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February 2005 |
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 The french training about 'SCIA.ESA PT upgrade' will take place in Herk-de-Stad (B) on 23 and 24 February 2005. Contact for more information or consult our Online Training Calendar.
The next 'SCIA.ESA PT' Dynamics training will be organized in Herk-de-Stad (B) on 28 February 2005. Consult our online Training Calendar.
On 28 February and 8 March 2005, SCIA organizes a training Allplan FT 'Base' in Arnhem (NL). Consult our online Training Calendar.
Our Support Team has launched a new CAE FAQ section. Here you can find the answers on frequently asked questions related to Esa-Prima Win, SCIA.ESA PT, ....
Some Screenshots from
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Mathcad 12, increasingly successful. Go to our webshop to buy...
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 Dear eNews reader,
Another month has passed and we are pleased to send you the SCIA eNews for February 2005. In this edition we collected intriguing items from the construction world, tips & tricks of the SCIA support team and other news about our products and activities. Please do not hold back to send us your feedback or ideas that can help to improve this eNews. Have a lot of reading pleasure!
In this edition we review the following items:
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| SCIA Corporate News: Expansion to India |
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 Shortly after the tsunami disaster we visited India and the region of Chennai. Thanks to the worldwide support the Indian people are very courageous in rebuilding the damaged area and supporting – as good as possible – the fatally hit families.
In the course of 2005, SCIA will be setting up in India a small development team and a sales team together with CADS India Co Ltd. This vast country (> 1 billion residents) is rapidly expanding with large infrastructure projects and energy power stations. China is considered becoming the future factory of the world, while India is becoming ... <more>
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| New Solver for SCIA.ESA PT and improvements Mobile Load Module |
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 New solver
SCIA.ESA PT is the new generation of SCIA software for the calculation & design of structures. In order to fulfil the requests and expectations concerning calculation possibilities and quality of results, we decided to review our solver. Today, the new solver has already been implemented in the latest release of ESA-Prima Win as well as in SCIA.ESA PT.
The solver uses a ... <more>
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Collaboration software reduces the cost of construction |
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 A very interesting and recent survey in the UK (released by the consulting firm Compagnia) has shown that the adoption of collaboration software throughout the construction industry could reduce costs by over 4%. This would generate funding for the construction of an additional 5 hospitals and 3000 homes per annum without increasing the UK’s overall annual construction expenditure of £ 69 Billion.
This result is the consequence of the very simple fact that over half of the construction industry’s labour force are "knowledge workers", meaning that they are involved with processing, recording, analysing and disseminating information. Therefore, knowledge transfer is a major cost to construction businesses, and therefore ... <more>
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J.H. DE KWAADSTENIET Consultants, Pioneer of 3D prefab |
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J.H. DE KWAADSTENIET came up with a well-considered procedure: drawing prefabricated elements with standard Allplan Engineering. The procedure has been applied on a new development project of IKEA.
In Groningen, a new IKEA shop has been constructed right beside the existing one, which will be dismantled.
The consultants of DE KWAADSTENIET were in charge of making the study and of producing the workshop drawings of the concrete elements.
Based on a read in 2D ground plan, a classification of walls was made and ... <more> |
Project : IKEA shop in Groningen.
Client : J.H. DE KWAADSTENIET Consultants |
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underground parking with load and unload space in the back |
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concrete columns and cores of staircases |
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the ground floor includes a market place and a self-service shop with a high ceiling up to level +1 |
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prestress beams with standard reinforcement |
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prefabricated walls and floors |
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TT-girders with 6m span |
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| Tips&Tricks: Selection Command in SCIA.ESA PT |
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 It is possible to select entities in SCIA.ESA PT by using the ‘command line’.
Type: “SEL” and subsequently the name of the entity to be selected. An example: Sel N1, B1 will select the node N1 and the bar B1.
This option has several possibilities, it is possible to extend or change the selection.
Hereafter we go briefly in to these possibilities:.
The syntax is built up as follows:
"SEL <Modify> <Name>"
Attention please, the commands have always to be separated by interspacing.
- SEL : is the command to select
- <Modify> : is the command for ... <more>
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It is possible to select entities in SCIA.ESA PT by using the ‘command line’. 
