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The program now asks you whether all patternable loads (live and snow) on a member that is transferred from concept mode to beam mode should be patterned, and if the answer is “yes” it patterns them. If you agree to pattern the loads, it means that the design in beam mode will no longer be identical to that from Concept Mode.
Starting with version 9 of the program, when a stud wall is created in Concept Mode and then the stud transferred into Column Mode, the default wall stud loading surface for lateral forces was the depth d and not width b. This has been changed back to using the width b, which is how almost all walls are loaded.
While in Concept Mode, when switching between Metric and Imperial units, the program behaviour was inconsistent and unpredictable. Sometimes the grid co-ordinates for the new unit system would appear on the screen, but the previous unit system would still be in the Format settings when you returned to them. At other times, the co-ordinates for the new unit system would not appear on the screen. This has been corrected and the new unit system immediately appears, and is in the Format settings when you return to them.
Note that other Format settings that affect Concept Mode, like Diagram Font Size, also exhibited this behaviour.
When working in imperial units, a fractional value that equals 1/640 the metric value of the joist spacing appeared as a default in the Concept Mode Group dialog instead of the correct joist spacing. That is, instead of 400, the value 5/8 appeared.
This value was used to design the joist area and to create loads for joist members exported to Beam Mode. This occurred even when the group dialog box was not opened.
If the unit system was changed, the metric value is converted to that fractional value, rather than the correct imperial joist spacing.
These problems have been corrected.