General

• AI-chatbot Lexi.

Geometry

• Use the SHIFT-button in the rotation function .

Concrete

• Advanced detailed intermerdiar results for the reinforcement calculation in bars.

General

• Bugfix in calculation of I_w and I_t for cold formed C-shapes.

Snow load generator

• Bugfix in rounding of calculated transverse Young’s modulus G.

Concrete

• Bugfix in torsional reinforcement. The longitudinal reinforcement due to torsion was overestimated.
• Bugfix in the calculation of Cc(t) for the calculation of deflection in time . Cc(t) was overestimated causing the creep deformation to occur too fast.

Steel

• Critical temperature not shown for steel check in case of fire for the American standard.
• Bugfix in optimizing L-shaped tie rods. That resulted in an error.

Detailed results

• When rotating a plate in the detailed results , the label below the rulers didn’t update resulting in a wrong distance being depicted. However, once a distance was entered below the ruler, the rulers worked fine after that.

Requirements

• CodeMeter 8.40d (or more recent)
• Gateway 2.09.0001 (or more recent)

Concrete

• A dialog has been added that allows you the change the parameters used during the punching shear check of footings. To access the dialog:
  • Run the elastic analysis and the reinforcement calculation .
  • Select the punching shear reinforcement .
  • Select a footing and click on the right mouse button. The dialog opens.
• Δv_Ed (the net upward force used for the punching shear verification) was already implemented for footings, but now it is implemented for foundation plates as well.

General

• Bugfix in rounding of calculated transverse Young’s modulus G.

Loads

• Bugfix in wind loads on duo pitched canopy: incorrect balance factor between adjecent zones
• Updated map and a_gR values for Romanian seismic standard (SR EN 1998-1).

Results

• Bugfix in detailed results where mouse seems to be fixed on a horizontal or vertical line
• Bugfix in detailed results that opens slowly.
• Values in mean results aren’t updated when you change the units from meter to something else.
• Bugfix in results table: error message when switching between different view options.

Concrete

• Cracked deformation is overestimated when the element contains very small axial force.
• Maximum allowable longitudinal reinforcement in a column is checked based on the enveloppe of all reinforcement cases, instead of for each case separately.

Requirements

• CodeMeter 8.20a (or more recent)
• Gateway 2.09.0001 (or more recent)

General

• Interface available in Romanian language.

Geometry

• When you copy-paste bar-properties using the right mouse button (in the geometry configuration), also copy the data behind the “Reinforcement dialog” (= the concrete cover, reinforcement distribution, …).
• Shortcut i or I for opening the Intersection dialog .
  Shortcut c or C for opening the Label & Comment dialog .
  The full list of shortcuts in Diamonds can be found here.
  Shortcut l or L for drawing lines . In the past it was already possible to draw lines using a or A. Both shortcuts can be used.
• Possibility to draw an ellips using the button .
• Dialogs for material and cross-sections are provided with navigations buttons at the bottom. This should make the dialogs load faster.
  

Results

• Additional export options in results table allowing you to export :
  • only the current combinations (which was already possible in the past).
  • the results of all combinations (new).
  • the reuslts of all combiantions within the selected set (new).
    If you’re looking at the results for SLS RC 2, and you select this option, all SLS RC results will be exported.

  An overview of the current possibilities of the results table can be found in this article.

Concrete

• Possibility to export intermediar reinforcement results for bar elements.
  The workflow, an overview of the current export possibilities and more can be found in this article.

Connections

• Send RHS splice from Diamonds to PowerConnect.

Export/ Import

• Import from SAF file via BIM Expert.
• Export to IFC file via BIM Expert.

General

• Bugfix in Auto Save-function.
• Bugfix in Save-function in combination with Section Utility. Diamonds always started the Save As-function instead of the Save-function.
• Possibility to assign Design types to lines without cross-sections without them dissapearing after a while.
• Diamonds will no longer make sounds when you use ENTER and ESC while drawing.

Loads

• Bugfix in the calculation of the torsional reinforcement.

Results

• Bugfix in displaying enveloppe of cracking widths.

Concrete

• Bugfix in the calculation of the shear reinforcement. V_Rd.c was taken a factor 100 too small, which made Diamonds display transverse reinforcement (stirrups) too quickly. This was not a major issue, as bars with low transverse forces were assigned transverse reinforcement that was calculated to be less than the minimum transverse reinforcement. In the transverse reinforcement, the thin line was drawn under the thick line. This is corrected, resulting in the thin line not being drawn when V_Ed < V_Rd.c.
• Bugfix in the calculation of the torsional reinforcement.
• Bugfix in the calculation of cracked deformation.
• Bugfix in the calculation of cracking widths.

Concrete + fire

• The reduced Young’s modulus used to calculate the reinforcement in case of fire, was taken too conservative.

Steel / timber

• Manually imposed duration class didn’t affect k_mod.

Report

• Error when making print preview of detailed results of steel/timber verification.
• Right margin for print preview not working properly.
• “Out of resources” error when making a report.
• Page number starts at zero for steel/timber check.
• Model not visible in report manager.
  This was in particular an issue on computers with an AMD Radeon Ryzen processor with integraded graphical card or on computers running a Virtual Machine.

Requirements

• CodeMeter 8.20a (or more recent)
• Gateway 2.08.0001 (or more recent)

General

• The following hot keys have have been added:
  • CTRL + W to close the Diamonds project, but not Diamonds itself.
  • Select the intersection point of two intersecting lines and hit DEL: the intersection point will be deleted, the lines now cross.
  • T opens the translation dialog in the load configuration.
• Bosnian national annexes to EN1990, EN 1991-1-3, EN 1991-1-4, EN 1992-1-1, EN 1992-1-2, EN 1993-1-1, EN 1993-1-2, EN 1993-1-3, EN 1993-1-4, EN 1995-1-1, EN 1998-1 added.
• Montenegro national annexes to EN1990, EN 1991-1-3, EN 1991-1-4, EN 1992-1-1, EN 1992-1-2, EN 1993-1-1, EN 1993-1-2, EN 1993-1-3, EN 1993-1-4, EN 1995-1-1, EN 1998-1 added.
• Serbian national annexes to EN1990, EN 1991-1-3, EN 1991-1-4, EN 1992-1-1, EN 1992-1-2, EN 1993-1-1, EN 1993-1-2, EN 1993-1-3, EN 1993-1-4, EN 1995-1-1, EN 1998-1 added.
• Croatian national annexes to EN1990, EN 1991-1-3, EN 1991-1-4, EN 1992-1-1, EN 1992-1-2, EN 1993-1-1, EN 1993-1-2, EN 1993-1-3, EN 1993-1-4, EN 1995-1-1, EN 1998-1 added.
• French national annex to EN 1995-1-1 added.
• Danish national annex to EN 1995-1-1 added.
• Luxembourg national annex to EN 1995-1-1 added.
• Norwegian national annex to EN 1995-1-1 added.
• British national annex to EN 1995-1-1 added.

Geometry

• Make the projection function remember the last direction you used.
• Make it possible to indicate in which plane a DXF should be imported.

Loads

• The maps for wind, snow, seismic activity have been given a graphical update.

Concrete

• Practical beam reinforcement can be exported to ConCrete Plus when it’s set visible.

Steel design

• When sending a model from Diamonds to PowerConnect, the default-save folder in PowerConnect. will be the same are where the Diamonds model is stored in.

Timber design

• Print C1-factor in details timber design.

General

• Impossible to import a Diamonds model.

Geometry

• Improvements to the calculation of effective properties for cold-formed C-sections.
• The menu Select > Supported points, didn’t selected all supported points in some models.

Loads

• Ductility doesn’t affect seismic spectrum according to NCRS-02.

Results

• Use system thousand and decimal separator in Modal Info dialog.
• Impossible to import dxf made with Practical reinforcement tool.
• Font size report manager is set to ‘1’ when using custom header/footer.
• Error when calculating buckling lengths.
• Wrong deformation for plates supported with functions define relative to surface orientation.

Steel design

• Bugfix in the calculation of effective properties for cold-formed C-sections.

Concrete design

• Deformation in time didn’t take practical reinforcement (for plates) in some cases into acccount.

Requirements

• CodeMeter 7.60d (or more recent)
• Gateway 2.07.0001 (or more recent)

General

• Romanian national annexes to EN1990, EN 1991-1-3, EN 1991-1-4, EN 1992-1-1, EN 1992-1-2, EN 1993-1-1, EN 1993-1-2, EN 1993-1-3, EN 1993-1-4, EN 1995-1-1, EN 1998-1 added.
• Belgian national annex to EN 1993-1-4 added.
• Diamonds.exe is available as a 64-bit application only.

Geometry

• *Faster editing of frame models.
• Faster manual input of soil layers.
• Possibility to remove all boundary conditions for eccentricities.

Results

• *Faster elastic analysis of frame models.
• Possibility to show the internal forces in only one point (in the results table )

Concrete

• Possibility to impose reinforcement distribution for bar elements.

Practical reinforcement

• Possibility remove all the practical reinforcement (defined with ) from the model
• Anchor length can be shown
• Mouse coordinates are shown at bottom right corner.

Steel

• *Faster calculation of buckling lengths
• *Faster calculation of the steel verification
• *Faster calculation of the steel optimisation

*Note: to improve the speed of these actions, significant changes have been made to the group definitions. As a result, when you open a model made in Diamonds 2024 in Diamonds 2023, the rendering of the groups is not automatically made. Making it look like Diamonds 2023 has no group definition at all. However, the groups are still stored in the *.bsf, only the rendering is not make. In order to trigger a render, select the entire model and click on . Make sure the geometric tolerance is set to 1mm (= this is the lowest value possible) and select nothing from the checkboxes below. Hit ‘OK’ to run the model verification. The rendering should be fine now.

General

• When you leave Diamonds open without calculating, Codemeter will release the license after a certain amount of time. It’s annoying when you want to re-use Diamonds because you’ll need to reboot him in order to find a license again. With this work around, that should be resolved.
• Improvements in the saving procedure.

Results

• Results are deleted when you turn a level off in the level manager.
• Line supports defined according to the local coordinate system gave wrong results in some cases.

Concrete

• Adjustments in the determination of the cracked moments of inertia of asymmetric concrete sections.

Fire

• Fire resistant paints have no effect on thermal analysis.

Report

• Error when printing material properties.
• Memory issues when making a print preview.
• Error/ crash when making a print preview or bitmap of the load configuration.

Requirements

• CodeMeter 7.60d (or more recent)
• Gateway 2.06.0001 (or more recent)

General

• Select coordinates directly on the screen when using the Projection function
• Select all elements from the same level using the right mouse button in the geometry configuration
• Save file history in SharePoint

Loads

• Start from selected load group when opening incompatible/ linked load dialog

General

• Error on opening older models (GUID issue)
• Error when selecting plate which contains opening (internal plate)
• Changing level visibility removes results in some cases
• Impossible to calculate model containing footings
• Results sometimes get mixed up when you open the same file in multiple instances of Diamonds

Loads

• Seismic load not included in ASCE 7-10

Concrete

• Deformation in time does not take practical reinforcement into account

Requirements

• CodeMeter 7.60 (or more recent)
• Gateway 2.06.0001 (or more recent)

General

• Select elements with identical properties (material, section, support, end condition)
• New visual representation of non-linear supports
• Detect invalid plates
• Faster switch between visible/ invisible state of floors
• Show calculation time

Concrete

• Choose reinforcement amount for cracking calculation (theoretical, practical or theoretical + practical)
• Select most loaded plates (select plates containing a skull)

Fire

• New intumescent paints: FX2002, FX2007, FX6010, C-Therm S100/S101FD, C-therm S110/S111FD
  

General

• Wrong unit conversion from kN/m³ to T/m³ for density in material library
• Buttons for hinges at beginning/end of bar are switched
• When a model contains points that are to close to one another > the risk that the vertical reactions are zero in some points

Loads

• Edit for partial safety factors as a function of the consequence class (BE annex)

Concrete

• Soil reaction not deducted correctly from punching force (punching shear calculation)
• When using custom scale for reinforcement in global results: the colors on the iso lines have shifted one step
• Export to ConCrete Plus

Fire

• Updated fire paints: FX2004, FX5090, FX6002
• Removed fire paints: FX2005, FX5120

Requirements

• CodeMeter 7.60 (or more recent)
• Gateway 2.06.0001 (or more recent)

General

• Select elements based on connection name
• Show path next to file name

Results

• Copy and divide cut lines
• Cut lines are also copied when a structure is copied
• Show mean reaction over multiple support lines in Result table 

Concrete

• CE21 and Spanish annex to Eurocode 2 (UNE EN 1992-1-1) added

Stainless steel

• Stainless steel design according to EN 1993-1-4

Connections

• Send CHS splice from Diamonds to PowerConnect

General

• Improvements to the dialog ‘Select most loaded’.
• Error when scrolling through the data table.

Loads

• Variable load not completely generated on group ‘Loads’.

Steel

• (In some cases) not possible to do a steel verification for a selection of bars.
• Adjusted material safety factors for cold formed steel according to DIN EN 1993-1-3.

Concrete

• When you give β a different value than the standard 0.5, Diamonds doens’t take it into account.
• Reinforcement calculation ‘hangs’ if there are no plates in the model.

Report

• Improvements to prevent the Report Manager from going out of memory.
• Error when trying to make an RTF report containing connection data.
• Minimal reactions were not printed.

Requirements

• CodeMeter 7.40 (or more recent)
• Gateway 2.04.0000 (or more recent)

Steel

• Spanish national annex to EN 1993-1-1.

Requirements

• CodeMeter 7.40 (or more recent)
• Gateway 2.02.0000 (or more recent)

General

• Bugfix for slow reaction of some dialogs.

Requirements

• CodeMeter 7.40 (or more recent)
• Gateway 2.02.0000 (or more recent)

General

• Updated interface
• Short key for Save As (ALT + S)
• Use of templates to start your project
• Select elements based on connection name (via menu Select)

Geometry

• Scale function
• Merge plates

Results

• Mean reaction over multiple supported lines. When you selected multiple lines and click right mouse button, Diamonds shows the mean reaction over the selected lines.

Fire

• French national annex to EN 1993-1-2
• Fire design for AISC & NSR-10

General

• Not possible to select or change view after running fire analysis
• Not possible to select or change view after running projection function

Results

• Isolines shows percent-values instead of the real values

Model analysis

• The modal mass according to CTE = phi x mass. Modal mass according to EC = psi2 x phi x mass

Concrete

• Reinforcements results are broken after a cracked calculation in time

Fire

• Color of steel cross-section does not match scale after running fire analysis (detailed results)

Report manager

• Improvements in memory use of report manager (results steel verification)

Requirements

• CodeMeter 7.40 (or more recent)
• Gateway 2.02.0000 (or more recent)

General

• Use right click on global coordinate system (right bottom of the screen) to center the model on the screen from a standard viewpoint. (comes in handy when the model is upside down)
• Omit units when showing data on the screen & in variable grid

Geometry

• Show eccentricities in datatable so they can be printed

Loads

• Easy adjustment of surface loads in datatable

Results

• Ask results on bar ends in datatable
• Show total and mean reaction in a plate surface

Fire

• Show section factor in Data table after thermal analysis (also when cross-section has no protection)
• Intumescent paint Nullifire SC901/902 added to material library

General

• Wrong unit conversion from kN/m³ to T/m³ for density in material library
• Buttons for hinges at beginning/end of bar are switched
• When a model contains points that are to close to one another > the risk that the vertical reactions are zero in some points
• Not possible to import Diamonds model containing sub load cases

Geometry

• Mistake in painting surface of variable cross-section

Loads

• Wrong zones on wind map for national annex LT
• American combinations not importing

Results

• No enveloppe results when seismic load is disabled
• Error in formula for calculting plate stress

Steel

• Not possible to calculate buckling length for Brausa cross-sections
• Steelcheck not possible if only ULS SC are present

Fire

• Improvements to intumescent paint optimisation

Report manager

• Error when printing Connection verification in report

Requirements

• CodeMeter 7.40 (or more recent)
• Gateway 2.01.0014 (or more recent)

Connections

• Send footing to PowerConnect

Report

• Start pagenumber at user defined number in advanced footer/header
  

Geometry

• Impossible to change footing material when double clicking

Loads

• Combining load cases doesn’t always work well

Results

• Relative deflection values for envelop not correct

Concrete

• Reinforcement of some plates gives extreme higher results than 2019. Especially with low axial forces

Report

• Error when making RTF from cross section properties
• Results table printed twice in RTF

Requirements

• CodeMeter 7.60 (or more recent)
• Gateway 2.06.0001 (or more recent)

General

• Alternative for SQL database
• Select all point with CTRL + click
• Show number of selected elements in footer
• Improvements to the selection window ‘Most loaded bars’
• Axonometry default view when installing Diamonds for the first time or when resetting the preferences
• Save new materials automatically in the library

Geometry

• Possibility to import/export plate definitions (= stiffness matrix).

Results

• Relative defection in detailed results window
  

General

• Improvements when saving Diamonds files. Sometimes the model got partially lost during saving.

Loads

• Generate seismic combinations for American standard
• Improvements for Diamonds getting stuck when generating a lot of combinations

Steel

• Improvements to the LTB check for Eurocode NL annex

Fire

• Updated fire paints: Firetex 6002
• Improvements to fire calculations of thin coating layers

Requirements

• CodeMeter 7.60 (or more recent)
• Gateway 2.06.0001 (or more recent)

• Selection based on the support conditions
• Turn off the Level Manager
• New element properties ‘Label’ and ‘Comment’
• Window ‘Section Dialog’ made foldable
• Window ‘Section Dialog’ expanded for cold formed sections
• New boundary conditions for walls
• Scale factor for the loads
• Swiss standard for load factors and timber (SIA 260, SIA 265)
• Steel verification for bars covered with fire resistant paints
• Module to define the practical reinforcement in detail

• Filter in Section and Material library so you can only set the relevant materials and sections visible
• Import of curved surfaces through dxf
• Additional shape for tanks/ vessels in the Wizard menu
• Swiss standard for wind/ snow, concrete and steel (SIA 261, SIA 263, SIA 262)
• Show resulting fector for pointloads and point reactions
• New print preview
• Summary in the results table
• Italian interface

• Database orientated section and material library (= introduction of Gateway & Gateway Server)
• Extension of plate types: diaphragm, hollow core slab, plate based on stiffness matrix
• Fire design for concrete
• Parametric connections
• Link with Tekla Structures through BIM Expert
• Creep for timber
• Lanczos solver for modal analysis replaced with Jacobi solver

Note: because the section and material library are now managed by Gateway & Gateway Server, there is no backward compatibility between Diamonds 2017 (or newer) models and Diamonds 2015 (or older). Meaning: you can open a Diamonds 2017 model in Diamonds 2015, but the sections and materials will be lost. If you assign them again, the model can be calculated in Diamonds 2015.

• Thermal utility
• Fire design for steel
• Stress tolerance for soil calculations
• Detailed window for stresses

• Expansion of the intelligent cursor snaps
• Global buckling factor
• Shear deformation for beams
• Torsional rigidity for plates bearing in one direction
• Moving loads (crane loads)

• Projection function
• New lay out for loadgroup window
• Seimic/ linear dynamics/ modal analysis
• New calculation core

• Variable grid for drawing or mesurements
• Physical groups
• Variable sections
• C-section
• Minimum edge division and minimum element size refinement factor for the mesh
• New soil layer calculations
• Optimization for timber and cold formed sections
• Lateral buckling curves according to equivalent method
• Logo in header/footer of report