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Version 2.00
- Up to come
 New feature:
Check model tool
New feature:
Triangular and trapezoidal loads within an element
New feature:
Definition of Materials and Sections instead of E,A,I
Element Groups
New feature: Titles for
Materials and Section instead of using only ID
New feature: Copy Materials / Sections
New feature:
Renumber nodes / elements
tool
New feature:
Tool for the calculation of Moment, Shear force and
Axial force at any point within an element.
New feature:
Load cases of three different types: 1. Normal (User
defined), 2. Combination, 3. Body load (Gravity load, self
weight).
New feature:
Drawing of the Element Orientation.
Intermediate values of deformation within an element with
loads on are drawn more accurately, as the previous version
calculated them with approximations.
Bug fix:
Inaccuracy in the calculation of the equivalent forces (needed
for the Finite Element analysis) in the case of P2' or P1
elements (with hinges at ends i and/or j) with elemental
loads on.
Bug fix: In the previous release, Spring Reactions were
reported with the wrong sign (+/-)
Bug fix: In the previous release, in the results, the
Constraint-Spring Reactions could not be exported to MS
Excel
New,
editable ASCII
input file format
Previous program name Beam!2D is changed to Beam.2D
Other minor
improvements
Version 1.81
(November 2003)
Bug
fix: In the v1.80 Release, the HTML Help file was not updated
from the previous version (v1.72)
Version
1.80 (November 2003)
New
feature: The user can choose the drawing direction for the
Bending Moment Diagrams [M] (Tension / Compression)
New
feature: Springs (Elastic Constraints) in x,y (Translational)
or z (Rotational) direction
Other minor
improvements
Version
1.72 (February 2003)
Bug Fix: Inaccuracy in the constraint reactions in the very
special case when there is a nodal load directly on a
constraint and two or more elements were connected to that node.
Version
1.70 (January 2003)
New feature: Move nodes tool
New
feature: Check for coincident nodes / elements tool
New
feature: Drawing of the Deformed Model. Intermediate
deformations are calculated using Beam elements Shape
Functions
New
feature: User can export the results tables to Microsoft Excel
for Post-Processing
New feature: Full Multi-language support with the use of the
appropriate Language Pack, which the user can download from
the EngiLab Home Page
Before
displaying the results, the program checks if the model has
been changed since the last analysis, so that the analysis should be
carried out again in order for the results to be accurate
In the tools,
the 'Calculator' is added, which calls the Windows
Calulator for numerical operations
In the results
(Nodes displacements) the max. and min. values are written in
red and blue, in order to be distinguished from other values
Other GUI improvements
and fixes
Other minor
improvements
Bug fix: The Help file was not displayed in some machines
running Windows 2000.
Version
1.60 (June 2002)
GUI Improvement:
Two new buttons [+] / [-] that adjust the equivalences for the
drawing of the [M], [Q], [N] Diagrams
The program has
become bilingual: The user can select between the English and the Greek
language
Version
1.50 (Febuary 2001)
New feature: Export
Picture to file as bitmap
New
feature: Divide Elements Tool
New
feature: Merge Nodes Tool
New
feature: Max/Min values for the drawing of the [M], [Q], [N]
Diagrams appear on picture
New
feature: Before the Analysis, the program checks if there are
nodes not connected to other nodes, and if yes, asks the user
if they should be deleted
New
feature: Create Arc Tool
GUI Improvement:
Absolute or relative coordinates for the graphical definition
of elements
Other GUI Improvements
and fixes
Solver
improvement: Solver has become faster
While
deleting a node, if there are elements using that node, they
can be deleted also
Version
1.40 (March 2000)
New
feature: Treeview for the Model Data
New
feature:
Copy Picture to the Windows Clipboard as bitmap
New
feature: Constraint Reactions in the Analysis Results
GUI Improvement:
The user can add nodes, constraints and elements using the
mouse pointer on the picture
GUI Improvement:
The constraints are drawn graphically, not only
symbolically
GUI Improvement:
The grid can be drawn with a step that the user specifies
GUI Improvement:
New form for picking colours
GUI Improvement:
New zoom picture features such as Zoom Window, Zoom
Extends,
Zoom Previous. The buttons that moved the picture up, down,
left, right were removed.
Other
User Interface improvements
Specific units for the program use (m, kN, kPa etc) where
removed. From this version on, the model data have to be given
in a consistent system of units. The results will then comply.
Bug
fix: The equivalency between Force - Picture cm didn't work
right for the drawing of the [Q] and [N] Diagrams
Bug fix: When a node was moved to a location where another
node existed, and there was an element connecting the two
nodes, a ‘division by zero’ run-time error
occured
Bug
fix: When user pressed the 'Delete node' button
Bug fix: The drawing of the elemental loads had some minor
problems
Version 1.32 (February 2000)
Bug
Fix: 'Save' and 'Save as' menu options under 'File' were
inactive under certain conditions
Version 1.31 (February 2000)
Bug
Fix: Beam.2D Program icon was not appearing correctly
Bug
Fix: The Load vectors were not drawn correctly
Version 1.30 (January 2000)
New feature:
Copy Model Data or Results to the Windows Clipboard
GUI Improvement: New, improved form for the presentation of the results
Other minor
improvements
Version 1.22 (June 1999)
New feature:
Move (Pan) Drawing using the corresponding tool
New feature:
Select Nodes or Elements by right-clicking on them, using a Pop-up Menu
Solver
improvement: Analysis Solver became 10 times faster, due to improvements in
the algorithms employed
Minor
fixes
Version 1.00 (May 1999)
(First Release)
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