This release introduces the ability to compute and apply beam weight automatically as well as numerous improvements throughout the app, including performance and stability fixes.
• NEW: The checkbox next to the material density value allows you to apply beam weight as a load. Modifying the material density or cross section area values automatically enables this checkbox, but you can still uncheck it to disable it.
• NEW: When you explore sections in the built-in database, you can now see additonal reference values that you may find useful. Any rows with a light gray background are interactive. If you tap on them, they will be highlighted for visualization in the diagram on top of the screen.
• NEW: The app now enforces a minimum beam length based on 10 times the height of the cross section, if one is specified. Changing the height of the cross section will automatically cause the beam length to increase if it is less than this threshold.
• IMPROVED: You may notice that the beam visualization now reflects the proportional size of the cross section.
• IMPROVED: When a cross section is not specified, instead of rendering a default shape, we now simply draw a line that represents an abstract beam. Even when a cross section is specified, we now render a thin center line, which makes the deflection of the beam easier to follow visually.
• CHANGED: In order to make room for the new options needed to enable the new beam weight feature, you will notice a change in layout and interaction in the material and cross section widgets.
• CHANGED: Previously, when you changed the default app unit settings, any values entered for the current file would get overwritten using the new units. This behavior does not make sense now that there are multiple files, so we disabled it. Now, when you change the default app unit settings, only the output calculation values and the default values for new beams and loads are affected.
• CHANGED: When using English (Standard) units, the scroller in the numpad view changes your value in increments that are fractions of 2 (example: 0.25", 0.125", etc). We hope this makes it easier to work with common values in these unit types. Let us know!
• FIXED: We improved stability in some phones where the app may have sometimes crashed due to memory usage. We also improved performance in most phones where loading and searching the beam library may have been slow or laggy.
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