Software Modification History - PT3D
09/12/2008, Included Transfer stresses, service stresses, and P/A integration.
07/11/2008, Improved cracked sections rotation in the finite element. This will result in more reliable evaluation of the deflections
02/11/2007, Switch to prevent slab bending moment soothing.
02/11/2007, New check to identify tendon high points which are not supported. This feature can be used to identify errors in the tendon layout.
02/11/2007, New feature to exclude some slab panels for the tendon influence zone. This feature can be used for better control of the additional reinforcement design.
06/06/2006, Major improvement of wide beams shear design.
15/06/2006, Improved snapping to the point loads.
06/06/2006, A new feature which is used as an advance preliminary deigns based on P/A, and the uplift is evaluated automatically.
06/06/2006, Improved tendon underside of duct report, (chair heights). This feature allows the user to produce final tendon shop drawings, assuming the tendon geometry was entered accurately.
10/03/2006, New option to display top and bottom duct cover on the Tendon Profile Editor, with auto detect of all concrete steps.
09/03/2006, New column property: Auto High Points: Yes/No. Normally, the software will introduce a tendon high point et each wall and column support. Now, the user can instruct the software to ignore some support. This is helpful in better control of the tendon profile (more...)
24/02/2006, New feature duct cover check report, with auto detect of all concrete steps.
25/08/2005, Fix small error with related to shifting of reference lines.
11/08/2005, Steel rates estimate. New feature.
10/08/2005, New editing feature to move a wall with the mouse. When a wall is selected, press the [Shift] key on the keyboard, and then grab and drag wall ends.
03/08/2005, For curved tendons include horizontal angle in the friction losses, and force due to the curvature. This force will influence P/A.
19/07/2005, A completely new manual. A PDF printable version of the manual is available for download.
18/07/2005, Better Ast design procedure. Now, most of the sections will be designed. Before in some case the software could not design ordinary steel.
06/07/2005, IntelliMesh, auto-fix aspect ratio error.
06/07/2005, Improved auto tendon profile.
05/07/2005, Introduced line beam elements, up to 300mm wide.
27/06/2005, Improved Wide Beam results extraction, Now, Mxy is included for better consistency.
24/06/2005, Improved punching shear check. Now, the average D effective will be calculated more precisely, considering all tendons within the punching shear perimeter.
23/06/2005, Major improvement of the meshing module. Now, many close node error s will be automatically eliminated.
17/06/2005, Improved rotation of the bending moment, used in design of the ordinary steel along the tendons.
16/06/2005, Ignore Support Lines crossing a tendons on angle lass than 30 degrees. Easier modeling.
15/06/2005, Show tendon laying order. At each tendon crossing the software will show which tendon has to be place first.
10/06/2005, Improved "Find tendon Clashing Points". Now, the software will report very precisely if there is an overlap of two crossing tendons. This is important for construction.
08/06/2005, Check punching shear foe the column above. Before it was only column below.
08/06/2005, New Slab Ortho-Mode for fast modeling. It can be switched On and Off by holding Shift button down, and pressing the Slabs tool. When Ortho mode is On, a rectangular slab panel can be created by clicking on three points, the first two will create one of the edges and the third one is anywhere on the opposite edge. This will make a rectangular panel. This is useful when reference lines are used.
07/06/2005, Improved P/A calculations.
06/06/2005, Multiple import form CAD files. Now, the software can import all slab panels and al columns in one go.
30/05/2005, New feature to display slab steps, on the soffit and on the top of the slab.
27/05/2005, New feature to display tendon profile (underside of duck) at 1m, ready for drafting. If the concrete outlay is imported form CAD, then the tendon layout will be exact, and then the tendon profile generated by the software will be exact, and they can be exported to AutoCAD, and used in the final drawings.
26/05/2005, Delete elements outside slab panels. This will simplify the import of one floor from R/C BUILDING.
20/05/2005, A minor error in Punching Shear check is fixed.
03/05/2005, Improve P/A in prelim punching shear design.
28/04/2005, Fine tuning of IntelliMESH., and report elements with aspect ratio larger than 10.
13/04/2005, PT3D did not export point loads to SLABS. Now, the point loads are included in SLABS export.
08/04/2005, Wide beams shear design.
05/05/2005, Eliminate meshing nodes at point loads in load cases for tendon uplift.
05/04/2005, Check mesh overlapping elements, IntelliMesh only.
18/03/2005, insert a nodal point for any point load.
18/03/2005, Fixed error when meshing data file located on a network drive.
09/03/2005, User defined slab panels stiffness factor.
08/03/2005, Slab-on-ground, soil-structure-interaction.
03/03/2005, Fixed error related to punching shear hear preliminary design.
03/03/2005, Improved point load distribution on the finite element mesh.
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