The following predefined reports can be added optionally as chapters in customisable reports:
- Composite slab quantities
- Floor slab reinforcement
- Punching shear verification
- Surface areas/Volumes
- Horizontal wind loads
Update history
CYPECAD
The "Advanced design of surface foundations" module is common to CYPE 3D and CYPECAD. Nevertheless, the features of this module are different in each program:
- In CYPECAD
Allows users to design foundations with footings or pile caps with special intersections (intersections between strap and tie beams), establish polygonal limits for footings and enter line, point and surface loads on footings, pile caps, and strap and tie beams.
By being able to consider point, line and surface loads on the foundation elements, users can consider the effects of the load of the soil, screeds, façades, stairs etc. acting on the elements and take into account any possible favourable effect they may have on their equilibrium and size. - In CYPE 3D
Users can only place polygonal limits on footings.
As of the 2021.e version, so users who have this module in their license can use all of its features, those who have CYPE 3D in their license but not CYPECAD, can also use CYPECAD (2021.e version) and import a CYPE 3D project to design the foundation using all the tools the "Advanced design of surface foundations" module has in CYPECAD.
"Guía Boliviana de Diseño Sísmico 2020".
Implemented in CYPECAD and CYPE 3D.
The 2021.d version of CYPECAD also includes other minor program improvements and corrections of issues that could occur in unique cases:
- The "Surface loads on panels" option has been improved and users can select panels that are completely surrounded by others.
- Warnings when assigning walls that appeared repetitively have been eliminated.
- The values of the "Groups" > "Options – 3D view" option are saved.
- The values that are shown in the "Damping" help box of the "Norma de Construcción Sismorresistente NCSE-02" have been corrected.
- After using the "Loads" > "Change loadcase assignment" option, the floors on which changes have been carried out are automatically saved.
- An error in the "Reinforcement quantities, per diameter" report has been solved. When the "Detail base reinforcement on drawings" option was active, the base reinforcement total was twice the actual value in the summary of the quantities.
- An error has been solved, which caused an increase in the length of a frame in cases as shown in the image.
- An error has been solved that occurred when users tried to obtain the frames drawing having deleted all the sections when the frame had been edited.
- An error has been solved that occurred when users consulted the deformed shape having deleted loadcases that had been consulted previously.
- An error has been solved that occurred when users cancelled the selection of the form in "Panel manager > Waffle slabs > Import from library".
- An error has been solved that occurred when stairs were entered in groups that had been added below foundation level, which caused for them to be added to the group above.
The 2021.d version includes the new tool "Lock/Unlock perimeter" in the "Punching shear" option ("Results" tab > "Slabs/Waffle slabs" menu > "Punching shear" option). Using this tool, users can lock as many perimeters of the supports as they wish. This way, each time the project is analysed or when punching shear perimeters are regenerated, only those that have not been locked will be generated.
The following predefined reports have been added, so users may add them as chapters in the customised reports:
- Joist takeoff
- Form takeoff
- Joist floor slab reinforcement takeoff
- Hollow core plate takeoff
- Hollow core plate reinforcement takeoff
- Composite slab reinforcement takeoff
The 2021.c version of CYPECAD also includes other small improvements and correction of issues that could occur in unique cases:
- When a beam is inserted or extended, it is possible to snap to any point at the end of a wall. Until the 2021.c version, it was only possible to snap to the axis of the wall.
- It is possible to copy the elements that have been entered, from one group to another, using editing resources with the "Copy elements to another group" option.
- When a castellated beam is defined, the depth and other dimensions of the section are displayed. The depth is also shown in "Beams - Information".
- By pressing the "Drawings" button, information is generated for all the possible drawings. This is generally quite fast except in some "Column schedule" and "Column details" drawings. As of the 2021.c version, it is possible to cancel the process to obtain this information if the corresponding drawings are not going to be generated.
- The "Centre of mass and centre of stiffness" selection of "Visible references" remains after the program is closed.
- Upon changing the initial or final group of a column, users can edit the fixity and buckling coefficients at the new floors.
- A new check for panel outline intersections is included. This check is done before the project is analysed to avoid later errors.
- This situation has been found to occur in some cases when beams with very different widths meet.
- The forces at column starts which are shown in the "Column starts, shear walls and walls by loadcase" chapter take into account the elements that are connected to the start, in the same way as those shown in the "Foundation loads" drawing.
- During the update process of the BIM model, the templates of the columns are updated.
- The export process of the deformed shape to the BIM model has been improved, whereby its incorrect positioning in certain occasions, has been corrected.
- The detection of concrete columns during the import of IFC files has been improved. Previously, in certain cases, no columns were detected.
- An error that occurred when selecting "Strap and tie beams > Match" in a project that had not been analysed has been solved.
- An error has been solved that caused that, after editing column starts, the length of the starts was not shown in the "Column schedule" drawing in certain circumstances.
- An error that occurred in some cases when "Import series of drawings" was selected in a project that had not been analysed has been solved.
- A wall data inconsistency error has been solved, which could occur when a floor was added over another in which walls had previously been inserted on other walls.
- An error that occurred when consulting forces for combinations in timber or composite columns has been solved.
Users can choose the colours with which the elements of the project are exported in two different ways:
- According to its material
Elements of different types but with the same material are shown with the same colour. For example, a concrete column and a concrete beam have the same colour. - 3D view of CYPECAD
Each item will have the same colour as in the 3D view.
As of the 2021.c version, the "New floors" option allows for floors to be added below the current foundation group.
In the previous version (2021.b) the possibility to customise reports in CYPECAD based on predefined reports was implemented.
Now, in the 2021.c version, the following predefined reports have been added to optionally include them as chapters in the customisable reports:
- Beam reinforcement report
- Beam takeoff
- Job takeoffs
- Reinforcement quantities, per diameter
If any of these chapters is selected, it is possible to configure the data to be listed using the "Report options" button.
Structural use of concrete. Part 1: Code of practice for design and construction.
Implemented in:
- CYPECAD
- CYPE 3D
- Shear walls
- Reinforced concrete cantilever walls
- Foundation elements
The 2021.b version of CYPECAD includes other improvements and program corrections that may be required in unique cases:
- The "Characteristics that have been considered for the soil-structure interaction" have been improved. Now, all the information is contained in a single table.
- The soil-structure interaction can be edited when editing footings and pile caps.
- Object snaps no longer have to be activated in the Frame reinforcement editor to consult checks.
- A waffle slab reinforcement error has been corrected. On some occasions, the end of the anchorage of the second layer reinforcement was straight when it should have been curved.
- The "Tags" option is added to the "Results" tab. Until now, it was only available in "Beam Definition".
- The size of the “Block frame reinforcement” dialogue box can be adjusted.
- In the "Column schedule" drawing, the text of the floor size is not limited.
- "Assign wall foundations" is included in the "Foundation" > "Foundation elements" option in the "Results" tab.
- A specific error that occurred when structures with connections were exported to an IFC file has been corrected.
- Specific errors that arose when consulting contour maps, causing a general error in the program, have been corrected.
- A warning is displayed if the top of a wall is defined with several sloped planes. Previously, this case produced a general error in the analysis process.
- Some of the thickness values of anchorage plates, which were displayed rounded, are now displayed with greater precision in drawings.
- The criteria to determine the depth of beams that are embedded in walls and crown beams has been modified. If the beam is in contact with a floor slab, its depth will be taken as the largest value between the depth of the floor slab and the value defined in the options. Otherwise, it will be taken as the greater value between the wall thickness and the value defined in the options, with a maximum limit of one metre.
