Release notes: Tekla Structural Designer 2022 SP2

Tekla Structural Designer
2022
Tekla Structural Designer

Release notes: Tekla Structural Designer 2022 SP2

This release will update your Tekla Structural Designer installation to version number 22.2.0.106 and should be installed to ensure optimum function of the program. It includes a number of new features, enhancements and issue resolutions as detailed below.

If you are upgrading from a version earlier than the immediately prior release 2022 SP1 (version 22.1.0.91 released May 2022), you can find details of requirements, enhancements and fixes for all previous releases in Tekla User Assistance (TUA) and Tekla Downloads via the links below:

Licensing & Installation

Licensing:

  • No new license is required for this version.

  • Client License Service Version - if it is not already, the latest Tekla Structural License Service should be installed with this release on clients.

    • Note that when installing this on a client, only the Client License Manager option needs to be installed.

License Server Version - for Sentinel RMS Server licensing, the latest version of the Tekla Structural License Service (incorporating Sentinel RMS 9.7) must be installed on your license server to be compatible with this release. Licensing will not function correctly if this is not the case. For more on this requirement please see the TUA article Tekla Structural Design Release 2021 and later using Sentinel RMS Server Licensing - the License Server must be updated.

Installation:

  • This service pack requires Tekla Structural Designer 2022 first release (version 22.0.0.49) or later to be installed and will update your current version.
  • Integration
  • Tekla Structures - if you wish to integrate with Tekla Structures you should install both this release and Tekla Structures 2022 for optimum performance.
    • Note that there have been significant improvements to integration - especially for rebar - in the 2021 release of Tekla Structures. For more information about this please see the Tekla Structures Help Topic Tekla Structural Designer Import and Export.

  • Tekla Tedds - to use Design using Tekla Tedds with this release, you must install Tekla Tedds 2022 AND ensure you have installed the latest Service Pack for this version and the July 2022 Engineering Library Update. This can be obtained from Tekla Downloads.

  • Tekla Portal Frame and Connection Designer 22 - if you wish to integrate this release with Tekla Portal Frame Designer/ Tekla Connection Designer - or use these products on their own - you should install Service Pack 2 for Tekla Portal Frame Designer 22/ Tekla Connection Designer 22. For more information about this release see their Release notes. The installation for this can be obtained from Tekla Downloads.

  • Autodesk Revit© - the Tekla Structural Designer Integrator for Autodesk Revit© 2022 (version 8.0) was released in June 2021. For more information about this see the Tekla Structural Designer Integrator June 2021 updates page. The installation for this is available in Tekla Downloads. If you are using Autodesk Revit© 2022, you can install this to perform BIM integration with Tekla Structural Designer.

    • Fixes and enhancements included in the Integrator for Revit© 2022 were also included in updates for the Integrators specific to the other currently supported Revit© versions which are 2019 (update version 5.04), 2020 (update version 6.03) and 2021 (update version 7.02). For more information see the Tekla Structural Designer Integrator June 2021 updates page. If you are performing BIM integration with any of these Revit© versions, we recommend you update to the latest version of the associated Integrator.

  • Previous Versions and file compatibility - files from all previous versions can be opened in this release, however note that, once saved, they cannot then be opened in a previous release. If you wish to retain this option we therefore recommend using the File > Save As… option to save a copy of the file in the previous release and retain the original.

Issues with associated bulletins

  • [TSD-11535] - Foundations - Column and Wall bases - incorrect design forces for eccentric bases - All Regional Codes

    Where the foundation is eccentric to the supported member and for full and partial contact in uniaxial bending at Ultimate Limit States, incorrect design values can be calculated for bottom bending moment, beam (one-way) shear and punching (two-way) shear, producing a potentially unconservative design. For more information please see Product Bulletin PBTSD-2206-1.

    • This issue is fixed in this release.

  • [TSD-12128] - Seismic Analysis & Design - US Regional Code - incorrect amplification of accidental torsion

    For ASCE7 Seismic Loading code (all years). In the following specific circumstances the required accidental torsion amplification factor was incorrect or not applied: Plan irregularities 1a or 1b enabled in the Seismic Wizard (which requires the RSA Analysis procedure); SDC of C or above; a construction level set in the Seismic Wizard for “Ignore seismic in floor (and below)” with a level value <> 0.0 (ft/ m); Seismic Loading deflections requiring amplification of accidental torsion. Note that the issue did not occur when “Ignore seismic in floor (and below)” was set = none (the default). For more information please see Product Bulletin PBTSD-2207-1

    • This issue is fixed in this release.

General & Modeling

  • A number of additional fixes which are not detailed explicitly here are also made to improve general performance and stability. An example of such an issue is given directly below.
    • [TSD-11762] - Program error when adding slabs by multi-selecting bays

      Previously when adding slabs by multi-selecting bays (windowing over them), if there were invalid bays a program exception (handled error allowing file reversion) would occur. For this circumstance the create slab operation has been enhanced to highlight this issue by displaying the operation info ribbon in a red color. The info bar also provides details about the suspected location of the issue(s) and how to continue.

  • [TSD-11849] - Embodied Carbon Factors - Updated to IStructE Guide 2nd Edition

    Default Embodied Carbon Factors included in the settings sets have been updated to values in the 2nd edition of the IStructE guide “How To Calculate Embodied Carbon”.

    • Existing Installations - for an existing installation, your current settings sets (from the latest currently installed version) will be copied to this release. If you have defined your own ECFs in these sets, these are available as before.

    • If you haven't defined your own ECFs in these sets, but want to replace the old default definitions in your sets with the updated ones you can do so as follows:

      • Step 1 - import a new settings set for your preferred country into global settings, set it to be Active, OK this then create a new model - this will contain the updated ECF definitions.

      • Step 2 - open Home > Settings and select an existing set (for which you want to replace the old ECF definitions), and set it to be Active.

      • Step 3 - open the ECF dialog and click the [Save…] button, this will replace the old ECF definitions in the existing set with the updated ones.

  • [TSD-0074] - New warning when opening model that exceeds the current license limits

    When Tekla Structural Designer is run using an “LT” license (included with the Tekla Tedds subscription license), it is possible to open a model that exceeds the limit for the LT configuration (for more about this see Tekla Structural Designer configurations). In this release to assist the user with this circumstance, a new message bar is added to warn when the model size has exceeded the license limits, as shown in the picture below. Note that, if you have access to a Full license, you can always opt to run Tekla Structural Designer using this as described in this article How can I select the Online License I want to use for Tedds or Tekla Structural Designer?
  • The message bar appears in the following circumstances:

    • On opening an existing model that already exceeds the limits

    • When adding members into an existing model so that the limits are exceeded

  • The message bar stays on screen (and all Design commands are also grayed out) until the model size is reduced to fit within the license limits. A cursor tooltip is also provided to inform the user of the current model size compared to the limits, as shown below.
  • While the limit is exceeded, if you attempt to analyze or save the model a dialog is displayed to inform that this is not allowed.
  • [TSD-11563] - Unit Setting - new sorting by Quantity

    The appearance of many settings pages has been changed (modernized), - whilst doing so, sorting of the Quantity type in the Units Settings table has been enabled (applies to both Model Settings and Global Settings) as shown in the picture below.
  • [TSD-11940] - Show/ Alter State - Splices enabled for other materials

    In the Review View, the functionality of Show Alter State > Column Splices command has been enhanced to allow splices to be graphically reviewed and set for timber and cold formed columns (previously this functioned only for steel columns).

  • [TSD-11807] - Terms “Region” and “Regional code” replace “Head Code”

    To aid with settings clarity, especially for newer users, the term "Headcode" or "Head code" has been replaced throughout with "Region" or "Regional code", for example in Model settings as shown below.
  • [TSD-11852] - Find - Slab patches added

    Slab patches have been added to the Find and select feature so they can now be easily located and selected by their reference.
  • [TSD-11856] - Pile caps - upper pile spacing limit removed

    When editing pile cap properties, either via the Properties Window or the Pile Arrangement dialog, previously a pile spacing upper limit of 2000mm (80in for US Customary Units in) was enforced - following customer requests this limit is removed in this release.

Interoperability

  • Remoting API Enhancements

    For more about the API, see the Tekla Developer Center Get started with Tekla Structural Designer Open API. In this release and henceforth, the API is no longer part of the Tekla Structural Designer installation. The API package can now be downloaded from nuget.org, making it much easier for it to be included in your application and obtain future updates to the package. A new API example file has also been created and uploaded to GitHub. This example demonstrates using the Tekla Structural Designer Remoting API to; create a simple model, add loads, loadcases and combinations, run analysis, and extract analysis results.

    • Additionally, the following capabilities have been added to the Tekla Structural Designer Remoting API in this release:

      • [TSD-11520] - Create and edit foundations (pad and strip bases, pile caps, individual piles).

      • [TSD-11639] - Identify the Regional Code (Regional Code) from the model.

      • [TSD-11550] - More easily extract loading analysis results for a member for a given load type, direction and position or point of interest.

      • [TSD-11882] - The relation between solver elements and their associated member can now be identified using the API.

      • [TSD-11677] - The relation between solver nodes and construction points can now be identified using the API.

Analysis & Results

  • [TSD-11413] - New Foundation Reactions Tabular Data Results table

    A new results table is added forFoundation Reactions to those available via ANALYSE > Model & Results. This can be viewed by selecting the new “Foundation Reactions” option from the drop list as shown in the picture below., and can be exported directly to Excel like all other result tables. The table can be viewed for all of Load Cases, Load Combinations and Envelopes and can also be toggled to display results for either Strength Factors or Service factors by activating the associated ribbon button.
  • The table includes the following data:

    • support reference

    • support coordinates

    • support rotation

    • supported node or member reference(s)

    • size and rotation of supported member(s)

    • support reactions in each direction

  • You can optionally apply a Model Filter to filter the results based on any of: Saved Report Filter, Specific Wall(s) by reference, Specific Column(s) by reference.
  • The associated existing "Foundation Reactions" report chapter has also been updated to match the new Model & Results table - new columns for support coordinates, support rotation and size of supported member(s) have been inserted into the report.

  • [TSD-11909] - Sub Structures - 2D FE Chasedown Results now available

    2D Results from FE Chasedown analysis can now be viewed in a Sub Structure view where previously only 1D Results were available. This could be useful for example for viewing localized 2D results for a sub structure of a few slab items when focusing on the results of just part of a floor slab.

Design

General

  • [TSD-11921] - Result Lines - Interactive Design - All Regional Codes

    An issue introduced in release 2022 SP1 which prevented the Interactive design of Result Lines as Wall sections (see Interactive design using Result lines) is corrected in this release.

  • [TSD-11635] - Foundations - Isolated Pad Bases - soil weight now included in sliding resistance check

    Following customer requests, the sliding check of isolated pad base design has been enhanced for all Regional codes to include the stabilizing effect of the weight of the soil above the base in the calculation of the resistance by friction.

Eurocode

  • [TSD-9516] - Steel Design - Fire check - calculate critical temp for both web and flange

    Following customer requests, the critical temperature is now calculated and reported in design details separately for shear and moment ratios as shown in the picture below (previously it was calculated only for the worst shear and moment ratio).

United States (ACI/AISC)

  • [TSD-2035, 8034, 11802] - Steel & Composite Beam - enhanced autodesign optimization

    In previous releases in some circumstances (auto) Design of an individual beam following analysis could select a more optimized section than a full Steel Design process with the autodesign property enabled. This could occur for both composite and non-composite beams potentially, generally to do with the influence of the self weight of presize sections. Additional autodesign settings for the United States Regional code are added in this release to improve section optimization in such cases - the new settings are located in Design Settings > Autodesign as shown in the picture below and function as follows:
    • Beam design section step back - this relates to the design of steel beams in general and adds further control of the autodesign iterative process. The steel beam autodesign process sequentially loops through the steel section order list (from top to bottom) to identify a passing section together with analysis results to update the beam self weight each time there is a section change. For subsequent analysis and design iterations, looping through the section list starts by default from the most efficient passing section identified in the previous iteration which, depending on the change in self weight, might not always be the most optimum.

      • The new option allows you to specify where the iterative looping starts in the section list in relation to the optimum section from the prior iteration - either at the same section (a value of 0) or up to 5 sections before it in the list. Hence it is termed the section ‘step back’ value. Occasionally using this with a value 1-5 can improve design efficiency, however with a potential to impact design times particularly for larger models.

    • Prefer fewer connectors over section weight - this relates specifically to steel composite beam design and the influence of studs (connectors) and section size on optimization - for a similar moment capacity you can potentially have a solution of more studs with a lighter section, or less studs with a heavier section. A designer may consider either of these solutions the ‘optimum’ in terms of overall economy - hence this setting which allows the designer to specify their preferred criteria:

      • When enabled (default - replicates existing behavior) - autodesign seeks the smallest possible number of studs in lieu of a potentially heavier section.

      • When disabled - autodesign seeks the lightest possible section potentially requiring more studs.

Reports and Drawings

Reports

  • [TSD-11411] - Member Reports - force and deflection diagrams with zero values no longer included

    Shear, Axial, Moment, Torsion and Deflection diagrams are now only displayed in the Member Reports if the (absolute) max/min value is > the "Ignore forces below" values and the new “Ignore deflections for reporting value” in Design Settings > Design Forces, all of which can be user-defined as shown in the picture below.
  • [TSD-11973] - Member report drawings not exported to PDF/ Word fixed

    An issue introduced in version 2022 which caused drawings not to be included in member reports exported to PDF or Microsoft Word/ Tedds is fixed in this release.

Other

  • [TSD-11927] - Embedded Browser security update

    The embedded CEF web browser (used by the Tekla Online Panel) is updated to v101.0.180 to resolve security vulnerability CVE-2022-0609.

Notes

The number in brackets before an item denotes an internal reference number. This can be quoted to your local Support Department should further information on an item be required.

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