New in PLAXIS 2D CONNECT Edition V20

Subscription Entitlement Service

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Validate command for materials

To improve the support for scripting, material properties can now be set to an invalid state without getting an error message. A new validate command for materials was added which checks every property at once.

SoilTest scripting

PLAXIS SoilTest now supports command line and remote scripting. See the new section SoilTest in the commands and objects reference for further info.

Check geometry

The checks in the checkgeometry command have been extended. In addition, it is now also possible to execute this command from the calculation modes.

Check on calculation conditions

New command for checking the calculation conditions. These conditions are now also checked when running the calculate command.

Interactive documentation for Python

Interactive documentation - Jupyter notebooks - for the Python scripting layer has been added.