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Important Note – These are descriptions to changes implemented in WoodWorks Shearwalls for version 9.2 and may not reflect current behavior.
The following problems with the operation of the Standard Wall input were introduced with Version 8 of the program, unless otherwise noted:
When adding a new Standard Wall you could not save the new standard wall unless you had selected an existing standard wall as the basis for the new wall. If you had selected a standard wall as a basis, the material, species and grade fields are not initialized and must be edited in the Edit Standard Walls view before exiting the view. If this is not done then you would lose any standard walls that you had created in any session and Shearwalls reverts to using the original set of standard walls.
These problems have corrected.
Originally, when creating a new standard wall, the program would blank out all material input fields, forcing the user to choose each one in turn. After choosing one, it would only trigger the selection of another one if there was only one choice for that input.
This functionality became successively degraded with each release, and an increasing number of fields became either non-blank from the start, or become selected when another controlling field is selected. Other fields, however, remain blank, creating an inconsistent look and behaviour.
All fields now remain blank, if there is more than one choice, until you select each of them in turn.
In Wall Input view, the program did not always identify walls that are created identically to an existing standard wall as being that standard wall, because of inaccuracies concerning the stud thickness and depth. For example, this would occur when the width or depth were changed, than changed back to those for the original standard wall. This has been corrected.
Because the default standard wall selected in the Default Settings applies only to the walls created from the blocks when first entering Wall Input view, the name of the Standard Wall data group box has been changed to Standard wall for exterior footprint. A note has been placed in the box explaining that new interior walls depend on what is selected in Wall Input view.
The program used to revert to the Dead load type each time you added a new load. Now it uses the type of whatever load is selected in Wall Input View, which is the last load previously added. This allows you to enter multiple loads of the same type without resetting the load type on each one.
Note that the very first load you enter will now default to the type of the first generated load in the list, instead of Dead. If there are no generated loads, then Wind shear will be the type of the first load entered.
The following issues with the operation of the Display Legend item in the Options Settings have been corrected.
Control of Material Specification
Turning this option off also controlled the sheathing and framing materials as well as the legend in Elevation View, even though there are separate options the material specification. Now it controls only the legend.
A legend option has been added to control the display of the legend in Plan View.
The legend option no longer appears between the similar options sheathing and framing, it appears below them.
The values input into the Hold-down Settings box could lose precision when updating after the following operations
These problems have been corrected, and in general values appear to 1/10 of a millimetre and 1/1000 of an inch, however the program will show even millimetre amounts without the decimal, and will remove all but one trailing zero after the decimal place for inches. If more precise values are entered, they will be retained internally, but will be replaced by the rounded value if view is re-entered and another value is modified.
In metric units, the default bolt hole tolerance would sometimes appear as 0.0625 mm, that is 1/16th of a millimetre. It is meant to be the metric equivalent of 1/16” . This has been corrected.
In Design Settings, the default values of the Shearwalls Rigidity options were not being reset when the Include deflection analysis checkbox was reselected. Now, if you choose to do deflection analysis, Use shearwall deflection to calculate rigidity and Distribute forces to wall segments based on rigidity are automatically selected.
Shearwalls now has the version number in the name of the program that appears in the program title bar, and over icons that appear in the start menu. This enables you to quickly identify the version of the program you are running.
The Design Setting Wind load design standard has been changed to Wind load design procedure, as there is now only one standard, ASCE 7, and the choice is of procedures within that standard.
The spin controls beside the Building Level inputs in the Generate Loads input form went missing, so that you had to type in a value instead of scrolling to it. They have been restored.
The procedure to set up multiple users running the program from a network server has been streamlined, as follows:
Previously, you had to manually copy a version of the Shearwalls.ini file to all the client machines. The program now does this automatically.
It is still necessary to modify the Sizer.ini in the server to indicate it is a network version and give the location of the program on the server. A new step is required, to copy the files from the Program Data area of the server for All Users to the corresponding folder in the Program Files area of the server. In other words, the Shearwalls.ini file on the server will be found in one of the following locations
Windows 7 - C:\ProgramData\WoodWorks\CWC\Canada\8\
Windows XP - C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\WoodWorks\CWC\Canada\8\
After modification, it has to be copied (not only moved) to the following location, if the default installation was selected:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Woodworks\Cdn\Sizer\
The advantage of this approach is that the file has to be copied only once, and within one machine, rather than distributed to several machines.
With the introduction of new locations for database and setting files with Version 8, the network installation required you to modify the file Database.ini by indicating it was a network installation. This is no longer necessary.
The instructions in the Shearwalls Read Me file have been modified to explain the new procedure. In addition, the following corrections have been made: