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Important Note – These are descriptions to changes implemented in version 10 and may not reflect current program behaviour.
When wall stud spacing is typed in rather than entered, or the delete or backspace key is used, the numbers appearing are not those typed in an erratic and unpredictable fashion. This has been corrected.
The feature introduced in version 9.0 uncheck pattern loading for roof joists with a slope greater than 15 degrees, as per NBC 4.1.6.3, was not working in all circumstances. This has been corrected.
The selection of Fire resistance rating in the Design Settings had no effect. It was supposed to set the value in Beam View for new files to the value chosen in the Design Settings, but this does not happen. This has been corrected for the renamed Default Required Duration setting
The Fire resistance rating in the Design settings which enables fire design has been removed from the program because as it was not evident to users and the No of sides exposed in Beam view can be used for this purpose.
In Beam Input view, if live or total deflection limits were changed and then certain other inputs were changed, the deflection limits are reset to their previous values. This happened all the time when the Treatment is changed and sometimes for other inputs like Species.
Lateral Support Spacing for KeL has changed to Lateral support spacing, as these inputs are also used for lateral stability calculations. (The upper-case S’s were removed for consistency with all other inputs.)
As the End conditions are not only used for lateral support, but also affect how the beam is analysed, these inputs are placed outside the Lateral support box.
For column lateral support input, the term unbraced has changed to at ends, for consistency with at supports for beams and because the column is in fact braced at the ends.
For beam lateral support, full has changed to continuous, for consistency with columns and because full could be interpreted as no support for the full length of the beam.
When the built-up lumber column database file was disabled in Database Editor, the program would crash upon design of an oblique angle glulam beam or a glulam column loaded on the d-face. The built-up column database is required for Sizer’s implementation of glulam design according to CSA O86 7.5.3, which specifies that glulam loaded parallel to the laminations be designed as a built-up beam.
A message is now displayed that design is not possible because of the missing column database file.
When the unit system is changed from metric to Imperial in the Format Settings the joist or stud spacing no longer showed the even value of 16, 24, etc., but a fractional value close to it, for example 11-13/16, 15-3/4, or 23-5/8.
This happened when the fractional feet/inches formatting option is selected when in beam view, or for any option in column view, and has been corrected.
The word Moving has been removed from Add moving concentrated live load in load input view and anywhere else it appears in the program. NBC 4.1.5.9 does not refer to these loads as "moving", only "concentrated", and the term "moving" loads ordinarily refers to vehicular loads on bridges, trestles etc., not concentrated occupancy loads examined at different locations on a member.
The toolbar button that used to say View Diagrams in the tooltip now says Analysis Diagrams instead.
In the list of imperial formatting choices in the Format settings, the examples were prefaced by "eg." rather than "e.g.", the correct spelling, which is now used.