2019 SP2: New features and improvements
2019
Tekla Structures
Fixes
| Defect number | Development area | Description |
|---|---|---|
| TSAC-2089 | Concrete components | In Mesh bars, bar splicing has been improved and bar lengths cannot extend the maximum allowed value. |
| TSAC-2639 | Concrete components | Meshes created by Mesh bars and Mesh bars by area are now created with the correct catalog name. |
| TSAC-2744 | Concrete components | Longitudinal reinforcement (70) now recognizes cuts in the concrete parts. |
| TSAC-2764 | Concrete components | In Embedded anchors (8), rebars are now created correctly when the rebar size is defined as text and not as a number. |
| TSAC-2879 | Concrete components | In Corbels and recesses (82), offsetting created parts with the Reference point option now works properly. |
| TSAC-2885 | Concrete components | Continuous beam reinforcement now works again. |
| TSAC-2892 | Concrete components | In Rectangular column reinforcement (83), the overlap length for stirrups is now converted properly to imperial units. |
| TSAC-2977 | Concrete components | In Round column reinforcement (82), you can now define the horizontal dimensions of the top and bottom cranked bars as a distance between the center of bars or as the outer distance of bars. |
| TSAC-2226 | Steel components | In Hollow brace wraparound gusset (59), the seal plate was not previously created when the weld length was set to be smaller than zero. This has now been fixed. |
| TSAC-2349 | Steel components | In Railings (S77), top rail part cut creation has been improved. |
| TSAC-2554 | Steel components | In Ladder (S35), in some cases, hoops were previously not created correctly. This has now been fixed. |
| TSAC-2631 | Steel components | In Column site weld splice (137), gusset plates and splice plates are now created when the main part profile is a circular hollow section. |
| TSAC-2733 | Steel components | In Beam with stiffener (129), the bolt edge distance is now correctly applied. |
| TSAC-2756 | Steel components | In Welded column with stiffeners (128), the stiffener welding angles are now correctly applied. |
| TSAC-2800 | Steel components | In Handrail 1 (74), slotted holes are now correctly applied to bolts. |
| TSAC-2858 | Steel components | In Full depth S (185) and JP Full depth special (185), shear tab chamfers did not work correctly in some cases. This has now been fixed. |
| TSAC-2882 | Steel components | Partial stiff end plate (65) now works correctly when using an L profile instead of a front plate. |
| TSAC-2884 | Steel components | In Haunch (40), previously, when using the upper bolt plate or lower bolt plate together with the bolting direction option, some bolts were not created correctly. This has now been fixed. |
| TSAC-2918 | Steel components | In Bolted gusset (11), slotted holes were previously applied incorrectly when using twin profiles as the secondary part. This has now been fixed. |
| TSAC-2935 | Steel components | In Tube gusset (20), the Bolt type for Brace bolts 1-3 is now correctly applied when using cross plates as the connection type. |
| TSAC-2936 | Steel components | In Tube gusset (20), the settings on the Brace bolts 3 tab are now correctly applied for the 3rd and all the subsequent braces. |
| TSAC-2944 | Steel components | In Full depth (184), some cuts were previously not created correctly. This has now been fixed. |
| TSAC-2954 | Steel components | In Cornet wrapped gusset (63), filler plates were previously created in an incorrect location. This has now been fixed. Also, there is now a new option on the Brace conn tab for specifying where the filler plate should be placed when using two connection plates. |
| TSAC-2956 | Steel components | In Joist to beam, type 1 (160), the location of the secondary part handle no longer affects the created joist cuts. |
| TSAC-311 | Steel components | In Tube splice (6), the creation of welds between the splice plates and the input parts has been improved. |
| TSAC-857 | Steel components | Seat type 5 (60) does not create an unwanted fitting anymore. |
| TTSD-24752 | Organizer | In Organizer, the synchronization performance has been improved. |
| TTSD-21401 | Import, export, interoperability | Reference models: When DirectX rendering was enabled, some lines in a DWG reference model disappeared at certain zoom levels. This has now been fixed. |
| TTSD-24843 | Import, export, interoperability | Reference models: Curved rebars are now visualized with better accuracy in IFC reference models. |
| TTSD-25325 | Import, export, interoperability | IFC object conversion: Some B-rep cuts were not created correctly, which caused slowness. This has now been fixed. |
| TTSD-25462 | Import, export, interoperability | Reference models: Hovering with the mouse over a reference model no longer highlights all reference model objects, only the pointed reference object, to improve the performance. Complete reference model is still selected as before, when clicked. |
| TTSD-25585 | Import, export, interoperability | Bolts are now shown correctly in reference models. |
| TTSD-25692 | Import, export, interoperability | Reference models: Conversion factors from metric to imperial have been added to IFC reference models. |
| TTSD-26027 | Import, export, interoperability | Reference models: Models with reference models are now opened faster. You can now again change the visibility of locked reference models. |
| TTSD-26132, TTSD-26655 | Import, export, interoperability | The profile mapping now works in the following way:
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| TTSD-26273 | Import, export, interoperability | Reference models: The data handling of reference models sometimes failed, and the Temp.tmp file remained in .\DataStorage\ref folder. As a result, saving of a multi user model froze Tekla Structures and it needed to be closed from Task Manager. Tekla Structures also froze in single user model. These have now been fixed. |
| TSAC-2634 | Drawings | In Rebar group marking, the Lines and symbol tab now has a new functionality for drawing a symbol on the distribution line and leader line intersection. The functionality for rebar symbols is now on the new Symbols on rebars tab. |
| TSAC-2686 | Drawings | Rebar group marking: A new setting was added on the Mark1 tab to set the text distance from the leader line. |
| TTSD-17420 | Drawings | Skewed or squashed symbols (with unequal height and width) containing arcs were drawn incorrectly in some cases. This has now been fixed. |
| TTSD-21240 | Drawings | The Snapshot button is available again in the old drawing list. |
| TTSD-24211 | Drawings | Customizing the rebar position in drawings did not work correctly if there were several views on top of each other. This has now been fixed. |
| TTSD-24826 | Drawings | Dragging dimension points no longer moves the whole dimension. |
| TTSD-25125 | Drawings | Clipping non-solid imported items now works better in drawings. |
| TTSD-25377 | Drawings | The Clone selected command now works slightly better when the target has less parts or assemblies than the selected source. |
| TTSD-25443 | Drawings | In Document manager the tooltip for the Invert document visibility button now changes to Reset document visibility when the button is active to indicate that clicking the button again will reset the document visibility. |
| TTSD-25563 | Drawings | The grid graphics were missing from the Grid line properties dialog box, which prevented the editing of individual grid lines. This has now been fixed. |
| TTSD-25597 | Drawings | Previously, setting the XS_BOLT_DUPLICATE_IGNORE to TRUE removed the bolts in duplicate holes from GA drawings. This has now been fixed. |
| TTSD-25607 | Drawings | It is no longer possible to open a drawing in Document Manager while direct editing one of its properties. Previously if that was done, any in-progress editing was lost. Now the edit is committed. |
| TTSD-25650 | Drawings | Now you can select slightly more targets with the Clone selected command and still have a good cloning result. |
| TTSD-25779 | Drawings | Merged marks cloned with the Clone selected command no longer have unnecessary change clouds. |
| TTSD-25828 | Drawings | The Clone selected command in GA drawings now handles slightly better parts that exist in the target assemblies but not in the source. |
| TTSD-25907 | Drawings | The Clone selected command now handles better associative notes that are not properly associated. |
| TTSD-26028 | Drawings | Document Manager caused an application error because a column name contained an invalid character '-'. This has now been fixed. |
| TTSD-26105 | Drawings | When copying views with layout from another drawing to the current drawing, the reports are no longer re-calculated for each view, but only once. Now copying views with layout works faster. |
| TTSD-26182 | Drawings | Leader lines of merged marks now work better with the Clone selected command. |
| TTSD-25827 | Tekla Model Sharing | Previously, if some files related to a model had percent signs (%) in their names, sharing the model could fail. This has now been fixed. |
| TTSD-25994 | Tekla Model Sharing | Tekla Model Sharing: - If writing out a shared model fails, the model sharing log and the error log now show more details about the failure. - Shared models can now be saved even if some of the saved files are locked by other applications, such as antivirus software. |
| TTSD-26304 | Tekla Model Sharing | In some situations, conflicts in the model could cause the error "Dbvirtual fatal error: internal consistency failure" in read in and restart of Tekla Structures. This has now been fixed. |
| TSAC-2576 | Reinforcement | Rebar shape manager has been changed so that multiple sequential bendings which form an arc are combined into one or more bendings (90 degrees or less) with the arc radius. This makes it possible to define bending shapes containing a large radius bending no matter how many individual bendings appear in the original bar geometry. This functionality is in use when you set the new XS_REBAR_COMBINE_BENDINGS_IN_EVALUATOR advanced option to TRUE. The advanced option can also be set in a suitable .ini file:SET XS_REBAR_COMBINE_BENDINGS_IN_EVALUATOR=TRUEWhen the advanced option is set to FALSE (which is the default value), the bendings appear as multiple bendings and the shape is recognized as before. |
| TSAC-2605 | Reinforcement | In Rebar shape manager, a new tolerance value, Curve tolerance, has been added to the Tolerances tab. This value is used for recognizing the arc in a rebar that has multiple sequential bendings. If the deviation of the rebar leg from the arc is less than the tolerance, multiple bendings are combined to one (or two) bendings with the arc radius as the bending radius. |
| TSAC-2735 | Reinforcement | Previously, if you used a Rebar coupler or Rebar end anchor component with rebar sets and manually attached the rebar set bars to another part, the components remained attached to the original part. This has now been fixed. Now both the rebars set bars and the components are correctly attached to the other part. |
| TSAC-2941 | Reinforcement | Previously, the first / last leg length was incorrect when hooks were set to be ignored in shape recognition (XS_REBAR_RECOGNITION_HOOKS_CONSIDERATION=FALSE) and the hook angle was less than 90 degrees. This has now been fixed. |
| TTSD-21170 | Reinforcement | When copying properties of rebar sets, the first affected bar is now copied correctly. |
| TTSD-23905 | Reinforcement | DirectX rendering performance has been improved when visualizing bent rebars which have a large bending radius. |
| TTSD-24838 | Reinforcement | Copying rebar set properties in the property pane now works correctly when you use area selection to select the rebar sets to which you want to copy properties. |
| TTSD-25246 | Reinforcement | Modifying multiple rebar set leg faces or guidelines through the property pane now works correctly. |
| TTSD-26272 | Reinforcement | Previously, when creating property modifiers for rebar sets, the selected bars picking mode was not activated. This has now been fixed. |
| TTSD-26528 | Reinforcement | In rebar sets, the leg face and the secondary guideline selection was previously lost in the property pane after a modification. This has now been fixed. |
| TTSD-26787 | Reinforcement | The property pane is now updated correctly when selecting a modifier command on the Rebar set contextual tab on the ribbon, or on the contextual toolbar. Previously, the property pane occasionally showed the properties of the selected rebar set even if you selected a modifier command. |
| TTSD-13141, TTSD-25525 | Modeling | Pour resolving speed has been improved. When opening a model that contains pours, the initial pour resolving is now faster than before. This is especially noticeable when opening models containing a large number of pours. |
| TTSD-16302 | Modeling | Weld position is now available on the contextual toolbar in the Construction modeling configuration. |
| TTSD-24549 | Modeling | Models created with Tekla Structures versions older than 2017 could get corrupted if they were saved while runtime IDs were disabled. Saving models will now fail if runtime IDs are disabled, which will prevent models from being corrupted for that reason. |
| TTSD-25123 | Modeling | Previously, cross sections could sometimes get incorrectly renamed with a redundant extension " 2", when automatically renamed after importing profiles (for example, "A100 2 2", or "A100 2 2 2 2"). Now the deduplication numbers in cross section names are incremented correctly (for example, "A100 3", "A100 4", and so on). |
| TTSD-25146 | Modeling | When creating construction arcs and circles, free snapping (to any position) is now always forced on the current plane. |
| TTSD-25153 | Modeling | When creating construction objects, it is no longer necessary to be very close to the desired points to be snapped. |
| TTSD-25163 | Modeling | Previously, when holes were not modeled correctly (not going through any part), they were invisible, giving to a user no chance to fix the situation. This now has been fixed. |
| TTSD-25478 | Modeling | It is now possible to use coordinate locks when creating construction objects |
| TTSD-25571 | Modeling | Deleting the latest used shape from the Shape catalog does not prevent inserting the following items anymore. |
| TTSD-25661 | Modeling | The selected snap switch now works correctly when creating construction objects. |
| TTSD-25782 | Modeling | An issue that would have caused certain previously imported shapes in the shape catalog to be incorrectly cleaned has been fixed in Tekla Structures. The affected shapes typically have had holes and have been imported to Tekla Structures using a version prior to Tekla Structures version 2018i, and then cleaned in version 2018i or newer using the Shape cleaner application. The incorrect result could be seen in the 3D view as missing faces on the cleaned shapes. |
| TTSD-25862 | Modeling | Previously, when updating a bolt group using the old property dialog box, the bolt tolerance changed to 1.0. This has now been fixed. |
| TTSD-25981 | Modeling | Performance issues in user-defined sketched profile use have been fixed. |
| TTSD-26117 | Modeling | Saving the model with Save as could take a long time because Tekla Structures was recreating drawings. This has now been fixed. |
| TTSD-26240 | Modeling | Previously, profiles whose SUB_TYPE was defined without quotation marks in the .lis file could not be imported. This has now been fixed. |
| TTSD-26395 | Modeling | When you create a concrete or a steel item, the Undo history dialog box now properly shows the correct command name. Previously, the dialog box listed Direct modification as the last command. |
| TTSD-26760 | Modeling | Previously, when you loaded a property file that did not contain the assembly numbering value in the property pane, Tekla Structures would crash. This has now been fixed. |
| TSAC-2242 | Tools and components | In Layout manager, the layout points selected in the model were not properly highlighted in Layout manager when they belonged to different groups. This has now been fixed. |
| TSAC-2518 | Tools and components | The performance of layout point and layout line handling has been improved in Layout manager. |
| TSAC-2759 | Tools and components | In some cases, changing the group name in the Layout point or Layout line dialog box could cause an error when clicking the Modify button. This has now been fixed. |
| TSAC-2966 | Tools and components | In Layout manager, in some cases, it was not possible to delete points from a Layout manager group. This has now been fixed. |
| TTSD-20154 | Tools and components | Using the AutoDefaults rule group Shear_Tabs no longer crashes Tekla Structures and Windows. |
| TTSD-22240 | User interface | Objects now remain visible at all zoom levels. Previously, they disappeared from the view at some zoom levels. |
| TTSD-25075 | User interface | Reference models: Previously, there was sometimes a significant lag when zooming to reference model objects while the Set view rotation point (V) command was active. This has now been improved. |
| TTSD-25509 | User interface | When filtering object types in the property pane editor, the editor will now only allow you to make changes if you have an object type selected. Previously, trying to make changes with no object type selected caused Tekla Structures to crash. |
| TTSD-25514 | User interface | The last used contextual toolbar profile is now correctly stored in the registry. Previously, it was overwritten when you started Tekla Structures again. |
| TTSD-25602 | User interface | When entering imperial values in the property pane for rebar sets, the values for rounding and step tapering are now formatted correctly. |
| TTSD-25935 | User interface | The Selection filter list on the Selecting toolbar is now updated in real time when you modify the filters in the Object Group - Selection Filter dialog box. |
| TTSD-26021 | User interface | Several fixes have been made to DirectX graphics both in object visualization and performance. In DirectX views, the clip planes do not disappear anymore in plan views. |
| TTSD-26216 | User interface | The ribbon now displays the icon for a user-defined command when you select a custom image file as the icon. Previously, only the gallery icons worked. |
| TTSD-26311 | User interface | In the contextual toolbar, you can now use feet and inch symbols in offset values. |
| TTSD-26737 | User interface | Tooltips of user-defined commands are now correctly displayed on the ribbon. |