Program Operation

Important Note – These are descriptions to changes implemented in WoodWorks Shearwalls for version 10.4 and may not reflect current behavior.

1. Standard Wall Name Persistence when not Designing as Group (Bug 3026)

   Sometimes, after selecting a standard wall that is not designed as a group, the standard wall name goes blank in the input field rather than showing the selected standard wall.

   This happened most often when multiple walls were selected and has been corrected.

2. OSB Checkbox for Both Sides the Same (Bug 3024)

   When Both sides the same was checked and the OSB checkbox checked, the OSB material was not recorded for the interior side of the wall. This has the following effects

   • The program might not identify the wall as being part of a standard wall group
   • The program might not include the wall in the design groups of designed walls with the same materials
   • When unchecking the Both sides the same button, the OSB will not necessarily be checked on the interior surface

   The design of the wall was not affected; it designed both sides of the wall with the OSB choice shown on the screen.

3. Crash After Deleting Additional Roof Block (Bug 2947)

   After additional blocks are created for roofs only, with no attached walls, and wind loads were generated on these blocks, then one of these blocks is deleted, the program would sometimes crash the next time you tried to save the file, re-generate loads, or run design. This has been corrected.

4. Relative Rigidity in Wall Input View after Accept Design (Bug 2909)

   After pressing the Accept Design button the relative rigidity in the Wall Input view was showing 1.0 instead of the rigidity from the accepted design wall.

   This is just a display issue and the correct rigidity was used in design. It has been corrected.

5. Accept Design for Existing Files (Bug 2903)

   For saved project files, the Accept Design button was defaulting to accept flexible wind design, instead of the currently selected load case and distribution method. If there were no wind loads the Accept Design button had no effect. This has been corrected.

6. Ctrl-C Operation (Bug 2964)

   Previously pressing Ctrl-C caused a file close, when the standard operation that users expect is to copy selected text in an edit control, leading to significant frustration. This has been corrected and Ctrl-C now copies text and there is no shortcut for closing a project file.

7. Program Version for Saved Files (Change 173)

   The program now records the version of the program used to save a project file and shows it in the About Shearwalls box when the file is opened. This feature is primarily used internally at WoodWorks for diagnostics.