Dear Customers,
Herewith you receive the latest SOFiSTiK Newsletter 06/2012.
For any questions or feedback simply write us an email to info@sofistik.com. Older issues can be viewed through our news archive. We will publish this newsletter (as well as other news/events) also through a RSS-feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/sofistik-news-en
Best regards, your
SOFiSTiK-Team
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New Servicepacks available
There are new versions and servicepacks for the SOFiSTiK FEA Version 2010 and 2012, SOFiPLUS(-X) and SOFiCAD available for update via SONAR. Detailed info about each program´s changes can be obtained from the LOG-files.
SONAR offers a nice feature to let you read the difference of your local and the latest log-file on the server before you press the update-button! If you select the manual update, you can use the right-mouse click (Step 3 in SONAR update) on one module in the module list and select "Show change-log".
We will publish the change log through a RSS-Feed as well. Subscribe to the feed and get an automatic email once there is a new (hotfix-) version of a program.
Feed-URL FEA log-files:
Version 2010: http://feeds.feedburner.com/sofistiklog-en
Version 2012: http://feeds.feedburner.com/sofistik2012logen
Feed-URL SOFiCAD log-files:
Version 2010: http://feeds.feedburner.com/soficadlog-en
Version 2012: http://feeds.feedburner.com/soficad2012logen
New Installations with FEA Extensions for Revit® 2013 available
As the SOFiSTiK FEA Extensions for Revit Structure are now released for Revit 2013 (32 and 64-Bit) new installation packages have been made available for download. To add the necessary FEA Extension to your existing installation, please download and run the installation and choose 'Add or Remove Feature'.
Installation SOFiSTiK FEA 2012 excl. SOFiPLUS-X (32/64-Bit,.exe/approx. 330MB)
Installation SOFiSTiK FEA 2012 incl. SOFiPLUS-X (32/64-Bit,.exe/approx. 1.3GB)
DOLFYN CFD
A new module DOLFYN has been released with servicepack 06/2012. SOFiSTiK is now supporting an open-source CFD program (www.dolfyn.net) and offers full integration with SOFiSTiK environment. Specifically:
- Mesh generation with SOFIMSHA/SOFIMSHC
- Automatic tetrahedral meshing (NETGEN)
- Post-processing with WinGRAF
- Full CADINP support including formulas for boundary and initial conditions
- Easy wind definition (atmospheric boundary layer) directly or via SOFiLOAD
- Standard wind profiles with turbulence parameters according to EN 1991-4, SIA,
DIN, SNIP
- Direct generation of resulting wind loading in the data base
More information about DOLFYN and CFD can be found here.
For any questions please contact: info@sofistik.de
SOFiSTiK Reinforcement for Autodesk® Revit® 2013 Preview Version available
We would like to inform that a preview version of SOFiSTiK Reinforcement for Autodesk® Revit® 2013 is now available.
You can register here in order to download it (Prerequisite: Revit Structure 2013 64Bit).
More information and a video about the workflow, could be found here.
Download Video: 'New Features 2012 SOFinar'
In order to introduce the features of the 2012 release together with some improvements of servicepack 4 a SOFinar has been held in March. For those of you who have not been able to watch it live, a video is available in the Infoportal.