Diamonds 2024
Release date: 6/12/2023
- 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 show
- 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.
