Simulate Early, Simulate Often... In Rhino
Update not working and comments
I have just installed the latest update, on S&S web site 30 Sept. As I have S&S installed I downloaded the update only.
After installing it, I still get the annoying pop up saying that the software will expire in 4 days. So it is apparent that the update is an old one or not working.
I am looking forward to the new version as the old one fixed the supports for all 6 degrees of freedom. An unsafe practice. I hope the new version has better features, the default should be to fix on support in the gravity direction and space and allow all the others to be in the gravity direction.
Also it is conventional to have loads applied in the axis directions, ie gravity loads should be negative.
More dialogs would resolve these issues.
Great product.
John
After installing it, I still get the annoying pop up saying that the software will expire in 4 days. So it is apparent that the update is an old one or not working.
I am looking forward to the new version as the old one fixed the supports for all 6 degrees of freedom. An unsafe practice. I hope the new version has better features, the default should be to fix on support in the gravity direction and space and allow all the others to be in the gravity direction.
Also it is conventional to have loads applied in the axis directions, ie gravity loads should be negative.
More dialogs would resolve these issues.
Great product.
John
Views: 80
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Hossein Motevalli on -
I can't access the View tab!
-
Permalink Reply by Michael Freytag on
-
The View tab is only active if there is something to view. Hit the [Go!] button to compute a solution... the the View tab will activate after the computation.
~Michael
-
Permalink Reply by Hossein Motevalli on
-
Thanks for the response.
I had already computed a solution by pressing [Go!] and the View tab is not active. Material: Concrete, Medium Strength, Restraints: Side faces of a cuboid, Loads: Face pressure to the top face of 1kPa, Gravity enabled, Resolution set at 10000.
-
-
John,
Sorry about the annoying popup. That's a built-in feature that had completely slipped my mind. I will be releasing the next version tomorrow (October 1, 2010), so I hope everyone will bear with us for a few hours.
A future version (not tomorrow's) will allow more flexibility in specifying degrees of freedom. It sounds like your requested default behavior for restraints is pretty application-specific. I suggest posting it in the Wish List forum so we don't lose track of it, and so other's may comment and add to it.
Can you clarify what you mean by "conventional to have loads applied in the axis directions"? Do you mean to enter loads in the coordinate directions (one number and an axis) rather than via the "Vector force" option (three numbers)?
~Michael
© 2025 Created by Michael Freytag.
Powered by
