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• It no longer exists sorry. It was too limited to be of much use. To generate a model programmatically, you can create an liml file. There is an example of a spreadsheet which generates pressure vessel components installed in the Samples folder (Mec…

  in MECWAY'S COM ? Comment by Victor May 2014
• That's very helpful. I can't promise everything and may contact you by email in future for further clarification.

  in ASME Stress Linearization Comment by Victor May 2014
• Thanks for the suggestion. We'll consider this for version 2 or 3. Can you give a bit more information about what would be useful, such as: 1) Shell elements only 2) Solid elements along lines of nodes 3) Solid elements along arbitrary lines, even i…

  in ASME Stress Linearization Comment by Victor May 2014
• Hello Luis Mecway can't model a heat pipe because it involves temperature driven fluid flow and phase change and it's unlikely to have these features in the near future. A CFD package might be more suitable.

  in heat pipe Comment by Victor March 2014
• Cheers Geoff. I hope you find it's more effective for loudspeakers than before even though it's still not natively interfacing with ABEC3

  in Thank you for a great program! Comment by Victor March 2014
• No, you're not missing anything. A lot of different thicknesses isn't something that's very convenient in Mecway v1. Unfortunately you'll need as many components as thicknesses. Version 2 will improve some of the issues with the outline tree but pro…

  in Component Handling Comment by Victor February 2014
• Hello jvrajadell *Removing constraints* I hope I understand you correctly. If you have a constraint applied to many nodes, and want to remove it from some of them: 1. Select the nodes in the graphics area 2. Right click the constraint in the outlin…

  in Delete point constrains, rot constrain, buckling 3D with frames Comment by Victor February 2014
• I think the computer gets the credit for that Though I see IBM 3090 was pretty amazing for the 80's! I'm still not happy with the performance of the iterative solution. Somehow, I think if you could just look at the intermediate results and choose…

  in Compression Only Support and Convergence Tolerance Understanding Comment by Victor February 2014
• I can understand that kind of frustration. I'll try to get some way to save or preview the results for version 2. This will become more important as more non-linear features are added.

  in Compression Only Support and Convergence Tolerance Understanding Comment by Victor February 2014
• Hello jvrajadell In Static 3D, the convergence tolerance is only used when it does an iterative solution, which is currently only when compression-only supports are present. Even in that case, the default of 0 really means 10^-11 which is often ade…

  in Convergence tolerance Comment by Victor February 2014
• I agree layers should map to components. This will be added in version 2.

  in Import DXF files Comment by Victor February 2014
• The 2nd and 3rd pictures are a great graphic example of the iterations being incomplete! You can also turn on the constraint symbols with the glasses button in the tool bar to see which nodes ended up in compression (red) and which were released (g…

  in Compression Only Support and Convergence Tolerance Understanding Comment by Victor February 2014
• The convergence test is done on all the nodes, including those not included in the contact. Typically the error decrease gradually for several iterations then rapidly drops to effectively zero (10^-12 or so) as all contacts end up in their final co…

  in Compression Only Support and Convergence Tolerance Understanding Comment by Victor February 2014
• Hello Inquisitor The tolerance value is roughly the relative error in the displacements of all nodes. The convergence test with compression only support uses a displacement convergence criterion where it is considered to be converged when ||delta …

  in Compression Only Support and Convergence Tolerance Understanding Comment by Victor January 2014