When using a welded profile, weld seam verification can also be carried out in RF-/STEEL EC3 as part of the design. The program performs the typical designs according to EN 1993‑1‑8.
Extensive calculations may result in vast amounts of data. Of course, current hard drives and SSDs are measured in terabytes. Therefore, you expect this to be no problem for current computing technology. This is true, in fact, but as often happens, the devil is in the details.
A network dongle is the appropriate solution to ensure security for licensing within companies working with several RFEM and/or RSTAB licenses. First, the dongle is placed on a central server. The licenses are then requested by RFEM and RSTAB, as well as all other stand-alone programs, from this dongle via the network.
Project data are no longer stored in large shelves, but on secure servers. Each file gets a date stamp, which shows when the file was created, modified, and opened.
In RFEM, you have the option to create and analyze cables using sheaves. For this, use the "Cable on Pulleys" member type. It is ideal for pulley systems, where the longitudinal forces are transferred via sheaves.
As requested by many customers, the nodes are now represented by cubes after export using the direct interface to AutoCAD or in a DXF file. If you want to reuse the AutoCAD data in RFEM or RSTAB, make sure not to import all the layers when specifying the settings for the import.
In CRANEWAY, the welds between the flanges and the web of a cross‑section are dimensioned. Options are available for defining the weld as a double fillet weld or a butt weld.
"Distribution of load" represents a load actually applied to the system of FE mesh points or FE surfaces. The FE mesh size plays an important role in the loading in the case of line loads and free loads in particular.