ROBOT Millennium v. 19.0 Maintenance Pack 2-7

Robot Millennium 19.0 MP2-7

Robot Millennium 19.0 – Maintenance Pack 7 – October 2006

• Removal of the error in the ”autosave” function (error made in MP6),
  With the Autosave option active, if the “Save” (“Save As”) command was not called up after calculations, then first activation of autosave resulted in ascribing a zero value to calculation results.

Others:

• Possibility to load projects saved in the STAAD format in which UK sections are used.
• A tolerance value determined during generation of a model by adjusting it to the value defined by the user (it used to be twice as great).
• Enabled saving of maps (isolines) for bottom result envelopes in a dxf/dwg format.

Steel element design:
General:

• Improvement of the functionality of the dialog box for manual check of the buckling length.

BS 5950:2000 code:

• Possibility to deactivate the buckling analysis.
• Correction of calculations of wall slenderness for a box section defined by the user.
• Correction of calculations of flexural-torsional buckling in the case of a cantilever.

PN code:

• Correction of calculations of beams made of an I-section with different flanges.

Verification of steel connections:

• Correction of recognition of a pinned support when a connection type is selected automatically. .

RC Design:

• Spread footing reinforcement:
  • correction of reinforcement generation for spread footings with two columns,
  • conditions for taking account of the minimum reinforcement applied for the top reinforcement of a spread footing.

Robot Millennium 19.0 – Maintenance Pack 6 – July 2006

Protection:

• Correction of the protection error which consists in displaying untrue information about using an unauthorized version.

Calculations and results:

• Correction of result saving and reading for very large projects (a file size with *.RT_  results over 2 GB)
  • considerable acceleration of calculations,
  • removal of the addressing error.

Verification of steel connections:

• Angle connections with a gusset plate (CM66) –
  removal of an incorrect warning from a calculation note.
• Column base (CM66, EC3) –
  correction of the replacement of directions for the check of transversal forces.
• Welded trusses (EC3) –
  correction of verification of welds for diagonals inclined at an angle from the interval [50°, 60°].

RC Design:

• Reinforcement of beams with prefabricated elements:
  • removal of the error that interrupts calculations giving the following information “no error message
• Reinforcement according to the ACI code:
  • correction of the minimum reinforcement in the case compressive forces occur (forces taken into account only for values greater than 10% Ac*f’c;  

Robot Millennium 19.0 – Maintenance Pack 5 – June 2006

Protection:

• Unblocking the possibility to update protection via the Internet

Structure edition:

• Acceleration of deletion of FE meshes.
• OpenGL - improvement of memory management while working in two windows.
• OpenGL - automatic change of settings after switching to GDI.

Calculations and results:

•   Orthotropic slabs – making calculations independent from the length of the (orthotropy) direction vector.
• Correction of combination calculations for bars on the unilateral elastic ground.

Steel member design:

• General:
   removal of the fatal error on previewing a table of element verification;
   removal of the error of changing a case list when changing a language;
   supplementation of the ”!” symbol for optimization of a group with a tapered section.
• PN:
   correction of reading a compressive force in the detailed web analysis.
• CSA:
   correction of calculation of a section class for T-sections.
• EC3:2005
   correction of the result for complex bars (in the case of correct results for individual chords).  

Verification of steel connections:

• Supplementation of calculations of a welded truss according to EC3 with the weld capacity check.
• Consideration of the foundation weight in the column base calculations (according to PN).
• Removal of the error of a result change when selecting a simplified note CM66(NF).
• Consideration of more than one bolt row in calculations of “b2b”-EC3.

RC Design:

• Slab required reinforcement:
  • correction of errors noted in the algorithm of slab reinforcement calculations, acceleration of calculations;
  • ”rounding up/down” to the minimum reinforcement for calculations without bending moments.
• Beam reinforcement:
  • optimization of the calculation time for a list of RC beams;
  • correction of drawings of beam reinforcement for the BAEL code;
  • consideration of a load case acting outside the span.
• Column reinforcement:
  • correction of the minimal reinforcement in particular situations of calculations according to PN;
  • correction of capacity calculations for calculations of PN expert.
• Spread footing reinforcement:
  • consideration of the min. reinforcement conditions: BAEL A.4.2 and DTU 13.12-2,56;
  • correction of calculations of the critical circumference for punching.

Robot Millennium 19.0 – Maintenance Pack 4 – March 2006

Dutch language version:

• Correction of texts.

• Results of the time history analysis made available for planar elements.
• Correction of results for combinations containing seismic cases (for which quadratic combinations are used).

• General:
  • correction of buckling lengths calculated automatically, for models with unilateral releases (making them independent of the calculations without and with the use of DSC elements)
• BS 5950:2000:
  • correction of verification of bending of 4-th class T-sections.
• CNR-UNI 10011:
  • correction of verification of pipes.

• Making it possible to create calculation notes for a self-weight load case (in welded connections).

• Slab required reinforcement:
  • correction of calculations of stiffness and deflections in the case the deflection correction is switched on,
  • enabled calculation of one-way reinforced slabs for SLS .
• Beam reinforcement:
  • enabled calculation of deflections for combinations imported from a model
  • correction of a cracking diagram for manual combinations (PN-84/B-03264)
  • adding a flag that enables control of only positive deflections,
  • correction of increasing cantilever reinforcement due to positive deflections,
  • considering the beam weight in the table for simplified beam definition,
  • correction of the length of “bent bars” reinforcement (barres bateaux) according to BAEL,
  • enabled loading of beams from old CBS versions.
• Column reinforcement:
  • correction as regards considering unintended eccentricities for EC2,
  • supplementing of calculation notes for EC2, PN and ACI calculations.
  • correction of minimum reinforcement value for EC2, PN
    (if the 0,15 Nsd/fyd condition interferes for initial load records).
• Fire resistance calculations:
  • improvement of efficiency and memory management for the fire resistance calculator.

Robot Millennium 19.0 – Maintenance Pack 3A – February 2006

• Correction of calculation in the following steel codes: LRFD and DIN. 

Robot Millennium 19.0 – Maintenance Pack 3 – February 2006

• Enabled opening of projects created using previous editions of the same version (previous Service Pack) without changing the arrangement of layouts
• Keeping definitions of structure axes when opening files in the “repair“ mode.

• Correction of wrong calculations in the PDELTA analysis for frames when the GAMMA angle occurs.
• Correction of an unjustified change of the support condition for a bar adjoining to the edge of a slab with a defined linear support, for the 2D PLATE structure.
• Correction of the error of changing the results for calculations when the load table is opened. 
• Correction of the error in the case of a large number of imposed loads defined at one node.
• Registration (in the robwin.log file) of complete information about the instability of calculations once the user gives up displaying the warning window (after pressing the keys 'Cancel' or 'Esc').

• Blocking of the unjustified change of the mesh generation parameters after opening the dialog box with properties for a selected object.

• Removal of texts that appear above the window for the composed printout.
• Improvement in functioning of the composed printout for the “Connections” template.

• Disappearance of sections during the steel design.
• New code EC3:2005:
  • correction of a value of the x_LTmod coefficient in the verification formulas of lateral buckling,
  • signaling of the 2/3 class only when it appears at the point with the highest ratio.

• EC 3 Connections – truss node:
  correction of the error of not performing calculations and the impossibility to create a connection.
• Analysis of the connection stiffness - enabling calculations.
• PN connections – beam to column:
  enabled definition of a fixed connection if a release is defined for a beam.
• Correction of the error of the COM interface in the case of defining connections in RASS (steel connections module) (from external programs).
• Calculation notes:
  • correction of the error of missing drawings in a calculation note for a group of connections,
  • generation of calculation notes in the ”printout language” (instead of the ”working language”).

•  Calculations according to the ACI code:
  • removal of blocking of the member required calculations,
  • correction of too great value of the eccentricity increased for slender columns.
• Slab required reinforcement:
  • saving results in the RT_ file once design of the slab reinforcement is activated ,
  • correction of the minimum reinforcement value for particular cases of slabs,
  • enabled calculations of deflections for code combinations with one SLS case,
  • correction of calculation of deflections for slabs with a cantilever.
• Beam reinforcement:
  • correction of numbers of nodes and bars in the dialog box for selection of load combinations,
  • PN: correction of a value of an inclined crack and information in a calculation note,
  • PN: correction of the length of member anchorage (especially, if members are supported by the masonry wall).
• Spread footings:
  • SNiP – correction of bar arrangement for trapezoidal column bases.
• Calculation notes:
  • correction of fonts in Croatian calculation notes.

Robot Millennium 19.0 – Maintenance Pack 2 – January 2006

SO Windows 64-bits:

• Correction of the execution error on opening the Inspector dialog box;
• Corrected lack of an icon on the Robot application bar and blue icons in toolbars;
• Enabled selection of fonts when working in the OpenGL mode;

Import/export:

• Considerable acceleration of the structure import from the RCAD-Steel program.
• No possibility to open IFC format files when working using Dutch, Spanish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian and Chinese languages;
• Incorrect interpretation of UCS during import of DXF files;
• No possibility to apply “linear releases” when working in the Dutch language version;

Structure edition:

• Expansion of the ASD American section database;
• Enabled mesh generation on volumetric objects defined by means of outer walls;
• Corrected work of edit fields in the Inspector dialog box;
• A new French “library structure” – 3D frame;
• Expansion of the PN load database with variable, live loads;
• Correction of the model error that occurs for bars positioned on edges with linear releases.

Graphic interface:

• Removal of errors of the OpenGL mode:
  • quick movement of the displayed image in large zoom,
  • loss of the image while using some graphic cards.

Steel member design:

• EC3
  supplementation of a detailed note with information about classes and slenderness values of the web and the flange;
• PN-90/B-03200:
  • correction of a section class for solid members with a round section defined in the program;
  • correction of manual calculations (By*Mymax)
• ASD
  correction of the error in calculating the pipe capacity;
• CAN-CSA 2001
  correction of the error of using coefficients from the formula 13.9(b)
• NS 3472:2000:
  correction of definition of the buckling length for intermediate stiffeners

Verification of steel connections:

• Supplementation of a calculation note with a connection number;
• Supplementation of a calculation note for the geometrical verification of the truss chord node (CM66) with detailed information;
• Correction of work of Connection Inspector (including the properties dialog box);
• Correction of definition of PN connections: beam-beam, fixed column base;
• Correction of the error in identifying bars in the “Y” pipe connection.

RC Design:

• Beams on the elastic ground:
  enabled reinforcement of continuous footings (continuous footings under walls):
• Slab required reinforcement:
  • enabled calculations for the Norwegian code (NS 3473:2003);
  • correction of work of ”the same top and bottom reinforcement” mode;
• Beam reinforcement:
  modification of the bent bar option (PN);
  correction of the reinforcement calculations for the Norwegian code (NS 3473:2003);
• Spread footings:
  • correction of data import for 2 columns;
  • correction of the soil stress calculations for the BAEL code;
  • increase of the maximal size of a spread footing to 20 meters.