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1. Native Calculix windows version released by General Electric

   

   by VMH · May 2016

   From the results, ccx2.10 version from Kwip and GE has identical results. ccx2.8p2 and ccx2.10 versions had slightly different results for the shell elements.

2. No contour plot showing for CCX results

   

   by Tim_Gowing · May 2016

   I am enjoying the new version 5, especially the paint selection, unbelievably productive, a game changer, many thanks for this amazing development.

3. Version 5 Icon Size on 1080p at 150% Scaling

   

   by Victor · May 2016

   OK. Sorry for all the hoops you've had to jump through. The scaling will be more uniform in the next version and it will probably double the size of graphics items above 150% but not at 150%. I see fr

4. Version 5 Icon Size on 1080p at 150% Scaling

   

   by VMH · May 2016

   Victor, my apologizes: setting a custom scaling in Windows of 149 got the icons the same as what I had in version 4. Thanks.

5. Three Point Bending Constraints

   

   by Victor · May 2016

   The next version will have an easier way to turn this on because it should really always be used by default.

6. Version 5 Icon Size on 1080p at 150% Scaling

   

   by VMH · May 2016

   Victor, setting a custom scaling in Windows to 149% got the icons smaller than what I had in Version 4 (which was a great size) but this is okay for now. Thanks

7. Nonlinear fea showing permanent deformation

   

   by VMH · May 2016

   Victor, notice my screen is now cluttered which wasn't before in version 4 using the same setting.

8. Version 5 Icon Size on 1080p at 150% Scaling

   

   by Victor · May 2016

   That's how it is in version 5. These items are only getting scaled by multiples of 100%, so they don't scale smoothly with the DPI setting. In previous versions, they didn't scale at all. Now they jum

9. Version 5 Icon Size on 1080p at 150% Scaling

   

   by VMH · May 2016

   Victor, I just had a chance to try version 5 on my laptop and the icons on top are blurry and so large now and also the triad is large compared to the previous version (the tree is still good). Not

10. Nonlinear fea showing permanent deformation

    

    by VMH · May 2016

    Hope this help. I did it quick test on a simple free-standing column on Mecway version 5.0, CCX2.8p2 using 4"x4"x36"; E=29e3ksi, Poisson ratio=0.3, Yield=36ksi, Tangent Modulus=210.3ks

11. Nonlinear fea showing permanent deformation

    

    by Victor · May 2016

    In version 5, PEEQ ("Equivalent plastic strain" in Mecway) comes through automatically if one of the plastic material types is set. For hand-made material definitions though, you'd have to d

12. Mecway on Linux

    

    by Victor · May 2016

    Just a follow-up. Version 5 fixes these problems on Wine so it should be fully usable now:

13. Native Calculix windows version released by General Electric

    

    by svingegneria · May 2016

    at the following link GE repository with latest certified CalculiX Windows version:

14. plastics materials database

    

    by drssp · May 2016

    Is the mesh generation module ngmesh is 64 bit version?

15. plastics materials database

    

    by Victor · May 2016

    Hello drssp. It doesn't currently have a materials database though this is a commonly requested feature so hopefully in a future version. For now, you would have to get material data from elsewhere, s

16. Version 5.0 released

    

    by Victor · May 2016

    Version 5 is now available at

17. Version 5 beta

    

    by Victor · May 2016

    Updated to version 5 beta 2:

18. SAMPLE MODELS FOR REFERENCE AND TRAINING

    

    by apadzak · May 2016

    with brief explanation what is what and what MY version was used may be quite useful. It may be quite interesting having models from various backgrounds

19. Version 5 beta

    

    by apadzak · April 2016

    OK, my v5beta version generates quite strange output -not really realistic. I must admit I haven't spend a lot of time on it and I run out of 1000 nodes which doesn't probably help as well with regard

20. Version 5 beta

    

    by Victor · April 2016

    Good point about consistency with scale/copy. I'm reluctant to change old features after the beta though. Please put new change requests in another thread so this one can be about the beta version.