New in PLAXIS LE 2D/3D CONNECT Edition V21 - Update 2

Release: June 2021

PLAXIS 2D/3D LE CONNECT Edition V21 Update 2 (21.02.00.170) contains the following improvements and updates compared to PLAXIS LE CONNECT Edition V21 Update 1:

New features

User requests

The following user requests have been incorporated in this release:

• [615378] PLAXIS Designer: Importing a Block model dataset prompts to copy to project folder to preserve link to data file
• [328263] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Added arbitrary orientation custom slice views in 3D models in addition to views parallel to axes
• [481401] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Added display of water iso-surfaces input from a Groundwater analysis
• [336127] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Improved display of contouring of discrete points input of pore-water pressure to exclude data outside the model geometry
• [614150] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Corrected the graph of Shear Stress vs Normal Stress when entered in terms of a Cohesion-Friction Angle for the Anisotropic Linear Material (ALM2) shear strength type input
• [573262] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Corrected display control hierarchy for Visibility/Fill/Opacity for Material Volumes Meshes (MVMs) and Bedding Guides
• [573211] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Added more advanced Kriging options for pore-water pressure discrete points input
• [608530] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Improved display of sliding masses in custom slice views offset from the sliding direction
• [529857] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Improved 3D slicing algorithm to address special cases reported when using Material Volume Meshes (MVMs) when executing 2D MPA analyses
• [573210] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Warning now provided when using spline interpolation on very large discrete points pore-water pressure input data sets, where system resources may be exceeded
• [616350] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Improved Unsaturated User Defined material type to allow entry of Shear Stress vs Suction data corresponding to a Normal Stress state other than zero
• [556725] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Added ability to change display format of labels for Loads
• [604141] PLAXIS LE - Groundwater: Added display of Piezometers in 3D sliced views and added projection distance from slice tolerance control for CPTu and Piezometer display
• [580138] PLAXIS LE - Groundwater: Added option to extend solver time discretization following precipitation events
• [579154] PLAXIS LE - Groundwater: Changed new climate boundary conditions to apply Runoff by default
• [553680] PLAXIS LE - Groundwater: Added model Water Balance Cumulative and Water Balance Rate output graphs
• [604141] PLAXIS LE - Groundwater: Added display of Piezometers in 3D sliced views and added projection distance from slice tolerance control for CPTu and Piezometer display
• [615186] PLAXIS LE - Groundwater: Fixed case where 3D water table display color changed after toggling on/off
• [556724] Added support for vertical axis labels and titles in graphs
• [572734] Added a date format option to graph labels
• [617110] Made actions more visible when creating a new Project through the PLAXIS LE Manager
• [573264] Multiple artwork fixes and improvements, including context menu additions and more 3D selection control
• [589427] Various improvement to 3D slice view display and performance
• [607955] Improved registry setting options for system administrators wanting to configure environments for use with PLAXIS LE
• [594937] Users can disable MS Access 2016 database component during installation to prevent conflicts with Microsoft Office installations on some computers

Fixed issues

A large number of issues have been addressed, including:

• [581079] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Fixed a case where slicing was off when slip surface optimization was used with the Sarma Non-Vertical Slices calculation method
• [526089] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Improved selection of distributed loads in 3D view
• [615208] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Fixed an issue with saving of a Line Load acting point
• [609065] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Fixed a null reference exception when using the Grouted Tieback with Friction support type
• [606227] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: fine-tuned the 2D slicing algorithm to handle some special cases, such as a horizontal ground surface
• [601405] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Fixed an issue with optimization of a fully-specified slip surface if the end points were defined outside of the slope boundary
• [588216] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Fixed the display of the slip surface outline when a 3D cuckoo search was used specifically with Gao's method for determining the sliding direction orientation
• [595005] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Updated 3D FOS custom color map
• [573066] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Probability of failure now shown in output legend and in critical mass label
• [580004] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Fixed problem of keeping surface name edits for a Surface update from PLAXIS Designer
• [595008] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Fixed rounding issue for 2D optimization in a model with extremely dense region points
• [615301] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Tab to allow entry of cohesion and friction angle was not displaying for the Unsaturated User Defined material type
• [618633] PLAXIS LE - Slope Stability: Model offset option now supports discrete points
• [602282] PLAXIS LE - Groundwater: Corrected conversion of directional parameters when importing a material with hydraulic conductivity anisotropy between 2D and 3D models
• [601505] PLAXIS LE - Groundwater: Boundary condition objects were not being accounted for in some cases when slicing a 3D model to create a 2D model
• [598898] PLAXIS LE - Consolidation: Models were not listed in the PLAXIS LE Manager if they were saved while in certain view modes
• [607024] Fix for the PLAXIS 2D-PLAXIS LE Importer to support non-English Regional Language settings
• [612948] Corrected display of some output objects when exporting to PDF
• [576819] New distribution example models now scanned and listed in the PLAXIS LE Manager when upgrading from V10.x to V21.01
• [589574] Boundary Conditions and Blast Disturbance Zones now offset properly when using the Model Offset feature

Download links

PLAXIS 2D LE CONNECT Edition V21	PLAXIS 3D LE CONNECT Edition V21	PLAXIS Designer CONNECT Edition V21