[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":78},["ShallowReactive",2],{"article:xfem4u-2025-1:en":3},{"title":4,"seoTitle":5,"description":6,"label":7,"lead":8,"blocks":9},"XFEM4U 2025.1","XFEM4U 2025.1: material editor and DirectCommands · Struct4U","January 2024: XFEM4U 2025.1 with a material editor, DirectCommands from Excel or Python, a navigation cube, clearer reports and new steel profiles.","Release · January 2024","Another new version of XFEM4U is available: XFEM4U 2025.1. Here is a brief overview of the new functionality.",[10,23,36,47,57,68,71],{"type":11,"image":12,"caption":22},"figure",{"src":13,"width":14,"height":15,"alt":16,"sources":17},"\u002Fimg\u002Fresources\u002Fblog\u002Fxfem4u-2025-1-navigation-cube-1600.webp",1600,1418,"XFEM4U: the von Mises stresses of a steel plate girder in colour, with the navigation cube marked at the top right",[18,21],{"src":19,"width":20},"\u002Fimg\u002Fresources\u002Fblog\u002Fxfem4u-2025-1-navigation-cube-800.webp",800,{"src":13,"width":14},"The navigation cube (top right, marked in red), here with the von Mises stresses of a plate girder.",{"type":24,"items":25},"list",[26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35],"**Material editor.** Create your own material grades for concrete, rebar, timber and steel. [Watch the demonstration](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=uRg4lq_UWWc).","**DirectCommands.** Launch XFEM4U and XFrame2D directly from Excel or Python with a parametric structure.","**Navigation cube** for easy navigation in 3D.","**Reporting** improvements: more insight into the governing formulas.","Various improvements in the tables of **load cases** and load combinations.","New steel **profiles**: the N.P. and B profiles, and additional C profiles.","An **error handler** has been added.","Surface loads and plates can be copied more **easily**.","Again many **improvements** in the mesher.","Several **reinforcement** diameters have been added.",{"type":11,"image":37,"caption":46},{"src":38,"width":39,"height":40,"alt":41,"sources":42},"\u002Fimg\u002Fresources\u002Fblog\u002Fxfem4u-2025-1-material-editor-1030.webp",1030,691,"The materials window over the profile properties of an IPE 300: a user-defined steel called My_material with a yield strength of 189 and 215 N\u002Fmm² and a tensile strength of 360 N\u002Fmm²",[43,45],{"src":44,"width":20},"\u002Fimg\u002Fresources\u002Fblog\u002Fxfem4u-2025-1-material-editor-800.webp",{"src":38,"width":39},"The material editor: a user-defined steel grade, “My_material”, with a yield strength of 189 N\u002Fmm² and a tensile strength of 360 N\u002Fmm², used for an IPE 300.",{"type":11,"image":48,"caption":56},{"src":49,"width":14,"height":50,"alt":51,"sources":52},"\u002Fimg\u002Fresources\u002Fblog\u002Fxfem4u-2025-1-report-1600.webp",864,"XFEM4U with the unity checks of a steel structure in colour, next to the report preview with bending and shear checks, each with its clause and formula",[53,55],{"src":54,"width":20},"\u002Fimg\u002Fresources\u002Fblog\u002Fxfem4u-2025-1-report-800.webp",{"src":49,"width":14},"Unity checks of a steel structure, and the report: every check shows its clause and formula, with the values that go in.",{"type":11,"image":58,"caption":67},{"src":59,"width":60,"height":61,"alt":62,"sources":63},"\u002Fimg\u002Fresources\u002Fblog\u002Fxfem4u-2025-1-industrial-floor-1131.webp",1131,752,"An Excel sheet with two 3D views of an industrial floor on piles with a chessboard load, input for pile spacing, floor thickness, punching heads, edge beams and loads, and a button Open in XFEM4U",[64,66],{"src":65,"width":20},"\u002Fimg\u002Fresources\u002Fblog\u002Fxfem4u-2025-1-industrial-floor-800.webp",{"src":59,"width":60},"A parametric industrial floor on piles with a chessboard load, set up in Excel. The button “Open in XFEM4U” builds the model with DirectCommands.",{"type":69,"text":70},"p","See the [release notes](https:\u002F\u002Fsoftware.struct4u.win\u002Fdownloads\u002FXFEM4U\u002FRelease_notes_XFEM4U_en.pdf) for all new functionality.",{"type":72,"tone":73,"date":74,"text":75},"callout","editor","2026-09-28",[76,77],"The material editor followed in XFrame2D and XBeam2D (version 2025-01-01, February 2024) and in XConstruct (version 2025-01-01, September 2024). XFEM4U version 2027-03-01 (May 2026) added a round trip with Excel for nodes, beams, load cases, combinations and loads, and version 2027-04-01 (July 2026) added the fire resistance of steel structures and IFC export.","Parametric Excel modules like the industrial floor above are now collected in [XSpreadsheets](product:xspreadsheets), together with modules for a basement, a rafter roof, a Dutch truss and more.",1792702121262]