New features in AxisVM 10

New features and modules in AxisVM10

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About new modules

New features

General

New display style to help users with high resolution monitors (thicker lines, filled domains).
Structural Copy and Paste functions (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V).
Architectural rendering (correcting wall corners, plate edges, beam-column joints automatically).


Structural rendering	Architectural rendering

Export-import

Exporting selected elements or active parts to AXS file.
DXF import converts DXF layers into parts.
Enhanced IFC import to read objects having boundary representation only. Processing tapered and arced line elements.
Exporting SDNF (for steel detailing programs).

Geometry and elements

Stories are to make it easier to overview and edit the model.They can be defined before building the model or assigned to an existing structure. A story is a workplane parallel to the global X-Y plane, with a given Z position. If a story is selected mouse movements will be projected to the plane of the story even if you find an element at a different Z position. Coordinates will always be projected to the story plane to help tracing objects at different levels. Stories can be managed in the following dialog:

	Icons	Describing of operation
		Turn off/on stories
		Finding stories
		Display the story below / above the current story
		Numbering of stories can be controlled with these buttons. If the left one is down (Numbering of stories from the bottom) the lowest floor will be considered as ground floor and other stories will have a positive number. If Signed numbering of stories is selected the story closest to the zero level will be the ground floor. Underground stories will get a negative number, others will get positve numbers.

Displaying ground floor of a building

Logical parts. Automatically creates and updates parts based on customizable crtiteria (stories, element types, materials, cross-sections)
New editing functions on the pet palette (cutoff, rounding, detach, add tangential arc).

Cutting multiple domains.
Cutting model with a plane

Detaching objects (to move walls and columns).

Tool to remove intersection or division points
Drawing a tangential arc for two lines
New constraints (intersection of two lines, division point between two nodes)
Automatic rib eccentricity (top, midplane, bottom).
Nonlinear link elements (tension only / compression only)

Loads

Complex polygonal load contours for line and surface loads

Display order of load cases and load groups can be customized by dragging items in the load case tree.
Surface load distribution over beams and ribs optimized for multiple core processors
Smart labels on line loads (overlapping labels are rotated).

Analysis

New analysis engine optimized to use multiple core processors and accessing physical memory over 4 GB on 32-bit operating systems (can be 5-8 times faster).
Analysis times and parameters are saved into the model. Information dialog allows a review of them.
Custom functions can be defined for nonlinear increments
Dynamic analysis

Results

After completing the nonlinear analysis and displaying beam internal force diagrams hinges that got into plastic state at the current load step become red. The number beside the hinge shows the order of getting into a plastic state. Hinge with number 1 is the hinge getting plastic first. Where hinges are not red, plastic limit moment is not reached yet.
New result tables (beam, rib and truss forces listed by load cases)
Display of line support forces without the need to define section segments.

New modules

Analysis

General dynamic analysis, ’time history analysis’ (DYN module)

Dynamic analysis of time-dependent loads. Seismic analysis based on support acceleration diagrams. Calculation of time-dependent forces and displacements.