Early Access Releases (After December 2025)

1. Gusset Plate Code Check : The Bolted Gusset Plate Code Check now lets you choose whether a gusset is designed as a truss gusset (6.14.2.8, with the Ω=0.88 shear-reduction factor) or as a general connection element (6.13.5, without Ω) — default behavior is unchanged. (Steel I Gİrder Workflow / Steel Tub Girder Workflow)
2. Cross Frame X Type : New optional FEA setting for the X-type cross frame — enabling "Offsets Expand Thermally" allows rigid end offsets to expand under thermal loading, preventing a uniform temperature load from generating spurious locked-in member forces. The default setting is Off, ensuring that existing models remain unchanged. (Steel I Gİrder Workflow / Steel Tub Girder Workflow / Precast I Girder Workflow / Concrete U Girder Workflow)
3. Static Pushover Graph : Update Static Pushover Graph report details. It now displays every hinge's status in the report per pushover analysis case. (All Workflow)
4. Cross Frames : Cross frames spanning two girders with different horizontal geometry no longer crash the model and now build correctly. (Steel I Girder Workflow)
5. Static Pushover Graph : Pushover summary status colors (Elastic/Yield/Capacity) updated to the standard conditional-formatting palette for better readability. (All Workflow)
6. Concrete Box Girder : Improvements to Concrete Box Girder Finite Element Model generation to cover certain edge cases. (Concrete Box Girder Workflow)
7. Concrete Girder Code Check : The optional span-to-depth check for concrete girders now compares against the overall composite depth including the deck, instead of the girder depth alone. (Precast I Girder Workflow)
8. Integral Bent : Static pushover analysis can now target integral bents and the Element Load menu is expanded. (Concrete Box Girder Workflow)
9. Concrete box girder code check no longer reports NaN or false failures for checks that do not apply — shear friction, crack control, span-to-depth, and fibre stresses now report correctly, and PT time-dependent losses use the construction-stage humidity on post-tensioned-only girders. (Concrete Box Girder Workfow)
10. Pile Capacity Check : Pile Capacity Check now reports the correct governing limit state — a pile governed by Strength V was being labelled Service III. (All Workflow)
11. California Permit Vehicles have been added to the database. (All Workflow)
12. Integral Bent Cap Code Check : Integral bent cap code-check follow-ups — section-driven side-face reinforcement with override, ported reinforcement validations, and CALTRANS state-table fixes. (The 3D rebar overhang-inset attempt is reverted for now; bent-cap reinforcement 3D display is off.) (Concrete Box Girder Workfow)
13. Concrete Box Girder : Concrete box girders now support in-span hinge joints. A new Hinge Joint input group on the box girder lets you place a joint on any support line and control its orientation, hinge length, gap, depth, and PT blockout length, with either a Full-Depth or Half-Depth joint option. With Half-Depth, the shell model splits into a seat block and a suspended dap block separated by a real gap, so load transfers only through the hinge bearings — matching how the joint behaves in the field. Hinge depth and gap are set directly as inputs, giving you full control over the joint geometry. Bearings placed at a hinge are marked on the insertion point (Reference Object = Hinge Joint ) and are now drawn at the joint elevation rather than the girder soffit, so the 3D model reflects the real seat location. All other bearing types are unaffected. Also in this release : New Deck Material and Soffit Material inputs; the girder solid and section are now split into deck and soffit parts, New PSC-nCELL v3 database group with deck / soffit / 3D-only shape variants for every cell count.Improved Tekla export hints for bent cap and diaphragm sections. (Concrete Box Girder Workfow)
14. Vertical clearance now has a home in the workflow tree — a new Geometric Criteria group holds Clearance Zone and Vertical Clearance Check, the Digital Terrain Model moves under External References › Imported Data , and the retired 2D Map item is gone now that the background map is a view setting. (All Workflow)
15. Concrete Box Girder : A new Hinge Joint Material input has been added. It applies to every hinge-joint piece (zone webs, PT blockout fans, seat/dap block meshes, block-face panels, blockout diaphragms) as well as the length of girder passing through the joint. When left empty, it falls back to the Soffit Material, so existing models are unaffected. Note that the deck strip inside the joint follows the soffit material rather than the deck material, since the joint is cast as a single pour. (Concrete Box Girder Workflow)
16. Concrete Box Girder : Girder shells within an integral bent now take that bent's own Material instead of the girder's deck/soffit concrete, since that length of box is cast with the cap. Existing models with integral bents whose material differs will see their FE results change on recompile. (Concrete Box Girder Workflow)
17. Concrete Box Girder : A new Apply To [3D Only / 3D + FEA] input has been added to the Half-Depth hinge joint; the default, 3D + FEA, preserves the previous behavior. When set to 3D Only, the joint becomes a 3D-graphics-only feature: the box still opens and refills, while the analysis model remains a plain continuous girder with no mesh split, no hinge stations and no sliver element band at the joint. Bearings on the hinge support line are still placed in 3D but are not included in the analysis. (Concrete Box Girder Workflow)
18. Concrete Box Girder : The 3D hinge fill now builds its own block-face station list instead of using the FE mesh station grid. The fill blocks now land exactly on the PT blockout boundaries rather than snapping to the nearest mesh station. (Concrete Box Girder Workflow)
19. Approach Slab : Approach slabs can now be meshed as finite elements that follow the bridge alignment (curve and skew) and transfer forces to the bent through a spring/rigid-line connection at the seam. (All Workflow)