (cutting any kind of solids) the program could freeze. - Fix: In some cases the Numerical value function could freeze. - Fix: You couldn't leave the Settings dialog by pressing OK or Cancel, after loading or saving a drawing to the FEM-Design install path. - Fix: If you changed code from Code independent the program could freeze. - Fix: There was no compatibility at dimension lines' units between 8.0 and 9.0. - Fix: Program may have crashed after deleting or hiding a result. - Fix: Sometimes objects were not displayed correctly in 2D views. - Fix: Design calculation of steel bars with solid circular cross-section was not completed. - Fix: In the case of importing from different modules the FEM-Design might freeze during loading. - Fix: Printing crashed if both "Color printing" and "Pen simulation" options were selected. - Fix: If you tried to run second order analisys twice the calculation could freeze. - Fix: In Plate module the geometry of walls could be wrong if they were imported from 3D modules. - Fix: Cut/CopyPaste fixed and changed in doc module. - Fix: In case of cracked section analysis the shrinkage value was calculated on a wrong way. - Fix: Punching calculation failed, if column section contained more than one region. - Add: Standalone reinfocement module is available in FEM-Design from this version. - Add: UCS is visible in printout. - Fix: Detailed analysis results of single bars were not updated in documentation module. - Fix: Some objects may have contained invalid steel handles which may have caused crash during design calculation. - Fix: Line group and surface support import were wrong in Plate module from 3D modules. - Fix: Refreshing of rc bar detailed result did not work in documentation module. - Fix: The calculation in Plate, Wall and Plane Strain modules could freeze if calculation was terminated previously by Esc button. - Fix: The general material types were not accepted by calculation up to this service release. - Fix: Punching calculation may not work if column was not placed both under and over the plate. - Fix: If installation of DirectX redist fails during the install process, the FEM-design didn't start. - Fix: Problems occured during and after loading files created in FEM-Design 8.0 in codes that are not available anymore. - Add: If file created in FEM-Design 8.0 in codes that are not available anymore is loaded, default reinforcement material is set for all objects instead of setting them to undefined. - Fix: If not the FEM-Design window was the active window the program could freeze in very rare cases. - Fix: Graphical windows in Doc Module did not appear in Print preview dialog and print out. - Fix: Program may have crashed in documentation module if deleting of a single bar analysis result or rc bar detailed result was undone. - Fix: Program may have crashed in documentation module at template saving if no extension was defined for the filename. - Fix: Side view of the bar in RC bar manual design window may have been invisible in some special cases. - Fix: Program crashed if RC bar manual design window was opened twice. - Fix: In steel bar detailed result the interaction part contained some value that were not displayed correctly. - Fix: Now it is possible to hide surface results for whole object and not only for one finite element. - Fix: The DWG/DXF export didn't work if the drawing containes design group for beams. - Modify: "Drawing/Scale" setting is module dependent from now. Differences between version 9.00.005 and 9.00.006: - Fix: IFC - Assertions complaining about unfinished transactions when loading models in Arcitectural View are removed. - Fix: IFC - Slabs were not created in Arcitectural View. - Fix: "Irrelevant" word was misspelled ("unrelevant"). - Fix: It was allowed to delete mesh or finite elements by "Erase" command. - Fix: Non-linear behavior status was not refreshed after imperfection calculation. - Fix: Program may have crashed or hanged if the file contained walls in plate module and shading mode and "Display thickness" option was set together. - Add: It is possible to load applied reinforcement regions from 8.0 files if its code is not obsolate in 9.0. - Fix: In the case of 3D Structure module the support motion load could wrongly calculated if the structure contained arcs or circles. - Fix: Punching reinforcement calculation was incorrect in case of base slabs. - Fix: Start menu/FEM-Design online/Update license file for local hardware lock link didn't work. - Fix: The program could freeze at beginning of calculation if somehow the fictitious bar had no material. - Fix: There could be problem with displaying cursor and snap at graphical window in documentation. - Fix: Sometimes setting the colour palette to a fitting scale was impossible. - Fix: If "uplift" and imperfection calculation was asked together, the imperfection results was wrong (exept first combination). - Modify: The autosave feature of the Tekla Import is taken out now. - Fix: After modifying detailed result display options program may have crashed when one member was selected from the list instead of "Maximum". - Fix: Printing detailed results of RC bars did not work correctly. - Fix: When listing minimum of point group reaction forces from max. of load groups result, node numbers were not displayed correctly. - Fix: Label of truss members were displayed on layer of beams instead of layer of trusses. - Fix: Steel design calculations may cause the program to run out of memory. - Fix: Numerical inaccuracies may cause crash during steel design calculations. - Fix: In PreDesign module Main directions command did not work for Y direction. - Fix: There haven't been compatibility with code 358 so far. - Fix: Some toolbar bugs has been fixed. - Fix: Documentaton module could be frozen or zoomed wrong when PageUp or PageDown pressed. - Modify: From this service release the default reinforcement steel material is A500HW in the case of Finnish Eurocode. - Fix: If user modified detailed result display settings in documentation module, program crashed at quitting documentation. - Fix: Applied surface reinforcements will be deleted on shells from this service release if the user changed the descartes reinforcement type to centric type or vice versa. - Fix: Even if bar design calculation failed, bar may have been marked as "Designed" in the utilization table. - Modify: If design calculation fails for steel bar, a more specific error message is sent about the problem. - Fix: In case of base slabs it may have happened that two punching objects had the same ID. - Fix: Steel design calculation crashed if buckling lenght of bars was missing. - Fix: Undo of closing detailed result windows may have crashed. - Fix: Incorrect results were displayed for required and missing reinforcement if no ULS combintaion was defined. - Fix: If printer name was longer than 32 characters, program crashed when user wanted to change printer assigned to a section in documentation module. - Fix: Second order analysis, imperfection shape: the program did not consider if a new shape number was specified. - Fix: Program crashed if file contained timber panel and code was changed. - Fix: Plate module - Eigenfrequencies - Results - Vibration shapes > show. The scaling value and scale factor was wrong. - Fix: If user deleted the ID of an object, added it to a design group and asked detailed result about it, the program may have crashed. - Fix: If the window background color was black the numbers of color palettes were not visible up to this service release. - Add: Automatic error report sending. - Fix: At code changing general materials were not handled correctly. - Fix: If code-independent code was selected, and material was not assigned to all objects, program crashed when objects properties dialog should have appeared. - Fix: Some compatibility problems with earlier version of FEM-Design were fixed. - Fix: Some icons were missed from hide/show tool. Differences between version 9.00.003 and 9.00.005: - Modify: Creating solids when loading Reference Geometry models from IFC files has been speeded up a little. - Fix: Creating solids when loading Reference Geometry models made less sensitive to errors found in incoming geometry. - Modify: We reduced the size of files that contained a lot of sections for steel bar design parameters. - Fix: It was impossible to open files that contained rc bar detailed design result without result file (strFEM, plaFEM). - Fix: There was a problem in conversion of materials to new code from obsolete codes. These wrong materials will be deleted at loading of drawing. - Fix: Printing story and main direction signs caused big black spots on the paper. - Fix: Printing of images from documentation did not work. - Fix: Calculation of steel bar normal capacity for user-defined sections was incorrect in some special cases. - Modify: If design calculation (Design/Check) is started from Calculation dialog, only objects relevant in the current mode (RC, Steel or Timber) are processed. - Add: In documentation module title of invalid detailed results are displayed. - Fix: In documentation module detailed results may have been misplaced. - Fix: If printing area was defined by a rectangle, title may have been misplaced on the printout. - Fix: The user was able to set the load case - mass conversion factors to -1.0E38 on tricky way. Naturally these values could cause calculation errors. - Fix: Crack width results were empty after selecting them from the "Select result" dialog. - Fix: From the previous service release in some very rare geometrical cases there was not possible to create solids from base regions that contained arcs. - Fix: Reinforcement ratio used in punching calculation may have been inaccurate in certain cases. - Fix: If file was loaded without its FEM file, design calculations may cause crash if documentation contained design results. - Fix: Transparency of objects may have got lost at saving and reloading the file. - Fix: In very rare cases the design calculation of reinforcement bars was wrong. (Mainly in the case of huge internal forces.) - Fix: The cross-sections of bars may have got lost when loading 3D structure file into PreDesign module. - Fix: If non-Predesign file was loaded into Predesign module, selection of new code was not forced even if the original code was not available in Predesign module. - Fix: Listing of maximum of nodal displacement result did not work correctly if model did not contain SLS load combination. - Fix: If you've done complete uninstall and after install the same version, the user profile's FemData folder haven't been refreshed. - Fix: FEM-Design crashed if there was problem with the graphic card or its driver. Since now FEM-Design sends a message to update the driver and terminate instead of crashing. - Fix: In nonlinear (uplift) calculation, the surface support elements didn't work, if their shape were triangular. - Fix: 8.0 files that contained RC bar detailed result windows were incompatible with FEM-Design 9.0. - Fix: In some very rare geometrical cases the calculation of amount of applied reinforcement for shells could have been wrong at the edges of the applied surface reinforcement regions. - Fix: Files that were ever code-independent were empty after loading them. - Fix: The "Enter = Repeat command" didn't work for manual design commands of puncing reinforcement of shells. - Add: From now Soficad export is implemented in 9.0. - Fix: If geometry of reinforcement regions imported from Soficad was slightly inaccurate, their reinforcement may have not been considered in the calculation. - Fix: Program crashed at exiting Section Editor. - Fix: Design group handling was not correct if for members were modified and they did not match with the group anymore. - Modify: From now the user will get a warning message at beginning of load combination calculation with crack with calculation if there were no applied reinforcement. - Fix: It was possible to put reinforcement regions into same design group with different thickness. - Fix: Program may have crashed if there were invalid stability results in the result list. - Fix: At steel bar - shell calculations not the correct buckling curves were considered in case of welded I section with plate thickness less then 40 mm. - Fix: If file was loaded without its FEM file, and it contained bar-shell detailed result, the program crashed. - Fix: The object edition without material could cause freezing. - Fix: If user changed the code after starting FEM-Design and defined a new material, that user-defined material was not displayed in the properties dialog next time the file was loaded. Differences between version 9.00.002 and 9.00.003: - Fix: Imperfection calculation - It was not possible to run imperfection calc with option consider cracking of rc elements. - Fix: Cracked section analysis - creep was not considered in cracked stiffness - Modified: Material & section mapping - From now on all the mapping lists are sorted by default. - Fix: Material mapping - Eurocode design codes with NA were not considered as being compatible with neutral Eurocode when a material mapping table was about to be deleted. - Fix: In steel bar, shell model detailed result the load combination selected in the combo box may have differed from the one the result is actually displayed for. - Fix: After moving Message dialog the flashing became very slow. - Fix: In the dialog of RC shell design parameter the modification of diameter library had no effect on all controls. - Fix: Wall objects of Plate module did not appear correctly in "Hidden line", "Shaded" and "Shaded with border" modes. - Fix: The type of RC punching design parameter did not appear in the dialog. - Fix: In quantity estimation dialog unit weight and weight of bars was not displayed correctly. - Fix: It was not possible to list quantity estimation tables in Norwegian and Swedish Eurocode. - Fix: Program crashed if user tried to change the invalid printer assigned to a section of documentation module. - Fix: The scale of the following results was wrong: reinforcement concrete shell design forces, required reinforcement, applied reinforcement, missing reinforcement, crack width. - Add: From now the user can delete the edge connection from shell by the Delete command. - Modified: Automatic generation of punching objects was slightly modified. - Fix: Hardware lock not found after crash and FEM-Design automatic restart. - Fix: In punching detailed result precision of steel ratio was too low. - Add: Licence System has been updated to 3.0.3. - Fix: Hardware lock not found after crash and FEM-Design automatic restart. - Fix: Installer started FEMSysTray as the admin user's process, if the installer had been started by a standard user. That's why more user's femdata directory could be confused to each other. - Fix: RC punching calculation by maximum of loadgroups did not work correctly. - Fix: More specific warning messages are sent if punching reinforcement does not comply with detailing rules. - Fix: In case of open stirrup punching reinforcement design the reinforcement is placed closer to the column. - Modified: Installer - "Install Licence System" is checked by default, if Licence system hasn't been installed. - Fix: Saving as default of gridline state had no effect, there was gridline anyway. - Add: Steel qualities of design parameters and shell calculation parameter in RC design are saved as default. - Add: Since now FEM-Design silent installer supports the arguments of silent installer of the Licence System ( /LicMode /ServerName /ServerPort /CommunicationMode /ServerIP ) - Fix: 8.0 files that used to be code-independent were not compatible with 9.0. - Fix: Checking of "Display thickness" option did not work correctly in documentation. - Modified: The automatic generation of surface reinforcement for reinforced concrete shells is many times faster than earlier. - Fix: Text box command did not work in documentation mode. - Fix: Coefficient of seismic loadcase was not considered in the calculation. - Fix: Design calculation of steel truss members did not work correctly. - Fix: Units of dimension text was not displayed correctly. - Fix: Cursor was not displayed correctly in "Full window" mode. - Fix: Shape of some compound section was not recognized correctly. - Fix: Steel bar, timber bar and punching utilization results were not displayed correctly if SL combinations were not at the end of the combination list. - Add: Release notes can be read at the end of the install and on the download page. - Fix: Improved FEM-Design stability. - Fix: The check and design calculation were wrong for reinforcement bars in the case of Norwegian and Danish Eurocode. - Fix: Soficad import did not work. - Fix: Occasionally sorting was wrong for design results in result select dialog. - Add: In Predesign module EC standard code can be used, too. Differences between version 9.00.001 and 9.00.002: - Fix: There was a lock bit handling problem with Norwegian code. - Fix: Setting master member in RC design may have caused loosing of design results. - Fix: In Predesign module "List" command did not start from toolbar and its icon was missing from the menu. - Fix: Seismic effects were not included in the result of point and line connections. The first official release was 9.00.001.