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1. Quasi-static angular acceleration

   

   by Tim_Gowing · August 2018

   Would the implementation be way down in your enhancements list? next version?

2. Problem thermal stress in Mecway 9

   

   by Victor · July 2018

   The change is that version 8 and earlier calculated thermal stress using a single average temperature over the whole element but version 9 interpolates the temperature at each integration point which

3. Problems to opn dxf files

   

   by Victor · June 2018

   2) Start Mecway and confirm that the settings are cleared by the title bar saying "Mecway (free version)" if it was activated before.

4. Problems to opn dxf files

   

   by Victor · June 2018

   This error message indicates a new bug in version 9 to do with element orientation but I'm also not able to reproduce it. It may depend on what was already present before you imported the DXF file. Co

5. Problems to opn dxf files

   

   by Sergio · June 2018

   Have uninstall/reinstall the new version and still cannot open dxf, the error is the same

6. Problems to opn dxf files

   

   by Sergio · June 2018

   Thanks for checking, I will try to re-install, as I have the same version as you. A very weird thing because last week the dxf importing was working ok on this machine. Regards

7. Tolerance in surfaces for bonded contact

   

   by Abhijit_G_Patil · May 2018

   Using 9.0 version, bonded contact with elastic (between shell elements and/or tet elements) given,

8. Tie Contact Failed :Shell Element

   

   by Victor · May 2018

   It looks like you're using version 8. In version 9, there's a new option, Elastic, which has more compatibility with shells and works in nonlinear CCX. Here's a table from the manual showing what each

9. view fit to window is not working in

   

   by davefo · May 2018

   view fit to window is not working in latest version.

10. can't open mecway 8 files in version 9

    

    by blitec · May 2018

    Probably the error occured by opening version 9 in a free version. The large number of nodes in the file can't be handled then. Activated the version 9 with the license key. Problem solved

11. can't open mecway 8 files in version 9

    

    by blitec · May 2018

    Can now open the files in version 9 and by double klicking on the file extention.

12. can't open mecway 8 files in version 9

    

    by blitec · May 2018

    This morning I have installed version 9 and tried to open my files of last friday made in 8.0

13. Version 9 beta

    

    by Victor · May 2018

    It's based on the General Electric version. I heard from a former colleague of the guy who compiled it that he's quite smart

14. Version 9 beta

    

    by VMH · May 2018

    It looks like your included ccx version 2.11 is multi-threading although it didn't labeled with "MT". The "CCX Output" showed multiple CPU being used.

15. Version 9 beta

    

    by Victor · May 2018

    Do you currently have the same problem with version 8 here http://mecway.com/download/mecway80.msi ?

16. Gmsh Options

    

    by disla · April 2018

    As Andrea anticipated Gmsh is preparing a new version (v4) that has been announced as a big improvement.(GMSH Hex generator library will be included)

17. Version 9 beta

    

    by Victor · April 2018

    Mecway 9 beta is available at the link below. This doesn't have many major changes but a lot of small improvements. I welcome any feedback on bugs and the changes but probably won't add any new featur

18. Maximum number of boundary conditions

    

    by Victor · February 2018

    I've reproduced it with your model. This appears to be caused by memory fragmentation and I've now fixed it for the next version so thanks for bringing it up. It's the combination of a large number of

19. Maximum number of boundary conditions

    

    by simon · February 2018

    Your model works fine on my machine and I am using the 64 bit version.

20. Maximum number of boundary conditions

    

    by Victor · February 2018

    Are you using the 32 bit version? That would have this kind of problem. Help -> About shows if it's 32 or 64 bit.