GRAPHISOFT Releases EcoDesigner STAR

BUDAPEST, January 21, 2014 – GRAPHISOFT®, the leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) architectural software developer, has announced the launch of EcoDesigner STAR, the first software that places standard-compliant energy analysis in the heart of the architect’s familiar BIM work environment. EcoDesigner STAR enables architects to design the most energy-efficient buildings, by themselves or working together with engineers or specialist consultants.

http://www.graphisoft.com/info/news/press_releases/ecodesigner_star_release.html

FEM-Design version 13

FEM-Design 13 has been just released.

What is new?

• Multiple point support (group) generation.
• Rearrangement of load groups and load combinations dialogs.
• Automatic load combination generation from load groups.
• Load case, load combinations and load group export/import.
• Improved rectangle definition.
• Improved eigenfrequency and seismic calculation.
• Turkish seismic code including Performance based design.
• FEM-Design 3D Soil

New service version of Revit Add-In is available

The new service release of Revit StruXML Add-In is now ready and available to download at the StruSoft download page and in StruSoft installer. There are two versions of the Add-In for both Revit 2013 and Revit 2014, and each is available for Win32 and Win64 system.

The new service release 1.0.004 contains following bug fixing:

• Floor, curved walls and isolated foundation elements were not exported correctly at some very specific cases.

Following new features have been added:

• Export of loads and load cases.
• Extended export report.
• Publicity level of Add-In data has been changed. It means that the dialog warning about missing StruXML updater (when Revit model exported once to struxml was opened in Revit without add-in installed) will not appear any more for files exported using the add-in in version 1.0.004.

Please download the newest version of the Revit to FEM-Design manual in order to read more about the new features. The release notes are available here.

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   IMPACT 13
   FEM-Design 13

are now available in StruSoft Installer.

Update file command in FEM-Design

A new command Update File has been introduced in FEM-Design. It is accessible from the main menu: Edit → Update File.

The Update File command gives a possibility to update elements that were initially imported from struxml to FEM-Design with the changes that have been made in Revit afterwards:

• Material change
• Section / Thickness change
• Geometry change