Chennai, India: Ram Caddsys is pleased to announce the release of STRAP 12.0 version with effect from 15th Feb 2006. This new release comes with powerful features and many enhancements. New release will be available for customers by end of Feb 2006. Highlights of the new release are as follows..

Features at a Glance

Geometry

• Introducing Best-in-Class GUI 
• State-of-the-Art rendering features
• Rigid links with a tolerance for height
• Shear walls can be copied
• Radial restraints/ springs can be applied to cylindrical structures
• Angular Dimensions between any two lines can be displayed
• Display of dimension lines & grid lines in Isometric views.
• User can choose default height axis/working plane / Units for loading  DXF drawing
• Beam properties can be copied from another model or the same model

Loads

• Automatic wind load calculations as per IS875
• All loads can now display their CG
• Notional load creation made easier
• Linear element loads can be defined in global direction
• Joint loads can be applied in any direction  
• Unlimited load cases for combinations

Analysis

• Construction Stage analysis in the same model
• Extremely fast solution with improved algorithm.
• Analysis time is shortened to 1/3 of the previous version.

Post Tension

• POSTTEN: New module for Post-Tension design of beams & slabs

Concrete Design

• COLW: New module for Interactive design of column members.

Steel Design

• IS 800-2003 Draft code
• IS 802 : New module for Transmission Tower Design

Results

• All tables can directly copy to Notepad, Word and Excel

  And many more …….