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Accept Design (Feature 153)

The other WoodWorks programs, Connections and Sizer, allow you to transfer the design results from a successful design back to the input fields, replacing unknown values on those fields. This allows you to experiment with and tweak your design, for example to use fewer different types of materials at the expense of optimal strength in some areas.

This ability has now been added to the Shearwalls– you can transfer the design results for all walls in the structure from one of the four design cases – combinations of Rigid or Flexible Diaphragm, and Wind or Seismic.

Design Case Menu

A sub-menu now appears in the Action menu called Accept Design. When dropped down, it gives the choice of the four design cases for which to accept design.

If one of the Design Cases is selected in the Accept Design Menu, loads from that design case is shown on the screen. However, this is not reciprocal, if you select another design case via the Show menu, the Accept Design case does not change. In this way, you can always check the design case that was used to accept the design.

Accept Design Command

The Accept Design command is invoked either from the Accept Design submenu, or via a button at the far right of the main program toolbar.

Re-running Design

When you rerun design after Accepting design, the program may fail for other design cases than the one accepted, because the unknown values have been replaced by ones strong enough for that design case but not for others. If that is the case, you can reset some parameters to unknown, then re-run design and then select the critical case for “Accept Design”. After a few iterations of this procedure, you can achieve a design that satisfies all design cases .

Non-Shearwalls

Non-shearwalls are updated only if they were designed for C&C wind loading.

See Also

Design and Load Distribution Processing Time

Multiple Extend Upwards (Feature 193)

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