This new feature in version 2025.a of CYPECAD makes it possible to copy the punching shear reinforcement defined for one support to the same support located on another floor.
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In CYPECAD version 2025.a, the "Groups-Search references" option has been added.
This allows users to search for elements (columns, walls, frames, slabs, beam intersections and predefined loads) by their reference.
Only the reference, or part of it, needs to be entered for the element to be located.
Beams and slabs can also be searched for with the "Beam 1" ("Slab 1") format.
In the options for entering loads on the floor ("Loads", "Line loads on beams", "Surface loads on slabs"), the possibility of predefining these loads has been added so they can be entered more easily.
Furthermore, if any changes are made to the value of the load, they will be much quicker and there will be less chance of mistakes.
In CYPECAD version 2025.a, it is now possible to define concrete covers in beams that are different from those entered in the general data of the job.
To do this, in "Beam Definition > Beams > Other options > Assign covers" tab, the "Specific for the beam" option can be selected.
In the "File" menu of CYPECAD version 2025.a, the "Save as template" option has been added.
This new option allows the configuration and general data of a job to be stored in templates and used later when creating new jobs.
Saved templates can be used when creating a new job by selecting the "Start from a template" option.
As of version 2025.a, CYPECAD verifies the requirements for the seismic design to be met by the beam-column nodes of reinforced concrete frames that are part of the seismic force resisting system.
These checks for reinforced concrete nodes have been implemented for the following codes:
- ACI 318-08
- ACI 318-11
- ACI 318-14
- ACI 318-19
- NSR-10 (Colombia)
- NTRC-17 (Mexico)
- NB 1225001-1:2020 (Bolivia)
- Eurocode 8
- Spanish structural code "Código Estructural"
In the "Columns/Shear walls" menu of the "Results" tab, there is a new option: "Concrete nodes - Consult checks" which allows users to consult all the checks carried out in the selected node.
This option also allows users to access the corresponding editors, if necessary, in order to modify the reinforcement of the beams and columns at the node.
The "ULS checks" report has been extended with the corresponding tables summarising the status of the checks of the concrete nodes.
If not all checks are met at a node, a corresponding warning is displayed in the final analysis report, similar to the errors and warnings for other elements.
In version 2025.a, CYPE Menu (which can now be downloaded exclusively from the BIMserver.center platform) has new program groups.
- Architecture
- Structures
- MEP (Mechanical and Plumbing)
- MEP (Electrical)
- Energy and acoustic simulations
- Project management
- Project documents
- Interoperability
Most of the CYPE applications are sorted into these groups. In previous versions, most of these applications could only be downloaded as single applications from the BIMserver.center platform.
By downloading and installing CYPE Menu, users will only have the CYPE programs menu installed, but none of the applications included in it will be downloaded or installed. Initially, each of the icons representing the CYPE Menu applications appears in a box with a grey background. When clicking on any of them for the first time (or on the button under the application's name), a contextual menu will appear allowing users to download and install the latest version of that application or an earlier version if available. Earlier versions (from 2024 onwards) will be available for those programs that include paid modules. Normally, free applications will only allow the latest version of these programs to be installed. Any installed version of any application can be uninstalled.
When an application has been installed, by clicking on the button under its name, the context menu that appears includes the "Uninstall" option.
More information on this program menu can be found in the FAQ "How to download and install programs from CYPE’s general menu".
The CYPE Menu download of versions before 2025 (with the applications included) is still available in the download area of the CYPE website.
As of version 2025.a, the CYPE program menu can only be downloaded from the BIMserver.center platform.
The CYPE Menu application was already available from version 2024.b on the BIMserver.center platform. Now, in version 2025.a, the advantages of CYPE Menu compared to previous versions, which were downloaded from the download area of the CYPE website, are as follows:
- As of version 2024.b
- Once CYPE Menu has been installed, the applications it contains will be installed from this new menu when they are opened for the first time.
- Once CYPE Menu has been installed, the applications it contains will be installed from this new menu when they are opened for the first time.
- As of version 2024.f
- CYPE Menu allows users to manage the updates of the applications it contains.
- CYPE Menu allows users to manage the updates of the applications it contains.
- As of version 2025.a
- New program groups and many CYPE applications that could only be downloaded directly from BIMserver.center are included.
- The version of each application to be installed can be selected (from version 2024 onwards).
- Previously installed applications can be uninstalled.
Further information on the new features can be found in the following new features of CYPE Menu version 2025.a.
In the download area of the CYPE website, the download of the program menu for versions prior to 2025.a (in 64-bit and 32-bit) will still be available. In this download area, there is also a link to the BIMserver.center platform "Store" for downloading the 2025.a version of "CYPE Menu".
As a result of these changes, the 32-bit version of the CYPE Menu is no longer available in version 2025.a. As of 18 February 2019 (version 2019.f), the CYPE programs have been running on 64-bit systems. Since then, only the classic CYPE menu could be installed on 32-bit systems. All other applications (downloadable from the BIMserver.center platform) only worked on 64-bit systems. We believe that 32-bit programming is no longer feasible to take advantage of the superior performance of 64-bit processors and operating systems. Users who still want to use certain 32-bit CYPE programs (those available in the "CYPE Menu" prior to version 2025.a) must install a version prior to 2025.a from the download area of the CYPE website, but will not be able to upgrade their programs to later versions. Please refer to our FAQ question "Which version should I download, 64-bit or 32-bit?" for more information on the 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
Norma Brasileira ABNT NBR 6123:2023. Forças devidas ao vento em edificações.
Implemented in CYPECAD.
Normative and Technical Document of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Design of structures for earthquake resistance. Part 1: General rules, seismic actions and rules for buildings.
Implemented in CYPECAD and CYPE 3D.
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.
As of version 2024.f, CYPECAD generates the new "Consideration of second-order effects" report, which analyses whether P-Delta effects are to be taken into account in the analysis.
For this purpose, the stability coefficient or sensitivity coefficient (θ) is calculated per floor and per analysis direction for each seismic loadcase.
When the stability coefficient (θ) is lower than the minimum limit value (θmin), second-order effects can be neglected.
If the coefficient θ is between the minimum and maximum limit values set, θmin < θ ≤ θmax, second-order effects must be considered.
This can be simplified by considering the P-Delta effects, amplifying the effects of the seismic action. If the coefficient θ is higher than the maximum limit (θmax), the structure is potentially unstable and must be stiffened.
