Release Notes#

The following list presents new features and issues resolved within SOFiSTiK Analytical Model Generator. These issues are often directly reported by our users by contacting the support_assistant_small SOFiSTiK Technical Support or the SOFiSTiK Communities.

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For the optimal product experience we highly recommend to work with its latest version.

2025-3 Update Release (February 2025)#

Features#

  • SOFiSTiK Analytical Model Generator is now Supporting Linked Models, thus opening up an entirely new workflow. According to Autodesk® Revit®, adding Linked Models allows to more easily manage the individual parts or to improve performance when working on a large project.

    This feature is made for customers where different teams, departments or companies do not work together in a single project, but keep things seperate and work with Revit Links to tie them into their own project. See Supporting Linked Models to learn more about the workflow.

  • New Merging functionality during the Generate step for an even cleaner Analytical Model, specifically when exporting to other software from third-party vendors.

2025-2 Update Release (December 2024)#

Features#

  • Improved User Interface of the Wizard, specifically the new Visualization grid. These UI changes, combined with the adjustments of how we handle views, provide better visual assistance while using SOFiSTiK Analytical Model Generator. To learn more, see the explanation in any of the steps Prepare, Generate or Check.

  • More control over the Local Coordinate System of existing Analytical Panels by determining if it should be updated or kept as-is during a re-run of Generate.

Bug Fixes#

  • Fixed a bug where Analytical Panels of Structural Role: <none> were unexpectedly hidden during visualization but still processed in the background. They are now treated equally to Analytical Panels of other Structural Roles.

2025-1 Update Release (October 2024)#

Features#

  • With the features Importance and Keep Parallel, SOFiSTiK Analytical Model Generator is now much better equipped to solve Steel Structures

    • Importance allows to determine between Primary and Secondary components, thus defining their significance for the global optimal solution of the model.

    • Keep Parallel allows to determine if the orientation of the analytical member should follow the physical component. Disabling this requirement, e.g., for diagonals, can lead to higher-quality solutions for the model in its entirety.

  • Improvements in the Generate step.

Bug Fixes#

  • Resolved an issue where a step finished with issues but the report seemed empty.

  • The Boundary Conditions tool now informs about missing families and multiple warnings for duplicate definitions have been grouped.

2025-0 Release (July 2024)#

What’s New in 2025#

  • A set of analytical tools to facilitate working with existing analytical models within Autodesk® Revit®:

    • Modify contains commands to project analytical elements to a wide range of objects, e.g., levels, reference planes or grids.

    • Boundary Conditions allows to create boundary conditions of similar type for multiple elements, e.g., all columns footers in a level, by multiselecting the respective nodes,

    • Loads allows to create loads of similar type for multiple elements, e.g., all slabs in a building by multiselecting the respective analytical panels.

  • The Prepare and Generate steps have been extended, now including a Report that lists all issues that occured during its execution:

    • For the Prepare step the report also lists the reason why specific elements were not enabled,

    • For the Generate step the report lists specific element that may have been created but not optimized in their location.

  • Performance improvements to reduce idle times when changing between steps and UI changes in the Wizard for a more modern look.

  • This online documentation.

Other Features#

  • Control over the vertical alignment of analytical panels for slabs and analytical members for beams:

    • On a global scale via settings in the configuration to determine the default behavior, e.g., according to the physical element or nearest analytical level.

    • On an instance base for individual overrides, e.g., a specific level or reference plane.

  • Extended the capabilities to create and optimise curved analytical elements, supporting arc-shaped analytical panels (planar and bent) and analytical members. Limitations to elliptically- and spline-shaped elements still apply.