You can find a lot of nice demonstration files of Scia Engineer on Youtube.

Just like this one:

More movies can be found in the Scia Movie Center

A FREE Nemetschek Engineering User Contest 2009 screensaver is available and can be downloaded. It presents all 8 winners of this contest.

The Projects and Contest Book
All 122 participating projects are bundled in a colourful book of nearly 300 pages, explaining in detail the technical challenges and how the users solved these with the help of Nemetschek Engineering Group software. This book offers all participating companies a unique opportunity to show their know-how and professionalism to the outside world. As many as 13,000 copies are printed for free distribution. You can browse the online flip ebook or download it in PDF at the bottom of the flipbook.

Here are some screenshots:

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To use a professional software program a minimum of investment in training is required. Even if the user-interface is as much as possible self-explanatory, the availability of teaching tools helps reducing the learning time. For Scia Engineer there are a number of tools at one’s disposal: tutorials, manuals, movies, online forum, FAQ’s and of course a direct help desk. Yet we wanted to lower further the entry barrier.

As of today Scia is launching a new interactive eLearning tool through which distant learning of the basic functions of Scia Engineer becomes reality. The new application explains interactively how an engineer will enter a structural model, how the boundary conditions and the loadings are entered, and how to generate finite element meshes. It also explains the access to design modules for steel & concrete sections. And the handling of the software is explained until the generation of a full engineering report. The self-training treats 3D steel frames, as well as 2D and 3D concrete structures.
The Scia eLearning software is available in the English language and is completely free!

http://www.scia-online.com/eLearning

Enjoy !

Together with the Nemetschek Engineering Group, Scia has recently given the starting shot for the sixth edition of its International User Contest.

Over the years, this User Contest has become a famous event which users look forward to and that gets a lot of credit from the international press.

What are the novelties of this edition?

This sixth edition will be more international than ever and has a wider-ranging scoop this year: the user contest is open to all customers projects that make use of the software programs from the larger Nemetschek Engineering Group, especially Scia, Allplan, Frilo and Glaser. That is also why this contest has a new name: the “Nemetschek Engineering User Contest 2009″. This year there are also other novelties such as the new contest categories in CAE and CAD, but also the increased prize money.

What are your advantages when participating?

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Have a look at this lagest swimming pool in the world in San Alfonso del Mar in Chile.

Really impressive!

It’s eight hectares in size and contains an incredible 250,000 cubic meters of water. Acknowledged by Guinness World Records as being the world’s largest swimming pool, the lagoon trounces all other record holders in the category. The San Alfonso pool is 1 km in length.

The revolutionary clear water artificial lagoons, transparent to a depth of 35 meters and unprecedented in design and construction methods, are the brainchild of Crystal Lagoons founder, biochemist and Chilean businessman Fernando Fischmann. Equivalent in size to an incredible 6,000 standard domestic pools, details of its technology are to be unveiled for the first time at Cityscape Dubai later this month.

http://www.sanalfonso.cl/ingles/main.html

Feel free to use these new Nemetschek Scia Backgrounds

By the way, have you seen the new Nemetschek Allplan website?

The Belgian prince Filip has presented the « Princess Elisabeth » polar station in Brussels. It is the first scientific structure with "zero emission". The goal of this polar base, which will be moved to the South Pole, is to study the effects of the climate change.

It is a unique enterprise… The polar base, Princess Elisabeth, which has been on exhibition and accessible to the general public in the port station ‘Tour & Taxis’ in Brussels, is a unique construction with regard to durable development.

Indeed, it will be the first station located on the South Pole that works only by renewable energy.
The base will be equipped with 8 windmills and solar panels that cover the roof and the exterior walls of the structure; also a water recycling installation is provided. The station will be warmed using a system that combines passive solar heating and cogeneration that is recycling the heat rays that have been emitted by the energetic core, computers, light and even the human presence of the base. Concerning the isolation of the walls, the base avoids any heat loss and maintains the ambient temperature between 18 and 20°C. Moreover, the energetic efficiency of the concept, the energetic control system and the use of energy-saving equipment turns the station into a real "bio"construction prototype.

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Next October, the German car manufacturer BMW will inaugurate its new, original and futuristic centre ‘BMW Welt (BMW World) in Munich. Entirely realized out of steel and glass, the building will contain a business space, shops and restaurants as well as rooms for business meetings.This impressive project was carried out using the software think project!¹, distributed to the Benelux countries by the company Online Projects (member of the SCIA Group).

The building, with a very futuristic architecture, arises as a spiral of glass and steel. It is a very avant-garde construction, composed of two cones, with a height of 28 meters and a diameter of 45 meter, which are placed ‘point against point’. The slope has the shape of a volute. The roof is also curved and supported by a cone.”A landscape of clouds” The architects’ firm Coop Himmelblau imagined the building; it offers a vision of “a landscape of clouds”. It will accommodate a commercial section, an interactive campus around the topic of mobility for children, shops and restaurants, a delivery point of cars and a centre for car accessories. “The idea is to create a BMW centre so as to make it possible for the customer to discover a real BMW world”.

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