2018 SP8: New features and improvements

Tekla Structures
2018
Tekla Structures

Fixes

Defect number Development area Description
TSAC-2019 Concrete components Wall layout opening: When copying an opening with direct modification using the Ctrl button, fillers are now correctly copied along with the opening.
TSAC-2089 Concrete components In Mesh bars, bar splicing has been improved and bar lengths cannot extend the maximum allowed value.
TSAC-2253 Concrete components Wall layout: You can now use the Copy special - Mirror and Move special - Mirror commands to mirror wall layouts.
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-2875 Concrete components Wall layout elementation has several improvements:
  • Weight in imperial settings now reads lbs correctly.
  • Max weight now has a default of 10000kg when you do not enter any value.
  • When there are no precast parts in the wall layout, the following error message is now shown: "Selected wall layout does not have any precast layers and therefore elementation is not possible."
TSAC-2879 Concrete components In Corbels and recesses (82), offsetting created parts with the Reference point option now works properly.
TSAC-2962 Concrete components In Corbels and recesses (82), the recognition of cuts has now been improved.
TSAC-3030 Concrete components Previously, in Wall layout connector, the layer-specific attributes (framing case and offsets) in the Wall layout connector dialog box and the actual connection in the model did not match. This issue appeared when the connected primary wall layout had any surfaces other than the last layer.
TSAC-3031 Concrete components In Wall layout, UDA values are now set for the surface treatment when it is the first layer.
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-2359 Steel components In U.S. Base plate (1047), in some situations, two anchors were previously added to the same assembly. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-2543 Steel components In Shear plate simple (146), clipping the secondary part flange previously depended on the length of the secondary part. This has now been fixed.
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-2756 Steel components In Welded column with stiffeners (128), the stiffener welding angles are now correctly applied.
TSAC-2795 Steel components In Ladder (S35), in some geometrical conditions the hoops were previously created with solid errors. This has now been fixed.
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-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-3038 Steel components In Stiffened end plate (27) and Partial stiffened end plate (65), the fitting of the secondary part was previously incorrectly created in some cases. This has now been fixed.
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-27752 Organizer Organizer performance has now been improved in situations where you open an old model in an environment where a substantial number of property definitions has been changed.
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-25692 Import, export, interoperability Reference models: Conversion factors from metric to imperial have been added to IFC reference models.
TTSD-26132, TTSD-26655 Import, export, interoperability The profile mapping now works in the following way:
  • Arbitrary profile mapping by name does not need to match the dimensions.
  • Arbitrary profile mapping by name can be set to require dimensions to match by setting the new advanced option XS_CONVERSION_ARBITRARY_PROFILE_MAPPING_BY_NAME_MUST_MATCH_DIMENSIONS to TRUE. The default is FALSE.
  • Parametric profile conversion by profile name mapping does not need to match the dimensions.
  • Parametric profile conversion tries to find a corresponding library profile and if any profile does not match the parameters, the default parametric profile will be used.
TTSD-26532 Import, export, interoperability IFC Object Conversion of steel contour plates uses the prefix defined for plates in Component settings (File > Settings > Options > Profile name > Plate) as the prefix for native plates. You can use prefixes that are supported by your environment.
TTSD-27005 Templates and reports The pull-out attribute now displays the angle values in graphical fields in drawing templates.
TSAC-2104 Drawings Rebar pull-out picture and marking: Rebar pull-out pictures dimension text placement has been improved. Previously dimensions were switched, this has 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.
TSAC-2928 Drawings Rebar group dimensioning: Previously, single bar rebar groups gave incorrect number values. This has now been fixed.
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-20285 Drawings Adding or updating drawing mesh marks of outline meshes sometimes rotated the marks 90 degrees. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-25125 Drawings Clipping non-solid imported items now works better in drawings.
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-27840 Drawings The section marks are no longer referring to wrong views.
TTSD-15628 Tekla Model Sharing Previously, when a multi-user model was converted into a shared model, inserting an object could appear twice in the object history. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-16162 Tekla Model Sharing The appearance of usernames in the history of shared models has been unified. The usernames are now shown in the domain\name format.
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.

Note: There may be other reasons for this error. If you experience this error with versions at or above those listed here, contact your local support.

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=TRUE

When 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.
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-25515 Modeling When using the Ortho tool, the snap symbol is now again shown as the snap to any position symbol.
TTSD-25571 Modeling Deleting the latest used shape from the Shape catalog does not prevent inserting the following items anymore.
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.
TTSD-26815 Modeling The Work plane handler toolbar now works better when saving multi-user models (save and model reopen). The toolbar now keeps the set work plane when saving the model.
TTSD-27870 Modeling Snapping to the nearest point now works when using the Ortho tool.
TSAC-1998 Tools and components Creating a new group and selecting this group in Layout manager could cause an error when the Group Prefix option in the Layout manager Settings dialog box was empty. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-23219 Tools and components Layout points now remain visible at all zoom levels, when previously they were reverted into sticks at zoom levels.
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-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.
TSAC-2888 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) BVBS Export: The Advanced tab now contains new options for rounding rebar lengths for 2D bent bars. Mesh and 3D rebars are not affected.
To round the lengths, first select an option for the Round setting. The options are:
Yes - UseS the nearest rounding value.
Up - Rounds the lengths up.
Down - Rounds the lengths down.
The new option Round lengths to rounds the total rebar lengths in the corresponding BVBS field in the header block, and the available values are 1, 5, 10, and 25.
The new option Round leg lengths to rounds the leg lengths in the geometry block, and the available values are 1, 5, and 10.
1 is the default value for both options.
TSAC-4357 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export EliPLAN file (68): It is now possible using options Project number and Project name on tab page Data content to specify the project number and project name in the exported file.
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