Product Features

Using the Connection Plate component, you can automatically create a new gusset plate in the Steel Joints add-on. This saves you separate components, and the other elements, such as a cap plate and a slide plate, are thus automatically taken into account with their dimensions.

Would you like to display nodal loads or load components acting in one point in parallel? Then use the "Shifted Display" option. This allows you to define offsets in the x, y, and z directions, as well as the size and spacing.

To determine the shear resistance of bolts, you can use the Steel Joints add-on to specify whether there is a shaft or a thread in the shear plane.

If a weld seam connects two plates with different materials, it is possible to select from a combo box in the Steel Joints add-on which one of both materials should be used for the weld seam.

Utilize this time-saving step! This feature allows you to define or edit the member reinforcement for several members or member sets at the same time.

Do you work with timber a lot? In the Timber Design add-on for RFEM, you can design members as well as surfaces according to the Eurocode, such as cross-laminated timber, glued-laminated timber, softwood, engineered wood, and so on.

You have the option to automatically design the existing surface reinforcement to cover the required reinforcement. You can also select whether to automatically define the reinforcement diameter or the member spacing.

Curved elements are available only in RFEM. It's possible to intersect curved surfaces and solids.

When doing this, the program generates surfaces with the "Trimmed" surface type. With this technology, you can create very complex geometries, such as pipe intersections or curved openings, with a single click.

The intersection of solids is carried out adaptively using the new solid types "Hole" and "Intersection", according to the set theory. Use this method to create new, complex solid geometries similar to the manufacturing process (drilling, milling, turning, etc.). Therefore, it is possible to create complex curved surface or perforated solid elements. It's a simple process!

Use RWIND 2 Pro to easily apply a permeability to a surface. All you need is the definition of

• the Darcy coefficient D,
• the inertial coefficient I, and
• the length of the porous medium in the direction of flow L,

to define a pressure boundary condition between the front and back of a porous zone. Due to this setting, you obtain the flow through this zone with a two-part result display on both sides of the zone area.

But that's not all. Furthermore, the generation of a simplified model recognizes permeable zones and takes into account the corresponding openings in the model coating. Can you waive an elaborate geometric modeling of the porous element? Understandable – we have good news for you then! With a pure definition of the permeability parameters, you can avoid complex geometric modeling of the porous element. Use this feature to simulate permeable scaffolding, dust curtains, mesh structures, and so on.

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Do you already know the editor for mesh refinement control? It is a great help for your work! Why? It's easy – it gives you the following options:

• Graphic visualization of the areas with mesh refinements
• Mesh refinement of zones
• Deactivating the standard 3D solid mesh refinement with transversion into the corresponding manual 3D mesh refinements.

These options help you to formulate a suitable rule for meshing the entire model, even for the models with unusual dimensions. Use the editor to efficiently define small model details on large buildings or detailed meshing areas in the coating area of the model. You will be amazed!