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Welcome to the First Edition ...

... of SCIA's electronic newsletter. With this 'eNews' we wish to inform you regularly on topics that are interesting to you. 
We have selected five recurring items for you: news about SCIA and our software tools, information and analysis of activities in the construction world, design and calculation projcts realised with SCIA software and finally, 'tips & tricks' and other info from our SCIA Support Team. We welcome all comments, suggestions and feedback you may have to improve this eNews, so that we can even serve you better with our next editions. We wish you a lot of enjoyment of reading.

In this first edition of May 2004, we would like to review the following items:

    SCIA Company News: SCIA Group celebrates 30 Years of Success...
    New Powerful Tool in SCIA.ESA PT:  Parametric Modeling
   
The Market: Considerable Rise in Steel Prices
   
SCIA's Customer Project: Sazka Arena in Prague
   
Support Team Tip: Configuration of a Header in SCIA.ESA PT
 

 
 

Company News: SCIA celebrates 30th anniversary


This year, SCIA celebrates its 30th anniversary. It is a nice occasion to remind the “key-dates” of the company and to give the actual status.

SCIA (SCIentific Applications) was founded in February 1974 as a technical software house for the CAE market, strongly related with the WANG operating system. When the IBM PC was introduced in 1981, the company began concentrating on portable software. Its flagship product was called ESA (Engineering Structural Analysis).  <more>
 

Powerful Tool in SCIA.ESA PT: 'Parametric modeling'

 
 


In our new program SCIA.ESA PT is added a very new module: parametric modelling. Here an explanation of the contents of this module and what it can bring to you.


In SCIA.ESA PT it is possible to introduce a structure. You can choose from : a structure in 2D or 3D, composed of standard profiles or profiles with arbitrary sections (graphic definition), profiles with variable heights. One can define various loads and compose a document: graphic tables and illustrations in the desired sequence. Once a project created, you have the possibility of parameterising it. Why parameterise? <more>
 

    

The Market: Considerable Rise in Steel Prices

 


Resulting mainly from a significant increase of the Chinese steel consumption, a shortage on the steel market appears.  Together with other grounds, it causes a fast rise of the prices and could, in the medium term, involve a shortage of finished steel products if the customers at the end of the chain do not accept the need for this rise.  <more>

 

SCIA's Customer Project: Sazka Arena in Prague

 

This section is dedicated to presentation of SCIA's customer projects. We begin with an impressive one in Czech Republic: the multi-purpose SAZKA ARENA.

SCIA Customer: EXCON a. s., Prague, Czech Republic
Project: SAZKA ARENA in Prague, Czech Republic
Construction: Start September 2002 - Ended April 2004
Structure: ARENA and Convention Hall

Number of floors: 6
Area: 35.000 m2
Capacity: max. 18.000 People

The opening of the multi-purpose Sazka arena was planned with the start of the world ice hockey championship in Prague in April 2004. Besides sports activities in a lot of branches, many cultural, social and commercial activities will be organised there. The arena is equipped with modern technology such as movable down stands and circular and movable bridges in the roof space... <more>

The SCIA Support Team: always ready to help !

 
 


Within the framework of this first eNews, we refer to our online website to remind you on certain basic SCIA support service elements. For downloads, extra product information or details on our training sessions, please visit our 'Online Support Center'.

In the following editions we inform you about ‘tips & tricks’ and the latest evolutions of our tools. Hereafter we teach you how to adjust a header in SCIA.ESA PT This can be done in a few steps according to your wishes:

Step 1 : open the document
Step 2 : open the editor with the right mouse button.
Step 3
: The texts of header and footer are tables ...  <more>

     

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