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Refer also to the changes listed under Version 11.2,
The program user interface has been changed to have a more up-to-date look and feel. Consequently:
Editable drop-down boxes now have a different appearance than for those you can only select a value, so the asterisks appearing before these boxes and the corresponding notes at the bottom of Beam and Column View have been removed.
For Sizer 11, the program reverted to an old-fashioned style of standard Windows File Open and File Save as dialog boxes that had not been in use since Sizer 9.x. The more modern boxes that were used in Sizer 10 have been restored.
A new menu item Open Autosaved File menu has been added under File menu to provide direct access to auto-saved backup files BackupPre.wsw and BackupPost.wsw. Refer to the On-line Help for the use of these files. Explanatory status bar messages are displayed if you hover over the menu items.
An item Features and Changes has been added to the Help menu, which accesses this Change History document.
The following changes have been made to the display of drag strut forces in Elevation View
The symbol with a circle and arrow showing the drag strut force has been moved up to be just below the top of the wall. Previously the forces were shown at the top of openings. The drag strut forces are typically in the top plate of the wall, not the opening headers, and this change avoids conflict with the new force-transfer strap forces.
The direction of the force arrow now indicates whether the drag strut is in tension or compression at that point. Previously the arrows always pointed away from the opening or wall end.
An arrow in the direction of the shearline force is in tension, one contrary to the shearline force is in compression. An arrow in the same direction as the shearline force pointing into an opening segment is dragging the force over the opening into the full height segment. An arrow in the opposite direction pointing into an opening segment shows the full height segment resisting force
being pushed into it from over the opening.
The following change has been made to the output of drag strut forces in the Collector Forces table of the Design Results (formerly Drag Strut Forces)
The magnitude of the drag strut a force in compression is shown with a negative sign. The legend explains that positive numbers are in tension, negative ones in compression.
The following changes have been made to the Standard Walls that are included by default in Shearwalls
The wall stud species for all six standard walls has been changed to S-P-F from D.Fir-L, as spruce-pine-fir is more commonly used than Douglas Fir-Larch. .
The nail size for the three exterior standard walls has been changed to unknown from 8d. Because these walls have unknown sheathing thickness, a known nail size limits the sheathing sizes that can be selected, which is not desirable for a default wall.
Now, the default size for new openings is 3 feet with an offset of 2.5 feet from bottom of the wall, approximating the size for a window. Previously the default size for a new opening was 6.75 ft approximating the size for a door.
In Plan View legend for the CAD Import action shows segmented walls as diagonal rather than solid, as they appear that way in this view in order to reveal the CAD drawing. The legend item Aspect factor is no longer shown in this action as it is not relevant
The following changes have been made to the Display items in the Options Settings, and/or the corresponding items in the Show menu, which control program elements to display or output.
For the Show menu that appears while Elevation View and/or the Elevation View column in the Options Settings,
Checkboxes for Center of loads and Center of rigidity have been added under Elevation view in the Options Settings. Previously, they had only been in the Show menu
Aspect ratio has been moved to appear below Segment numbers.
The Nailing information used to mistakenly hide and show the legend. It has now been renamed Legend. Nailing information now is shown and hidden via the Sheathing information item.
An item has been added to show or hide the design shear force and combined capacity information, which previously were always shown. This allows the entire material specification \to be removed if all Show menu items are turned off.
For the Show menu that appears while viewing Design Results and/or the Design Results column in the Options settings, the word Story was misspelled as Storey for both wind and seismic story drift. This has been corrected.
The following changes have made to the Design Settings input
The ASCE reference in the Wind serviceability data group title has been changed from ASCE 7 CC.1.2 to ASCE 7 CC.2.2. CC.1.2 was the reference in ASCE 7-10. Also, the word limit is now capitalized.
The checkbox titled All shearwalls on shearline have identical materials and construction was moved into the Design procedures group box.
Brackets have been added to the text appearing underneath the Fabrication and In-service inputs in the Service conditions group box. The text e.g. <=19% and >19% is now changed to (<=19%) or (>19%).
The word calculation has been removed Perforated shearwall Co factor calculation.
A hyphen has been included in gypsum-based in the Design Setting for excluding walls sheathed entirely with these materials, and in warning messages that appear when wet service conditions are set for disallowed materials.
The following changes have been made to the Shear Results Table of the Design Results
For perforated walls, the definition of vmax in Legend to the Shear Results table has been changed to collector and in-plane anchorage force from collector shear force, because this force also applies to the to anchorages from the wall to the floor for both shear force ( SDPWS 4.3.6.4.1.1) and uplift (4.3.6.4.2.1). Shearwalls does not, however, specify these anchorages.
The explanation of FHS as "full height sheathing" as been moved from the definition of vmax to that of v, where it first appears.
The misspelling of the word criterion as criterior has been corrected.
The terminology Seismic Zone has been changed to Seismic Design Category in the small section under the Seismic Information table listing restrictions based on Seismic Design Category.
Consistent capitalization of Kzt and Kz, rearrange a bit.