2018i SP3: New features and improvements

Tekla Structures
2018i
Tekla Structures

Fixes

Defect number Development area Description
TSAC-2107 Concrete components In Reinforcement mesh array in area (89), you can now define the polygon generation start point index.
TSAC-1834 Steel components In Hollow brace wraparound gusset (59), you can now control the bolt type separately for gusset side and bracing side bolts on the Brace bolts 1 and 2 tabs.
TSAC-2377 Steel components In Tube gusset (20) and Hollow brace wraparound gusset (59), the slotted hole properties on the bracing side are now applied correctly.
TSAC-2386 Steel components In Bolted moment connection (134), slotted holes for the lower flange plate are now applied correctly.
TSAC-2393 Steel components

Column with stiffeners S (187) now scans the secondary part geometry without cuts created outside the component.

TSAC-2399 Steel components In Tube gusset (20), previously, welding was not created when you only specified the below line weld properties for weld 2. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-2419 Steel components In Wraparound gusset (58), the slotted holes for the additional bolts in clip angles are now applied correctly.
TSAC-2452 Steel components In Rebar hole, when Rounding type on the Parameters tab is set to Round by table and Hole type on the Advanced tab is set to Part cut or Bolt hole + part cut, if the maximum rebar diameter value in the table is smaller than the rebar diameter defined in the rebar properties, Tekla Structures displayes a warning message: Rebar diameter from table is smaller than the rebar diameter from model.
TSAC-2456 Steel components In Haunch (40), an unwanted chamfer was previously created on the partial stiffener. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-2522 Steel components In Cage ladder (S60), the parts welded to the ladder no longer lose welds when the component is modified.
TSAC-2563 Steel components In Brace corner tubes & Pl (44), parts no longer get new a ID when modifying the component.
TSAC-2587 Steel components In Bolted moment connection (134), Column with stiffeners W (182) and Column with stiffeners (188), the doubler plate cut for avoiding a clash with the main part is now created correctly.
TSAC-2742 Steel components In Round joining plates (124), the antimaterial in the hole which creates a cut in the base plate is no longer shown in drawings.
TTSD-19633 Organizer

In Organizer, when you clicked 

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 and moved the mouse over the Color set command, the command stayed highlighted even when you moved the mouse away from the command. This has now been fixed.

TTSD-14434 Import, export, interoperability IFC2x3 export: When creating IFC2x3 export files the application name "Tekla Structures Educational" was shown in the IFC output header even though the license was Full. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-20772 Import, export, interoperability In IFC export, the length of a hole is now fixed to be material thickness plus the tolerance value.
TTSD-22387 Import, export, interoperability When manually importing a new profile through the Modify Profile Catalog dialog box using the Replace option, all parts in the model could sometimes get unintentionally modified. Now all unaffected parts remain untouched after the import.
TTSD-23063 Import, export, interoperability The IFC object conversion did not handle or convert round cuts for plate. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-23264 Import, export, interoperability The IFC object conversion update now keeps the user-created part cuts.
TTSD-23475 Import, export, interoperability IFC object conversion did not convert curved walls correctly in some cases. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-23950 Import, export, interoperability IFC object conversion sometimes misplaced cuts. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-24051 Import, export, interoperability The SketchUp export did not work if the Tekla Structures model name contained special characters. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-24298 Import, export, interoperability DWG drawing export: Drawing DWG export now outputs the Romsim font in a size that is closer to the one you see in the drawing.
TTSD-24392 Import, export, interoperability The performance of the reference model insert has been improved when the Tekla Structures model already contains non-visible unloaded reference models. After the fix, non-visible reference models are not loaded anymore in the reference model insert.
TTSD-20722 Templates and reports Support for showing numbers greater than 2^31 was added.
TSAC-1180 Drawings Draw rebar pull-outs: Fixed a problem that in some cases pull-out pictures were also created from parts that were not selected by the user.
TSAC-2104 Drawings Rebar pullout picture and marking: Text placement has been improved so, that texts do not overlap with each other or rebar.
TSAC-2319 Drawings Rebar group dimensioning: The dimensions arrows were positioned incorrectly when you were using the setting Visibility of reinforcing bars in group with the option two bars in the middle of group in drawing reinforcement properties. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-2333 Drawings In dimensioning rule properties, the Dimension to setting for vertical dimensions is now read correctly from rule file.
TSAC-2404 Drawings Rebar group dimensioning: You can now also dimension circular bar groups.
TSAC-2584 Drawings Rebar group dimensioning: Fixed the incorrectly dimensioned rebar groups in some combinations of distribution bar type and excluding start/end bars. The fix affects the situations when you had selected Exclude first, Exclude last or Exclude first and last, and combined it with one the following types of distribution: Equal distribution by target spacing value, By exact spacing value with flexible first space, By exact spacing value with flexible last space, or By exact spacing value with flexible first and last space.
TSAC-2596 Drawings Rebar group dimensioning: Invisible color can now be applied.
TSAC-2600 Drawings Rebar group dimensioning: Symbols for dimensioning rebars are now placed correctly.
TSAC-2621 Drawings Rebar pull-out picture and marking: The pull-out picture creation of spiral and circular reinforcement now works correctly. Previously it caused Tekla Structures to hang.
TSAC-2672 Drawings BVBS Export: The Partner and Developer configurations were added to the list of allowed configurations.
TTSD-17250 Drawings The new printing incorrectly displayed a watermark in drawings with the Educational stamp. The text Educational was also shown in the PDF properties for a drawing. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-17450 Drawings DWG drawing export: Drawing DWG export is now bit more robust with handling custom drawing of parts.
TTSD-17669 Drawings Manual weld marks are no longer deleted when modifying view settings in a drawing.
TTSD-17876 Drawings Removing dimension points from curved dimension could corrupt the whole dimension. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-17943 Drawings The tolerance for RD text in drawing dimensions has been adjusted so it no longer collides with the dimension text.
TTSD-18368 Drawings Rebars of strirrup arc types now have correct length in pull-out pictures.
TTSD-19286 Drawings An error could occur when double-clicking reinforcement drawing tools in the Applications & components catalog. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-19546 Drawings Rebar group marks can be moved anywhere again using Shift and drag.
TTSD-21305 Drawings The Flip outside dimension setting in dimension properties produced incorrect info to Undo history. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-21312 Drawings Previously, when adding marks in drawings with applied settings, some properties were lost if the drawing was updated.
Now any new marks added with applied properties are kept during the update.
TTSD-21852 Drawings In Document Manager, a crash occurred if the user did not have access rights to view files in a folder defined in DocumentManagerFileDocumentSettings.txt.
TTSD-22315, TTSD-20427 Drawings XS_ALLOW_REBARS_ON_TOP_OF_EACH_OTHER was causing some GA drawings to crash Tekla Structures in 2018i. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-22317 Drawings Sometimes in a drawing with a custom template and small section views, all surface treatments were not properly drawn in all of the views. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-22365 Drawings Sub-assembly welds in GA drawings now follow the same setting as the main assembly welds. There is no separate option to control sub-assembly welds in GA drawings.
TTSD-22391 Drawings Rebar sets in drawings were not working correctly if drawings were cloned. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-22647 Drawings Dimension post and prefix marks were incorrectly aligned. They are now again at the same y location as the dimension value text.
TTSD-22673 Drawings Linked views were not deleted from a drawing when the source drawing for the linked views was deleted. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-22912 Drawings Drawings with custom plug-ins using lots of graphical objects, such as lines, or rectangles, have now slightly better performance.
TTSD-23213 Drawings In earlier versions, if a drawing dimension was selected and then turned off in view dimension properties, the handle points remained visible. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-23301 Drawings Document manager now works correctly even if there are invalid paths in the XS advanced options.
TTSD-23449 Drawings There were problems opening a drawing containing failing bolt solids. This has now been fixed and drawings can be opened even if there is a failing bolt solid.
TTSD-24038 Drawings Drawing settings for bolt marks with templates now create marks properly.
TTSD-24041 Drawings Master Drawing Catalog can now be opened in Partner configuration again.
TTSD-24406 Drawings When Secondary part dimension direction was set to Neighbor part in dimensioning properties, there was sometimes a crash when creating or modifying assembly drawings. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-7516 Drawings Slight performance improvement in drawings where there are a lot of highly detailed and complex objects overlapping one another, for example, a 3D view in a GA drawing.
TTSD-20112 System and options Tekla Structures no longer crashes when trying to select a material if the matdb.bin file is missing from the currently used environment folder.
TTSD-22212 Tekla Model Sharing In Tekla Model Sharing, canceling the start sharing was not possible during packet creation. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-22644 Tekla Model Sharing Previously, when reading in, a locked drawing did not override the local changes to the drawing. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-22652 Tekla Model Sharing In Tekla Model Sharing, read in performance has been improved.
TTSD-23046 Tekla Model Sharing Previously, if Tekla Structures crashed or if the Tekla Structures process was somehow forced to exit during write out, this could result in missing drawing files. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-23179 Tekla Model Sharing The performance of Organizer synchronization has been improved in situations where the model history contains a lot of deleted objects.
TTSD-19685 Reinforcement The end detail modifier hook type could not be changed in the contextual toolbar if the bending radius was non-standard. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-19875 Reinforcement Previously, to make rebar sets visible when opening the custom component editor, you had to redraw the view. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-22045 Reinforcement In some cases, rebar segment lengths were reported with slight inaccuracy. This has now been improved.
TTSD-22910 Reinforcement There are now two new advanced options (based on the creation method) to define the angle tolerance between the leg faces in rebar set creation:

XS_REBARSET_CREATION_ANGLE_TOLERANCE_FOR_CROSSING_REBARS
XS_REBARSET_CREATION_ANGLE_TOLERANCE_FOR_LONGITUDINAL_REBARS


The default value is 45 degrees for both options.
TTSD-23719 Reinforcement Rebar set bars are now correctly shown as selected in the model when selected in Organizer.
TTSD-23731 Reinforcement Rebar set bars are now correctly shown as selected in the model when selected in Task manager.
TTSD-24323 Reinforcement The Diagnose and repair numbering: series of selected objects command now works correctly for rebar sets.
TTSD-17847 Modeling When numbering (with the save-numbering-save setting selected in the Numbering set up dialog box), unnamed temporary views disappeared when canceling the numbering. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-17887 Modeling If you need to reset pour unit contents and relations defined using the Calculate pour units command and/or the Add to pour unit command, you can now use the following commands in Quick Launch:
  • Reset all pour unit relations
  • Reset all manually assigned pour unit relations
  • Reset all pour unit relations except manual assignments
The first two commands have a dialog box where you confirm the command. This is because you cannot undo the commands.
TTSD-20433 Modeling Selecting parts in large models is now much faster.
TTSD-20475 Modeling Modifying bent plates has been changed so that you can now modify the connecting plates freely as long as they fit some bend.
TTSD-22670 Modeling Previously, if a model with pour breaks had a model view along the XZ or YZ planes created, this would cause pour breaks to be shown as duplicates in the wrong place. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-24372 Modeling Previously, the database size could become too large if you created and deleted multiple objects with UDAs. This has now been fixed. 
TSAC-1710 Tools and components Rebar Coupler and Anchor Tools: Previously, the assembly structure was broken when a coupler was created as a custom part and you attached the rebar to another part after the couplers were created.
Note that if the assembly hierarchy is already broken, you need to explode the cast unit, or remove the extra part from the cast unit, and update the coupler once to get the couplers added to the correct cast unit.
TTSD-12860 Tools and components The contextual toolbar profiles are now fetched from external environment firm folders along with the users' local profile folder. These external profiles can be loaded in, but any changes will still be saved in the users' local folder as new profiles.
TTSD-23434 Tools and components In Tekla Model Sharing models, using Organizer or some other .NET tools could previously cause errors at write out when using the Project viewer role. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-24560 Numbering Sometimes Tekla Structures crashed when opening or refreshing a view with polygon reinforcement meshes displayed with the Fast representation. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-21806 User interface Previously, when you clicked a selection or snap switch button, and then clicked another selection or snap switch button, the button you had clicked first also stayed selected for some time. This happened when a firm or project folder was mapped to a network drive and the network connection was slow. Now this has been fixed.
TTSD-21857 User interface New concrete spiral beams now show the correct pour phase number in the property pane when the pour phase has been set for other previously created concrete spiral beams.
TTSD-23422 User interface The Work plane handler toolbar now works correctly when a new view is created using the part plane.
TSAC-1525 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): You can now validate rebar and mesh leg lengths, and mesh overhangs and spacings.
Now you can also select to export non-valid rebars as non-automated or to prevent the export. The new and changes settings are located on the Validation tab.
TSAC-2277 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): You can now export the means of transportation information using the new option option Transport type on the SLABDATE block data specification tab.
TSAC-2337 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) BVBS Export: Now the exported circular and spiral rebars get the arc inner radius instead of the center-line radius.
This value is inquired from report property DIM_R, and calculated from the rebar geometry if the DIM_R is missing.
TSAC-2514 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export EliPlan file (68): Cuts created at diagonally cut slabs no longer affect the calculation of L1 and L2 values.
TSAC-2594 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export EliPlan file (68): When using the Export using filter setting, the logging of excluded cast units has been improved.
TSAC-2610 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): Production thickness export for double walls has been changed. With the option Cast unit width the cast unit thickness is exported for both shells.
TSAC-2612 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): It is now possible to export exposition class using the new option Exposure class on the SLABDATE data block specification tab.
TSAC-2614 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): Reinforcing bars exported as embeds now have the bendings exported with correct projected geometry.
TSAC-2644 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): The embed recognition has been improved in cases where both double wall shells have the same hierarchy level in the assembly.
TSAC-2669 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): New option Exclude all has been added on the Validation tab page for the setting Export others to exclude the whole mesh from the export when it fails the validation. Option No has been renamed to Remove invalid mesh wires and now it excludes only invalid mesh wires and not the whole mesh when it fails the validation as before.
TSAC-2690 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): Data is now read correctly from the Unitechnik Mountpart tab in the user-defined attribute properties for steel parts.
TSAC-2741 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): It is now possible to export Unloading type using the option on the SLABDATE data block tab.
Also, it is possible to set Unloading type and Transportation type on the Unitechnik tab for precast concrete parts, which overrides the export dialog box option.
TSAC-2765 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) BVBS Export: The BVBS export now reports the diameter value as the nominal rebar diameter regardless of the XS_USE_ONLY_NOMINAL_REBAR_DIAMETER setting, according to the specification.
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