CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
6 March 2009
Product News
Fastrak Building Designer v9 Released in the US
CSC announced the US release of Fastrak Building Designer v9.0
FASTRAK is a building focused design solution for structural engineers. FASTRAK performs comprehensive steel and composite design based on the 2005 AISC Steel Specification. Complex buildings can be modeled, analyzed, designed and documented for both gravity and lateral loads. FASTRAK delivers maximum productivity while not compromising on flexibility.
We're pleased to announce the latest major update of FASTRAK for the US market, the second in just 12 months. The Fastrak Development Team continues to implement and deliver valuable functionality at an incredible pace. This release is largely based on the valued input and ideas from our collaborators and customers here in the USA.
- Automatic selection of steel joists has now been included.
- The criteria of AISC Design Guide #11 have been implemented to automatically assess floor systems for vibration performance.
- Auto stud layout has been significantly enhanced for composite beams to include both uniform and freeform stud layouts.
- New automated insertion of repetitive beam and joist patterns. Infill beams and joists can be inserted quickly into single or multiple bays within the model based on regular patterns.
- A new load type has been added called a varying patch load. Triangular or quadrilateral shaped loads can be defined graphically by any 3 or 4 points.
- Increased flexibility in ASCE 7-05 wind loading wizard.
- Enhancements to the DXF output.
- FASTRAK now supports CIS\2 export.
- Functionality continues to be added to the bi-directional integration with Revit Structure 2009 and 2010.
- Calculation reports have been enhanced in several areas.
- Enhanced gridline manipulation has been included.
- Many other minor enhancements have also been incorporated.
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