CAD-PLAN GmbH

ATHENA is a complete CAD software package, offering practically everything to simplify the daily tasks which confront the designer. Along with the 2D drawing environment with practical routines and libraries for producing elevations, cross sections and workshop drawings, it is possible to generate automatically parts lists and production drawings from a given 3D design. Furthermore, there are powerful computational tools for structural analysis and building physics, as well as a sheet-processing program for designing and developing metal sheet. In addition, ATHENA is independent of the profile system, it is individually adaptable and is designed for use internationally. ATHENA labels all its own objects fully automatically and is able to translate a drawing into each of the twelve languages currently contained in ATHENA on the press of a key.

Interfaces for transfer to LogiKal® (Orgadata) and ERPlus® (T.A. Project) are available, as well as an optional NC-X or SAT output for production. ATHENA is now installed in twelve languages in over seventy countries spread over the globe.

At the exhibition, CAD-PLAN is presenting the latest functions of the new ATHENA version.

flixo is the leading software product for the thermal analysis of components and facade sections. In the program, two-dimensional component nodes are analyzed under static boundary conditions. The risk of the formation of condensed water and attack by mold fungus is found by the determination of minimum temperature values of building component surfaces and the ensuing surface moisture. This enables building damage to be detected promptly and prevented.

Now new:

• Radiation module – support for the new computational methods of the standard EN ISO 10077-2:2017
• Simple selection, displays and printouts of documents in various languages.
• Improvement & expansion of familiar functions and tools, such as the tools, Processes, Min./max. temperature and Auxiliary lines, etc.
• Vectorized and parallelized algorithms are used for speeding up the computation.
   

ATHENA-flixo interface

A 2D section designed in ATHENA can be integrated into flixo without much effort. The shapes, together with the materials, are automatically transferred, provided they are known to ATHENA. The usual time required for the transfer of a detail drawn in the CAD program, e.g. AutoCAD, plus the time requirement for changes and adaptations is reduced, because ATHENA transfers the prepared detail directly to flixo.

SJ MEPLA is the technologically leading program for dimensioning and calculating the stress on multi-layer glazing or panels. SJ MEPLA offers new approaches for stress calculation on laminated glass, insulated glass and point-supported glass - and for investigating pendulum impact and pressure shock.

The dimensioning and stress calculation of plate structures under widely varying conditions are standard tasks in routine engineering work. A special challenge is frequently presented by geometrical configurations which deviate from a rectangular shape. They are no longer calculated using tables or rules of thumb, but rather using the finite element method. With this method you carry out the calculations with SJ MEPLA on multi-layer glazing (e.g. laminated safety glass) in a trice, even when the glass units are, for example, hexagonal or round. Various types of support are available and face, linear and climatic loads are included for the practically orientated investigation of the effects of the loads. This includes stress simulation due to pressure shock and pendulum impact.

SJ MEPLA is simple in use and easy to learn. The results of the investigations are available graphically and in log form, clearly laid out and convincing. It is possible to produce an additional log of all loading cases with proof according to the standards DIN 18008 and TRLV.