The new CYPE version 2025.b is designed to improve the users' experience by streamlining the modelling and analysis of steel structures with CYPE 3D. It also includes two important new features in CYPE Connect: an operation for establishing contact relationships between elements and the possibility of adding shear lugs in baseplates.
CYPE 3D
In short, all the new features added to the latest version help our users design structures that are safer, more efficient and more economical.
Plus, other improvements have been included, such as a dockable window environment, a new name and new functioning of display layers, adjustable drawing preferences, an option for editing the size of texts on the screen, drawing filled force diagrams, and much more.
CYPE Connect: contact relationship and shear lugs
Two of the most important new features we have added to version 2025.b are the appearance of operations for establishing contact relationships between elements and inserting shear lugs on baseplates in CYPE Connect, all supported by accurate strength verification and improved viewing in the program's 3D modelling environment.
The new contact relationship operation is used to define interactions between steel surfaces or between steel and concrete surfaces without bolts and anchors, represented in 3D. The option for adding shear lugs manages significant shear forces on baseplates using steel sections that are welded and embedded in the foundation, thus relieving the bolts from these forces.
New features in MEP programs with version 2025.b
CYPEFIRE Hydraulic Systems includes new features for optimising the design and analysis of fire hydraulics systems. The new features include improved importation of enclosures, increased capacity in the generation and quantities of fittings, the integration of a flow regulating valve and an update in the quantities of supports.
CYPEHVAC now includes new types of ducts, fittings and manufacturers, as well as improvements in the definition of joints between ducts and manufacturer's catalogues, as well as new air-source heat pump and ground-source heat pumps and the analysis of the additional refrigerant charge in bibloc air-source heat pump systems. These updates will significantly expand the options available to air conditioning designers.
On the other hand, the speed of generating diagrams in CYPELEC has been improved significantly, which speeds up the electrical design process. Also, the new CYPEPLUMBING tool, disconnected element detection, performs automatic checks of plumbing systems during the modelling process. This ensures greater accuracy and efficiency in project planning.
Expansion of manufacturers and improvements in tools
In other development areas, new chemical and mechanical anchors made by HILTI have been added to CYPE Connect, and new models of Peikko punching shear studs have been added to CYPECAD. Air conditioning elements, such as heat pumps from various manufacturers, have also been included in CYPEHVAC. Also, just like in CYPE 3D, we have enhanced fire safety by including several manufacturers of intumescent paints for coating structural steel elements in CYPECAD. These enhancements not only expand the options available but also optimise the tools' functions for professionals in the industry.
More new features in version 2025.b
To find out what's new in version 2025.b, check out all the details here.
