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Currently, Plaxis is working hard to finalize and test the upcoming update of PLAXIS 2D2010: PLAXIS 2D2010.01 will be released as soon as possible, but no later than March 2011. In this update we will fix a lot of issues, including the known issues posted on the Software Downloads page. So please stay up to date using PLAXIS Connect.

In the upcoming release, you will notice that it will no longer be possible to continue a user-cancelled phase. In older versions, you could cancel/stop a phase being calculated, and then continue the phase from the point you stopped it.

Since the release of 2D2010, calculations of independent phases could be done parallel, e.g. when both Phase 2 and Phase 3 started from Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3 are now calculated simultaneously, saving a lot of precious calculation time. Due to this calculation optimization, the stop - continue behaviour does not work as robust as it did in 2DV9.02 and earlier, especially when the calculation is time dependent (transient groundwater flow, consolidation, creep). For this reason, we stated that this stop - continue calculation behaviour should not be used in PLAXIS 2D2010.0, but you should recalculate the whole phase again. Please note that this stop-continue calculation behaviour did work properly (that is within the specified tolerance) in earlier PLAXIS 2D versions: V8 and V9.
After some investigation how this functionality was used, we found out that it was mainly used to halt the calculation to inspect intermediate results for very time intensive calculations, like dynamics. After it was verified that the calculation did not diverge, or the correct settings were applied in the actual calculation, the phase's calculation was continued.

For the release of 2D 2011, the Plaxis development team will make sure that it will be possible to inspect the results during calculation without stopping it. It will be a great improvement for Plaxis users to inspect the calculation results in real-time!