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        January 2008

1. Race Car Engineering Trade Show in Birmingham, England. January 10-11

2. RaceWise seminar in Shinston, West Virginia, January 18-20.

3. Add Birdcage 4-bar Linkage analysis.

        February 2008

1. The Graph menu gets a Text: All command which produces a table of all graphed variables and all loaded files.

2. The Graph: Save Text file can add comments or tab characters. This permits tables to be copied into Excel and other programs.

3. The Files: Print Graphic command now includes data graphds.

       March 2008

1. The Frequently Asked Questions section of the Help file gets descriptions of Force-Based Roll Centers and Anti- calculations.

2. The Utility: Units 1/8 upDown command converts the edit updown buttons from 0.100 inch to 1/8 inch to reflect US standard practice. Reports can also be printed with 1/8 values rather than decimal equivalents.

3. An Edit: Hub Center command is added.

      April 2008

1. Five-Link and Multi-Link MacPherson Strut suspensions now use virtual instant centers for the determination of the kingpin axis.

2. Steering Axis calculations also use virtual instant centers for the cases mentioned above.

3. Formula SAE at Virginia International Raceway, April 23-26.

      May 2008

1. Formula SAE at Michigan International Raceway, Brooklyn, Michigan, May 14-18

2. Improve solvers and reduce the number of iteration errors.

    June 2008

1. Formula SAE West at California International Raceway in Fontana, California, June 18-21

    July 2008

1. Add Pitman-Arm steering. This simple steering system has a Pitman-arm which rotates with the handwheel. Both steering tierods are attached to the same Pitman arm.

     August 2008

1. Add Very-wide graphs to the Graph menu.

    September 2008

1. Add the capability to pass suspension points from the Setup program to WinGeo3 with GEP files.

    October 2008

1. Finalize the Expert version with Compare Parts command and Check Symmetry of parts.

       November 2008 - Release Version 5.01

1. Release the Expert version.

       December 2008

1. SAE Motorsports Engineering Conference, Concord, North Carolina.  December 2-4

2. PRI Trade Show, Orlando, Florida, December 11-13

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