PLAXIS LE Product Support & Retirement
Following the PLAXIS LE and PLAXIS Designer retirement announcement in June 2023, please find the Frequently Asked Questions document for further details and an outline of migration options here: PLAXIS LE Product Support & Retirement
Note: PLAXIS 2D and PLAXIS 3D products are not affected by this and continue to be developed and supported under the Bentley Lifecycle Policy.
New in PLAXIS LE 2D/3D CONNECT Edition V21 - Update 8
Release: December 2024
PLAXIS 2D/3D LE CONNECT Edition V21 (21.08.00.66) contains the following improvements and updates compared to PLAXIS LE CONNECT Edition V21 Update 7:
This CONNECT Edition Update includes
As part of the PLAXIS LE and PLAXIS Designer retirement plan, features that previously required a GSE license in each product are now included with a license of each corresponding product.
User-reported issues and suggestions addressed, see below.
User requests
The following user requests have been incorporated in this release:
- [1208616] Slope Stability - Added support for a custom port to allow multiple instances of the Slope Stability Python API.
- [1207759] LEM - Improved the performance of the climate boundary condition dialog when processing large data sets.
Fixed issues
A large number of issues have been addressed, including:
- [1045370] Slope Stability - Reverted a change made for v21.05 that prevented Y Increments, Minimum and Maximum values for the grid using the Grid and Tangent search from being set on the dialog when Orientation Analysis is also on.
- [1177270] Slope Stability - Slope Stability unsaturated materials input values were reported wrong in the material information display output from the Slope Stability Python API.
- [1276547] Slope Stability - Removed an invalid Material Volume Mesh (MVM) not fully enclosed warning shown when an MVM was not applied.
- [1276550] Slope Stability - Fixed an occasional system exception error when using a combination of the Two-Directional Method with Slip Surface Optimization.
- [1276559] Slope Stability - Added a warning to prevent a Circular Reference using the Above Water Surface Use Strength material setting.
- [613671] LEM - Fixed the conversion of hydraulic conductivity anisotropy input when performing a Save As between 1D, 2D, and 3D models.
- [932268] LEM - Added a warning for some invalid Groundwater boundary conditions after Save As of a 2D or 3D model to 1D.
- [1036040] LEM - 3D Boundary Manager Polygons are now offset when using the Model Offset tool.
- [1220810] LEM - Fixed a case that prevented an analysis from solving with climate boundary conditions when running multiple stages.
- [1212660] Consolidation - Removed some Groundwater boundary condition options from input dialog in a Consolidation analysis that are not implemented in the solver.
- [1213445] Consolidation - Added warning that review boundary conditions are not supported at the top of a constructed region, except for the last constructed region, in a consolidation analysis.
- [1173385] PLAXIS Designer - Fixed an error on Exporting a cross section as a DXF.