2018i SP4: New features and improvements

Tekla Structures
2018i
Tekla Structures

Fixes

Defect number Development area Description
TSAC-1499 Concrete components In Mesh bars, you can now control the minimum length of primary and secondary bars separately.
TSAC-1835 Concrete components Sloping slab drainage now works correctly on slabs with recesses.
TSAC-1896 Concrete components In Detailing manager, the Filter and Attribute lists now show long filter and attribute file names correctly when you open the lists. When you have selected a filter or an attribute file with a long name that does not fit in the list box and place the mouse pointer on the name, the whole name is now shown in a tooltip.
TSAC-2089 Concrete components In Mesh bars, bar splicing has been improved and bar lengths cannot extend the maximum allowed value.
TSAC-2410 Concrete components Seam applicator now again loads custom component seams.
TSAC-2435 Concrete components In Reinforced concrete stairs (95), the stairs part now has a new STAIR_WIDTH_TOTAL UDA that counts the total stair width including the stringers.
TSAC-2457 Concrete components In Reinforced concrete stair (95), the offsets for Bar J are now applied properly.
TSAC-2639 Concrete components Meshes created by Mesh bars and Mesh bars by area are now created with the correct catalog name.
TSAC-2700 Concrete components Wall Panel (64) no longer creates meshes if you do not enter any value to the Ht to layer option.
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-2771, TSAC-2769 Concrete components In Floor layout, the component attribute file list is now properly shown for all components. Previously, it was not properly shown for Mesh bars, for example.
TSAC-2892 Concrete components In Rectangular column reinforcement (83), the overlap length for stirrups is now converted properly to imperial units.
TSAC-2349 Steel components In Railings (S77), top rail part cut creation has been improved.
TSAC-2467 Steel components In Tube gusset (20), the cut creation has been improved in cases when the gusset plate runs through the main part.
TSAC-2490 Steel components In Full depth S (185), the gap between the tab plate and the main part flanges is now correctly applied when the main part is a C or U profile.
TSAC-2541 Steel components In Stairs (S71), step chamfers now work correctly.
TSAC-2569 Steel components In Moment connection (181), previously, when using the component to connect the secondary part to the main part web, the weld between the main part and the shear tab was not created. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-2603 Steel components In Two sided clip angle (143), the extra length of bolts is now correctly applied when a different number of bolts is created on the secondary parts.
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-2661 Steel components In Two sided clip angle (143), the Same bolt length for all option now works correctly for all the bolts the component creates.
TSAC-270 Steel components In Haunch (40), weld 7 is now created correctly in situations where the haunch is created as a profile.
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-2805 Steel components In Haunch (40), the creation of chamfers has now been improved in situations where the hauch is created as a profile.
TSAC-2814 Steel components In Shear plate to tube column (47), the bolt assembly and bolt length increase options are now correctly applied for both secondary beams.
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-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-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-303 Steel components In Stiffeners (1034), the width and height of stiffeners is now correctly applied.
TTSD-24752 Organizer In Organizer, the synchronization performance has been improved.
TTSD-13632 Import, export, interoperability

IFC4 export: Curved beam with line cut is now exported correctly in IFC4 Design Transfer View Export.

TTSD-17107 Import, export, interoperability IFC4 export:  Tekla Structures crashed when you were using a large number of characters for the file name in the IFC4 export dialog box. This has now been fixed. If the the number of characters exceeds Microsoft Windows character limit the characters are removed from the file name.
TTSD-18022 Import, export, interoperability IFC2x3 export: The grid is now exported to the same location as the model when you use the Location by: Work plane option.
TTSD-21384 Import, export, interoperability IFC2x3 export: The surface treatment to all faces of the part is now properly written to the IFC model.
TTSD-23266 Import, export, interoperability IFC object conversion: Cut row in changes cannot be opened at some cases. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-23671 Import, export, interoperability In IFC2x3 export the edge chamfers are omitted from the exported model. This is to enable better interoperability to plant design systems. If the geometry with edge chamfers is needed, you can set the IFC export type to Brep separately for those objects in the object's user-defined attributes dialog box on the IFC export tab.
TTSD-24321 Import, export, interoperability When you refresh reference models that have been created with previous versions of Tekla Structures, the reference model information is now updated to match the version of Tekla Structures that you are currently using.
TTSD-24524 Import, export, interoperability IFC2x3 export: Curved rebars are now exported with more accurate geometry when you use the Surface geometry export type.
TTSD-24843 Import, export, interoperability Reference models: Curved rebars are now visualized with better accuracy in IFC reference models.
TTSD-24848 Import, export, interoperability Tekla Structures now contains DWG plug-in version 1.42.
TTSD-25076 Import, export, interoperability Reference models: Tekla Structures crashed when you pressed the Pick button in the Add model dialog box while hiding the existing reference files. 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.
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-2405 Drawings The Rebar group marking application now works with circular rebar groups.
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-15754 Drawings Sometimes the hatches did not stay inside the enclosing polygon. 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-21381 Drawings When a template has a pull-out picture for an individual rebar of a tapered rebar group, the pull-out picture now shows the dimension lengths correctly as exact values.
TTSD-21756 Drawings Sometimes Tekla Structures showed an assert when a text was moved in a drawing using the Shift button.
TTSD-21787 Drawings Fixed an issue with pull-out dimensions for tapered rebar set groups.
TTSD-22990 Drawings

When prompted for mark content when creating an empty mark, the associativity symbol was not correctly drawn. This has now been fixed.

TTSD-23526 Drawings Drawing views created with the Area in drawing view command were incorrectly following one part inside the view when the part moved in the model. In GA drawings, these views look like model views so now they also behave like model views in drawing update, and the area the view is showing will not change after model changes.
TTSD-24457 Drawings Dragging rebar set rebar marks in a drawings now works also with curved rebars.
TTSD-24459 Drawings Detailed object level settings were not applied if the name from the dialog box differed from file name for the given attribute.
TTSD-24495 Drawings Merged part mark handling is now more robust, and merged marks are not split anymore.
TTSD-24705 Drawings Sometimes the IFC inquire failed and did not provide all information. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-25125 Drawings Clipping non-solid imported items now works better in drawings.
TTSD-25187 Drawings Previously, when you moved detail views to other drawings, the detail names sometimes changed. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-25438 Drawings Marks originated from view properties with template attributes now work more reliably.
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-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-26028 Drawings Document Manager caused an application error because a column name contained an invalid character '-'. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-3985 Drawings Locking an issued drawing caused the drawing to always change its status to "Issued drawing changed" in the drawing list, even though the drawing itself was not changed. Now, locking an unchanged issued drawing will not change the drawing status. Locking a drawing that was modified after issuing will, however, retain its "changed" status.
Reading in Issued sets locally locked to unlocked state, and reading in Lock sets locally Issued to not issued state.
TTSD-16206 Tekla Model Sharing In shared models, for parametric sketched profiles with several properties, the profile geometries were calculated incorrectly after read in until model was saved and reopened. Now this has been fixed. The geometries are correct after read in. Note that all users of model need have this Service Pack in use when writing out and reading in to have the correct geometries.
TTSD-22960 Tekla Model Sharing In Tekla Model Sharing, profile import has been improved as follows:
  • Importing of .lis profiles which have double quotes followed by space in the names has been fixed.
  • Importing of .lis profiles which have duplicated cross-section points has been fixed.
  • Reliability of importing profile updates during read in has been improved.
TTSD-23998 Tekla Model Sharing The Replace option for importing profiles to the profile catalog in shared models now works correctly when cross sections in the original profile and the imported profile have identical names.
TTSD-24545 Tekla Model Sharing Tekla Structures DataSharing facade has been upgraded to version 3.11.19.
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.
TSAC-2770 Reinforcement Rebar shape manager has been changed so that when you right-click a Bending schedule fields cell, if the list that opens contains a lot of items, new sub-lists are now shown to keep the list sizes more compact.
TTSD-13797 Reinforcement Tekla Structures now checks for duplicates when creating rebar set modifiers and splitters.
TTSD-24256 Reinforcement Previously, you could not select multiple rebar sets to be cut with the Part cut command. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-23098 Modeling The Diagnose model command now adds a new line "Obsolete object modification rows found." if there are any rows to be removed in the model database. Use the Repair model command to remove these rows. This can considerably reduce the database size if it had become too large as a result of creating and deleting multiple objects with UDAs.
TTSD-24499 Modeling Previously, you could enter an invalid shape name for an item in the property pane, which would change the item into a stick. This is now prevented. Instead, Tekla Structures instructs you to select a new shape.


TTSD-24692 Modeling Previously, when you selected to keep duplicate objects, you had to redraw the view or the duplicate objects did not appear. This happened with all object types. Now this has been fixed.
TTSD-25571 Modeling Deleting the latest used shape from the Shape catalog does not prevent inserting the following items anymore.
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-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-3635 Modeling

When setting the location dimensions of items and custom parts, the small yellow arrows above the dimension value box are not shown anymore and the value you enter is now used as the dimension value.

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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-23992 Tools and components Modifying a system component previously produced a status bar message: Outdated component was updated to match the current component definition. Now the message is only displayed for modified and updated custom components.
TTSD-24236 Tools and components In the Shape cleaner application, long directory names are now shown on multiple lines so that they are not clipped anymore.
TTSD-24676 Tools and components In the Shape cleaner application, the shape name list is now shown in alphabetical order.
TSAC-2785 Numbering Previously, Tekla Structures was crashing when NC files were created with contour marking and then numbered. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-15866 User interface It is now it is possible to modify multiple corner chamfers at the same time from the property pane.
TTSD-24308 User interface Previously, when you modified a UDA that did not affect numbering by using the property pane, Tekla Structures still considered the model object as needing renumbering. Now this does not happen anymore.
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-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-2449 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) BVBS Export:
On the Parameters tab, in the Drawing name source setting, there is a new option Assembly template available, and the Template option has been renamed to Reinforcement template.  
On the Advanced tab, click Edit or New under Private data block. This displays a list of property data types, which has been updated. The following options are now available:
- Reinforcement report property Integer, Float or Text
- User-defined attribute Integer, Float or Text
- Open API object property
- Assembly report property Integer, Float or Text
TSAC-2632 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): The Extend contour and add formwork option on the TS configuration tab has been improved in cases where the contour needs to be extended into the -X or -Y direction.
TSAC-2691 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): New options have been added on the TS configuration tab. The Rotate geometry option applies the rotation angle calculated using options Extra rotation and Auto-rotate on pallet. The SLABDATE rotation angle only option does not perform the rotation, only exports the rotation angle as a value in the respective SLABDATE field.
TSAC-2755 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): It is now possible to specify a user-defined concrete volume template property for export using the Concrete volume option on the SLABDATE block data specification tab.
TSAC-2768 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) In BVBS export, you can now use multiple assembly template properties in the file name. Type the template properties in the File naming template box and separate them with blank spaces. The combination will be separated by underscores in the exported file name.
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