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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.
Shearwalls that have no shear a capacity because they are sheathed entirely with gypsum and Ignore gypsum setting is selected would show a non-zero length of full-height sheathing in the Shearline, Wall and Opening Dimensions table. Now the program shows a zero length in this case. The legend at the bottom has been modified to indicate that the FHS column refers to the full height sheathing available for shear resistance.
Because the Ignore gypsum setting is set separately for seismic and wind design, an extra column has been added to the table to show full-height sheathing length for wind and seismic separately.
For interior non-shearwalls, or for exterior non-shearwalls for seismic-only design, known material input was showing up as Unknown in the elevation view material output. Now, if material input is defined for an interior or seismic non-shearwall, then it shows up in the material information. If the inputs are left as unknown, they appear as unknown as there is no design for interior or seismic non-shearwalls.
Note that if shearlines are not restricted to All walls the same and there is more than one non-shearwall on a shearline only the material information for the southernmost or westernmost non-shearwall is shown.
In Elevation view, for a multi-story structure with an upper story overhanging the story below, the floor joist of the upper story did not extend below the overhanging upper story but only to the end of the story below. The overhanging portion of the upper story was therefore without a floor, and vertical elements supporting it had a gap between the top of the element and the supported portion of the building.
The program now draws the floor based on the length of the wall above. Now an end portion of a wall that has no wall above it will no longer show a floor area above it. Such a wall may or may not in reality have a floor area; it could support a sloped roof instead.
This is a display issue only that has no effect on load distribution or design.
When compression and tension hold-down forces are distributed downwards by a vertical element, these forces shown in Elevation view at the bottom of the element were drawn overlapping each other. Furthermore the arrowhead for compression hold-down force in these locations was often drawn within the joist depth rather than outside it as it is usually drawn. This problem has been corrected and the compression and tension forces are shown on either side of the bottom of the vertical element, with a compression arrow of the correct size.
In Elevation view, lower portions of the wall elevations often overlapped with the legend and materials specification. These problems were more noticeable in Selected Walls mode, and for deep joist depths
Starting with version 9, the design shear values in pounds per linear foot, vmax and V/FHS, appear in the shear results table as whole numbers. Previously they had 0.1 plf accuracy, which has been restored.