Accept Design (Feature 153)

Important Note – These are descriptions to changes implemented in WoodWorks Shearwalls for version 10.0 and may not reflect current behavior.

The other WoodWorks programs, Connections and Sizer, allow you to transfer the design results from a successful design back to the input fields, replacing unknown values on those fields. This allows you to experiment with and tweak your design, for example to use fewer different types of materials at the expense of optimal strength in some areas.

This ability has been added to the Shearwalls program – you can transfer the design results for all walls in the structure from one of the four design cases – combinations of Rigid or Flexible Diaphragm, and Wind or Seismic.

1. Design Case Menu

   A sub-menu now appears in the Action menu called Accept Design. When dropped down, it gives the choice of the four design cases for which to accept design.

   If one of the Design Cases is selected in the Accept Design Menu, loads from that design case is shown on the screen. However, this is not reciprocal, if you select another design case via the Show menu, the Accept Design case does not change. In this way, you can always check the design case that was used to accept the design.

2. Accept Design Command

   The Accept Design command is invoked either from the Accept Design submenu, or via a button at the far right of the main program toolbar.

3. Re-running Design

   When you rerun design after Accepting design, the program may fail for other design cases than the one accepted, because the unknown values have been replaced by ones strong enough for that design case but not for others. If that is the case, you can reset some parameters to unknown, then re-run design and then select the critical case for “Accept Design”. After a few iterations of this procedure, you can achieve a design that satisfies all design cases .

4. Non-Shearwalls

   Non-shearwalls are updated only if they were designed for C&C wind loading.