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Important Note – These are descriptions to changes implemented in WoodWorks Shearwalls for version 10.2 and may not reflect current behavior.
The time taken to design shear walls and to distribute and draw loads and forces has been markedly improved, by a factor of at least twenty, so that delays that used to occur in the operation of the program have been reduced to manageable levels.
When a project had a combination of many shearlines, many exterior surfaces, many blocks, and multiple stories, the time taken to analyze and design the structure could be very slow, sometimes as much as 5-10 minutes. Such a structure now takes 10-20 seconds. Smaller, less complicated structures also design much faster, so that a building that used to take 30 seconds to design now designs virtually instantaneously
Once loads had been generated, every time you went into Load Generation action or Loads and Forces action, the drawing of the building and loads in plan view would hang for many seconds, especially for complex buildings with a large number of loads. This also happened while you scrolled the view, selected walls, moved the window, edited loads, etc.
This has been corrected and the drawing of the loads has been accelerated by a factor ranging from a small amount to up to several thousand times, depending on the complexity of the building. The delay in drawing loads is now a fraction of a second and manageable.