Mecway 7 is available at the link below. All licenses that include version 5 or 6 are also valid for version 7. That is everyone who bought it after 2015-11-15. Just re-enter your product key to activate it.
General
Moment loads can be applied to faces (solids and shell 2D faces) even for elements without rotational DOF.
Direction of displacement constraints can be a function of position to allow cylindrical and other coordinate systems.
Opens .unv mesh files
New units - Gal (cm/s^2) and mm^2/N (1/MPa)
Stress linearization - stress classification line doesn’t have to pass through nodes and settings are saved with the model
Pressure XYZ (traction) can be a function of position.
Load cases replaced by configurations:
Load cases Configurations
Only 7 types of load All loads and constraints
Only static analysis type All analysis types
Only internal solver Both the internal and CCX solvers
A load can only be in one load case A load can be in multiple configurations
Solved simultaneously Solved one at a time
Table can include multiple load cases Table only shows the active configuration’s data
Factor of safety with Von Mises failure criterion for shell elements
Multiple gravity loads can coexist.
Multiple sets of node temperatures are allowed and can be suppressed independently.
Labs feature: Direct force per unit length and shear force per unit length outputs for shells
Write solution to .liml file includes the modeler model
Can read *BEAM GENERAL SECTION from CalculiX .inp files
Fixed bugs 9 and 10 about hydrostatic and position-dependent pressure on thick shell faces
CalculiX solver
Includes 64 bit CCX 2.11
Pressure XYZ (traction) for linear analysis
Pressure can be a function of position for linear analysis
Multiple time dependent force loads on the same node
Convection (*FILM)
Node temperature for thermal stress
Pyramid element faces for pressure, convection, and surfaces
Time dependent formulas in loads are evaluated at automatically chosen time points.
Meshing tools
Gmsh mesher (not included) for STEP files
Change shape option quad8 → 2 x tri6
Refine x2 refines line elements independently of their adjacent elements if they’re not fully connected to them.
Merge nearby nodes with a zero tolerance merges exactly coincident nodes.
UI
Local refinement spheres are shown graphically
Contour plot of values can have different colors for above and below the range
Edge detecting selection is more reasonable with curved quadratic element faces
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