While not always calculated at the critical location of a wall, out-of-plane walls are typically governed by flexure. In cases where a bug or other issue is found in the MASS software, announcements are posted on the software’s known bugs page, as well as on this page here. While Read more…
Bugs are found from time to time and in our effort to be trustworthy and transparent, they are posted here as well as appearing on the MASS Welcome Screen The known bugs page has moved from the MASS website to the MASS section of the CMDC website. The following Read more…
Understanding the issue, when it can come up, and what can be done to account for it When software bugs are found, notifications are posted in the Known Bugs page, on the MASS welcome screen, as well as here on the CMDC website software blog in an effort to be transparent Read more…
Ever had MASS stop working while working on a design? You aren’t alone! In any windows architecture application, there is a limit of 10,000 GDI objects. Internally, there a number of these crated with every design and population of each results screen. Unfortunately, there are a number of these that Read more…
Depending on keyboard or Windows system settings, it is possible to re-open a project file and see different results Have you ever saved a MASS file you were working on, only to open it up a few days later to see some values that are orders of magnitude larger? If Read more…
Understanding the issue, when it can come up, and what can be done to account for it This article originally was featured on the MASS Software Blog, formerly hosted on the software section of the Canada Masonry Design Centre website. CMDC is the authorized technical service provider for the Read more…