Product(s):	SACS
Version(s):	ALL
Area:	Post Solution

Community Question:

Hello Bentley I am comparing the results from the old version of SACS vs SACS version 2023, the change in the results isn't much but I would like to know the reason for this

Answer:

Sometimes we don't know the reason why the UC, Moments, Properties any data in the post-processing tend to change slightly showing larger decimals or sometimes approximations to the immediate whole number, normally we noted this in the UC in elements for example if in version 15 I have a beam with a UC 0.53 in version 23 I get 0.55. the reason of this, could be related to the updating compilator in version 23, Our developers updated the compiler after v16.1, before, all our modules were being compiled with 32-bit instructions and since version 23 everything is compiled with 64-bit instructions, so we expect the numbers to show a small difference between the two versions and the things get a lot messier when you are doing millions of calculations"