Midas Gen 2022 Here

The 2022 release was not a flashy overhaul. It was a maturation. In this post, I want to move past the marketing brochures and look at what MIDAS Gen 2022 actually does well, where it still frustrates veterans, and how it fits into the 2024/2025 workflow. Most engineers don't care about the math until the math breaks. MIDAS Gen has always used an advanced Multi-Frontal Sparse Matrix solver.

The industry standard remains: Revit -> MIDAS Link (The official plugin) -> Gen 2022. The Link plugin improved dramatically in 2022. It now transfers eccentricities correctly (hallelujah). However, if you have a curved ramp or a non-prismatic beam, you are still remodeling it manually in Gen. midas gen 2022

The iterative solver got smarter. If you’ve ever analyzed a stadium roof with P-Delta analysis and nonlinear boundary conditions, you know that convergence is a prayer. Gen 2022 introduced a modified Newton-Raphson method with line search that handles "snap-through" buckling better than v.2020. The 2022 release was not a flashy overhaul