Design Expert 2.4 for ZWCAD+ 2014

Design Expert 2.4 is a free upgrade to version 2.3 and includes a lot of improvements. It is ready for the new ZWCAD+ 2014 and AutoCAD 2014 32 bit. The most important changes are as follows:

• All calculation reports are ma­de to be MS Word friendly. All formatting is preserved after opening in MS Word;­
• Beam Expert window can be extended to full screen for better view of the drawing;
• Option for bars with different diameters in one section is added to Column Expert and PMM Expert;
• Shear links with more complex shapes, up to 8 bends;
• Different spacing for links in and outside the critical zone of shear walls;­
• Redefining of link spacing does not remove the zones of condensation at spices;
• Option for copying of sections in the list is added to Column Expert;
• Import of cross section shape from ZWCAD+ and AutoCAD in Column Expert;
• Some cases of en­tanglement of groups for bars was fixed in the Reinforcement Plug-in;
• Steel elements objects are groped with their axes in the Steel Plug-in;
• Labels of steel elements are updated when the cross section is changed.­

­The new version can be downloaded here