News Summary Dec 19, 2010

Scan-and-Solve for Rhino News

Analyze Early, Analyze Often... In Rhino

December 19, 2010

Holiday season is fast approaching and fortunately we have lots
of things to celebrate, largely thanks to the rapidly growing
community of Scan&Solve users, including well over 500
registered members. Thank you everybody for your feedback
and enthusiasm. Here is a summary of the most exciting news
you may have missed over the last month:

SYSTEM UPDATES:

The latest version of Scan&Solve for Rhino, was released on December 15, 2010 and features a dramatically improved visualization front end, incorporating many of your suggestions:

User selection of color schemes
Adjustable legend ranges
Querying the solution at user specified points
Saving ("baking") the deformed shape
... and much more

Numerous performance improvements include improved accuracy of computation in the vicinity of restrained faces. Here is the link to the detailed announcement.

PLANS FOR COMMERCIAL RELEASE & PRICING:

• The commercial version of Scan&Solve is now planned for February 15, 2011.
• The pricing was announced on December 9, 2010.
• A pre-release version will be available at least one month before the commercial release to all registered members of the Scan and Solve network at a 40% discount. More details can be found here.

FORUMS & BLOGS:

We owe a debt of gratitude to everybody who has contributed by sharing their experiences, wishes, and examples of using Scan&Solve. Your posts directly impacted the new features in the latest version of the software and beyond; they also benefit all users of Scan&Solve. Special thanks to:

• Richard L. for numerous posts and solutions example, including demonstration of convergence studies to validate Scan&Solve solutions and comparison of S&S solutions with those in Abaqus.
• Salvatore Gerbino for benchmarking S&S against Solidworks and Comsol and detailed discussion of the results.
• Mario Vergara for sharing how S&S was used in an architecture course he taught at the Universidad Mayor of Chile
• Simon Klopp and Ian Boyd for discussing how to simulate torque in S&S; see related post by Richard L.
• Libor Vaštyl, Simon Klopp, and Peter Stanley for posting pictures of the solutions they obtained with S&S.

FEEDBACK and REVIEWS:

• Access to an online feedback survey form is now built into Scan&Solve and can be accessed directly from here
please take a moment to respond. Your opinions matter!
• Please take a minute to review Scan&Solve on www.rhino3d.com and help us spread the word. Here is the direct link.
• Please contribute to the forums! Your pictures, examples, videos, and discussions are very valuable -- to us
because they help us to improve Scan&Solve -- and to you because we all learn from each others' experience, and because wider use of the software will translate into lower cost of the product. The future of Scan&Solve really does depend on you!