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Design and Load Distribution Processing Time

The time taken to design shearwalls and to distribute and draw loads and forces has been markedly improved, by a factor of at least twenty, so that delays that used to occur in the operation of the program have been reduced to manageable levels.

Slow Processing Time when Designing Complicated Structures (Bug 1837)

When a project had a combination of many shearlines, many exterior surfaces, many blocks, and multiple stories, the time taken to analyze and design the structure could be very slow, sometimes as much as 30-60 minutes. Such a structure now takes 1-2 minutes. Smaller, less complicated structures also design much faster, so that a building that used to take a few minutes to design now designs in a matter of seconds.

Slowdown in Updating the Drawing of Loads (Bug 2750)

Once loads had been generated, every time you went into Load Generation action or Loads and Forces action, the drawing of the building and loads in plan view would hang for many seconds, especially for complex buildings with a large number of loads. This also happened while you scrolled the view, selected walls, moved the window, edited loads, etc.

This has been corrected and the drawing of the loads has been accelerated by a factor ranging from a small amount to up to several thousand times, depending on the complexity of the building. The delay in drawing loads is now a fraction of a second and manageable.

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Multiple Extend Upwards (Feature 193)

Accept Design (Feature 153)

Log File in Viewer (Feature 153)

Log File Button (Change 120)

Getting Started Steps (Change 122)

Crash after Moving Opening then Entering One (Bug 2856)

Creation of Perpendicular Non-shearwalls (Bug 2880)

Location of Standard Walls File for Network Installations (Bug 2776)

Load Generation

See Also

Engineering Design

Worst-case Design

Import of Bitmap and PDF Versions of CAD Files (Feature 126)