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Important Note – These are descriptions to changes implemented in WoodWorks Shearwalls for version 10.1 and may not reflect current program behaviour.
When in Plan view and you close the input form, e.g. Opening Input, either by the exit button on the form window or by the Input Form icon in the toolbar, then go to another Plan view action, e.g. Roof Input, and return, the input form for the original action now re-appears. Previously it remained invisible and some users had difficulty making it reappear.
If the hold-down database was empty or corrupted, a crash occurred on program start-up. The program now re-installs the original database if it encounters a corrupt or empty one.
It was possible to avoid the crash by deleting the corrupted hold-down database file.
The File menu item Log File has been removed as what was previously the log file is now split into four text output files, none of which are referred to as "log files".
The following files are now accessed from menu items in the View menu.
Wind Load Generation Details
Seismic Load Generation Details
Torsional Analysis Details
Detailed Shearwall Design
Note that they also have icons in the toolbar.
In the View menu the word View has also been removed from Design Results View, for consistency with these menu items.
An item Video Tutorials has been added to the Help menu for the link http://cwc.ca/woodworks-software/support-and-training/canadian-tutorials/ which goes to the WoodWorks video tutorials on the CWC website, where you will find numerous Shearwalls tutorials.
The following changes were made to the operation of the Wall and Shearline Input form
While in the Standard Wall mode, the dropdown box with the list of Standard Walls overlapped with the input box to the right showing the name of the Standard Wall being edited, and when dropped down it obscured part of the name of the Standard wall. There is no longer any overlap.
The Shearline input is now disabled if there is no choice other than Auto. This input allows you to select the shearline a wall belongs to if the walls are within the allowable shearline offset of walls defining two or more shearlines. As the default offset in the Design Settings is only 0.15m, this rarely occurs, and the use of this input was unclear to some users.
In the Design Settings, the check box for Worst-Case rigid vs flexible diaphragms was disabled and showing as selected if only one of Rigid or Flexible Analysis was selected in the Structure input. Now it is shown as not selected (empty) in this case.
The hold-down model input in both wall and opening view has been changed from an editable drop-list to a noneditable list, as a hold-down typed into this input would not necessarily match with an existing one in the database.
The following spelling corrections were made in the items in toolbar dropdown menus
In the Show menu, under Forces, Dragstruts has been changed to Drag Struts.
In the Go To Table menu under Design Results, Seismic Irregularities had the misspelling Irregulairites.
In the Go To Table menu under Structural Data, Story Information is corrected to Storey Information.
The following changes were made to the text in messages:
The warning message about opening input being rounded to the nearest snap increment, identified the input by long phrase that did not make sense in the context of the warning. It has now been abbreviated to briefly identify the input, e.g. Offset from edge. Square brackets around the input value have also been removed.
The warning message when Loads and Forces view for the first time had misaligned bullet points. This has been corrected.
Irrelevant messages from other part of the program operation were displayed in the status bar at the bottom of the program window upon hovering the toolbar items Go To Table, Zoom Out, Zoom in, Undo, Redo and getting Started. These have been removed and nothing appears in the bar at this stage.