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It is now possible to select multiple walls on which to apply loads in the Add Load dialog. Once walls are selected using the Control Key or Select All command, upon entering the Add Load dialog,
Loads are then added on all selected walls, with the Magnitude From and To being the load magnitude at the start and end of each wall.
For multiple blocks, the program occasionally failed to update the roofs according to the input in the data group Construction in Roof Input View in the following ways:
If there is another block that a roof could join to, the Joined selection was sometimes disabled so the operation was impossible.
When roofs are joined in the N-S direction, the Gable and Hip selections sometimes had no effect and the roof remained joined when selected.
These have been corrected.
When the wall height is changed in Structure input, the program now adjusts the top of any openings to ensure that they remain within the confines of the wall and removes the openings that would have no height if this is done.
In Elevation view, non-full height segments, that is, those that do not meet aspect ratio limits in ASCE 7 Table 4.2.4, were not shown in grey out as they are for segmented walls. They are now greyed out, because such segments do not contribute to shear resistance and are not included in the summations of segment lengths used for Co factor calculations (4.3.3.5), hold-down forces (4.3.6.1.3), and in-plane shear anchorage (4.3.6.4.1.1).
When the end of an opening on an upper storey is over the interior of an opening on the floor below, the drawing in Elevation view of the vertical element extending from the bottom of the upper floor joist to the top of the opening was no longer visible because it was obscured by the gray shading over non-full-height sheathing segments that was introduced with version 11.
This has been corrected.
Dimensions for walls, wall segments and openings were being rounded to the closest 1/16th of an inch in Elevation view when the Decimal format for Imperial output was chosen in the Format Settings, e.g. a length of 12.08 feet was rounded to 12.063 feet. The true dimension as input is now shown.
For a one-story structure, the Levels indicator is shown in the Extend to field. Now it is shown in the Current level and the Extend to field is invisible in this case.
The following changes have been made pertaining the symbols that appear in Plan View in the Load Generation and Loads and Forces actions showing the Center of Load and Center of Rigidity for Torsional Analysis
The show menu items for center of load and center of rigidity were always disabled in Loads and Forces view, only becoming active in Load Generation view. This has been corrected and they are active in both views.
When there are no loads in a direction, such as for low-rise wind load Case A, the program showed the Center of Load in the direction without loads at the zero location, making it difficult to notice. In this case, it has now been moved to where the Center of Rigidity is located.
When the center of loads and center of rigidity are in the same place or close to it, the symbols CL and CR now longer overlap.
When a wall is selected in Plan view and turns orange, the other walls on the shearline turn a darker colour of orange (or brown). Previously they were purple.
The word Direction indicating the ASCE 7 load generation method in the Plan View legend has been changed to Directional in accordance with ASCE 7 Chapter 27 nomenclature.
For narrow Elevation view windows, and when the hold-down and/or drag strut Design Setting is set to Shearwall capacity, the Legend heading Factored Forces overlapped with perforated wall aspect ratio information shown under the walls.