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Important Note – These are descriptions to changes implemented in WoodWorks Shearwalls for version 10.3 and may not reflect current behavior.
The log file which provides load generation and rigid diaphragm analysis details has now been integrated into the program and appears in a window within the program framework. Previously the program invoked the Notepad program to show the log file results. The window is called Load Generation and Torsional Analysis Details. The menu and status bar descriptors have also been updated.
Starting with version 10, the "View Log File" action in Shearwalls was disabled until a design had been performed, not after load generation and not when opening an existing file. Thereafter, it, refreshed only upon running a design, not after load generation. In previous versions, the log file was updated and accessible after generating loads, even before performing a design. This functionality has been restored.
When opening an existing project, the log file is now always accessible and shows the results of the load generation from the last session. If no load generation has ever been performed in that file, the log file is still accessible, but shows nothing.
In implementing the highlighting of failed walls after design, after design the shearlines were deselected in order to show the failed walls if they happened to be selected. However, this caused you to have to re-select the shearlines after design to view them in elevation view, which some users found inconvenient.
Now, the shearlines remain selected after design, and a failed selected wall is shown as a darker red color than unselected failed walls.
In the following instances, walls were not highlighted in red if they failed one or more design checks. They have been corrected.
When you open a file and run an existing design, then enter wall input view for the first time, the failing walls are no longer highlighted. If you then redesigned they would appear in red.
Walls designed for the rigid distribution method which passed on the last design iteration, but then did not pass when forces are redistributed for the final design check, were not showing in red.
Occasionally, after moving openings on upper level stories, then creating a new opening on the same wall, the program would crash. This has been corrected.
Starting with version 10.2, if you designed, then selected two walls at once and changed the standard wall for those walls, the program would crash on the next design. This has been corrected.
Starting with version 10.2, if walls are segmented then merged again, the program crashes when generating loads. This has been corrected.
After one segment of an exterior non-shearwall is perpendicular to the wall to create two perpendicular joining segments, those segments are designated shearwalls rather than non-shearwalls. They otherwise had the same materials as the non-shearwalls. This has been corrected and they remain non-shearwalls.
With the introduction of standard wall design groups with version 10.2, this caused members of the same wall group to have different types. However, this did not cause design difficulties.
Internal memory could become corrupted for 6-storey structures. If this happened, the program would behave unpredictably and possibly crash upon load generation. This has been corrected.
The references to Windows Metafile in informational messages and other UI locations have been changed to refer to image files or to the list of supported image file types, as these types were introduced with version 10.