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When in Plan view and you close the input form, e.g. Opening Input, either by the exit button on the form window or by the Input Form icon in the toolbar, then go to another Plan view action, e.g. Roof Input, and return, the input form for the original action now re-appears. Previously it remained invisible and some users had difficulty making it reappear.
The program now displays three separate reports for detailed wind and seismic load generation and torsional analysis calculations, rather than all three in one report as before, and outputs three files with this information rather than one.
The toolbar button that previously showed the word log and is called Load Generation and Torsional Analysis Details has been replaced by three buttons, one which shows three single-ended arrows and is called Wind Load Generation Details, another showing three double-ended arrows and is called Seismic Load Generation Details, another which shows a semi-circular arrow and is called Torsional Analysis Details.
The button for the primary design results has been changed to convey the tabular nature of that output.
The File menu item Log File has been removed, and the following files are now accessed from menu items in the View menu.
Wind Load Generation Details
Seismic Load Generation Details
Torsional Analysis Details
The word View has been removed from Design Results View, for consistency with these menu items.
The file with extension .log file has been replaced by three files with extensions .sws, .sww, and .tor.
Previously, the combined file was output when loads were generated, then appended to after Design button was pressed when the torsional analysis is performed. If loads were then regenerated, the torsional analysis results were lost. Other synchronization problems occasionally occurred.
Now, the Load Generation Details files are output when loads are generated and Torsional Analysis Details when the design is performed, eliminating any interference between the two.
The titles and headers to the load generation and torsional analysis results have been redesigned to achieve a consistent format across all three intermediate output files, torsional analysis, wind load generation, and seismic load generation. In the subheadings giving the load generation procedures, Wind Load Generation and Seismic Load Generation have been set to all capitals to make them stand out.
The 14th and final step in the introductory Getting Started window has been modified to refer the Torsional Analysis Details, Wind Load Generation Details, and Detailed Shearwall Design output reports rather than the log file.
Starting with version 11.1, a crash occurred if the exterior sheathing material of the wall was changed after loads were generated. Sometimes it happened immediately, other times after other program operations were performed. This has been corrected.
If a project is run such that torsional analysis is required, then the inputs are changed such that it is not and run again, the program retained the Torsional Analysis Details from the previous run. If torsional analysis is not required because the Rigid analysis option is not selected and there are only seismic loads on the structure, the torsional analysis report no longer appears.
The following link has been added to the Help menu for a user to navigate to a video tutorial from within the program. (http://cwc.ca/woodworks-software/support-and-training/tutorials/).
If the hold-down database was empty or corrupted, a crash occurred on program start-up. The program now re-installs the original database if it encounters a corrupt or empty one. It was possible to avoid the crash by deleting the corrupted hold-down database file.
Occasionally, when a shearline in a structure had a no full-height-sheathing segments, the program would crash upon entry to Elevation view.
After running design, thee Design Results are now shown in the last selected view style, Wide View or Preview. Previously it returned to Preview each time. The program still defaults to Preview on the first design run.
The instructional steps that appear when the program is run or "Getting started" is invoked from the toolbar have been revised, clarified and updated. Some of the more significant changes are:
A "Step 0" has been added suggesting setting defaults for building elements, and the subsequent steps indicate how those defaults are used to create the structure.
Explanations of the ability to change the location and size of walls via the wall input form, the selection of Standard Walls, designing for unknowns, and designing as a group have been added.
A Step 7 has been created for editing hold-down device information, by moving instructions from other steps.
An instruction to set the Wind Load Generation Procedure has been added, and the procedure of creating seismic loads in stages with self-weights on each level explained more clearly.
The need to add dead loads to counteract overturning, and wind uplift loads, has been emphasized. An explanation of changing building masses and returning to regenerate loads has been added, as has the case of not generating loads and adding loads to check a single shearline. The unusual case of modifying generated loads has been removed.
Several design settings have been added to the recommendation to set the Rigidity and Deflection options before designing. The mention of design processing time has been removed, as it is no longer a major issue.
A Step 15 has been added for the Accept Design feature.
The step formerly called "Log File Output" has changed to View Detailed Results, and lists the separate buttons and associated files for wind load generation, seismic load generation, and torsional analysis, that used to be in one file
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 viewing Design Results and/or the Design Results column in the Options settings.
The inclusion of the Hold-down Design table and Collector Forces (formerly Drag Strut Forces) table in the Design Results output is now controlled by separate items in the Show menu and in the Options settings. Previously they were both controlled by a single item in the Loads and Forces settings.
The words and Serviceability Deflection have been added to the story drift items for wind design, as these tables are included or excluded together.
In the Loads and Forces settings, the check boxes labelled Southwest, Northeast, Southeast, Northwest have been changed to show Wind from Southwest, etc.
In the Show menu, under Forces, Dragstruts has been changed to Drag Struts.
The following changes were made to the text in messages:
The warning message about opening input being rounded to the nearest snap increment, identified the input by long phrase that did not make sense in the context of the warning. It has now been abbreviated to briefly identify the input, e.g. Offset from edge.
Square brackets around the input value have also been removed.
The warning message when Loads and Forces view for the first time had misaligned bullet points. This has been corrected.
A message that appeared on wind load generation explaining that the program uses side panel coefficients on the hip ends has been removed, as it appeared out of context. Previously it appeared as part of a warning that the building does not conform to the ASCE 7 model, but that part was removed, leaving an unnecessary message.
In the warning message that appears when a greater value of Response modification factor R and Deflection amplification factor Cd are input in the Load Generation Site Information for a direction having non-wood-panel shear walls, mistakenly structural wood panels is output instead of non-wood panels and this has been corrected.