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New version CADRE Pro
6.1 3D Finite Element
Structural Analysis
Version 6.0 was significant upgrade to CADRE Pro
which provided complete stress
analysis output (color mapping, plotting, and tables) for beam sections in
addition to plate elements supported in earlier versions.
Version 6.1 enhances the model display features with
complete dynamic rotation and panning of the model on-screen and provides
many additional model evaluation and error checking features.
CADRE Pro 6 is designed for
Microsoft.Net version 2.0 and later.
Windows 7
and Vista (32 & 64 bit), XP, 2000 with Microsoft .Net 2.0
framework
Evaluation
version
CADRE Pro 6 evaluation (~8 MB) (a fully functioning version of CADRE Pro 6.1)
Overview
CADRE Pro is a structural
engineering application for Windows with the Microsoft .Net 2.0 framework or later installed.
CADRE Pro allows any frame, beam, and plate type structure
(or integrated beam and plate structure) to be modeled and solved for loads and
stresses or for vibration modes and frequencies. It is designed by
practicing professional engineers to be a general and practical application that
will allow the user to tackle a large variety of structural engineering projects
from the very large to the very small in a short amount of time.
The main emphasis in CADRE Pro is about understanding and
predicting the behavior of structures under load. CADRE Pro is a
structural analysis application, not a CAD application,
consequently, the graphical
interface is designed to render a structural model in a fashion that
closely represents the physical assumptions of the idealized model and the underlying
mathematical equations. Advanced
analyses features include buckling analysis, beam-column effects and
incremental solutions for large displacements as well as shock and seismic
solutions.
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Technical features
 | 3D finite element models for
structural loads and stresses |
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Beam load and stress diagrams |
| Thermal loads & pre-loads |
| Stability and buckling |
| Beam-columns (P-delta) |
| Plate loads and stresses |
| Von Mises, principal, traverse, and planar stresses |
| Ranking and
coloring of stresses and loads in both beams and plates |
| Functional coloring schemes |
| Plate bending and in-plane loads and stresses. |
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Boundary conditions include springs, elastic foundations, and specified displacements |
| Special structures insertion such as arcs, circles,
Bezier, parabolic, pivot joints and others |
| Vibration modes and frequencies (ANIMATED) |
| Vibration animation video clips |
| Shock load analysis |
| Seismic spectrum analysis |
| AISC steel and Aluminum Association section property databases |
| European and Australian steel databases |
| Beam elements (tapered, pinned, or flexible pins,
eccentric, deep shear). |
| Beam elements (springs, tension only (cables),
compression only |
| Plate element
(Kirchoff, in-plane) |
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DXF file import and export |
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Geodesic modeling |
| Modeling templates for walls, wire frame meshes, plate meshes, boxes,
spheres, cones, cylinders, rings, helical coils, and many more. |
| Special features for setting up elastic foundations |
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Water tower with hydrostatic loads |
Special beam types
Amphitheater steel structure with roof cable mesh
One way
elements (tension only and compression only can be used to represent
cable supports or beams on one-way reaction points.
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Pinned beams can be defined with a variable degree of pin
restraint from free to fully restrained providing an easy means of specifying end fixity.
A tapered beam can be initially defined with just the end properties and then divided into
segments maintaining the continuity of the taper.
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Eccentric beam element
| Eccentric beam elements allow offset end loads |
that facilitates the solving of structures like the lifting crane at
the right.
| This element is also very useful for modeling plate panels with
integrated beam stiffeners.
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| The Help module includes several detailed sample
exercises with the eccentric beam element. |
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Simple crane with eccentric axial load |
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Planel with stiffeners represented by eccentric beams |
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Plate elements:
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Plane stress 2D triangular
plate element that is especially designed to be integrated into 3D
frame structures or stand alone for 2D plane stress solutions. |
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DKT triangular (Kirchoff plate)
element that accepts out-of-plane loads (bending) as well as in plane
loads and provides both planar and traverse stress. |
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Built-up box beam with integrated beams and plates |
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Loading the model:
Loads can be applied to any
selected node, or group of nodes, directly on the screen by selecting and pointing with
the mouse. One loading condition is provided to CADRE Pro for each
solution but the loading condition can be a factored combination of many
separate load conditions that have been built up and saved as load sets..
Distributed loads: CADRE Pro has wizards for automatically applying
distributed pressure loads,
dead weight (or structural mass) and applying loads based on projected lengths or areas of
defined elements. Projected loads are useful for loading conditions such as wind and snow.
Load Sets: Load sets can be derived in components and saved, merged, and recombined
(with load factors) in any desired
fashion.
Thermal loads and Initial loads: CADRE Pro can solve for
temperature differential effects and for the effects of initial tensile or compressive
loads in members.
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The graphical interface
The graphical interface allows the magnifying, moving, and
rotating the 3D finite element model about three axes either in precise measured
degrees or dynamically by on-screen controls. The model can be examined
in perspective or isometric views. For dynamic analyses, the model is displaced
in the form of the vibration mode shapes and animated for a visual vibration
effect. Any element or node can be selected on the screen for a quick display of
all its properties and calculated information such as displacement,
internal loads, and stresses.
Parts of the model can be hidden by a variety of
conditions or made semitransparent to simplify the access and visibility of
other parts of the model.
Entering and Editing data is accomplished in a variety of ways. The
models can be constructed directly on the screen. The
models can be constructed in CAD programs and imported through the DXF import feature. Models can be initiated using a CADRE Pro Quick Modeler template and then finished by editing on the screen
with the model editing utilities that allow expanding, replicating, and merging
and a variety of other operations.
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| Modeling templates and model generators This
Quick modeler is a utility that
allows the creation of several types of basic models and meshes.
It can make beams in any orientation with any
desired number of nodes and elements providing a quick means of creating
continuous beam models so that shear, torsion and bending moment diagrams
along the beam can be determined.
The Quick Modeler can make meshed models of plates
and wire. This includes planar disks, rectangles,
cylindrical, conical, toroidal, or box structures.
Other utilities allow the cutting of holes and insertion of special
structures such as Bézier curves, scissor
connections, parabolas, arcs, and circles.
CADRE Pro contains a complete geodesic generator for
making true geodesic type models and special low profile domes (see tank cover in
the the oil tank picture above).
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Pipeline choke plate diaphragm under pressure load
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| Displaying and evaluating
results CADRE Pro provides several features for examining the
results of calculations. The main output are the model graphics, the displacements and
internal loads in the elements and the reactions at the boundary conditions. The internal
loads can be ranked in any chosen fashion in order to find the most critical members.
For plates, the normal, principal, Von Mises, and traverse stresses are provided. The data can be
displayed on the screen, plotted, sent to a printer, copied to the clipboard, or sent to a text
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| Loads and stress diagrams can be created to display any of the 6 degrees of loading in a beam element
or any of the stresses for beam sections or plate element.
Or a displacement diagram of any selected line of
nodes can be presented (e.g. a displacement plot across a joisted floor
under pressure) . |
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Stress maps 
Circuit board with assembly loads and reactions
Stress & load colors:
CADRE Pro provides a continuous rainbow
palate for stresses and loads for all elements.
Stresses for plates include principal and planar components of normal
and shear stress as well as traverse shear and von Mises stress.
Stress for beam sections include principal and normal stress, component
stresses, and the von Mises stress. |
| Dynamic analyses: Dynamic analyses features: Vibration analyses are conducted on
restrained or completely free structures.
Structures are solved for vibration frequencies
and mode shapes which are displayed and ANIMATED
on the screen.
Animated modes can be changed to movie files for display in other
applications.
Vibration analyses can be conducted with an initial
static loading in order to include the effects of axial compression and
tension on vibrating members.
Modal participation factors and as well as generalized
and effective mass data are provided. |
Click to animate this model! |
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Modal displacement color coding (14th mode of a vibrating
rectangular plate) |
Shock and Seismic Loads:
Shock and Seismic loads are calculated using a response spectrum. The
program provides construction of UBC and IBC seismic spectrums and has a
general spectrum editor. Modal combinations use either the CQC method
(complete quadratic combination) or the SRSS method (square root of sum of
squares). The
seismic loads can be merged and superimposed on other loading conditions such as wind,
snow, and dead or live weight.
RESCOL: Rescol is
an optional compatible program that can be used with CADRE Pro. It will provide spring
constants for foundations and footings as well as the period for stratified soil and
seismic spectrums. Rescol permit's one to calculate these values, and
automatically introduces the numerical results to CADRE PRO for the purpose of
investigation soil-structure interactions.
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Help: The context sensitive help
system provides instruction in the finite element method, help for using CADRE
Pro and help in getting started with 24 step
by step practice exercises.
Administrative aspects:
Small business friendly: Up to 3 installations included in the License
for the basic price for CADRE Pro 6.
License duration: All CADRE Analytic granted software licenses are
perpetual (no maintenance fees).
Technical support: Reasonable technical support
on engineering projects by practicing professional engineers is free of charge.
Software support: Support
for installation and operation is free and provided by real people on the telephone.
The best way to resolve support issues is to send us your
problem model file as an email attachment so we can look at it while discussing
it with you.
Download CADRE Pro 6 evaluation (~8MB)
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Capability: CADRE Pro 6 is virtually unlimited in nodes or elements.
Limits result from the allocation of memory by your computer and operating
system.
Requirements:
Minimum:
500 MB of RAM
Windows 7
and Vista (32 & 64 bit), XP, 2000 with Microsoft .Net 2.0
framework
2 button mouse.
Hard disk with 20 megabytes of free space.
CD ROM Drive
Recommended:
Windows XP or Vista with 1GB of RAM.
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