Output

1. Print to Fit on One Page Font Size (Bug 3459)

   If Print to fit on one page in the Format settings is checked the program sometimes print with a font size less than what can fit on a page, e.g. it used a font size 4 although a font size of 5 fits when the checkbox is not selected, and it is only with a font size of 6 that the design report was printed in two pages.

   This has been corrected and the program now prints with the optimal font size when printing just one page.

2. Fire Design Output (Change 30 and 76)

   The following changes have been made to the output of fire design information

   1. Fire Design Section (Change 30, 76 and 103)

      The Fire sub-section under Calculations in the Design Check output report has been reorganized and changed as follows:

      • The residual section has been reformatted as follows, e.g.: Residual section = 0.70x5.70 in is now Residual section = 0.70" x 5.70"
      • Fire Protection (gypsum) is changed to Protection
      • Fire design Adjustment factor is changed to Adjustment factor
      • Required resistance duration has been moved to this section. Previously it was in the materials specification section of the report.
      • Char rate is now Char depth
   2. Fire Information in the Materials Specification (Change 103d)

      The required fire duration input in Beam view has been moved to the Calculations section from the specification of member materials, as it is not a property of the beam itself. To indicate that this line is about fire design, the word fire has now been incorporated into the number exposed sides and removed from Fire protection.

   3. Number of Exposed Sides (Change 87)

      The program was displaying nonsensical values in the material specification of the Design Check output for the number of fire-exposed sides when the IBC 722.63 fire design method was selected. This method has been removed from the program.

3. Member Description in Design Check Output (Changes 77, 78 and 103)
   1. Formatting and Wording

      The member description in the Design Check has been changed as follows

      • Beam and stringer is now Beam or stringer
      • Post and timber is now Post or timber
      • Service: wet is changed to Wet service
      • The line Chemicals: [fire-retardant, preservative] is now after Wet service
      • For glulam, maximum lamination width changed to max lam width and moved from its own line to the end of the line starting with the beam length.
      • The word volume has been capitalized for consistency
      • Spaces added before Pitch, before mm in max lam width and before the equal sign in top= and bottom=
   2. Lateral Support Spacing

      The lateral support spacing output higher than that input by about 5-10%, for both metric and imperial formatting. This has been corrected.

      For metric output, the spacing is now shown in whole millimeters rather than 2-digit accuracy.

4. Additional Design Data for Column Supporting Member Design (Change 13a)

   For bearing design of column supporting members, in the Design Check under Load Combinations, the reaction R, bearing capacity Cap bearing length Lb and bearing factor Kb have been moved to the Calculations section. R is renamed Reaction and Cap Capacity.

5. Bearing Table Note for Cantilevered Members (Change 66)

   For cantilevered members in beam mode, Sizer was often mistakenly showing a note regarding maximum reactions being from a critical load combination other then the one used for bearing design, and under Critical load combinations in the Additional Data, it was showing a 0 for the load combination number for bearing at some supports, rather than the critical LC number.

   The correct load combinations were used for design, so this was a display issue only and has been corrected.

6. Irrelevant C_fu and C_V Values in Factors Table (Change 95)

   In the Factors table of the additional data, the program now outputs a dash (-) rather than 1.00 for the flat use factor C_fu for strong axis bending F_b and for the volume factor C_V for weak axis bending F_by as these factors are not relevant to the design in these directions. Numeric values are output for C_fu for F_by and C_V for F_b.

7. Char Rate Units in Output (Change 31)

   The char rate for fire design in the Calculations section of the Design Check was output in Imperial units, i.e. in/hr even if Metric units were selected. Now mm/hr is output for metric units.

8. Explanatory Deflection Line in Output (Change 27)

   A line regarding deflection in Additional Data has been re-worded. "Live" deflection = Deflection from all non-dead loads (live, wind, snow) now appears as "Live" deflection is due to all non-dead loads (live, wind, snow).

9. Name of Bearing and Reaction Table for I-joists (Change 36)

   For I-joists, the table that for other materials was called Maximum Reactions, Bearing Resistances, and Bearing Lengths was called just Maximum Reactions, because previously it contained only reactions. Now, as it also has support bearing design, it is called Maximum Reactions and Support Bearing.

10. Custom Design Notes in Design Summary and ASCII Design Check (Bug 3280)

    Custom design notes entered in the Design Notes settings only appeared in the Enhanced (graphical) Design Check, and not in the Design Summary for unknown section nor in the ASCII version of the Design Check. This has been corrected.

11. Small Formatting Changes
    1. Blank Space after F/E (Change 32)

       A blank space was introduced after F/E(psi) or F/E(MPa) in the Factors Table under Additional Data in the Design Check.

    2. Blank Spaces in Critical Load Combinations (Change 29)

       Extra blank spaces after V max, V design and M appearing under Critical Load Combinations in the Design Check output have been removed.

    3. Column Support Bearing (Change 100)

       The Support Bearing line of the Analysis vs. Allowable Stress and Deflection table now says Support Bearin as the g interfered with the column separator line.