Something happened in the last post... the following paragraph should be at the end:
"So I think your comment of "would you rather use software from a company that understands the shortcomings of its code, and seeks to remedy it?" does not hold water. Engineers are exactly that -...
I called Research up and they told me the demo version is limited to 6 members and 5 load cases. They recently added in a check that if the lock is not in, the pre and post will go into demo mode. They said that 99% of the engineer's time is spent on modeling and reviewing results -not running a...
If you are so upset with REI, why do you continue to use their product? Just switch...don't bitch. And frankly speaking, I don't see the problem with the key lock. Last I checked, STAAD is pirated all over the world. They want to make sure people who haven't paid for their software don't use it...
When you assign the member property of a section to be composite, STAAD
assumes the concrete slab width of that section to be the width of the
flange of the steel section plus 16 times the thickness of the slab. The
selfweight of the member is hence based upon the weight of the steel section...
