This file contains the description of the CAP changes Created V15.20 - 7/9/2025 1) No Fatigue warning files when no warning option is selected. 2) Fixed SCF calculations by excluding Linear Beam Wave elements. Created V15.19 - 7/5/2025 1) Able to hanlde angle sections for linear propertioes of Generalized Beam Column, Inelastic Beam Column(E04), and Lumped Plasticity Beam Column, in addition to Linear Beam, Large Displacement Beam, and Distribued Plasticity Beam (implemented earlier) SeaStar P4.322 - 10/5/2025 1) Able to hanlde angle sections for linear propertioes of Generalized Beam Column, Inelastic Beam Column(E04), and Lumped Plasticity Beam Column, in addition to Linear Beam, Large Displacement Beam, and Distribued Plasticity Beam (implemented earlier) Created V15.18 - 4/18/2025 1) Able to set the defaul value (EL/L) for all the Shim Elements 2) The node data updates may not always be saved from "Select/Change>Nodes>Basic Properties". 3) Fixed a bug for the data from the Generic Member Information dialogue for Fatigue Flag that may be messed up because of an initialization problem. Created V15.17 - 3/15/2025 1) Add new Grid Line Generation Options under menu "Analysis>Pre-SeaStar Analysis>Grid Load of the Selected Load Case":.: * Report Grid Load Data * Import Data from Report Format File * Generate Data from Simple Data * Generate Data from LC Analysis Results * Generate Simple Data from Wind Spectrum Created V15.16 - 2/6/2025 1) Consider the validity ranges of gamma and alpha in the calculation of the Efthymiou SCF equations. API states the validity ranges for the Efthymiou parametric SCF equations are as follows: beta from 0.2 to 1.0; tau from 0.2 to 1.0; gamma from 8 to 32; alpha(length) from 4 to 40; theta from 20 to 90 degrees; zeta(gap) from -0.6ß/sin? to 1.0. For cases where one or more parameters (see Note) fall outside this range, the following procedure may be adopted: i) evaluate SCFs using the actual values of geometric parameters, ii) evaluate SCFs using the limit values of geometric parameters, iii) use the maximum of i) or ii) above in the fatigue analysis. Note: Only gamma and alpha are considered in the above procedure. For the remaining parameters, the actual values are used in the calculations. Created V15.15 - 1/10/2025 1) Minor header texts are changed in Rainflow Fatigue Stress Range report (CapFlowC.cs) from "Br1 Br2 Br3 Br4 Ch1 Ch2 Ch3 Ch4" to "Br5 Br6 Br7 Br8 Ch5 Ch6 Ch7 Ch8". 2) Minor changes to avoid a null point exception in the report of Spectral analysis results. The problem occurred only when a new spectral analysis case is created. After it was created, there would be no problem later. (FrmFatigueSpectral.cs) 3) Fix the model import from SSModel.inp files. 4) Change CapStar.cmd to remove the use of CommentFilter.exe. Created V15.14 - 12/7/2024 1) Report a warning message for members with SCF data but without force data after performing Rainflow Analysis. (Also automatically set force data to zero for those member with unsaved data). 2) Report a warning message for members with SCF data but without force data by clicking the "Check if All SCF are Created" button from menu "Analysis>Post-Seastar Analysis>Rainflow Fatigue>SCF". Created V15.13 - 12/4/2024 1) Fixed a wrong report of missing fatigue data for the case when flexibility joint elements are used. Created V15.12 - 10/24/2024 1) Check data for Wave-In-Deck element when the values of Length or Width are set to zero, the vertical plane number must be set to 1. 2) Fixed a problem by using zoom box to select Wave-In-Deck elements. 3) Able to import the current profile data from "Export/Import LC Data". 4) Fixed the problem for the case when running code check only without seastar analysis, CAP deleted the analysis result. 5) CapView cannot edit multiple load case data simultaneously now. Created V15.11 - 10/2/2024 1) Improve the efficiency of Shim Elements SeaStar P4.321 - 10/2/2024 1) Improve the efficiency of Shim Elements Created V15.10 - 9/30/2024 1) Able to perform data check to report Shim elements without a K defined Node. 2) Implement end eccentricities or large displacement beams. 3) Able to select members with any end eccentricities. 4) Implement end release for large displacement beams. SeaStar P4.320 - 6/5/2024 1) Implement End Release for E02 Large Displacement Beam Creating V15.10 - 9/30/2024 1) Able to perform data check to report Shim elements without a K defined Node. 2) Implement end eccentricities for large displacement beams. 3) Able to select members with any end eccentricities. 4) Implement end release for large displacement beams. Created V15.09 - 6/20/2024 1) New option to display regular wave trace statistics. 2) Open an existing CAP project without an extra dialog step. Created V15.08 - 5/22/2024 1) Fixed a license issue (failed to release license). Created V15.07 - 4/24/2024 1) Gradually remove static current during a ramp time of dynamic anlaysis (SeaStar V4.319 changes). 3) Able to display member fatigue lives in plot. SeaStar P4.319 - 4/23/2023 1) Gradually remove static current during a ramp time during a dynamic analysis. Created V15.06 - 4/15/2024 1) Fixed a crash because ground motion was not used in all the 3 directions. Created V15.05 - 3/1/2024 1) Fixed The error in the generation of the fixed end moments from Member distribution loads when the member load is only partially applied to the member. Created V15.04 - 2/2/2024 1) Formal Release Created V15.03 - 1/26/2024 1) Change from the year label 2023 to 2024. 2) When pressing key F2 in the Render view for creating a render image does not trigger the wind calculation option now. 3) Avoid a crash that occurs occasionally when exiting CapView. Created V15.02 - 10/25/2023 1) Fixed ISO Member Code Check bug. Created V15.00 - 8/7/2023 1) User can perform an analysis and result processing for a subset the full model (SubModel) 2) Available of Catalog Menu Created V14.14 - 7/11/2023 1) Fixed Cutplane forces and Fixed Node Reactions forces when a large displacement effect was considered (Only DPBC results were good). Created V14.12 - 5/2/2023 1) Fixed the occurrence of exception for some users when Capview starts. Created V14.11 - 4/1/2023 1) Add "API" Curve option for AISC section to GBC and MS (Some corrections in Marshall Strut Display Numbers) 2) The Dialogue is displayed always below the top of the screen.. 3) Minor label improvements. Created on V14.10 - 3/03/2023 1) Fixed a licensing issue. Created on V14.08 - 2/02/2023 1) Member Load Factor is now applied to API Member Code Check. 2) Change Xr+ to Hr+ and Xr- to Hr- because the rotations are w.r.t. Screen axis rather model axies. 3) Fix the values of TotalRotate in DrScreenEntity, that were not restored correctly. 4) Able to print Plan Views now 5) Fix Orthogonal Plan View that are shown correctly now. Created V14.07- 1/27/2023 1) Fixed API Code Check for Member Code Check Override data that were not used properly. Created V14.06 - 12/13/2022 1) Fixed the display of a bad data error when opening a ground motion assignment dialogue. This bug does not affect the results. Created V14.05 - 11/8/2022 1) Change the Model Inconsistency Warning for a recognition action only without an option to clean up the result data. Created V14.03 - 11/2/2022 1) Fixed the failure to convert an old cap.mdl data into the current version. Created V14.02 - 9/14/2022 1) Fixed an error in processing member force (a regression in V14.01) Created V14.01 - 8/16/2022 1) Fixed Network license issue 2) Many user interface enhancements 3) Implement Maximum Force limits for Linear Beams (E03) SeaStar P4.318 - 5/19/2022 1) Implement Maximum Force limits for Linear Beams (E03) Created V13.82 - 4/14/2022 1) Apply Conductor Shielding Factors noy only to Cd but also to CM from now on. 2) Able to import Conductor Shielding Factors from LC Data Export/Import 3) Add many useful menu options to Catalogs menu 4) Option in Text Import/Export to change nodal force names. 5) Option to report nodal force names only Created V13.81 - 2/16/2022 1) Improve Spectral Fatigue analysis for their memory usage 2) Add a new catenary generation option based on a hyperbolic shape. 3) Fixed Boundary Load reactions plot. 4) Fixed FrmEditLcStaticLoads.cs which crashes when no force load is defined. Created V13.80 - 2/1/2022 1) Enhance boundary reaction display, boundary condition display 2) Easy to update section by edge and thickness loss. Created V13.79 - 1/26/2022 1) Improve New Model Display using the Perspective view approach. 2) Improve Catalog options Created V13.78 - 1/18/2022 1) Improve Spectral fatigue analysis for data catching improvement. 2) Mouse Control in a new way of model display particularly for rotation (Vertical always in a plan pointing up) Created V13.74 - 12/31/2021 1) Speed up Spectral fatigue analysis 10 times faster and also able to handle much larger amount of data now. Created V13.73 - 12/26/2021 1) Fixed failing to fix SCF data import when some nodes data are not provided. Created V13.72 - 12/21/2021 1) Enhance SACS Data import so that GRPOV and MEMOV cards are imported regardless of whether CDM cards are defined. 2) Fixed the Added Mass CAP report to use AISC section wave diameter rather than equivalent Buoyancy diameter for the calculations. Created V13.71 - 12/16/2021 1) Enhance Spectral Fatigue to handle AISC standard tube sections. Created V13.70 - 12/15/2021 1) Fixed a bug that crashed CAP Database upgrade from the version that introduced the member section Height parameter for a Cone Section on 6/15/2021 in CAP V13.61. Created V13.69 - 12/9/2021 1) Fixed that when I22 != I33 and Section Angle != 0, AISC section properties might not properly write into SSModel.inp. 2) When the data in the Generic Member Dialogue are modified, users will be prompted with the options to save the data or not when clicking top right x button. 3) Fixed RISA 3D data import where override I22 and I33 were swapped. Created on V13.67 - 12/2/2021 1) Able to delete slaving conditions for selected nodes. 2) Options to display Boundary (Pin and Fix) Conditions 3) Add PSAS element with any selected group name rather than only "Soil-". 4) Output the information of the centroid location of an AISC Angle or ET section in the description tab. 5) Add the options of Display Defaults to Catalogs dialog. 6) Able to split member with AISC section for joint flexibility 7) Change the New Load default color to be purple. 8) Uncheck "Using Existing SSModel.inp" file before running SeaStar when the data has been modified. Created on V13.66 - 11/11/2021 1) Import SACS data of MASTER-SLAVE cards 2) Fix a missing member name in Beam-Column Interaction Surface Plot dialogue 3) Enhance Node selection from various Node Slaving conditions Created on V13.65 - 10/25/2021 1) Change member SACS local axes default directions to be more consistent to what is used in SACS, use tolerance of 0.9999874 instead of 0.999 to determine a vertical member. SeaStar P4.315 should be used for this version. 2) New Nodal Force Display 3) able to select Nodal Force by case color 4) Close Plot/Deflected Shape dialogue will ask if users would like to return undeformed position 5) Initialize Macro Restart Title to blank spaces 6) Rotate model by mid mouse button press. 7) Catalog Menu for L22 and L33 SeaStar P4.315 - 10/27/2021 1) Change member SACS local axes default directions to be more consistent to what is used in SACS, use tolerance of 0.9999874 instead of 0.999 to determine a vertical member. SeaStar results may be changed when a member falls between 0.999 and 0.9999874 SeaStar P4.314 - 5/8/2021 1) Implement a new option (KWAVEM=2) to lump local member forces (wave, current, gravity) to the upper node. Created on V13.64 - 10/13/2021 1) Edit Selected Load Case>Edit Static Loads 2) New SACS Import option of AISC Tube Section when Tube properties are overridden 3) Use a bigger object display for Nodal Force Load 4) Improve rubber band selection to be exact now. 5) Improve the rotation and rotation view action to be more smoothly. Translation and rotation view can be performed using the middle mouse + shift key. 6) Allow to scale marine growth thickness through a multiplier defined in a load case data. Change Load Case Data Version to 1031. 7) Draw Current Direction Vectors on Screen 8) Create Pre-set options for End Release 9) Fixed a render cache issue for Cone and ET Section (No cache) 10) Warning for using angle sections not in Linear Beams or Large Displacement Beams 11) Draw End Release Condition in Circle. 12) Create Catalog menu 13) Shift/Middle Mouse Press, from the screen middle portion for yaw rotation of the model. Created on V13.63 - 7/9/2021 1) Allow multiple SeaStar simultaneous runs Creating on V13.62 - 7/2/2021 1) Revert a change of V13.54 RISA V2 in DbScreen.cs that caused an inleastic plot crash. 2) Create a place holder for Soil location data (Lattitude and Longitude) 2) Able to get current direction angle. 3) Other changes. Created on V13.61 - 6/15/2021 1) Complete the implementation of Cone Section with Height parameter. 2) Able to do the import through "E/I" button for Load Case Dynamic force record assignments. 3) Show similar error messages only once. Created on V13.60 - 5/6/2021 1) Add a new option, "Buoyancy from Rational method (fh=P*D/2/t)", to Hydrostatic Check Type, for API Code Check Created on V13.59 - 5/5/2021 1) Merge some of the changes from Osmose version 2) Add ET Truss section into AISC lib 3) Introduce Height to AISC Cone Section 4) Set a children dialogue to display mostly at the center of its parent window. Created on V13.58 - 4/8/2021 1) Fixed a license expiration because of different locale (culture) setting. Created V13.55 - 3/26/2021 1) OSMOSE Users can by-pass license check now. 2) Remove CapStar.cmd, SeaStar2Cap.cmd, CommentFilter.exe. 4) Changes all the projects to "Any CPU" except one. CapView.cs must have its "Platform target:" set to "x86" or CapView crashes initially because of System.BadImageFormatException from DirectX 5) Reset some dll references and we are able to create a release version now. 6) Set Target framework all to .NET Framework 4.6.1 now. 7) Remove unneeded AviFile-ASUS8.dll. Created V13.53 - 3/15/2021 1) Implement a debug wave code to bypass the affected part of wave force calculation in WID element (E13)when the calculated water particle velocity is greater than wave celerity for SeaStar V4.313 or later. SeaStar P4.313 - 3/15/2021 1) Implement a debug wave code to bypass the affected part of wave force calculation in WID element (E13)when the calculated water particle velocity is greater than wave celerity. Created V13.52 - 3/9/2021 1) Implement a new AISC section, Double Angles, to behave like a Tee section for now. . Created V13.51 - 3/4/2021 1) Update CAP license control logics. . Created V13.50 - 3/3/2021 1) Update CAP license control logics to bring back the original proxy implementations. It now works for KBR and seems works at least partially for NS. Created V13.49 - 3/3/2021 1) Upgrade CAP license security protocol. Hopefully, this can fix the license issues that first slow down many users for theirs license access and then completely block their access to license on 3/1/2021. Created V13.48 - 3/1/2021 1) Try to improve license access control speed Created V13.47 - 2/25/2021 1) Issue more information on license expiring warning arising from a temporary local license control issue. 2) Avoid a crash when processing unimplemented Angle sections for AISC 9th edition code check. 3) In Explicit Catenary Generation Dialogue, when new groups are added, the new group names are added to Group combox. 4) Allow to input AISC Section data in Explicit Catenary Generation Dialogue 5) Avoid a crash and issue a warning when unaccepted characters are input to a real value in Select/Change. Created V13.46 - 1/25/2021 1) Issue a warning when updating the important parameters of an AISC section before resetting its overridden parameters Created V13.45 - 1/23/2021 1) Split members with AISC Cone Section properly according to their end diameters. 2) For AISC Cone Section, when Thickness is set to zero, a solid member without void inside is assumed now. Created V13.44 - 1/1/2021 1) Fixed a critical bug in AISC 9th code check. The results between batch calculations and individual member calculations are consistent now. 2) For the RSA of AISC 9th code check, the results of RSA is added on the top of the dead load. Created V13.43 - 12/1/2020 1) Fixed a bug that failed to process the nodal displacement result to include the effect of ground motion. Created V13.42 - 11/30/2020 1) Fixed AISC 14th Angle Section code check. 2) current data are Sorted when being imported or printed to SSModel.inp. Created V13.41 - 10/1/2020 1) Fixed API code check Eq. 3.3.3-1 when it is applied for compression force (combined stress in tension), the safety factor for compression was used. It is now changed to use the Safety factor for tension for this case. Created on V13.40 - 10/1/2020 1) Able to render Fiber elements now. 2) Implement new options for RISA3D data import of using extra nodes for Members Split options. Created V13.39 - 9/23/2020 1) Implement the product term of moment inertia for Distributed Plasticity Beam Column Element (E13). (Require SeaStar P4.312) 2) Fixed the import value of the override axial area for RISD3D data import. Ax was scaled by a factor 12*12*12*12 rather than 12*12. 3) Implement a new option: "Model>Add Components>Split Selected Beam Members>into X Braces" 4) Implement a mew option of "Material Weight Density Select/Change". SeaStar P4.312 - 9/23/2020 1) Implement the product term of moment inertia for Distributed Plasticity Beam Column Element (E13). Created on V13.38 - 9/8/2020 1) Implement the display of inelastic event for Fiber Beam Column Element E18. 2) Fixed the label of Member Section Rotation in an opposite direction. SeaStar P4.311 - 9/8/2020 1) Implement the display of inelastic event for Fiber Beam Column Element E18. Created V13.37 - 8/18/2020 1) Incorporate the product term of moment inertia. Currently, this term is considered only for E02 and E03 In SeaStar P4.310. SeaStar P4.310 - 7/12/2020 1) Incorporate the product term of moment inertia for E02 and E03. Created V13.35 - 7/31/2020 1) Fixed an AISC code check bug for an angle section. It runs into an inifite loop/ 2) Display principle axes information for an AISC angle section. Created V13.34 - 7/29/2020 1) Fixed the import of RISA 3D Data Model Import for Boundary Conditions where the reference nodes were off by.one node. Created V13.33 - 7/28/2020 1) Implementation of RISA 3D Data Model Import. (A SeaStar analysis works after the sample model is imported). 2) Implement a new option: "Model>Add Components>Split Selected Beam Members>>Multiple Segments through their Middle Nodes". This option is performed at the end of RISA 3D data import. 3) Implement Undo actions in CapView main context for object selection and also for the member split option above. 4) Fixed the calculation of Z22 or Z33 values (associated with I22 and I33) for an Angle section. Also, the cross term of moment of inertia, Ixy, is now shown for the angle section. 5) The Rotation Angle for the section orentation is incorporated now in E18 and E19. Created V13.32 - 7/22/2020 1) Initial Implementation of RISA 3D Data Model (Only partially working). Created V13.31 - 7/8/2020 1) Fixed SSModelinp data from E18 Fiber elements Created V13.30 - 7/8/2020 1) Implement AISC sections section members (WF, Angle, Channel). for E18 and E19 Fiber Elements. 2) Expand buffers to accommate more fibers for E18 in SeaStar V4.308. SeaStar P4.308 - 7/8/2020 1) Expand buffers to accommate more fibers for E18 in SeaStar V4.308. Created V13.29 - 7/2/2020 1) Implement the tubular section members only for E18 and E19, respectively. This requires SeaStar V4.307 2) Warning when a fatigue SCF data node was not set to "Perform Fatigue Analysis" while is used. SeaStar P4.307 - 7/2/2020 1) Import E18 (Fiber Beam-Column Element) and E19(Fiber Hinge Beam-Column Element) into SeaStar. Created V13.28 - 6/25/2020 1) Fixed a problem by setting initial wave direction for irregular wave to be in the x direction. Created V13.27 - 5/20/2020 1) Fixed an exception throw when the users tried to open a selected AISC section in "Add Member" dialogue to see the properties of this section.. 2) Select Nodes from a text file with node names. (Menu: Model>Select>Nodes>From Names in File). 3) Select Generic Members from a text file with member names. (Menu: Model>Select>Element of All Types>From Names in File). 4) "Results>Load Step Plots>Member>Member Force" Report to show Load Case in the file name, like the one for Nodal Displacement Report. 5) Redesign of the dialogue layouts for submenus under "Results>Load Step plots". 6) Issue an error when no member or bi node names are provided for reports. Created V13.26 - 4/7/2020 1) Internal fluid pressure effect is considered now in API code check. 2) Large Displacement effects can be considered in the API code check.. . Created V13.23 - 3/3/2020 1) Add "SSModel.inp" to be one of the files than can be deleted from the "Clean" action from Load Case Group Dialogue 2) License control improvements. Created V13.21 - 2/12/2020 1) Implement Load Case Group Export/Import for DYN2 Output control parameters. Created V13.20 - 2/10/2020 1) Add a new Displacement Type of "Only Dynamic Amount of Displacement" to menu "Load Step Plots>Node>Nodal Displacements". Created V13.19 - 2/3/2020 1) Add this file, DisplayExcludedMembers.txt, with a list member names in the project folder to exclude these members from result display. Created V13.18 - 1/28/2020 1) Add a new feature to Export/Import Load Case Mass Scale Factors and Comverstion Types from Nodal Force Patterns. Created V13.17 - 1/27/2020 1) Fixed a missing Import button from Edit SCF data. 2) Make Override SCF data and Global SCF data more clear to users. Created V13.16 - 1/18/2020 1) Fixed a Fatigue Report bug for the joint name because of the use of joint flexiblity elements. The damage results are still good. Created V13.15 - 1/14/2020 1) Add a new option to generate SCF from the worst of both geomtry and load path cases.. 2) Add a new option to compute Gap sizes for selected members that are elected for fatigue analysis, using menu "Model>Compute Selected>Generic Members>Gap Sizes for Fatigue Analysis" Created V13.13 - 1/10/2020 1) Continue improve SCF calculations (with some fixes). 2) Remove members with No Fatigue Analysis from consideration of Joint Type. 2) Create a new table to contain Member Gap Sizes between two braces. 3) Able to set Minimum allowable value of SCF. 4) Users can directly save calculated SCFs. Created V13.10 - 1/8/2020 1) Fixed Fatigue SCF calculations, especially, for KT Joints. No changes to T and X joints and minor fxies to K. 2) New Export/Import Options for Generic Member Gap Size Parameters. 3) Implement two options for menus: A: Select>Nodes>For Fatigue Analysis without any Brace for Fatigue Analysis B: Select>Nodes>Not for Fatigue Analysis witth a brace for Fatigue Analysis Created on V13.09 - 12/18/2019 1) Does not allow to perform Fatigue Analysis for a node connected only by a joint flexibility member and a brace. 1) Data check for repeated SCF data or Safety Factors input for Fatigue analysis and also during Fatigue analysis.. Created on V13.08 - 12/16/2019 1) Fixed Large Displacement Beam Cutplane forces and boundary node forces that involove LDB.. 2) Printout more error message dor fatigue analysis. Created on V13.07 - 12/13/2019 1) Interface to SeaStar P4.305 that fixes the implementation of Initial Moments for Inleastic Beam Column and Generalized Beam Column. A problem started from SeaStar 4.297. FE and FD were not initialized properly. 2) Fixed a minor problem in addition a new Gap group. 3) Improve the default location for the report of All Basic Properties. SeaStar P4.305 - 12/13/2019 1) Fix the implementation of Initial Moments for Inleastic Beam Column and Generalized Beam Column. A problem started from 4.297. FE and FD are not initialized properly. Created on V13.06 - 12/12/2019 1) Cutplane forces include an option to process the force in wave direction. 2) Add a new option of "Model>Change Selected>Members>Set Initial Forces and Moments for Components to choose". 3) Add a new option of "Model>Change Selected>Members>Set Initial Deformations for Components to choose". Created on V13.05 - 12/5/2019 1) Implement Text Data Export/Import for Distribute Plasticity BC (DPBC) group data. 2) Implement Text Data Export/Import for Member Material BC Stiffness data. 3) Implement Text Data Export/Import for Member Materail BC Strength data. Created on V13.04 - 12/5/2019 1) Implement Text Data Export/Import for Distribute Plasticity BC (DPBC) group data.. Created on V13.03 - 12/3/2019 1) Fixed a SACS LOAD data import issue. Member concentrated load for the "Create Multiple Members" from a member with multiple segements was not imported. Created on V13.02 - 11/29/2019 1) Expand input interface of Distribute Plasticity BC element to be able to control the Interaction Surface type and its parameters. Created on V13.01 - 11/25/2019 1) Fixed plate element connectivity text data import. 2) Data check is enhanced for plate elements that have less than three nodes. 3) SACS Load Data import from SACS member load is enhanced because members with end eccentricities were not previously excluded. 4) Fixed missing mudline for the cases when no PSAS element group is used. Created on V13.00 - 11/07/2019 1) Implement the Initial Moments input for Truss, Linear Beam, Large Displacement Beam, Inelastic Beam Column, Generalized Beam Column elements, Distributed Plastic Beam Column, and Lumped Plstic Beam Column. 2) Implement member initial deformation input for Linear Beam element. Must use SeaStarV4.304 when the initial deformation option is used or SeaStar V4.2x would crash. Created SeaStar P4.304 - 11/7/2019 1) Implement the Initial Moments input for Truss, Linear Beam, Large Displacement Beam, Inelastic Beam Column, Generalized Beam Column elements, Distributed Plastic Beam Column, and Lumped Plstic Beam Column. 2) Implement the member initial deformation input for Linear Beam element. Created on V12.92 - 10/22/2019 1) Fixed a major bug. The axial area of an AISC section imported from SACS data may not be set correctly. The scale factor for the length was used for the area. Created on V12.91 - 10/11/2019 1) Expand member section to include PLG (Plate Girder) section, which is basically the same as WF for now. Created on V12.90 - 9/30/2019 1) Minor cleanup for the CUS Meeting release Created on V12.89 - 9/15/2019 1) Make Dynamic Time History Record assignments more flexible. 2) Enhance Load Case Data Export/Import for the addition of new load cases and new macros. 3) Update column headers in tables wihtout space. Created on V12.87 - 8/26/2019 1) Cutplane forces and Boundary Reactions now considers the large displacement effect.. 2) Cable elements are included in the calculations of cutplane forces and boundary reactions. This requires SeaStar V4.295. 3) Issue a warning when the license will be expired within 7 days. Created SeaStar V4.295 - 8/26/2019 1) Save additional cable elements forces and large displacement beam rotation matrix for the calculation of cutplane forces and boundary reactions. 2) Change SeaStar post data saving version number from 0 to 1. Created on V12.86 - 8/22/2019 1) Replace the shear force plot from the wave load case for ShallowWaterJacket project in Examples Manual. 2) For consistency to Seastar, the tributary length for the top soil element does not include the length above the pile node now. 3) Include PSAS elements for the option of Results>Load Step Plots>Node>Boundary Reactions. Calculations can also be applied to a node without fixed DOFs now. Created on V12.85 - 8/14/2019 1) Make the Macro List panel scrollable in Edit Analysis Macro Dialogue. Created on V12.84 - 7/29/2019 1) Fixed a regression from V12.81 that did not display the right record of slaving data through Node dialogue. 2) Fixed an infinite loop issue when accessing fatigue SCF data with wrong data specified. Created on V12.82 - 7/19/2019 1) Fixed Saving Rendering Image (F3) so that only one set of axes system is plotted. 2) Stop users to input invalid slaving data. 3) Delete slaving when import of Export/Import Slaving data with all of the six DOF codes to be 0. 4) Remove unnecessary and confusing group combo box in Gap Friction Element Information Dialogue. Created on V12.80 - 7/6/2019 1) More AISC code check data output for QA Created on V12.79 - 7/1/2019 1) SACS load imports now are consistent in the conversions of member loads and nodal loads for clamped end conditions. 2) For the option of "Create Multiple Members" for Multiple Segments, the loads are assigned to new generated nodes and members now. 3) Change the SACS import load conversion default case to "Converted All to Member Loads when Qualified" with an end condition of "Clamped Ends". Created on V12.78 - 6/26/2019 1) Fixed a bug in new V12.77 option of "Results>Process Group>Load Step Plots>Nodal Acceleration". Created on V12.77 - 6/26/2019 1) Implement new option "Results>Process Group>Load Step Plots>Nodal Acceleration". 2) Fixed a minor problem in table names of reports from "Results>Load Step Plots>Node>Nodal Displacement". 3) Fixed an infinite loop problem for Rainflow fatigue analysis Created on V12.76 - 6/20/2019 1) Fixed a bug that could not add a new STAT macro. (A regression since V12.64) Created on V12.75 - 6/15/2019 1) Improve the algorithm in the generation of the buckling capacities for non-tubular members.. The properties from the smaller capacity from the member bending axes are used now. A conservative approach was used before. 2) Add a new menu "Loads>Nodal Load>Report Selected>Centroid Location for>Z Component Forces". Creating on V12.74 - 6/10/2019 1) Add data check for free DOFs from member end release. 2) Relax the data criteria for the data check for equivalence from 1.0e-5 to 1.0e-4. 3) The names of report temporary files are changed from "capTemp*.txt to T_*.txt" now. Also for nodal displacement and acceleration, they are appended with a feature label.. Created on V12.73 - 6/3/2019 1) Add new options inside a DYN2 macro to show or apply a zero displacementto all of the DOFs that has static displacement load but no dynamic imposed displacement. Created SeaStar P4.294 - 5/31/2019 1) Fix a bug that would crash the program when a temperature feature is used in the dynamic analysis. Created on V12.71 - 5/29/2019 1) SACS Data Load import now include an option to convert SACS load data into CAP member loads when possible. 2) Add options to convert nodal loads by considering either simple end or clamped end conditions. 3) Add a load report option that report both nodal load and member load together as combined nodal forces from menu "Loads>Nodal Load>Report Selected>All Combined Nodal Forces" Created on V12.70 - 5/23/2019 1) Allow to use * as a wildcard for selection from node names or member names: "Model>Select>Nodes>From Names" and "Model>Select>Elements of All Types>From Names" 2) Fixed a bug the report from menu "Model>Report Selected>PSAS Element>Force Displacement Curves" where the tributary length that the users set were ignored. Also, for the end-bearing forces, the data should not be multiplied by the tributary length. 3) Provide more information about the calculation of wave properties that does not converge. 4) SACS Data Load import now include an option to convert SACS load data into CAP member loads when possible. Created on V12.69 - 5/17/2019 1) Improve Grid Load. my test on JacketDetailed3 model is now consistent. The problem was the specified grid size was not big enough. Now, the program will give warning if the grid size is not big enough. Created on V12.68 - 5/16/2019 1) Fixed an API Joint code check problem that occurred only from this menu "Results>Load Step Plots>Code Check>Joint IR". .The results in other places are all OK. Created on V12.67 - 5/14/2019 1) Implement Grid Load for Current, Regular Wave, and Irregular Loads now. Created on V12.66 - 5/10/2019 1) Grid Load is working for Current and Wave Load now. Created on V12.65 - 5/10/2019 1) Still working on Grid Load Implementation 2) Fixed the unit for the report from Current Load "E/I", Created on V12.64 - 5/6/2019 1) Fixed "Export/Import LC Data" for Load Factors problem that occurred when a load case was added or removed. 2) Data check for missing PSAS elements from nodes below the mudline. 3) Add "STAT:Analysis Control(Common)", "STAT:Convergence Criteria", and "STATE:Output Control" options into "Export/Import LC Data". Created on V12.63 - 5/1/2019 1) Add an E/I button to handle Load Case Nodal Scale Factors. 2) Implement Grid Load and its Generation from Current Load only. The corresponding changes are made to SeaStarV4.293. Created SeaStar P4.293 - 5/1/2019 1) Implement Grid Load in a new format. Created on V12.62 - 4/25/2019 1) Perform Data check to check if PSAS elements in the same pile group must use the same axial direction node. 2) Implement Export/Import for Load Case Nodal Displacement Pattern Scale Factors. 3) For Export/Import of Load Case Nodal Load Pattern Scale factors, keep unchecked box values and report unchecked items as zero. 4) Able to draw selected nodes in a bigger rectangular shape in 3D Rendering. 5) Implement fast process of Nodal Displacement Responses. 6) Fixed an infinite loop bug when the name of SCF member did not exist. 7) Remove the limitation of Current Data Size. The corresponding changes are made to SeaStarV4.292. Created SeaStar P4.292 - 4/18/2019 1) Expand the allowable size of wave current force data by moving it into L Common block.Probably due to a floating point issue, some results have minor changes. Created on V12.60 - 4/3/2019 1) Implement the Export and Import options for Current Profile Data 2) Project and Load Case Names are now added into most report files.. Created on V12.59 - 3/29/2019 1) Add an Export/Import option for Member Ring Spacing using label "Member Code Check Other Properties". Created on V12.58 - 3/28/2019 1) Use the CDM card that has a zero diameter as a default case to fix hydrodynamic coefficient override features from GRPOV and MEMOV cards. Created on V12.57 - 3/26/2019 1) Significantly improve the data processing speed for option "Results>Load Step Plots>Node>Nodal Accelerations". 2) Add Project and Load Case names into some data reports, such as nodal displacement, acceleration, and member forces. 3) Implement "Select/Change" for Member Code Check Ring Spacing data and Display this data in Individual Member Code Check. 4) Implement RSA for API Code Checks. Created on V12.55 - 3/22/2019 1) Display the maxium values of member forces in Member Force profile display (Olivia). 2) Add many E/I buttons for the ease of data changes (Olivia). 3) Fixed the problem that some of the Member Code Check results for RSA were not processed. Created on V12.53 - 3/19/2019 1) Add an Export/Import option for Joint Code Check Can Effective Total Length Lc. 2) Add a new menu of "Data>Delete Unused Objects>Gap Material and Contact Planes" Created on V12.52 - 3/15/2019 1) Fixed API 2007 Joint Code Check for Double Skin Annulus T Joint results. 2) Improve API 2007 Joint Code Check display 3) Add "E/I" (Export/Import) options to most of the object display dialogues now. 4) Implement a smart algorithm to correct SACS import of members with a CONE section in a reverse direction without knowing the reason. Created on V12.51 - 3/14/2019 1) Add an option to Export/Import Nodal Temperature Loads. 2) Makes API 2007 Joint Code Check for Double Skin Annulus Joint to have a compressive failure now. Created on V12.50 - 3/12/2019 1) The average of forces from the two conjugated chords are used now in the API joint code check, such as Pc and Mc in API RP 2A 2007 Joint Code Check Sec 4.3.4. This change affects joint code check results. 2) For a joint code check, CAP now automatically find Nominal Wall thickenss Tn even when a member is broken into multi-segmented. This change affects joint code check results. 3) Rearramge API Joint individual Code check display Created on V12.49 - 3/12/2019 1) Fixed a bug in SACS import to get into an infinite group when reading GRPOV cards. 2) For API Joint Code check, Pc and Mc are now the averaged force from the conjugated chord members rather than from the chosen chord member. 3) For API joint code check, Tn can be automatically calculated or overridden from the Joint Code Check Override file now. Created on V12.48 - 3/11/2019 1) Fixed API Joint Code check for grouted and double-skins joints according to special notes from MRT. Created on V12.47 - 3/9/2019 1) Remove queries during group code check when a no query option is selected. 2) API Member and Joint Code checks are now also applicable to members with an AISC Tube Section. 3) Implemented API Joint Code check for grouted and double-skins joints. Members with an AISC DTubes section can be considered as a chod for its double-skin behavior. Created on V12.46 - 3/7/2019 1) Data check now also verifies the existence of a specified plate element material, member material, or PSAS material name. 2) Change the label of AISC Tubes to AISC DTubes for a consistency in Export/Import data. 3) Add a new option of using the Trapezoidal rule in converting ground acceleration motion into their corresponding velocity and displacement components. Created on V12.45 - 3/5/2019 1) Fixed RP2A 2007 Joint code check that Eq. 4.3-4 should not be applied to K joint. Problem was reported by MRT. Created on V12.44 - 3/3/2019 1) For an fatigue analysis, CAP now set right SCF Theta angles based on the orientation of in-plane and out-of-plane planes during SCF generation. 2) Implement "E/I" buttons to export/import data of interest in many places. Created on V12.43 - 2/19/2019 1) When appropriate, display the initial choice of Wave Direction Combo boxes to be X-Y Plane Angle, 2) Rearrange parameters in the Shielding tab of the Load Case Analysis option dialogue . 3) Fixed a Null Point Exception problem in "Analysis>Export/Import LC Data" dialogue when no group data are created. Created on V12.42 - 2/18/2019 1) The entrapped fluid weight of a general section is now included in the report of "Results>Summary report>Selected Members>Weight>Vertical Weight". 2) Enhance "Project>Open" dialogue for the ease of project selection. Created on V12.41 - 2/16/2019 1) Fixed a problem that failed the import of SACS CURR data. The problem was caused by the changes made in V12.35. Created on V12.40 - 2/1/2019 1) Able to "Export/Import LC Data" for some Irregular wave properties, such as wave direction. Created on V12.39 - 1/31/2019 1) Allow to "Export/Import LC Data" for one LC or all LCs in group. Created on V12.38 - 1/29/2019 1) Fixed a problem that Seafloor did not animate properly until the project was saved and re-opened again. 2) Fixed a problem that CapView location was set correctly for multiple screens. 3) Fixed a problem that AISC 9th code check results would not be displayed until the project was saved and re-opened again. 4) SACS CON Sections are imported into CAP as AISC Cone sections rather than an averaged tubular section now. Created on V12.37 - 1/18/2019 1) Add three Load Step controling numbers to activate cyclic degradation for three soil springs in PSAS elements. Assoicated changes are made to SeaStar V4.290. Text Data report/import features are implemented for these three numbers. 2) Fixed a problem that SeaStar did not move in animation when no soil profile is defined. 3) Avoid an unplugged disk that might crash CapView. Created SeaStar V4.290 - 1/16/2019 1) Implement Three Load Step parameters to control cyclic degradation. No degradation starts before these load step numbers are reached. Associated changes are made in CapView V12.37 Created on V12.35 - 1/10/2019 1) Be able to display wind velocity profile in the option of "Edit Static Wind Load Data". 2) Fixed SACS data import for the HYDRO card when MWL was not specified, water surface elevation would not be set correctly. 3) Fixed SACS data import for Current profile for when percentage water depth data are used. 4) Fixed Hydrodynamic GRPOV cards to override hydrodynamic data correctly. Created on V12.34 - 1/9/2019 1) Fixed a SACS data import bug created in V12.31. The unit of EI was mixed up to SI. Created on V12.33 - 1/8/2019 1) Fixed a bug that buoyancy forces for General section members were included in SeaStar but they were not in CapView for the option of "Member Buoyancy Load Generation". The buoyancy forces for General section members are now included consistently. Created on V12.32 - 1/8/2019 1) Fixed a unit output error from menu "Model>PSAS Elements>Force-Displacement Curves". 2) Add a new report to include the effect of tributary length for options in menu "Model>PSAS Elements>Force-Displacement Curves". 3) Issue a warning message during the creation of SSModel.inp when the center locations of wind area are set below mean water level. Created on V12.31 - 1/4/2019 1) Implemented PGD AISC 9th code check in additional to the checks for W, Box (Rectangular Tube), Tube (Circular), Soild Rectangular, and Channel sections. 2) Able to update CAP model from SACS data through menu "Model>Import from>SACS Files>Structure Data". Created on V12.30 - 1/1/2019 1) Implemented PGD AISC 9th code check in additional to the checks for W, Box (Rectangular Tube), Tube (Circular), Soild Rectangular, and Channel sections. 2) The T-Factor for SACS SOIL TZAXIAL data from Column 28 to 33 is considered for the import. 3) Change some of the labels from 2018 to 2019. 4) Skip the import of LOAD SFRC cards and issue a warning message. Created on V12.29 - 12/22/2018 1) Implemented AISC 9th code check (W, Box (Rectangular Tube), Tube (Circular), Soild Rectangular, and Channel sections). 2) For AISC 14th edition code check, fixed a bug that did not include Shear UR for Max IR. . 3) Add a utility to remove all CAP generated result files under all the subfolders within a selected root folder. 4) For AISC section data display, change labeling from I22 (Local 2) to Local Ixx, etc. 5) For a project model selected to open, other models parallel to this selected model are also shown for selection. Created on V12.28 - 12/11/2018 1) For Soil text data import, remove data points with differences within 0.1% and no data interpolation is applied for soil data within 0.1 % in depth. 2) Cannot accept a project name with two consecutive blank spaces because CAP would fail to execute Fortran routines for such a name. Created on V12.27 - 12/1/2018 1) Fix My values for PLSECT cards import from a SACS PSI data file for a double tubes (combining Leg and Pile) case. (My were not set correctly in V12.25) Created on V12.26 - 11/30/2018 1) Fix a bug that when a member with end eccentricity was split, a kink was created between two splited members. This problem did not occur in V12.04. Created on V12.25 - 11/29/2018 1) Correctly import PLSECT cards from a SACS PSI data file for a double tubes (combining Leg and Pile) case. Created on V12.24 - 11/5/2018 1) Add Internal Fluid Diameter into General Section so that the exact pressure load can be found. 2) Improve the SACS import for members with double tubes. In addition to General sections and equivalent tube cases, the options for AISC double tubes and two separated tubulars are also added. The solutions are exact for General sections and AISC double tubes cases now. Created on V12.22 - 10/23/2018 1) Add Import/Export features of STAT macro nodal force pattern scale factors for the Load Case Group data. Created on V12.21 - 10/5/2018 1) Add a new menu to set member code check yield stress to material yield stress for all the selected members. 2) Add a new menu to set member can/stub code check yield stress to material yield stress for all the selected members. Created on V12.20 - 10/4/2018 1) Fixed SACS data import for missing Wave Period data. Created on V12.19 - 10/2/2018 1) Issue a query to delete temporary files when the project is to be closed. 2) To include plate weight in _Gravitity_Load_ case for "Analysis>Data Summary>Static Nodal Force Loads". 3) Change labels from API 21st-1(2002) to API 21st-3(2007). 4) Fixed a problem in writing intial moments in opposite size to SSModel.inp for Large Displacement Beams. 5) Avoid a NPE crush when writing screen entity data. 6) Fixed a bug that Cmy was used for Cmz in GBC strut capacity calculation. Created SeaStar V4.289 - 9/18/2018 1) Implement the instant effect of end moments on compressive axial capacity of Generalized Beam Column Element based on API or ISO formulas. Created V12.18 - 9/11/2018 1) Implement a new option to report member forces (good for large amount of data) from "Menu Results>Summary Report>Selected Members>Forces>End Forces." 2) Implement a new option to report member force deformation data (good for large amount of data) from "Menu Results>Summary Report>Selected Members>Forces>Force/Deformation". Created V12.17 - 9/6/2018 1) The names of CAP temporary files (capTempFile#.txt) are ended with numbers that are based on current clock time so that the numbers will never be the same and Excel will not crash when trying to open two files with the same name. 2) Change signs of two end torsional member forces for Distributed Plasticity Beam Column elements. The signs were opposite. The change improves the accuracy of Cutplane Forces. 3) Fixed a format issue for exporting load data in a SACS format. Smaller numbers, like -3.9e-10, were written as eight digits rather supposed 7 digits. Created V12.16 - 9/5/2018 1) Create a CAP temporary file (capTempFile#.txt) using a number based on current oclck time so that the numbers will not be repeated. Excel crash when trying to open two files with the same name. 2) Change signs for torisional member forces for Distributed Pasticity Beam Column elements. (signs were opposite.) This change improve Cutplane Forces for DPBC. 3) Fixed a format issue of data exportation into a SACS format file. Some smaller numbers, like -3.9e-10, were written as eight digits rather supposed 7 digits. Created V12.15 - 9/5/2018 1) Improve Cutplane Forces with results, mostly within a 1% error, except Large Displacement Beam, Distributed Plasticity Beam Column with up to a 3.4% error for Mz. Created V12.14 - 8/27/2018 1) Expand Report of Elevation sum up loads to include Over-Turning-Moment w.r.t. a given reference point. 2) Fix the error of split and also multiple splits for the effects out-of-straightness when the members are split into three segments or more. 3) Allow multiple splits of beams for the option of equal segments. 4) Allow split or multiple splits of beams with out of straightness toward gravity direction. Created SeaStar V4.288 - 7/6/2018 1) Fixed a crash when a Restart option is selected. The problem was caused by the earlier thermal expansion implementation. Created V12.13 - 8/21/2018 1) Implemented Select/Change for Nodal Temperature Loads. 2) Complete AISC 2010 code check for angle sections (including slender elements now). Created V12.12 - 8/15/2018 1) Fixed a crash due to duplicate keys in Irregular Sea data. Created V12.11 - 8/13/2018 1) Fixed a problem that the selection of ISO 19905 Power law for 1 min design wind cannot be saved. Created V12.10 - 8/3/2018 1) Fixed a NPE crash when Irregular Data was changed and saved. 2) Add cutoff periods for OchiHubble Irregular data generation. 3) License data check is changed to include the check for the version number now. Created V12.09 - 7/19/2018 1) Implement Member Section Rotation Effects for AISC code check. 2) Fixed a crash when a Wave-In-Deck element's group was not defined. 3) Implement AISC 2010 code check for Angle Sections using the principal axes approach. 4) Long Load Case names are shown fully now after the Select Case Dialogue is widened. 5) Fixed that Select/Change Member Eccentricities did not select properly. Created V12.08 - 7/6/2018 1) Implemented thermal expansion effects for Large Displacement Beams only in SeaStar.exe (V4.287). Created SeaStar V4.287 - 7/6/2018 1) When Tip bearing capacity is input as zero, reset it to 0.0001 to avoid dividing by zero. 2) Fixed the output of initial forces at zero step for Distributed Plasticity Beam Column and Lumped Plasticity B.C. Created V12.07 - 6/27/2018 1) Implement API 1 min design wind load and also ISO 19905 Power law for 1 min design wind 2) For current state member forces output, fixed torsion force at i-end for Large displacement Beam elements. Also, fixed the signs for two torsion forces for Distributed Plasticity Beam Column elements. 3) Member initial axial force is default to the one in MemberMoments.txt. Implement the dialogue to view Member Forces from the Member dialogue. 4) Large displacement Beam initial moments were not written correctly to SSModel.inp (signs are wrong). Created V12.06 - 6/23/2018 1) Fixing AISC 2010 Code Check for PGU, Box, Round Bar, Tube, Tee sections. Very thorough QA has been performed against AISC DESIGN EXAMPLES (Version 14.0). 2) Add Cb, Lv to Member override properties for more control of AISC code check. 3) Add SAW/ERW flag as AISC section parameters. 4) Fixed Default view to be 3D default view. 5) Fix to send the right value of Nonlinear truss ductility failure to SeaStar. 6) Include the input of moments for Member Loads. 7) Write initial axial force to SeaStar for Generalized Beam Column, Inelastic Beam Column, Lumped Plasticity Beam Column, and Distributed Plasticity Beam Column. However, Lumped Plasticity BC and Distributed Plasticity BC have no effects. Created on V12.05 - 6/18/2018 1) New option to generate explicit catenary line. 2) Include plate gravity weight in the total gravity weight report 3) Fix a bug that failed to join two generic members together. 4) Implement AISC 2010 Code Check for Rectangular, PGD, PGU, and Tee sections 5) Implement nodal temperature load in CapView. SeaStar implementation is yet to do. Created V12.04 - 5/6/2018 1) Fixed SACS data import for development of current profile depth from wrong water depth. Created V12.03 - 5/4/2018 1) The Perspective View option is good now. 2) The Orthographic View option is also improved to lessen the broken member view issue from a near view. Created V12.02 - 5/3/2018 1) Continue to enhance the Perspective View option. 2) From a node information dialogue, when go to fixity and slaving data, the slaving data for that node is shown first now. Created V12.01 - 4/30/2018 1) Fixes a bug in the multiple soil profile animation issue when display reference nodes are used. 2) Add Perspective View for model display and in this Perspective view mode, we can see the model very closely. Created V11.99 - 4/20/2018 1) SACS data import when PSAS soil elements have a zero value, reset them to 0.0001 to avoid numerical error in SeaStar calculation. 2) Fix an individual license issue from the changes in V11.97. Fixed an offline license issue. Created V11.97 - 4/13/2018 1) Fixed a bug that the "Model>Add Components>Duplicate Selected" option duplicates plate elements into Quad elements. 2) Continue to fix a problem that occurred after 4/10/2018 that the license data are appended with an unexpected text. Created SeaStar V4.286 - 4/12/2018 1) Expand FK Element in SeaStar to read 10,000 panel geometry files now from 2,000 files before. Created V11.96 - 4/11/2018 1) Fixed a problem that occurred today that an individual license expiration could not be read properly. Created V11.95 - 4/9/2018 1) Create interface for first-line data check before data can be entered into database and implement AISC Box section check. 2) Able to display multiple soil profiles. Created V11.94 - 3/29/2018 1) Expand CapResp.exe to V1.07 for a large model analysis. 2) Add a new option to display local axes for target beam members. 3) Fixed 2010 AISC code check that failed the check for a Response Spectrum Analysis. Created V11.93 - 3/21/2018 V4.285 - 3/21/2018 1) Implement (Varied) Refined Buoyancy load option for the force in SeaStar V4.285. 2) Change the first time folder for saving Viewing data to capTemp rather than the working folder. Created V11.92 - 3/20/2018 1) Implement the initial mass for Refined Buoyancy option. This mass will remain unchanged during the dynamic analysis, regardless how the water surface change.Corresponding changes are required in SeaStar V4.284. Created SeaStar V4.284 - 3/20/2018 Implement the Refined Buoyancy option, particularly, for the initial mass. Created V11.91 - 3/15/2018 1) Improve the end pressure moment for Refined Buoyancy option (SeaStar V4.283) 2) Able to update Group data through Text file Import/Export even when group names do not end with a dash letter. Created V11.90 - 3/13/2018 1) Create Refined Buoyancy load option to calculate buoyancy more accurately for a partially submerged tubular member. Also change in SeaStar to V4.282 2) Display local axes on a highlighted generic member more clearly now. 3) Update "Results>Summary Report>Selected Members>Vertical Weight" report to include internal fluid weight report Created SeaStar V4.282 - 3/13/2018 Add options to calculate buoyancy force more accurately for partially submerged tubular members only. Created V11.89 - 3/2/2018 1) New features to Export/Import of Group data. 2) When adding time history records using time history record management for the browse button, the last directory that a file was uploaded from is used for the initial folder. 3) Change in SeaStar.exe to double the allowable input size of PSAS soil data. Corresponding changes are also made in SeaStar V4.281 Created V11.88 - 2/6/2018 1) Fixed the pile force history in pile capacities from 64bit SeaStar Program. Corresponding changes are also made in SeaStar V4.280 Created V11.86 - 1/29/2018 This version fixes a API Joint Code Check because the load dependent joint classification was wiped out from joint override properties where joint classification percentages are defined as all zeros. In this case, the joint classification data should not be overridden. 2) SACS axial direction vectors were not perfect in the condition when a member is almost vertical. 3) Implement a more accurate pressure force for a tubular member only. That is, the buoyancy force for a floating tubular is very accurate now. 4) Enhance the program to use memory more efficiently for nonlinear wave animation. Created V11.85 - 1/8/2018 1) Improve memory usage for embedded wave animation to lessen running ouf of memory issue. 2) Fix an Embedded Wave data animation problem - the peak time was not shown at the right time even though the analysis results are good. 3) Fix the embedded regular wave data so that they are not overridden by regular wave parameters defined in the Edit Macro Analysis when local flags were turned on. Created V11.83 - 1/3/2018 1) Fix Embedded Wave data saving error. 2) Stop a blank name of any object going into database for crashing system later in its retrieval. 3) Implemented SeaStar option when a non-tubular Lumped Plasticity Beam Column element is used. 4) Enhance CapView Help to use Chrome.exe (now set as a default opiton). Created V11.82 - 12/29/2017 1) Fixed a problem that Generic member's local axes were animated incorrectly. 2) Fixed in SeaStar V4.280 to save member deformations correctly for Plasticity Beam Column elements. Created SeaStar V4.280 - 12/29/2017 1) Save member deformations correctly for Plasticity Beam Column elements. Created V11.81 - 12/22/2017 1) Fixed the problem that failed to read data from SSModel.pst(PsasCapacity) Corresponding changes are also made in SeaStar V4.279 Created SeaStar V4.279 - 12/22/2017 1) Writes data size information into file PsasCapacity(SSModel.pst) Corresponding changes are also made in CapViewV11.81 Created V11.80 - 12/21/2017 1) Fixed AISC 14ed (2010) Code Check for Section H1.3 cases Created V11.79 - 12/20/2017 1) Fixed AISC 14ed (2010) Code Check for Equation H1-2 2) Enhance AISC 14ed (2010) individual member code check to export immediate step data to Excel. Created V11.78 - 12/18/2017 1) Fixed the calculation for Boundary Node Reactions. 2) Fixed and enhanced New Cutplane forces to present forces in global or local directions. Created V11.77 - 12/14/2017 1) Enhance New Cutplane Forces Option to select members based on a local coordinate system cutplane. Created V11.76 - 12/13/2017 1) Improve label messages for New Cutplane Forces Option. 2) New feature to select plates based their location. 3) Add informative messages when it processes Boundary Node Reaction option with issues. 4) Add a new option to display a pointer for each of the plate element by setting 'MemberID' to 'Plate Orientation Pointer' in 'View>Display Default' dialogue. Created V11.75 - 12/12/2017 1) Enhance the new feature to able to add Froude-Krylov Elements from Selected Plate elements. 2) Remove unnecessary warning messages about missing "GroupTruss" and "GroupPlate" from database. 3) Also remove unnecessary warning messages about missing material definition in shim elements. Shim elements do not use any material data. Created V11.74 - 12/10/2017 1) Add a new feature to generate Froude-Krylov elements from selected plate elements. Created V11.73 - 12/07/2017 1) Fixed a member report issue for member connectivity. Created SeaStar V4.278 - 11/25/2017 1) Enhance a cable behavior implementation for Nonlinear Truss element. Created V11.72 - 11/25/2017 1) For the incoporation of SeaStar V4.278. 2) In the Load Case Selection Dialogue, click the "Copy" button to put the selected load case name into an empty New Load Case Name text box for the easy input of a similar new load name. Created SeaStar V4.277 - 11/9/2017 1) Implement Fracture behavior in Distributed Plasticity Beam Column Element. Created V11.71 - 11/9/2017 1) Implement a Fracture behavior for Distributed Plasticity Beam Column Elements. (Corresponding to SeaStarV2.477) 2) Create a set of group parameters to control plate elements' Bending, Stretching, and Twisting effects. Created V11.70 - 11/7/2017 1) Add new features to Export/Import the generic member parameter ofSection Rotation Angle for Member Connectivity type. Also, add new features to Select/Change this parameter. 2) Add new features to report plate mass and weight from "Results>Summary Report>Selected Plates". Created SeaStar V4.276 - 10/6/2017 1) Implement a cable behavior in Nonlinear Truss element 2) Fix a bug found in SeatarV2.475, where the weight for any four node plate weight was doubled. Created V11.69 - 11/2/2017 1) Implement a cable behavior in Nonlinear Truss element (corresponding to SeaStarV2.476) 2) Enhance to reduce the need for multiplications of 1.0 when the database unit (Kip-ft) is chosen by the user. This avoid a problem causing that when a 32.2 input value of gravity becomes 32.200000762939453 when the project is reopen. 3) Add a new feature to report plate weight from "Results>Summary Report>Mass>Model". 4) Set SeaStar Size Program Default to 480M. 5) Cleanup AISC 2010 code check display with wrong unit conversions. Created V11.68 - 10/23/2017 1) Fixed the export/import option of plate end eccentricities when a unit other than ft was used. 2) Fixed a regression created in V11.64 for member select for cut plan forces. Created V11.67 - 10/10/2017 1) Fixed a problem in Cable Element for New Force Deformation Properties that were not saved properly. Create SeaStar V4.275 - 10/6/2017 1) SeaStar.exe now uses the first argument, like a value of 1500M or 480M, to determine the maximum size of array L to use. (L array was defined as a blank common block but changed to a regular array for dynamic allocation). The default is to the case of 1500M. Created V11.66 - 10/6/2017 1) Corresponding changes for SeaStar V4.275. Allow to control the maximum size of array L to be used in SeaStar.exe by using a project preference parameter named "SeaStar Size", which must be an integer number appended with character M. The maximum allowable parameter is 1500M. Created V11.65 - 10/2/2017 1) F4/F1 is now used to define the first compressive axial force, F4, for Beam Column or Generalized Beam Column Element (Type 4 or 21) but only when an un-tubular section is used. Create SeaStar V4.274 - 9/8/2017 1) Increase the maximum allowable number of iterations for hinge state determination in distributed plasticity element to 10000. Created V11.64 - 9/8/2017 1)Implement "Analysis>Export>Import LC Data in Group" that will replace "Analysis>Edit Analysis Option Data in Group" Created V11.63 - 8/23/2017 1) Minor changes in labels for spectral fatigue analysis. 2) Allow to have more than 100 dynamic displacement record assignments. Created V11.62 - 8/22/2017 1) For the option of "View>Management>Edit Save Views", a Replace action will update the current view with a new perspective view angle from the active view. The problem was that the user was not able to change the view angle after the current view was created. 2) CapView prints to a 7 characters number with more significant digits now for negative number larger than -1.0e-2. This will improve the output of "Results>Create Nodal Load in Text File>Wave Inertia>in SACS format". Create SeaStar V4.272 - 8/20/2017 Include moment from selfweight for the eccentricity effects of plate elements. Created V11.61 - 8/20/2017 1) The dry weight generation from selected plates with eccentricities now include the moments. 2) The plate weight density parameter is now sent to SSModel.inp. SeaStarV4.272 can includes the plate weight in the analysis. 3) For the Spectral fatigue analysis results, several data mismatched problems in the QA report are fixed. The fatigue life calculation is not affected. 4) Fixed a problem in "Edit Analysis Data in Group" for the wave direction for "Regular Wave" data. Created SeaStar V4.271 - 8/12/2017 1) Fixed an initialization issue for the FK element (#24). 2) Expand SeaStar maximum size for analysis about 3 times bigger. Created V11.60 - 8/16/2017 1) Fixed a problem that the dry weight generation from selected plates with eccentricities are not correct. ------------------------------------------------- V10.01 1) Fixed a problem in adding E26 Diffraction-Based Wave Force Element data. 2) Fixed a problem in selecting a mater node of the master-slaving Node Select/Change feature. V10.02 1) Fixed a bug for incorrect data update for saving Froude-Krylov Element. 2) Enhanced the feature for duplication of generic elements to include the duplication of catenary data inside the elements. 3) For a catenary generation, geometric stiffness is turned on now. V10.03 1) Fixed a bug in CAP mass report when an inner pipe was specified. V10.04 1) Fixed a bug that reset material fluid pressure to zero after the SSModel.inp file was created even if the users changed it. Now, the effect of fluid pressure is included for entrapped mass calculation. 2) Wind Load Element is created. 3) SACS AREA, WIND, WAVE, CURR, LCOMB cards are imported into CAP model. V10.05 1) Fixed the problem that the Member Selection through their names dialogue cannot be re-displayed. 2) Removed an incorrect warning when trying to create Mass Inertial Load. V10.06 1) Fixed a Member Selection Bug for the End Release feature. 2) Add a new feature that will show the current load step of animation on most of the load step plots. V10.07 1) Fix a member selection bug in menu Results>Summary Report>Select Member Forces. New selection did not work. V10.08 1) Implemented CapView Interface to SeaStar Slip-Slide Element. 2) Add a new feature to select nodes from node name list. 3) Add a new feature to select elements from element name list. V10.09 1) New Report and Import of Member Inner Pipe Diameter properties through the Member Analysis Parameters Option. 2) New Report and Import of PSAS Force Displace basic properties for tips. 3) Issue warning when TBUK is the same as TYIE in GBC or Marshall Strut Elements. 4) Allow to select by SeaStar IDs. 5) Fixed buoyancy load calculation for the case when internal fluid pressure is specified. 7) Fixed PSAS Soil Profile Curves Import Issues. V10.10 1) Add an input control for SeaStar Energy calculation flag 2) Fixed the wind load generation and the air weight input issues. V10.11 1) Fixed the wind load generation. Need to calculate the pressure force, which is the independent of direction and then apply the force with a consideration of direction. V10.12 1) Add a new feature to create nodal loads (for pushover analysis) from Response Spectrum Analysis 2) Add a new matrix operation feature to compute Mass x Mode Shape for the creation of pushover modal loads. 3) Allow to select all members from materials that are currently selected 4) Issue warning for when unreasonable value of TBUK/TYIE = 1.0 is created and also display problem members. 5) Fixed a Select/Change bug for the change of Axial Damping Coefficient for Non-Tips. V10.14 1) Changes the logics for the creation of Joint Flexibility members from members with end eccentricities. Now, new members can be created either from end eccentricity end or chord surface. 2) Fixed a bug in Wind Load Element for the Rectangular Block option. 3) Fixed a problem that energy file was not automatically updated. V10.15 1) Fixed a data problem limited to the Joint IR Plot dialogue because of Joint Flexibility members. V10.16 1) Add an option for the selection of applicable degree of freedom for the Operation of Matrices of Mode Shapes and Force Vector. V10.17 1) Allow to drag and drop a CAP project folder into CapView to open. 2) Deflected Shape plot is able to skip a specified number of load steps for Next plot. 3) Add a global new parameter in a Load Case control for PSAS soil spring direction. 4) Data Check warning if soil spring direction is not within 5 degrees from Wave direction. 5) Fixed a bug for SACS WIND AREA Card import. The problem occurs only when 7 structural nodes were used. 6) Able to write Mass Data for EIGN cases in addition to DYN1 or DYN2 cases. 7) Able to compute RSA Modal Accelerations 8) Fixed Select/Change for PSAS Material Submerged Weight and Shear Modulus V10.18 1) Bug fixes and improvements for AISC Code Check 14ed ASD (2010). 2) Import Lb data from SACS data for AISC Code Check. V10.19 1) Fixed a Slip Slide Element error in data replacement action. V10.20 1) Add a new option to use the weakest joint strength to create joint flexibility elements rather than using T joint formulas which may not be conservative. V10.21 1) Fixed the animation display location of Froude-Krylov Wave Element and also added a flag to be able to set the assigned node as the vessel reference origin. V10.22 1) Improve speed for reading Irregular Wave Data V10.23 1) Make the Froude-Krylov element to move with the assigned node in animation regardless if the flag for wave force calculation at a deformed position in the Wave Load Control dialogue is set. V10.24 1) Able to add multiple nodes from the Add Components option. 2) Enhance the Text File Import option to accept data from a screen text box. 3) Able to add Batter Leg members. 4) Stop the input of zero period for response spectrum. V10.25 1) Allow to import SACS KEEP, DUMMY, DELETE Cards separately. 2) Data Check will report dummy members that have a large value of Young's modulus. 3) Allow to select dummy members (both ends with the same DOFs). 4) Change Wind Load forces works for both positive and negative directions now. V10.26 1) Improvements to import command help V10.28 1) Implement Constrained nonlinear wave. 2) Implement multiple colors for 2D plots. 3) Report Node to node member length too. 4) Use member true length rather node to node length for code check. V10.29 1) Modify the Constrained Nonlinear Wave to reflect the suggestion from Nippon Steel 2) Fixed SCF generations small bugs: a. alpha = L/D is changed to L/2/D, b. Wrong gap widths are used for default cases, and c. KT1 and KTB for Brace C are not right because zetaAB and zetaBC were switched. SeaStar V4.259 - With Embedded Nonlinear Wave Option V10.30 1) Remove a tiny deformation for the P-Y curve generation from the stiff clay. 2) Stop input of a load case name with space or dash character. 3) The properties of submerged unit weight and shear modulus are now passed to the generated soil force deformation curves. 4) Allow to post-process a load case that is killed by users manually. 5) Fixed a crash for a 2-D view because of the Wind Load Element SeaStar V4.260 1) Fixed a material fracture bug caused by a data initialization issue for Generalized Beam Column and Inelastic Beam Column. This caused big unbalanced forces after a beam column fractured. 2) Remove a tiny deformation for the P-Y curve from the stiff clay. V10.31 - Minor changes to embedded wave for not checking data correctly. V10.32 1) Able to import SACS PSI data without a pile direction joint defined. 2) Add Weight Density input into Plate Element Material Data. 3) Import and Report Plate Weight Density data 4) Compute and report areas of selected plate elements. V10.34 1) Fixed Constrained nonlinear and Embedded Wave Water surface plots 2) Fixed a couple of bugs in Fatigue SCF calculations. The results of K and KT joints are affected. V10.35 1) Fixed a marine growth calculation of AISC Rectangular Section. 2) Add several new options for the bandwidth optimization feature. V10.36 - Release of SeaStarV4.261 (A regression found in V4.528-V2.260 for Wave-In-Deck elements) V10.37 1) Fixed Fatigue SCF calculations for K and KT joints. 2) Implements 4 options for Joint Classification scheme 3) Able to show selected objects from Select Nodes (Members) by Names. 4) Able to close a project without saving data 5) Fixed a soil profile sorting problem for the case of same depth and same soil type V10.38 1) Fixed a joint classification percentage calculation of KT joints from a load path case and some other cases too. It was always 50%/50%. The distribution is really based on brace loads now. 2) Fatigue SCF generations based on loads (extensive changes to SCF generations) 3) Fixed bugs in joint classification based on loads V10.39 1) Change constrained wave surface elevation display from including the effect of mean water level to without. V10.40 1) Fixed a deflected shape plot crash for a big model issue. V10.41 1) Fixed a 3D animation crash issue. V10.42 1) Fixed a run of memory issue for mode shape plots. V10.43 1) Reduce memory leak issue for 3D animation and mode shape animation. SeaStar V4.263 - Expand capacity for energy calculation to handle up to 60,000 dofs. V10.44 1) Able to create SeaStar member forces text data file from binary file. 2) 3D animation Tube Rendering is not distorted anymore. 3) Fixed an irregular wave bug that could not be animated after V10.38. V10.45 1) Change Alpha used in Fatigue SCF calculation from L/2/D to 2L/D based on API 22nd 2014. 2) Conversion of SeaStar member forces data into files for a selected group 3) Add more options for thickness correction in the Fatigue SN curve selection according DNV formulas. V10.46 1) Calculate chord length for SCF calculation based on the total unbraced length of two chord members connected by the brace. 2) Fixed a problem caused by a time history record name with a hyphen in it. 3) Conversion of SeaStar member forces data into files for a selected group per user selected unit. V10.47 1) Fixed the calculation of Fatigue SCF for T joint for Axial Load General fixity conditions where the F2 factor was missing from Brace Saddel equation inm API 2P RA 2005 formula (p.208). It is corrected now. 2) For the calculation of Fatigue SCF, the formulas for the axial load of the general fixity conditions are used except when Fixity C is set to 0.5. In the case of Fixity C=0.5, the fomulas for the chord ends-fixed condition are used. 3) Allow users to override the parameters of Fixity C and Chord Length for the Fatigue SCF calculation. 4) Allow to report/import for the parameters of Fixity C and Chord Length for the Fatigue SCF calculation (Joint Properties Override). 5) Allow to report/import for the AISC Code Check special override properties (Member Properties Override). V10.48 1) "Turn on/off large displacement" in Analysis options is now applied to all types of beam elements now. V10.50 1) Fixed a logic that incorrectly terminated SCF calculations. V10.51 1) Implement fatigue analysis to nodes even connected with a single member. V10.52 1) Fixed the SACS data import problem. Wave and current load may not be imported correctly into CAP load cases from SACS LCOMB cards. V10.53 1) Fixed the SACS data import for the wave angle, which was imported in wrong unit. 2) Able to reset mass factors from the specified static load in the load case. V10.54 1) Added Rainflow and Spectral Fatigue Load Case Safety Factors to magnify the stress before damage calculation. 2) Implemented time-varying SCF option for Rainflow Fatigue calculation 3) Enhance the output of mode shapes to a text file with an option to include a mass effect. 4) Allow to select files to be removed in load cases through group V10.55 1) Minor changes for better description V10.56 1) Fixed two Efthymious equation bug. a. API 21st misprint X2 equation for KT joint (should be -3tau, not +3tau) b. F1 instead of F2 was applied to the general fixity case for X1 and X3. 2) Fixed a bug in reading member force for fatigue analysis when flexible joint elements were used. 3) Fixed a bug that no unit card was read in menu "Model>Import from>SACS Files>Load Data>into Nodal Loads". As a result, data are always read in a unit of kip/ft. 4) SCF data now can be generated in group. See menu "Analysis>Perform Analysis in Group>Fatigue SCF Generation". V10.57 1) Implemented Fatigue analysis for models with jntflx (joint flexibility) elements. 2) Cleanup PSAS Element's Force Deformation Report. 3) Select a file and copy it into the load cases in the selected group V10.58 1) Fixed a SCF calculation dialogue display for a QA purpose. This does not affect the results from SCF generation. V10.59 1) Use member total force without removing hydro static stress when perform fatigue SCF calculation in the determination of joint classification. 2) Fixed a Fatigue SCF generation problem. In some situations, the order of three KT braces was not set correctly. 3) Change joint classification "T" label to "Y" to avoid a confusion between "KT" and "KY" (K and Y) joints. V10.60 1) Fixed the calculation for Fatigue SCF parameter X6. Sin(Theta)^1.6 was applied twice. 2) Can cancel Smart import and create a option for import without query. V10.61 1) New option to include ground motion in animation (without seafloor). V10.65 1) Animation includes Ground motion effects (including seafloor, soil profile, and water). 2) Deflected shape and ground motion display magnification factors are now saved in project. V10.66 1) Implemented AISC code check for Response Spectrum Analysis. V10.70 1) Enhancement to licensing control. V10.71 1) Fixed a problem in accessing RSA member forces (regression from V10.66). V10.72 1) Implement new optional database using JSon files. V10.74 1) Bug bugs to produce "Invalid scale factor" or throw a Null Point Exception for deflected shape plots (a regression from V10.65). V10.76 1) Implemented an optional Database that uses CSV Excel compatible files. 2) Implement Report/Import of "Can I and J end Material Names" in "Member Can/Sub Properties". Also, report Member Can/Sub Properties in "All Basic Member Properties Report." SeaStarV4265M480I.exe - Created from Intel Fortran Compiler without data initialization SeaStarV4265M480L.exe - Created from Lahey Frotran Compiler with data initialization V10.77 1) Fixed a weak logic for the marine growth weight calculation from menu "Results>Summary Report>Selected Members>Vertical Weight" V10.79 1) Conversion of cap.mdb to new database in CSV files. 2) Fixed a problem in setting Entity ID incorrectly to 0 for SACS data import of Wind Load elements. V10.80 1) Use the exact formula for the calculation of end pressure in API code check. 2) Fixes the SACS data import for AREA cards into Wind Load Element. V10.81 - Fixed a database conversion bug for Slip-Slide element data. V10.82 1)Minor fixes for an issue that data are saved when Slip-Slide element data has no changed. 2)Fixes a Entity Id = 0 issue from DfSoilData screen object. These changes do not affect analysis. V10.83 - Fixed an data throw error when saving project data. V10.84 - Fixed a bug that was not able to remove the entire Wind Load element (in fact all types) because of new CSV files. V10.85 - Fixed a bug that failed to read cable element data. V10.86 - Fixed a bug that failed to read ground motion data when opening a project model. V10.87 - Use exact formula for hoop stress calculation now (D/2/t rather 2*Outside Area/Steel Area). V10.88 - Fixed data conversion bugs from cap.mdb into csv file for FK elements, and also group VIV and Group Quad data. V10.89 - Implement CapView interface to SeaStar Multi-Direction Irregular wave analysis option. V10.90 - Implement 3D Rendering displayed on the same window of the wireframe plot V10.91 1) When Ring Spacing = 0.0, use the most conservative (no ring) for Eq. 3.2.5-5 (It was set to the member length, which may not be always conservative). 2) Able to generate buoyancy/weight forces with or without moments. 3) Fixed a bug that failed to select AISC Section based on a given type. 4) Hoop stress is used in API code check even if buoyancy load factor is set to zero. V10.92 - Allow to process some Eign analysis data without setting analysis mode to RSA. V10.93 - Ochi-Hubble Spectrum can be used in the generation of Irregular Wave. V11.00 1) Implement new 3D rendering in a way consistent to the wireframe plot. 2) The actions from mouse zoom and mouse selection are precise now. V11.01 - Implement a new API code check option that is applicable to the SeaStar analysis that uses marine method for buoyancy calculation. The existing approach that uses the rational method is restored to that before V10.87. V11.02 - 7/5/2016 1) Fixed a problem when a new irregular wave was added, it did not show until the project is saved and reopened again. V11.03 - 7/7/2016 1) Fixed a problem in assigning a displacement record for DYN2 macro analysis. V11.04 - 7/7/2016 1) Use Keyboard Ctrl N to display nodes in 3D Rendering. V11.05 - 7/11/2016 1) Change the API tubular code check calculation for Section 3.3.3 Axial Tension and Hydrostatic Pressure to use SFx = 1.25 rather than a weight from SFx and SFb. V11.06 - 7/12/2016 1) Able to undo changes in query select and visibility attributes up to the point where the latest clear all action is made. V11.09 - 7/20/2016 1) Fixed a problem of saving 3D Rending image into a file - a bug due to the change to the consistent 3D Rendering change. V11.10 - 7/21/2016 1) Fixed a program crash for saving mode shape animation into a video file - a bug due to the change to the consistent 3D Rendering 2) Failed to show the next item when an item in any object display dialogue was deleted - a bug due to the database change. V11.11 - 7/22/2016 1) New option to turn on or off the braces for fatigue analysis when selected nodes are turned on or off for their fatigue analysis. V11.12 - 7/27/2016 1) Fixed the problem in the display of Wave Kinematics Stretched type parameter. V11.13 - 7/29/2016 1) Fixed the SCF calculations for KT joint issue that the order of the two connected braces be swapped for some situations. V11.14 - 7/31/2016 1) Fixed the wind direction in the analysis options that should use the angle in degrees rather than radians. V11.15 - 8/1/2016 1) Cleanup Veseel Motion data input and labels. V11.16 - 8/9/2016 1) 3D rendering can show load now. 2) Fixed a problem that new AISC section data may not be saved. V11.17 - 8/25/2016 1) For the spectral fatigue analysis, implemented time-varying SCF calculation option. In addition, the member force histories rather than envelope responses are used in the Spectral fatigue analysis now. V11.18 - 8/30/2016 1) Fixed a SCF calculation for a KT joint when one of the KT braces is no dynamic load. As the result, it behaves like a K joint. V11.19 - 9/1/2016 1) Display API LRFD and ISO 19902 axial compression and bending curves in the Beam Column Interaction diagram plot. V11.20 - 10/3/2016 1) Improving the display of API LRFD and ISO 19902 axial compression and bending curves in the Beam Column Interaction. V11.21 - 10/10/2016 1) Fixed unit issues for the import of wave scatter diagram data in several places. 2) Fixed several bugs from regresssion. V11.22 - 10/24/2016 1) New feature to use a single click on the mouse wheel (middle) button to shift the model position from the mouse curser position to the center. 2) Fixed invalid undo action in 3D Rendering (cntrl-Z for undo and shift-cntrl Z for undo the previous undo). 3) Header output changes in fatigue stress history file V11.23 - 10/25/2016 1) Implement local unit system display for some parameters for a demonstration purpose. 2) Mouse wheel button is used to zoom with respsect to the mouse location now. 3) Draw the axes system on the left bottom for 3D Rendering instead of the origin. V11.24 - 10/26/2016 1) Implement new 3D Rending options for Separated Window rendering. V11.29 - 11/21/2016 (Database changed to V2.02 in V11.26). 1) Expand local unit system display to "Select/Change". 2) Fixed an error in SSModel.inp for output 10 characters into 11 characters due to a significant digit issue for a number. 3) Expand local unit system display to AISC Sections and Beam Column Strength, Beam Column Interaction dialogues. 4) Make zoom scale becomes smaller when it is very near to structure. 5) Fix the problem in saving mode shape animation 6) Implement a Beam-Column interaction based on ISO 19902 or API LRFD formulas for E21 Generalized Beam-Column. 7) Add a type to Code Check Cm, Type E for User's specified value of Cm. 8) Fixed the problem that the wire frame animation could not be captured in video. V11.30 - 12/1/2016 1) Fixed a bug from the group run for spectral fatigue analysis. The problem occurred when spectral analysis was rerun without SeaStar analysis. 2) Beam Column interaction plot considers the end moment reduction option now. 3) Display options for showing end eccentricities or the color of group or material will not be reset when other display options are set. 4) Implement material color display for Gap and Quad/Plat elements. V11.31 - 12/19/2016 1) Add UK steel sections into CAP AISC section library. 2) Fix a SACS data import when the HYDRO card rather than LDOPT is used to define the mudline elevation. This affected the import of marine growth as well. 3) Generate wave components from water surface elevation time history by FFT. V11.32 - 12/20/2016 1) Fix SACS import from HYDRO card for water surface elevation value. 2) Fix SACS import from LCOMB cards for load pattern factors in load combination. V11.33 - 12/29/2016 1) Redesign display screen view for Save/Edit/Create/Restore. 2) Change the object name in any object dialogue from a text box to a combox for the ease of name change. 3) Add a new option to remove insignificant wave components from an irregular wave 4) Create a shortcut keys summary from H key, which is a modal dialogue now. 5) Fixed a minor unit issue in Select/Change. V11.34 - 1/23/2017 1) Fix a problem that the number of Gaussian points for Linear beam was always reset to 2. 2) Fix a problem in Code check CM for its user's specified value option. V11.35 - 1/28/2017 1) Implement ISO 19902 2007 tubular code check V11.36 - 2/22/2017 1) Clarify the locations of SCF stress points and also allow to report Rainflow analysis results for a load case. V11.37 - 3/3/2017 1) Fixed a minor bug for issuing a wrong message when to run SeaStar. V11.38 - 3/6/2017 1) Tightening license control by disabling Model, Loads, Analysis, and Results menus for an invalid license. 2) Compile CapView using .net Frame v4.0 rather than v4.5 V11.39 - 3/7/2017 1) Create a version for dongle key license control V11.40 - 3/8/2017 1) More robust check if the hardware vertex processing is supported. 2) Make sure CAP does not crash on VM even if it cannot run properly there. V11.41 - 3/14/2017 1) Get Gap element displacements for Single Object Report. V11.42 - 3/23/2017 1) Fixed a problem that wrote a very smaller number (between -1.0e-9 and -0.999e-9) as 11 digits rather 10 digits to SSModel.inp. 2) Enhance Text File Data Import (Model Data) to include data export features. V11.43 - 3/24/2017 1) Fixed a minor problem for Rainflow analysis result. The brace in the bottom of "Report" tab rather than the one in "QA" tab was used to show the results from "View Unscaled Damage Ratios." V11.44 - 3/24/2017 1) Cleanup the dialogue for BC Column interaction surface plot to remove options with confusing results. V11.45 - 4/6/2017 1) Implementation of Import/Exportf or some Load Case data. 2) Fixed an exception issue in menu "Loads>Select/Change" from a local unit implementation 3) Catch exception when fail to write an image file for 3D Rendering Screen save option. 4) Enhance the Rainflow analysis to use only results from the last DYN2 analysis macro. V11.46 - 4/25/2017 1) New option to display code check values on displayed model. 2) For a better control, Rainflow Fatigue analysis is performed only for the results from the last saved DYN2 macro. 3) New option to produce an additional report in a matrix format in wave period and wave heights using "Results>Fatigue Analysis>Rainflow Fatigue>QA>View Unscaled Data Ratios" menu. 4) New option to split all selected members at once using "Model>Add Components>Beam Member>Multiple Splits>Ratio" menu. 5) Fixed a bug in AISC code check that doubles the effect of Tr/Tc for the calculation of Um under Tr/Tc > 0.2 case. 6) Allow AISC code check to perform for load steps before the dead load step. 7) Allow CAP users to work on the model even when the AISC 2010 code check dialogue is opened. V11.47 - 5/10/2017 Created V11.47 - 5/10/2017 1) Implemented AISC 2010 Code Check for Box and Tube sections and also cleanup the codes 2) Add options to cleanup result files from menu "Analysis>Cleanup" Created V11.48 - 5/25/2017 1) Able to render 3D AISC channel, angle sections and also render its end surfaces. 2) Fixed a minor bug that when a load case was removed from an existing group case, the Rainflow analysis still issued a warning for the no analaysis results for the removed case. 3) Option to display SCF stress point location diagram when Edit SCF data. 4) New buttons created to display all checked or unchecked load cases for the load case group. 5) Add new options to report max and min nodal displacements, member forces, and cut plane forces in group. 6) Add an option to report regular wave properties in group. 7) Can override the load step numbers to process for each load case in group 8) Fixed a bug that crashed CapView.exe when an earthquake analysis was performed while a vertical ground motion was not applied Created V11.49 - 6/13/2017 1) Options to convert members with regular tubular sections into AISC Tube(CHS) sections or vice versa. 2) The initial folder in the option to Save Rendering Image to File is now set to the project temp folder. Created V11.50 - 6/19/2017 1) Cleanup Fatigue Spectral analysis for display and QA issues. Created V11.51 - 6/20/2017 1) Fixed a SESAM model data import issue that put a member load into a nodal load pattern. Created V11.52 - 7/3/2017 1) Able to import and report AISC Tube(CHS) data. 2) Implement the end eccentricities for plate elements. However, the end eccentricities effect for SeaStar analysis is still under implementation. Created V11.53 - 7/11/2017 1) Fixed a bug that imported wrong plate thickness from SACS PLATE Poisson ratio data Create SeaStar V4.270 - 7/21/2017 SeaStarV4.270 for considering the end eccentricity effects for plate elements. Created V11.54 - 7/21/2017 1) Implement plate end eccentricities effect in SeaStar and CapView. 2) CapView default to create SSModel.inp for SeaStar V4.27 3) New feature to select plate elements with or wihtout end eccentricity effect. 4) A new feature is implemented to select 3 or 4 nodes plate elements. Created V11.55 - 7/24/2017 1) Including plate end eccentricities effect in member selection and display. 2) Include plate end eccentricities effect for plate area and weight calculations. Created V11.56 - 7/31/2017 1) Include plate properties in "Model/Report Selected/All Basic Properties". 2) Implement a special color display overridden feature for the IR Plot by using the data in file UrOverrideFile.txt to override other IR data. 3) Implement "Results>Summary Report>Selected Plates>von Mises Stress/Fy" feature with an option to put the results in UrOverrideFile.txt for plate stress color display. 4) Recover the missing "Import" button from Edit SCF Member dialogue. Created V11.57 - 8/2/2017 1) Fixed the plate stress color display because of initialization. 2) Perform data check for missing plate material. Created V11.58 - 8/7/2017 1) Fixed SACS Import for Load MOMT(CONC) where the concentrated moment should be in a unit of Kip-in rather than Kip-ft. 2) Import SACS Plate end eccentricities in local coordinate systems. 3) Import SACS Wind Area for the Area Option of 'D' for block dimension case. 4) Fixes AISC 14th code check crashes. Created V11.59 - 8/10/2017 1) Fixed a problem that Ochi-Hubble parameters after the generation of irregular did not stay for future information. 2) Enhance Load Case Group editing on Wave Control type to modify Cutoff Diameter for Relative Velocity Effect.