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Mecway 25
Mecway 25 is now available at the link below and includes the Spanish language manual translated by Germán Bresciano.
https://mecway.com/download
Licensing and installation
There is now an annual maintenance fee for this and future updates. Customers who bought between 2017-04-09 and 2024-05-26 always have free updates and don't need to buy maintenance except to extend the support period.
Version 25 doesn't import settings or license activation from previous versions so you have to re-enter your product key or copy the user.config file in appdata manually.
Subsequent updates will overwrite the previous one by default and retain settings, license, file associations, and start menu shortcuts.
CAD
Can open Alibre Design part and assembly files if Alibre Design or Atom3D version 28 is installed and licensed.
Split STEP assembly tool in File menu to extract a separate file for each occurrence in an assembly.
Internal solver
Beam offset for Static 3D.
Beam elements for buckling 3D and stress stiffening with Frequency.
Orthotropic material for buckling.
Node-surface coupling RBE2 can have a node selection for its ‘surface’.
CCX solver
Contact with elastic bonded is allowed to have shell edges and beam ends as master faces.
Face loads on shells no longer generate near-zero moment components which caused failures in some cases.
Default values are written for minimum time step and *SURFACE BEHAVIOR to reduce *WARNING and *INFO messages.
GUI
Mouse picking two points for Move/copy tool.
Wider dropdown boxes for named selections in contact.
Some speedups where there are a lot of named selections or loads.
When Edge detecting selection’s Edge threshold is set to 0 degrees, it really uses 1e-6 radian to account for the finite precision of node coordinates.
Added kgf unit for force.
Warning for node-surface coupling with beams or shells on the reference node with CCX.
Version number shown in title bar.
Removed
Removed Buckling 2D analysis type.
Offset shell faces are no longer allowed for displacement, cyclic symmetry, slave faces of Contact with type Constraint equations, and Node-surface coupling without coupling rotational DOFs. You can use nodes instead for some of these.
Constraint equation’s named selections are no longer shown in the solution Table’s named selection list.
Removed “Show all” option from part context menus. Use the Geometry or assembly context menu instead.
15 bug fixes
https://mecway.com/download
Licensing and installation
There is now an annual maintenance fee for this and future updates. Customers who bought between 2017-04-09 and 2024-05-26 always have free updates and don't need to buy maintenance except to extend the support period.
Version 25 doesn't import settings or license activation from previous versions so you have to re-enter your product key or copy the user.config file in appdata manually.
Subsequent updates will overwrite the previous one by default and retain settings, license, file associations, and start menu shortcuts.
CAD
Can open Alibre Design part and assembly files if Alibre Design or Atom3D version 28 is installed and licensed.
Split STEP assembly tool in File menu to extract a separate file for each occurrence in an assembly.
Internal solver
Beam offset for Static 3D.
Beam elements for buckling 3D and stress stiffening with Frequency.
Orthotropic material for buckling.
Node-surface coupling RBE2 can have a node selection for its ‘surface’.
CCX solver
Contact with elastic bonded is allowed to have shell edges and beam ends as master faces.
Face loads on shells no longer generate near-zero moment components which caused failures in some cases.
Default values are written for minimum time step and *SURFACE BEHAVIOR to reduce *WARNING and *INFO messages.
GUI
Mouse picking two points for Move/copy tool.
Wider dropdown boxes for named selections in contact.
Some speedups where there are a lot of named selections or loads.
When Edge detecting selection’s Edge threshold is set to 0 degrees, it really uses 1e-6 radian to account for the finite precision of node coordinates.
Added kgf unit for force.
Warning for node-surface coupling with beams or shells on the reference node with CCX.
Version number shown in title bar.
Removed
Removed Buckling 2D analysis type.
Offset shell faces are no longer allowed for displacement, cyclic symmetry, slave faces of Contact with type Constraint equations, and Node-surface coupling without coupling rotational DOFs. You can use nodes instead for some of these.
Constraint equation’s named selections are no longer shown in the solution Table’s named selection list.
Removed “Show all” option from part context menus. Use the Geometry or assembly context menu instead.
15 bug fixes
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Comments
What happens to a license bought before 2017-04-09 if you don't buy maintenance for Version 25 but you will do later for 26 or later.
Do you have to buy a new license then?
(Hooray! Mouse-pick for Cartesian Move/Copy!)