CADAM3D is a user-friendly software based on the gravity method originally developed for one of the world biggest concrete dam owner, Hydro-Quebec, and for Dams and Hydrology of the Quebec Ministry of Environment (Quebec's legislator for dam safety). CADAM3D is fully functional and is intensively used by Hydro-Quebec since 2005. To our knowledge, no other software similar to CADAM3D is available at this time.
If you perform stability analyzes of concrete hydraulic structures, this software will allow you to perform them much faster and more efficiently. If you are interested in this type of software and would like to try CADAM3D for free, please click on the button "Contact us for a free trial of CADAM3D" to send us a message.
Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows XP (SP2 required for HDV and XDCAM). It was the final version of Vegas to officially support Windows 2000.
Built for Windows XP and Windows Vista, Vegas 7.0a requires "Compatibility Mode" to open on Windows 10 or Windows 11.
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Furthermore, Vegas 7.0a marked the end of an era for Sony Creative Software. It was one of the last versions before the software began to bloat with features aimed at competing with the Adobe Creative Cloud ecosystem. It functioned during a time when software was a product you bought in a box at a store, rather than a service you rented. This ownership model meant that a kid with a camcorder could save up, buy the software once, and use it for years. This permanence fostered a deep sense of community; forums were filled with tutorials on how to achieve specific effects, and custom plugins were shared freely among users.
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Version 7.0 combined multiple camera angles into a single track layout. Editors could watch all camera views simultaneously in the preview window and switch between angles in real time by simply clicking the mouse or hitting keyboard commands while the timeline played. 3. Superior Audio Integration
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Sony discontinued support for Vegas 7.0 around 2009. The rights now belong to Magix Software . You cannot buy a new license for 7.0a. If you find a physical CD on eBay, it will not activate online (the servers are dead). There are "cracked" versions floating around the abandonware community, but they are security risks.
RS-DAM is a computer program that was primarily designed to provide a computational tool to evaluate the transient response of a completely cracked concrete dam section subjected to seismic loads. RS-DAM is also used to support research and development on structural behavior and safety of concrete dams.
RS-DAM is based on rigid body dynamic equilibrium. It performs a transient rocking and/or sliding analysis of a cracked dam section subjected to either base accelerations or time varying forces. Several modelling options have been included to allow users to explore the influence of parameters (e.g. geometry, additional masses, variation of the uplift force upon rotation, hydrodynamic pressures in translation (Westergaard) and rotation, center of rotation moving with sliding, coefficient of restitution of impact, etc...). RS-DAM is developed in a university context and has no commercial aspect.
TADAM (Thermal Analysis of concrete DAMs) software employs a new frequency-domain solution technique to solve the 1D thermal transfer problem, allowing the calculation of temperature histories in a concrete dam section.
The direct solution calculates the evolution of the temperature distributions from the temperature histories of the upstream and downstream faces. The inverse solution uses temperature histories, measured inside the section, in order to calculate the temperature fields at the external faces, while taking into account the thermal wave attenuation effects and the phase angles along the section.
TADAM is developed in a university context and has no commercial aspect.