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Concept mode crashes on design or export of member if you try to access a member from a database file that has been disabled in Database Editor. Previous to version 8, the program would design for an inactive database as long as it found the database file on the computer, regardless of whether it was disabled. If it was not found it would issue a warning on both the screen and in the output. The program now shows a warning message informing you that materials are no longer available when opening file, running design, or exporting to beam/column mode, and halts design or export. The message instructs you to re-activate the materials in database editor or change the materials in the groups dialog. The message shows the list of groups that are missing their materials and shows the materials names and file names that are missing.
In Concept mode, if designing for a material that hat has a species that had been turned off in Database Editor occurring in the species list before the selected species, a crash occurred on design. This has been corrected.
The following problems affecting the operation of the snap increment input in the View tab of the Settings have been corrected:
The units for the snap increment have been changed from feet or metres to inches or mm, so that you do not have to enter e.g. 0.33333 for 4". The input form now shows the units being entered (in or mm) whereas previously it just showed the number.
When changing from metric to imperial, the program used the same numeric snap increment without converting it. It now converts to a round number in the other unit system.
Occasionally, the snap increment was set to zero rather than updating when re-entering the settings, and a strange message about web openings appeared when you tried to exit the box. This has been corrected.
The snap increments were not being written to the initialization file as defaults for new projects. This has been corrected.
The following problems affecting the operation of the snap increment input in the View tab of the Settings have been corrected:
The input form now shows the units being entered for the view limits, ft or m.
The conversion between metric and imperial units was inconsistent, sometimes converting between the unit systems and sometimes just displaying the same numeric value in the new unit system. This has been corrected and the program converts between unit systems at all times.
The saving of the view limits to the initialization file was inconsistent, sometimes allowing you to save the default for new files and sometimes not. This has been corrected
The view options for Concept Mode were not in the initialization file provided with our installations, and have been added. This has no effect on program operation because the default values are also in the program itself; it is just a maintenance issue.
When updating a gridpoint elevation in Concept Mode, the program requires a mouse click somewhere else, and if the click is made on the plan view, the program behaved erratically, often moving some elements to a new gridline it creates .It was not possible to undo this change. This happened most often when "Cancel" is pressed when asking to confirm elevation change. These problems have been eliminated from the program.
Occasionally, and even on very simple structures with no grid point elevations so all joists lie in the horizontal plane, when transferring a joist area to beam mode a message appeared saying there were out- of plane joists, and that a line load on the supporting beam could not be made from the area load on the joist. However, the joist area transferred successfully anyway. The problem has been corrected and the misleading message box no longer appears.