What are the main differences between version 4.5 and version 5.0 of ADAPT-ABI ?
ADAPT-ABI version 5 is a major release to ease the pain of old ADAPT-ABI version 4.x users. In ver. 4.x, users were required to complete the modeling entirely in textual command input. While all the technical features of ver 4.5 are fully supported, version 5 now provides an intuitive 3D graphical user input interface that allows users to create, modify and view model and results in 3D. Fig 5. New 3D graphical user input interface in ADAPT-ABI version 5.0. Remark: While the 3D model generation is now possible in ver 5.0, the f.e.m. analysis engine in ver. 5 is still utilizing 3-d.o.f. per node (X- and Y-translation and Z-rotation), with the ability to calculate simple torsional force in members (which generally called as a 2.5D analysis engine ).
