2019i SP12: New features and improvements

Cap plate detail: When you open the properties dialog box of an existing component, the Class property is now shown correctly.

U.S. Base plate (1047): Previously, some holes in the cast plate were missing. This has now been fixed.
 

Pipe doubler plate now works for pipes with greater diameters.

Export drawings to DWG/DXF: The view placement in the export was improved to prevent overlapping view content.

IFC object conversion: You can now have dots (.) in the property set names in the IFC object conversion UDA mapping.

Reference models: The performance of selecting a reference model list group and canceling the selection has been improved. You can notice the improvement when you have lots of reference model groups, and you select or cancel the selection of any object in the model.

Export drawings to DWG/DXF: Surface treatment drawn with invisible lines no longer hides content under it in the exported drawing DWG files.

IFC2x3 export: Weld coloring has been improved when you use current view colors.

Sometimes, a large report using the CopyField function could take a long time to complete. This has now been fixed.

When a revision was created for a drawing and the NextValue() function was used in a part row rule with a hierarchy, there could be rows missing from the template output. This has now been fixed.

With imperial units, rows were not always combined when the rows had sort fields with "Numbers with decimals" as the data type. This has now been fixed.

In an earlier service pack, templates and reports that had a REVISION row as the parent row did not show revision data, and you needed to place the REVISION row under the DRAWING row. This was changed to support both kinds of revision templates: with REVISION row alone and with DRAWING parent row. Now old revision templates work without any changes. However, it does not harm anyhow if templates would contain the DRAWING parent row.

A new user-specific advanced option, XS_VIEW_FRAMES_VISIBLE, has been added in the Drawing View category of the Advanced Options dialog box:

• When you set this advanced option to FALSE, the drawing view frames are hidden until you move the mouse pointer over the view. This is the default value.
• When you set this advanced option to TRUE, the drawing view frames are visible all the time.
• In Tekla Structures versions 2019 and earlier, the drawing view frames were always visible. In Tekla Structures version 2019i, the drawing view frames were hidden and only displayed when the mouse pointer was over the view frame.

Dimensions in detail views now hold their positions better.

Previously, if a model contained empty assemblies, drawing could not sometimes be opened because numbering was requested even when the model had been numbered. This has now been fixed.

Moving or resizing a drawing view frame no longer causes an application error.

Document manager: Application error no longer occurs when Document Manager scans for file documents on certain types of network shared drives.

Document manager: The behavior of the Select all command has been changed. Previously, if the number of the currently selected documents was less than the total number of displayed documents, all documents were selected, but if all were already selected, then everything was unselected. This meant that if a single item was visible and the user right-clicked it (at which point it became selected) and then selected Select all from the context menu, the document was actually deselected. That made it impossible for macros to reliably select single items in the document list. This behavior has been changed so that now all visible items are always selected and the toggling behavior is disabled.

Sometimes, an application error occurred during the cloning of the weld marks. This has now been fixed.

Document Manager: Document manager now rounds fractional metric sheet sizes to whole numbers.

Users with Viewer or Project viewer roles can now join shared models again.

Clash check manager: Previously, running a clash check for certain models that contained bolts could cause an application error in Tekla Structures. The error was caused by a fast and linear increase in memory consumption. This has now been fixed.

The possibility to add the UDA button for components in the Property Pane Editor has now been removed. Previously, the button has been removed from the property pane template for components in the Property Pane Editor, as it could cause an application error. 

Export Unitechnik (79): Previously, when the Rebar grouping setting was turned on, the export sometimes created duplicated rebars. This has now been fixed.

Export ELiPLAN file (68): Previously, the project name and project number were switched in the exported file. This has now been fixed.

Export Unitechnik (79): Previously, the Cuts as mountparts setting on the TS configuration tab did not work with some of the cuts at contour edges in simplified contours (Export CONTOUR was set to Simplified). This has now been fixed.

Export ELiPLAN file(68): Previously, end recesses were ignored in aligning the weep holes at slab ends. This has now been fixed.