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  1. Stud Spacing Input when Typed In (Bug 3313)

    When wall stud spacing is typed in rather than entered, or the delete or backspace key is used, the numbers appearing are not those typed in an erratic and unpredictable fashion. This has been corrected.

  2. Beam View Bearing Length

    The following problems affecting the operation beam view bearing length input in conjunction with the minimum bearing length design setting have been corrected:

    1. Default Minimum Bearing Length after Change in Unit System (Bug 3343)

      The program sometimes opened with the minimum bearing length for both interior and end supports set to an unreasonably high value.

      This happened if you had switched unit systems then accessed the Default setting pages when Save as Default was set, which it is by default.

      It could also happen when a member was imported from Concept mode with different units than the beam file.

    2. Bearing Length Update on Change of Member Type (Change 1, 1b)

      For floor or roof panels, when the default minimum bearing length is changed in the Default settings to a value greater than the bearing length in Beam view, the program, updated the minimum bearing length in beam view to 1.5" and 3" for exterior and interior supports, respectively, The warning message saying the input value had changed also displayed the incorrect value. The program now updates the bearing length input and the warning message as per default settings input.

    3. Bearing Length Update on Change of Member Type (Change 1a)

      Upon changing member type in beam mode, the program modified the bearing length as follows:

      If using millimetres, the internal bearing length value would be divided by 1000 as if it were converting to metres.

      If using inches, the bearing length would be divided by 12 as if converting to feet.

      This only happened when changing the member type to and from beam, joist and panel types not when changing type between floor and roof panels or joists.

      Sizer no longer modifies bearing length in this way when the member type is changed.

  3. Update of Deflection Limits (Bug 3126)

    In Beam Input view, if live or total deflection limits were changed and then certain other inputs were changed, the deflection limits are reset to their previous values. This happened all the time when the Treatment is changed and sometimes for other inputs like Species.

  4. Lateral Stability Built-up Member Width Default Setting (Bug 3263)

    The Built-up member width b for lateral stability calculation Design setting was not being saved as a default for new files when you specified to do so, so that the original default value of Single ply width was always applied to new projects unless changed after the file was created. This has been corrected.

  5. Addition of b and d Symbols to Width and Depth Input (Change 28)

    In Beam and Column views, the symbols b and d have been added to the Width and Depth inputs, so they are now Width (b) and Depth (d).

  6. Lateral Support Input

    The following changes have been made to the Lateral support spacing input in Beam view.

    1. Lateral Support Image and Text in Beam View Input (Changes 2a and 2b)

      The program now shows text below the image for lateral support indicating whether the interior supports are restrained, as the input for this is under Supports for Bearing and Notch Design and not immediately evident in this section of Beam view.

    2. Lateral Support Image in Beam View Input (Change 2b)

      The small image in the Beam view input showing lateral support has been changed. It now shows the lateral supports as pieces of strapping rather than red lines.

  7. Display of Wet Service Conditions for SCL Materials (Bug 3322)

    If Wet service was selected In Beam or Column views and then an SCL material was selected, the input became disabled but still showed Wet, and wet service appeared in the material specification of the in the Design Summary and Design Check; however wet service conditions are not allowed for SCL materials. This was a display issue only; the wet service factor was not applied to any calculation. It has been corrected.

  8. Link to Video Tutorials in Help Menu (Change 12)

    The following link has been added to the Help menu so that a user can navigate to a video tutorial from within the program. (http://cwc.ca/woodworks-software/support-and-training/canadian-tutorials/)

  9. Persistence of First Custom Design Note in Settings (Bug 3279)

    Starting with version 11.1 when the first of the notes in the Design Notes settings page was checked, the checked state was not registered and did not persist when the page is re-opened. As a result, the note did not appear in the Design Check summary, nor could you save it as a default note for new files. This has been corrected.

  10. Deflection Limit Title in Default Values (Change 37)

    In the Default Settings the column titles for Default deflection limits have been changed, e.g. Live is now Live=L/.

  11. Joist Spacing Unit Truncated (Change 28a)

    Metric units shown beside the Joist spacing input in Beam view were truncated, i.e. mr appeared instead of mm. This has been corrected.

  12. Logo Instructions in Company Settings (Bug 3374)

    The instructions regarding entering a logo in the Company settings input now say …enhanced Design Check output instead of …enhanced text output, as "text output" could refer to other output reports.

  13. Capitalization of Input Items

    The following changes were made to make capitalization of user interface items consistent with all other input.

    1. Unknown Bearing Length Input (Change 51)

      The Beam view input choices under For unknown bearing length… now capitalize only the first word in each option.

    2. Show Loads View in Pop-up Window Preference Setting (Change 50)

      In Settings, under Preferences the checkbox named Show Loads view in a pop-up window now reads Show Loads View in a pop-up window. The change is from the lower-case v to upper case V in View.

See Also

Sizer 11.2

Materials and Database

Engineering Design

Loads and Analysis

Graphics

Output