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Important Note – These are descriptions to changes implemented in WoodWorks Shearwalls for version 11 and may not reflect current program behavior.
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
All segments which require an Aspect Ratio factor or adjustment given the current settings are now shown with a diagonal hash mark. This distinguishes them from perforated walls, which are double-diagonal.
A legend below at the bottom of the screen shows the markings for Segmented walls, Perforated walls, Non-shearwalls, and Aspect factor segments.
The program now shows the location of the center of loads and the center of rigidity of the structure, for both wind and seismic loading. These appear in Loads and Forces action when Rigid diaphragm forces are chosen for display. Two small dots with the symbols CL and CR appear.
You can turn on and off the display of these points using the Show menu.
The perpendicular distance between these points in each direction is the moment arm used for torsional analysis for rigid diaphragm distribution.
The program now indicates explicitly Plan View whether you are viewing seismic or wind loads, which wind load method and case, 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.
In the line in the legend previously starting with Loads shown [W, Qe]: it now shows, with the square brackets indicating separate scenarios:
Loads: [ Seismic (Qe), [ Directional Case [ 1,2 ] , Envelope, Minimum ] Wind (W), ] … [ ; Rigid, Flexible ] distribution ]
Within the ellipsis in the above, the program gives load combinations and seismic force modification equations as it previously did.
Where it previously said Unfactored generated shear load, the program now says
Unfactored generated [ wind, seismic ] shear load [ using [ Directional method Case [ 1, 2 ], Envelope method, Minimum loads ] ]
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.
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.
The line in the plan view legend explaining the red color for failed walls now indicates that it is a "Capacity" failure, to clarify that other types of failures that can occur are not highlighted