The following problems with the operation of the Standard Wall input were introduced with Version 8 of the program, unless otherwise noted:

Saving Newly Added Standard Walls (Bug 2365– Version 8.1)

When adding a new Standard Wall you could not save the new standard wall unless you had selected an existing standard wall as the basis for the new wall. If you had selected a standard wall as a basis, the material, species and grade fields are not initialized and must be edited in the Edit Standard Walls view before exiting the view. If this is not done then you would lose any standard walls that you had created in any session and Shearwalls reverts to using the original set of standard walls.

These problems have corrected.

Non-blank Fields when Adding New Standard Wall (Bug 2367– Version 8.1)

Originally, when creating a new standard wall, the program would blank out all material input fields, forcing the user to choose each one in turn. After choosing one, it would only trigger the selection of another one if there was only one choice for that input.

This functionality became successively degraded with each release, and an increasing number of fields became either non-blank from the start, or become selected when another controlling field is selected. Other fields, however, remain blank, creating an inconsistent look and behaviour.

All fields now remain blank, if there is more than one choice, until you select each of them in turn.

Standard Wall Identification (Bug 2418)

In Wall Input view, the program did not always identify walls that are created identically to an existing standard wall as being that standard wall, because of inaccuracies concerning the stud thickness and depth. For example, this would occur when the width or depth were changed, than changed back to those for the original standard wall. This has been corrected.

Standard Wall Default Setting (Feature 139)

Because the default standard wall selected in the Default Settings applies only to the walls created from the blocks when first entering Wall Input view, the name of the Standard Wall data group box has been changed to Standard wall for exterior footprint. A note has been placed in the box explaining that new interior walls depend on what is selected in Wall Input view.