As of version 2024.f, the CYPE Menu tool (available on the BIMserver.centre platform Store) allows users to manage the updates of the applications it includes.
When accessing the CYPE Menu, the program checks whether there is a newer version of the installed applications and, if so, the "Update" option appears next to them.
The update process will download the application and, once completed, will start the installation.
As of the 2019.d version, CYPECAD, CYPE 3D and Continuous beams allow users to edit the percentage of live load to be considered as quasi-permanent load to take it into account when calculating the differed deflection. To do so, the “Construction process” panel has been included in the “% Quasi-permanent” field.
The panel can be accessed as follows:
Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete (ACI 318M-11).
Implemented in CYPECAD, CYPE 3D and Continuous beams.
CYPECAD and CYPE 3D use the Advanced beam editor and Advanced column editor when applying this code.
Norma Brasileira ABNT NBR 6118 (2014). Projeto de estruturas de concreto – Procedimento.
Implemented in CYPECAD, CYPE 3D (Metal 3D), Punching shear verification, Stairs, Flat slabs, Corbels, Great depth beams, Foundation elements and Continuous beams.
The node width range has been increased to 1000cm (General data > Edit the geometry and loads of the selected frame > select the Node description button > select the node).
Concrete and reinforced concrete. Construction. Updated edition SNIP 52-01-2003. Moscow 2012.
Implemented in CYPECAD, Metal 3D and Continuous beams.
For this code, CYPECAD, Metal 3D and Continuous beams allow for:
If the Russian concrete code is used together with its corresponding seismic code (СНиП II-7-81 – implemented in the 2014.b version), the ductility reinforcement criteria and capacity design criteria for bending of concrete columns are taken into account.
Geometry of the openings and types of beams they may be applied to
As of the 2014.a version, the Advanced beam editor of CYPECAD and Continuous beams allow for horizontal or circular openings to be introduced in reinforced concrete beams of constant or variable depth, of the following types:
Conditions of the position and dimensions of the openings
These openings are not considered during the analysis phase, and so, both their position and dimensions should remain restricted so that the efforts obtained may be considered valid. The limitations imposed by the program are the following:
The interaction between the reinforcement of the openings and the rest of the reinforcement introduced by users is completely automatic. When users introduce an opening, the program cuts the skin reinforcement bar at the opening, reorganises the stirrups on which the opening lies, and, if it is displaced, the reinforcement of the frame is modified in accordance. The program checks that the horizontal openings only cut the skin reinforcement bars. If this is not the case, an error message is displayed.
The conditions under which an opening is considered to be correctly defined may vary along the length of the frame (for example, if another opening is introduced very close to it, the stirrups of both openings could overlap, which would generate an undefined situation). If an opening cannot be processed, it is marked with a red dot and an error message is displayed when the mouse cursor is placed over it; and its effects on the previously introduced reinforcement disappear until the opening is deleted or the error is resolved.
The options to define the openings are located in the Openings floating menu, which can be activated by selecting the 
, button, that appears in the top buttons bar next to the transverse reinforcement edition option.
Introducing the openings and defining their reinforcement
The Openings floating menu contains five options:
New opening) is selected, the New opening dialogue appears on screen, in which the type of opening (Rectangular or Circular) and its dimensions are defined.
Edit opening) option.
button on the top bar of the beam editor > Edit). 
button on the top bar of the beam editor > Edit). 
Edit opening and assign
Move opening
Delete opening
U.L.S. checks of the openings
The U.L.S. checks of the introduced openings can be consulted using the existing options in the beam editor, 
(U.L.S. checks at the worst case point) and 
(U.L.S. checks at a point) buttons. In the case of the worst case point, all the checks of the openings the beam may have are added to the checks of the beam. When consulting the checks at a point, the opening can be selected directly.
When checking a beam with openings, worst case checks of the beam may appear in the zone in which the opening is situated because the program considers that the zone of the opening should meet the requirements of the section with the opening as well as the section without it.
An element filter has been implemented to help when consulting the checks of the openings using the worst case point option ().
Reinforcement details of the openings in drawings
If a frame contains openings, the details of the opening are automatically generated integrated within the details of each frame. The scale of the detail of the opening can be configured by users.
Reglamento Colombiano de Construcción Sismo Resistente NSR-10. Título C ‑ Concreto estructural.
Implemented in CYPECAD, Metal 3D, Stairs, Foundation elements, and Continuous beams.
CYPECAD's advanced column and beam editors are also available with this code.
Continuous beams now includes the following improvements:
These improvements are the same as those which have been implemented the Beam editor of CYPECAD.
Continuous beams now includes the following new features:
These improvements are the same as those which have been implemented in the CYPECAD's beam editor (except the option to Block reinforcement, which, given how it operates, is not applicable to this program).
The admissible diameters contained the reinforcement tables for transverse reinforcement, top additional reinforcement and bottom additional reinforcement, can be deactivated depending on the depth of the beam.
The top additional reinforcement and bottom additional reinforcement tables include two new columns: Minimum depth and Maximum depth, which allow users to define a beam depth interval for each admissible diameter, so that if the depth lies outside this range, the diameter is not used. The transverse reinforcement tables only contain one new column, Maximum depth, which allows user to deactivate the admissible diameters for beams exceeding that value.
These improvements have also been implemented in CYPECAD.
New beam edition tools have been implemented in the beam editor ( 
button) in the 2013.e version of Continuous beams. These improvements also appear in CYPECAD’s new beam editor, as it is the same editor as for Continuous beams. These tools are described below:
Join longitudinal reinforcement
The option: Join reinforcement, has been implemented in the Longitudinal reinforcement dialogue box ( 
button), allowing users to join reinforcement bar packs of the same diameter. Users select two bar packs and indicate the amount of bars of these packs which are to be joined.
Change of stirrup type in the same span
A new option: Transverse reinforcement arrangement, has been implemented in the transverse reinforcement edition dialogue box ( 
button > Edit reinforcement). Two options are available in this section:
Grouped stirrups
Two fields have been implemented in the transverse reinforcement edition dialogue box ( button > Edit reinforcement), where users can indicate the number of grouped stirrups or grouped bars (if the stirrup type contains bars)
Transverse sections defined by users
Using the new Transverse sections dialogue box ( 
button), users can configure the sections of the frame which are to be displayed with the following options:
