The overview below shows the main new features over the years in Diamonds. For the total list, check the release documents at the bottom of this article.
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- 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/ lineair 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
