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Improved Detailed Reports

Detailed reports could use more information and equations to make the calculations clearer and validation easier.
over 2 years ago in  0 Needs review

Material Groups

It would be nice to have the ability to have material types in SACS. This would help when doing material take offs. This would be a new set of cards where the user would specify a material type (name) and all the structural properties (elastic mod...
4 months ago in  0 Needs review

DNV Alternative SCF Formula

Dear Bentley I would like to propose to have DNV alternative SCF formula for the correction of Efthymiou SCF equation. Refer to DNV-RP-C203 (2021), Table B-1 shows alternative SCF equation for the Chord/Brace Crown location i.e. Eq 6b and 7b, see ...
about 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

Update input functionality of the Weight cards similar to Load Inputs. Some points are listed below.

There are many operations in the load conditions that would be a huge benefit in the weight condition input. Some examples are: 1 Member Area 2 Labels 3 Copy condition 4 Rename condition 5 Remove the conditions from the combination it is deleted 6...
about 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

Segmented member Dividing. Need to Improve

While dividing a segmented member, it is very difficult to re-assign the group to the newly formed member. SACS should automatically take care the length at which member is divided and accordingly new group details should be assigned to the new me...
11 months ago in  1 Needs review

Collapse Terminate Button

Adding a Terminate Collapse button that would print the results for the previous load step as the final load step could be beneficial. This would be separate from the cancel button as the cancel button just stops everything and you do not get sect...
about 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

Datagen needs "Replace all IN SELECTION" feature

Currently, I can press Alt and do a column selection in Datagen but I can't replace the values in the selection only. Many text editors like Notepad++ or VScode have this option.
over 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

Make results of deflection results for the SPAN members available in postview and sacsdb

Currently, the deflection/servicability check for the "SPAN" members are only available in saclst report. It would be good for the postview and the and sacsdb (sqlite database) to also include the results.
over 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

SACS input file size

Hi , Has it ever happened to anyone that theri SACS file size increased even though minor changes were done?
6 months ago in  0 Needs review

Automeshing of plated structure

Model a single plate using 3 or 4 points . Press the "Automesher button" to get the best possible FE mesh (either mesh or meshless technique) by default.
7 months ago in  0 Needs review