Plan View

Important Note – These are descriptions to changes implemented in WoodWorks Shearwalls for version 10.0 and may not reflect current program behaviour.

1. Mouse Zoom (Feature 219)

   The program now zooms the drawings of the structure via the mouse wheel. Previously this could only be done via toolbar buttons.

   In Plan View and for the new zoom feature for Elevation view, when the Control key is depressed, each click on the mouse wheel expands or contracts the image by percentage increment given in the View settings, like one push on the zoom button.

2. Wall Depiction in Plan View (Feature 56)
   1. Non-full-height Segments

      All shearlines with aspect ratios that are too narrow for design given the selected Design Settings are now shown with a white interior and coloured border the same as a non-shearwall, as they are effectively non-shearwall segments

   2. Legend

      A legend below at the bottom of the screen shows the markings for Shearwalls and Non-shearwalls.

3. Design Case in Plan View (Feature 83)

   The program now indicates explicitly Plan View whether you are viewing seismic or wind loads, which wind load method, and the force distribution method (rigid or flexible diaphragm). Previously you had to infer this information from the arrow style, existence of large low-rise arrows, and other clues.

   1. Loads and Forces View

      In the line in the legend previously starting with Loads shown W or Loads Shown E it now shows,

      Loads: Low building Wind (W); Forces 1.4W + 0.9D; Flexible distribution

      Loads: Any building Wind (W); Forces 1.4W + 0.9D; Flexible distribution

      Loads: Seismic (E); Forces 1.0E + 1.0D; Flexible distribution

   2. Loads Generate View

      Where it previously said Unfactored generated shear load, the program now says, for NBC 2015

      Unfactored generated wind load using NBC 4.1.7.6 for low buildings (plf)

      Unfactored generated wind load using NBC 4.1.7.5 for any building (plf)

      Unfactored generated seismic load (plf)

      For NBC 2010 it is

      Unfactored generated wind load using NBC Fig. I-15 for any building (plf)

      Unfactored generated wind load using NBC Fig. I-7 for low buildings (plf)

4. Bug Fixes and Small Improvements
   1. Gap in Building Footprint for Openings Extending to Wall End (Bug 3142)

      Following a specific sequence of wall input steps, it was possible to create a gap in the exterior footprint, rendering the project file unusable.

      This occurred when an opening was than extends to the very end of a wall, meeting a perpendicular wall. If the location of the wall with the opening is then moved, followed by moving the wall it meets, the gap is created.

      This problem has been corrected

   2. Zoom Buttons in Fit Building to View Area Mode (Bug 3170)

      In Plan View, when Fit Building to Viewing Area is active, the zoom buttons on the toolbar were disabled, because the building no longer fits the viewing area when zoomed.

      However, this view option is the default, so it was often unclear why the zoom buttons were disabled. For this reason, the zoom buttons now remain enabled, and their use deactivates the Fit Building to Viewing Area setting.

      This behaviour is also adopted for the new feature of zooming and Fit Building… for Elevation view.