2018i SP2: New features and improvements
2018i
Tekla Structures
Fixes
Defect number | Development area | Description |
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TSAC-138 | Concrete components | In Wall to wall connection and Wall groove seam detail, the connector and recess spacing now work properly when other than millimeter units are used. |
TSAC-1656 | Concrete components | In Floor layout, an extra part was previously created at an opening. This has now been fixed. |
TSAC-1684 | Concrete components | In Floor layout, the default/actual offsets of other layers than the primary layer now work properly also when other layers consist of multiple parts, and the offset is smaller than the offset of the primary layer. Note that if you are modifying an existing Floor layout created with a previous Tekla Structures version, the layout may change if the offset values were not properly used earlier. |
TSAC-1778 | Concrete components | In Wall layout, you can now again open the Wall layout opening dialog box from the contextual toolbar. |
TSAC-1947 | Concrete components | In Hollow core lifting loops, the core filling was not created in the middle core if the number of cores was uneven, 5 or 7, for example. This has now been fixed. |
TSAC-2004 | Concrete components | In Mesh bars, direct modification now works correctly so that the correct bar is moved when dragged. |
TSAC-2152 | Concrete components | Previously, Floor layout updating was not working properly if the layout had a break line and the layout direction was from right to left. This has now been fixed. |
TSAC-2213 | Concrete components | In Wall layout, with some layer components, the attribute setting was not updated when modifying, and the available attribute settings disappeared from the list of attribute settings. This has now been fixed. |
TSAC-2231 | Concrete components | In Wall layout, when customizing the content of the UDA tab, you can now define in the WallLayout.Udas.dat file that layer UDA values are not swapped when the Wall layout swapper is used. You can do this by adding NoSwap at the end of the line (fourth field):string comment j_comment NoSwap |
TSAC-2235 | Concrete components | In Wall layout, if there are more than 12 UDAs on the UDA tab in the Wall layout dialog box, an additional UDA(2) tab is now again created. |
TSAC-2251 | Concrete components | Floor layout now creates additional tabs for user-defined attributes in the Floor layout dialog box if there are a lot of user-defined attributes. Earlier, if there were a lot of user-defined attributes, the row spacing on the User defined tab was compressed to fit all the attributes on one tab. |
TSAC-797 | Concrete components | In Round column reinforcement (82), you can now select on the Advanced (main bars) tab whether to cut the created rebars by the cut in the father part or not. |
TSAC-1459 | Steel components | In Shear plate tube column (189), the plate chamfer size now correctly follows the value defined in the component dialog box. |
TSAC-1540 | Steel components | In Column with stiffeners W (182), the stiffener weld preparation now works properly. |
TSAC-1875 | Steel components | In Column - 2 beam (14), there were previously issues when you created one plate and the bolts were placed incorrectly. This has now been fixed. |
TSAC-2199 | Steel components | In Full depth S (185), you can now define the tab plate end cut on the Plates tab. |
TSAC-2230 | Steel components | In Clip angle (141), weld 5 between the stiffener and the main part is now created correctly. |
TSAC-2309 | Steel components | In Welded column with stiffeners (128), you can now turn on or off the weld preparation creation in the welds dialog box. |
TSAC-2310 | Steel components | In Welded beam column (31), you can now turn on or off the weld preparation creation in the welds dialog box. |
TSAC-2369 | Steel components | In Corner tube gusset (56), you can now separately control the bolt types of Brace bolts 1 and 2 on the gusset side and the bracing side. |
TSAC-2418 | Steel components | In Turnbuckle connection (126), the main and the secondary part are now correctly fitted regardless their selection order. |
TSAC-796 | Steel components | In Bent plate (151), the distances of bolts from the edge of the plate are now correctly applied. |
TSAC-946 | Steel components | In Welded beam to beam (123), the bottom flange notch size is now correctly applied. |
TTSD-12817 | Import, export, interoperability | The user-defined attributes added in Tekla Structural Designer are now imported to Tekla Structures with the same name, without the "TSD_" prefix, and they are truncated to 19 characters. |
TTSD-14041 | Import, export, interoperability | Point cloud density issue with scaled point clouds has been fixed. |
TTSD-15599 | Import, export, interoperability | In reference model change detection, the reference model rotation changes are now detected better. |
TTSD-15682 | Import, export, interoperability | Spaces can now be used in IFC object conversion profile mapping. They are removed in internal mapping. For example, UB 356x171x45 finds UB 356x171x45, not UKB356x171x45, like previously. |
TTSD-15953 | Import, export, interoperability | In IFC object conversion, WallStandardCase is again converted as panel. End joins are ignored and therefore the geometry is not always according to the original geometry. |
TTSD-15992 | Import, export, interoperability | In DWG export, there is now a new check to see if files can be written to before the export starts. You are also prompted to close the files. If an exported file already exists, a dialog box is displayed asking if you want to overwrite the existing files. |
TTSD-16610 | Import, export, interoperability | Trimble Connector no longer automatically shuts down at startup if you have no Trimble Connect Structural license. |
TTSD-17672 | Import, export, interoperability | .db1 models can now be used as reference models again. |
TTSD-19481 | Import, export, interoperability | The performance of locking and unlocking multiple reference models in the reference model list has been improved. |
TTSD-19976 | Import, export, interoperability | In IFC import, handling of objects with a lot of openings was really slow, which appeared like Tekla Structures was not responding. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-20194 | Import, export, interoperability | Importing an empty model using the Import model command caused an application error. This no longer happens. |
TTSD-20216 | Import, export, interoperability | With the IFC2x3 export using the Coordination and Steel Fabrication model view definition, the beams and columns that have a fitting plane at both ends are shorter than in the model. The error does not occur when line cuts are used instead or only one fitting is used. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-20249 | Import, export, interoperability | Inserted IFC object properties that used to be visible in inquire in previous versions are visible again, but categorized a bit differently. |
TTSD-20456 | Import, export, interoperability | In DWG/DXF export, when adding, editing or deleting multiple rules, the buttons are now always visible. Previously they would not be visible with multiple rules if the list of rules was scrolled down. |
TTSD-20988 | Import, export, interoperability | When you cancelled the drawing opening, opening the reference model side pane in certain moment caused freezing of the reference model side pane. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-21526 | Import, export, interoperability | Trimble Connector no longer logs out when it is closed. |
TTSD-21654 | Import, export, interoperability | Tekla Structures sometimes closed itself without a warning when a point cloud was picked for dimension or object creation and zooming was done at the same time. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-22194 | Import, export, interoperability | DWG drawing export: DWG export file name does not have revision info added if the revision info is not present in the format string. |
TTSD-7136 | Import, export, interoperability | Tekla Structures now shows a confirmation message when you delete shapes from the shape catalog. |
TPLED-111 | Templates and reports | Tekla Structures no longer crashes with horizontal column output in templates. |
TPLED-84 | Templates and reports | Rows are no longer overlapping when you use Right alignment. |
TPLED-87 | Templates and reports | When the columns in a template had continuous horizontal fill, the rows and columns were misaligned. This has now been fixed |
TPLED-97 | Templates and reports | Template Editor: The Extend command is working again. |
TTSD-20733 | Templates and reports | Previously ASSEMBLY_BOTTOM_LEVEL_BASEPOINT , ASSEMBLY_BOTTOM_LEVEL_PROJECT , ASSEMBLY_TOP_LEVEL_BASEPOINT , ASSEMBLY_TOP_LEVEL_PROJECT were showing wrong values. Now correct values are shown. |
TTSD-21637 | Templates and reports | Radius symbols in rebar pull-out pictures in reports were sometimes incorrectly drawn after opening drawing, but correct after refreshing the report. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-4186 | Templates and reports | Previously, part attributes starting with ASSEMLBY_TOP_LEVEL and ASSEMLBY_BOTTOM_LEVEL were not returning correct values. This has now been fixed, and the attributes are returning the values provided by the counterparts in ASSEMBLY. attributes. |
TPLED-93 | Drawings | Added new string function, called replace, for rules and valuefield formulas. This function replaces all specified substrings with another string. |
TSAC-1819 | Drawings | When you open a drawing that contains pattern lines, and the .clp file of a pattern line is missing, a report window will be displayed. The report will contain a list with the name of each pattern line that does not have a related .clp file. Image
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TSAC-2195 | Drawings | Rebar group dimensioning: Now you can define the space between Mark1 and Mark2 using the new setting Space between Mark1 and Mark2 on the Advanced settings tab. On the same tab, Next mark spacing was moved under the new area Grouping and renamed to Group mark spacing. Rebar group tolerance was also moved to the Grouping area and renamed to Grouping tolerance. |
TSAC-2255 | Drawings | Rebar group dimensioning: The extra marks are now positioned correctly. |
TSAC-2291 | Drawings | Rebar group dimensioning: The tool now adds a correct number of dimension lines, and the lines are aligned correctly. |
TSAC-2375 | Drawings | Pattern line editor saves the default color correctly in the created .clp file, so the pattern line color can be modified. |
TSAC-2389 | Drawings | Rebar group dimensioning: The beam type pad footing dimensioning is working again. |
TSAC-2400 | Drawings | Rebar group dimensioning: The order of mark content elements is now correct in all use cases. The fix also applies to extra marks. |
TTSD-10813 | Drawings | When cloning single part, assembly or cast unit drawings, if the cloning template had views which were aligned in X or Y axis at the center of gravity point, the resulting cloned drawing will now try to align matching views based on the center of gravity. |
TTSD-15941 | Drawings | Drawing section views are now resized to include all view contents, for example, when an associative note is added so that text part is positioned outside the section view. |
TTSD-17987 | Drawings | Sometimes, the dimension line was drawn incorrectly between the dimension points. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-18742 | Drawings | Views in assembly drawings that contain included single-part views are no longer overlapping after the Arrange views command. |
TTSD-19304 | Drawings | If a dimension that did not have the << Mark >> tag but had some properties set in the tag attributes, changing the dimension via the contextual toolbar was adding an unwanted tag mark to the dimension. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-19317 | Drawings | In Document Manager, the drawing export command did not work when the advanced option XS_USE_OLD_DRAWING_EXPORT was set to TRUE . This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-19359 | Drawings | Dimension arrows indicating a change in the model object extremes are no longer exported. |
TTSD-19579 | Drawings | In Tekla Structures version 2018, scrolling with the middle mouse button while editing some drawings sometimes caused a Tekla Structures application error. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-19630 | Drawings | In Document manager, the Title1 column now sorts correctly in the same way as the Drawing list sorted that column. |
TTSD-19690, TTSD-18337 | Drawings | When a point was removed from a dimension set, pin icons on the remaining dimension points could incorrectly show that the points are no longer associative by changing to question marks, while the points still were associative. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-19878 | Drawings | Marks are now correctly sorted in Document manager by taking the alphabetic and numeric components of the mark into account in the same way as in the Drawing List. |
TTSD-19954 | Drawings | Category search field tooltip for new category no longer starts with several blank lines. |
TTSD-20020 | Drawings | The Clone button is now always visible in Document Manager even if no drawing is selected. Previously the button was hidden. |
TTSD-20204 | Drawings | In some cases, an assert was caused by a missing symbol library. This has been fixed, and an error message is displayed instead. |
TTSD-20209 | Drawings | Tekla Structures crashed when you changed the ruler width of a text with handle. 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-20407 | Drawings | Opening of some drawings could sometimes fail. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-21293 | Drawings | When converting a model to a multi user model or reading in a shared model, a model reload occurs and Document Manager was clearing the currently selected documents which caused buttons such as Print, and Export to become hidden. Now the currently selected documents are remembered and the selection is maintained. |
TTSD-21540 | Drawings | Some drawing commands did not use correct info in Undo history. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-21541 | Drawings | The Arrange marks and Align marks commands did not use correct information in Undo history. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-21607 | Drawings | When converting a model to a multi user model or reading in a shared model, a model reload occurs and Document Manager was clearing the currently selected documents which caused buttons like Print, Export etc., to become hidden. Now the currently selected documents are remembered and the selection is maintained. |
TTSD-21616 | Drawings | Slanted symbols are now correctly printed and exported. |
TTSD-22227 | Drawings | Non-solid items are now shown correctly in drawings also when they are clipped with the view restriction box. |
TTSD-23252 | Drawings | Slanted symbols are now correctly printed and exported |
TTSD-18263 | Tekla Model Sharing | In Tekla Model Sharing, the plotdev.bin file is now shared. |
TTSD-18318 | Tekla Model Sharing | Previously, Tekla Structures occasionally crashed in certain Tekla Model Sharing situations, with warning messages about an unknown user. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-19701 | Tekla Model Sharing | When joining a shared model, Tekla Model Sharing now checks if the current system locale is compatible with the system locale that was used when the model was shared. This check helps to avoid issues when distributed teams are using the model. Tekla Structures is not a fully Unicode application and it may function incorrectly when a shared model is opened with a system locale that is incompatible with the one that was used when starting to share the model. |
TTSD-21393 | Tekla Model Sharing | With some reference models, the changes list in a shared model could open very slowly. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-21567 | Tekla Model Sharing | In Tekla Model Sharing, profiles with a .clb file as a subtype were not previously shared correctly. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-6851 | Tekla Model Sharing | Saving of shared models is now more robust than before in situations where antivirus and similar software put temporary locks on model files. Failed operations are retried and written in error logs. |
TSAC-1783 | Reinforcement | Previously, the curve width/height of a curved bar with hooks was not correct in Rebar shape manager (and reports, if used). This has now been fixed. |
TSAC-2156 | Reinforcement | Previously, Rebar shape placing tool did not create the distances correctly when other than millimeter units were used. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-15116 | Modeling | When using orthogonal snapping, the snap points are now shown with perpendicular snap symbols. |
TTSD-16464 | Modeling | Modifying the phase of objects now redraws the objects in the correct color when the Color by phase option is used in the object representation settings. Previously, the color of the objects did not change when modifying the phase. |
TTSD-17047 | Modeling | The silhouette edges are drawn correctly again for high accuracy hollow profiles when XS_DISPLAY_FILLET_EDGES is set to FALSE . |
TTSD-17093 | Modeling | In the property pane, you can now save and load bolt assembly property files that only contain the bolt but no other parts in the assembly. Note that if you select or clear the Bolt check box in the bolt assembly properties, the check boxes for Washers and first Nut properties are also selected or cleared, as in the old bolt properties dialog box. |
TTSD-18600 | Modeling | When saving the model with Save as, the model name is now restricted to 40 characters, like when creating a new model. The last 10 model paths are not shown in the Save as dialog box. |
TTSD-18964 | Modeling | When you set XS_AISC_WELD_MARK to FALSE , you can now control how the fillet weld size is interpreted using the new XS_ISO_LEG_LENGTH_AS_WELDSIZE advanced option.Set XS_ISO_LEG_LENGTH_AS_WELDSIZE to:
XS_ISO_LEG_LENGTH_AS_WELDSIZE . |
TTSD-19562 | Modeling | Filtering assemblies by user-defined attributes now again searches attributes from the assembly's main part. |
TTSD-19845 | Modeling | Previously, splitting and combining parts was not working for all parts. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-20604 | Modeling | The saving of multi-user models has been improved to work more reliably. |
TTSD-20700 | Modeling | Previously, saving the model with Save as failed in some situations and Tekla Structures displayed the message Model memory is corrupted . This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-20921 | Modeling | Filtering reinforcing bars by using 'length' now works correctly again. |
TTSD-21481 | Modeling | Previously, selecting two bolts and right-clicking caused Tekla Structures to crash. This happened when the first part you had selected was a cast-in-place part. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-21482 | Modeling | Previously, if you left Tekla Structures idle for a while, in some cases Tekla Structures could freeze or crash. This has now been improved. |
TTSD-22524 | Modeling | Previously, when the Ortho tool was active, the snapping distances were incorrectly rounded. This has now been fixed. |
SOLD-783 | Licensing | When starting Tekla Structures for the first time, and the license server has not been defined, the waiting time has been significantly reduced from around 3 minutes down to about 30 seconds. |
TTSD-22408 | Installation | You can now uninstall several .tsep packages at one go in Extension manager. Previously, you could uninstall one .tsep package at a time. |
TTSD-13158 | Analysis and design | Previously, slab and panel hole analysis node positions were not created in the correct plane. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-19862 | Analysis and design | Split nodes are now created correctly in situations where the analysis part positions change in analysis model creation. |
TTSD-19916 | Analysis and design | Concrete panel analysis connectivity has now been improved. |
TTSD-22080 | Analysis and design | In a Tekla Model Sharing model, when you read in changes that included an analysis model, and an autosaved model was created after read in and the model then reopened without saving, the analysis model could sometimes be lost. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-22656 | Analysis and design | Previously, when a user had created an analysis model in a multi-user model and another user saved the model, this new analysis model was not visible for either user in the Analysis & Design Model dialog box. This has now been fixed. |
TSAC-2485 | Core | The Dimensioning Rule Properties dialog box had many texts that were not translated but showed the string ID albl_... This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-19981 | Core | When you tried to change the advanced option XS_DRAWING_PLOT_FILE_NAME_W in Russian language, Tekla Structures crashed. This has now been fixed. |
TSAC-2268 | Tools and components | In Rebar shape manager, it was not possible to include any of the ‘Leg to leg’ (D1:2), ‘Along leg’ (K3:1) nor ‘Off from leg’ (H3:1) distances in a rule formula. The formula value was not correctly evaluated and thus the rule result was never true and the OK button was not enabled. This has now been fixed. |
TSAC-2312 | Tools and components | In CMF Horizontal cladding support - column (33), you can now use the Gauge setting on the Parameters tab to change the gauge of the COJR strut created by this component. |
TSAC-2331 | Tools and components | In Kingspan Cold rolled sleeved (28), the UK firewall option now correctly positions the bolts and slotted holes on both rails/purlins on a double sided connection. |
TSAC-932 | Tools and components | In Radial array tool, angle values with decimals are now supported in regional settings. |
TTSD-18588 | Tools and components | Custom components containing system components were not correctly created when creating several custom components within one command sequence. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-19715 | Tools and components | Previously, closing Tekla Structures after model loading failed could cause Tekla Structures to crash. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-20327 | Tools and components | The execution time of custom components that use property files has been optimized. |
TTSD-20007 | Numbering | When you use standard-part models in numbering, the standard parts now get the start number of the oldest standard part in the actual project model, instead of a random number. The start number cannot be used to divide identical standard parts in groups, as the parts all get the same part position, prefix, and start number. |
TTSD-22146 | Numbering | Tekla Structures no longer crashes when renumbering objects. |
TTSD-13217 | User interface | When copying properties in the property pane, the check marks of the properties that you are copying now stay selected. |
TTSD-19192 | User interface | In some cases, copying properties in the property pane did not work. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-19949 | User interface | The bolt group distance x and distance y settings in the property pane are now properly updated when loading a property file. |
TTSD-20068 | User interface | The Image
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TTSD-20802 | User interface | Several fixes have been made to DirectX graphics including improved performance for the shaded wireframe (Ctrl/Shift+2) view mode. |
TTSD-20918 | User interface | Previously, saving the model with Save as could cause Tekla Structures to crash and restart instead of exiting. This has now been fixed. |
TTSD-21403 | User interface | The cast unit numbering series in the concrete part property pane is now shown as dimmed if it is changed in the cast unit level. |
TTSD-22164 | User interface | All virtual stud UDAs for steel beams are now available in the property pane in the US imperial environment. |
TTSD-22618 | User interface | Previously, if you used ft (decimal) length units and selected a bolt group, the property pane could be empty. Also, if you changed the unit setting to use ft (decimal) while the property pane was open, Tekla Structures sometimes crashed. Now the property pane properly shows the properties of the bolts. |
TTSD-21256 | Import, export, interoperability (steel) | NC: Sometimes, the pop-marks for middle line were not created. This has now been fixed. |
TSAC-1228 | Import, export, interoperability (concrete) | Export Unitechnik (79): The export now automatically recognizes and exports the gap width value between sandwich panel shells. |
TSAC-1231 | Import, export, interoperability (concrete) | Export Unitechnik (79): Coordinate system and scanned geometry is now drawn with simple lines instead of construction lines that where stored in model database. |
TSAC-1976 | Import, export, interoperability (concrete) | Export Unitechnik (79): You can now specify if uncollected reinforcement is excluded using the new option Collected for the setting Rebars export on the Reinforcement tab. |
TSAC-2075 | Import, export, interoperability (concrete) | Export Unitechnik (79): The setting Bent reinf. as unfolded on the Reinforcement tab now has a new option Only meshes. Using this option you can export bent meshes as unfolded, while other bent reinforcement is exported as bent. |
TSAC-2142 | Import, export, interoperability (concrete) | Export Unitechnik (79): The width of embeds created as B-rep items is now exported correctly. |
TSAC-2210 | Import, export, interoperability (concrete) | Export Unitechnik (79): Rebar groups that have been collected to meshes are now correctly unfolded. |
TSAC-2260 | Import, export, interoperability (concrete) | Export Unitechnik (79): Electric tubes are now always exported with Z position as Z=0. |
TSAC-2261 | Import, export, interoperability (concrete) | BVBS Export: Circular and spiral rebars had incorrect spacing values. This has now been fixed. |
TSAC-2304 | Import, export, interoperability (concrete) | Export Unitechnik (79): Line attributes export has been improved for double wall 2nd shell. |
TSAC-2390 | Import, export, interoperability (concrete) | Export Unitechnik (79): Production thicknesses of double wall shells are now calculated so that the 1st shell thickness reports sub-assembly thickness including braced girders, and the 2nd shell reports complete cast unit thickness regardless of the chosen dialog box option. This is to ensure that the production thickness values comply with the curing chamber slot maximum height. |
TSAC-2446 | Import, export, interoperability (concrete) | BVBS Export: When multiple segments of rebar are in 0-degree bendings then is exported as the continuous straight section. |
TSAC-2450 | Import, export, interoperability (concrete) | BVBS Export: The user-defined bending roll diameter can now be controlled with the BVBS_BENDING_ROLL UDA. |
TSAC-2470 | Import, export, interoperability (concrete) | Export Unitechnik (79): Previously, when a double wall shell was created from more than one part and the Cut outer assemblies option was switched on, the embeds in the secondary part were missing from the export with certain Export Groups settings. This has now been fixed. |