CYPECAD version 2024.f includes the following improvements and corrections to the program for some specific cases:
- Pile cap covers. As of version 2024.f, the values for pile cap and footing coverings can be differentiated.
- An error that occurred when checking the series of steel sections in the column editor, in cases where the lateral buckling length was greater than the clear height, has been solved, as it was sometimes possible for sections that didn't meet all the requirements of the standards to be proposed. In any case, the checking of the selected section was and is always correctly displayed in the main panel.
- An error that occurred when designing the column stirrups in some specific cases has been solved. This error could occur when the base of the column was a footing, the base was also connected to a concrete wall and the height of the first section of the column was small (less than 1.5 metres).
- An error that occurred when right-clicking on the option to generate bolt punching reinforcements has been fixed.
- The transverse reinforcement spacing check of chapter 9.5.3 of the Spanish structural code "Código Estructural" (Annex 19) and Eurocode 2 is improved to consider point (4), which reduces the column transverse reinforcement spacing by a coefficient of 0.6 in the areas near the node.
- The editing of ramp reinforcement has been improved for ramps with many reinforcement sections. In these cases, the editing could take a long time to open because the search for an optimal layout of the sections was very slow.
- The import of columns has been improved when creating jobs from a BIMserver.center project. If the columns had been defined in blocks according to their fixed point, they could be imported without being considered correctly.
- The "Edit - Types of ramps" option has been improved, as when selecting an "Intermediate support", instead of the selected support lighting up, the first section would light up.
- The import of columns has been improved when creating jobs from a BIMserver.center project. For circular columns whose fixed point was not the centre and with an angle other than 0º, they were not imported in their correct position.
