2018i SP8: New features and improvements

Tekla Structures
2018i
Tekla Structures

Fixes

Defect number Development area Description
TSAC-3396 Concrete components Hollowcore reinforcement strands (60) has two improvements:

In the .dat file, it is now possible to add additional grids for strand patterns. The new grids can be assigned to a strand pattern by adding the stand pattern name after the grid, for example, Profile-name'_GRID_'Strand-pattern'.
 
Also, the Pull value boxes on the Strand pattern tab are now enabled when the distances are defined by an external file. It is now possible to overwrite the pull of a strand. If the pull value is empty, the pull values of the .dat file are used.
TSAC-3652 Concrete components Embedded anchors (8), Lifting anchor (80): The components now properly create C++ custom parts and take their attribute files into account. .Net components are not yet supported.
TSAC-3920 Concrete components Braced girder creation (88) (89): For sidebars (bar C) created as steel rods, the bending radius is now applied properly.
TSAC-3964 Concrete components Starter bars for footing (87): Corner bars and side bars now take the values of the standard hooks when the hook length or bending radius values are empty on the Picture tab.
 
TSAC-3984 Concrete components Embedded anchors (8): A warning message is now shown when unknown material is detected in the input assembly.
TSAC-4089 Concrete components Mesh bars and Mesh bars by area: The direct modification dimensioning now considers spliced bars as just one bar. This shows a cleaner and faster dimension line when using direct modification.
TSAC-4108 Concrete components Corbels and recesses (82): The rotation value is now correctly displayed in decimal. Previously, the units were incorrectly converted when imperial units were in place.
 
TSAC-4131 Concrete components Starter bars for pillar (86), Starter bars for footing (87): Rebars are now created as single bars instead of one bar rebar groups.
TSAC-4189 Concrete components Corbel reinforcement (81): The component now reinforces the console on each side of the column, regardless of the column rotation.
TSAC-4234 Concrete components Wall layout tools: The wall layout opening face handle has been changed to two crossing lines to allow easier selection of openings, and to make editing of opening boundaries easier. Wall layout opening modification from the component dialog box is now more robust.
TSAC-1901 Steel components Unfold surface (21): Bolts are now created in the correct position when the final unfolded plate is created as a union of the unfolded plates.
TSAC-1920 Steel components Pipe doubler plate: Previously, the component created chamfers to the first and last point of the plate, which caused problems in the polybeam. This has now been fixed.
 
TSAC-240 Steel components Bent plate (151): Previously, the component created double notches on the top flange. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-2723 Steel components Cap plate detail: When switching off all check boxes in the component dialog box, the Class check box on the Parts tab is now also switched off.  
TSAC-3383 Steel components Shear plate simple (146): Previously, the bolt option Below did not have its reference distance to the lowest bolt of the bolt group. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-3914 Steel components Two sided end plate (142): Creating the component with secondary parts as C profiles has now been improved.
TSAC-4030 Steel components Stairs (S71): Previously, bottom stringers were created with incorrect length when horizontal offset of steps was specified. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-4049 Steel components Seating with dowel (75), Two sided seating with dowel (76), Seating with dowel to flange (77), Two sides seating with dowel to flange (78): The components now properly create C++ custom parts and take their attribute files into account. .Net components are not yet supported.
TSAC-4059 Steel components Column - 2 beam (14): Previously, the component did not work correctly when the secondary part profile was a C or U profile. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-4076 Steel components Shear plate simple (146): Previously, the bolt protection area was created too large, and it cut unwanted parts of the secondary beam. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-4077 Steel components Column with stiffeners W (182): Previously, the bolt protection area was created too large, and it cut unwanted parts of the secondary beam. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-4078 Steel components Column with stiffeners S (187): Previously, the bolt protection area was created too large, and it cut unwanted parts of the secondary beam. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-4083 Steel components Simple clip angle (31), Two side clip angle (33): Previously, some value was assigned to the bolt tolerance when it was not defined in the component dialog box. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-4101 Steel components Web stiffened end plate (1016): Previously, the additional beam name was also applied as the additional beam finish. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-4176 Steel components Cage ladder (S60): Previously, when the ladder width was greater than the cage radius, the ladder creation was not working. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-4210 Steel components U.S. Base plate (1047): Anchor rods are now created correctly when a composite of welded parts is used as the input part of the component.
TSAC-4222 Steel components Two sided end plate (143): Previously, the extra length of box primary bottom bolts was incorrect. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-4273 Steel components Partial stiff end plate (65): Previously, when the bolt spacing was specified asymmetrically, the holes in the shim plates were created incorrectly. This has now been fixed.
 
TSAC-4282 Steel components Joist to beam, type 1 (160), Joist to column, type 1 (161), Two sided joist to column (162), Joist to column, type 2 (163), Joist to column and beam (164): The bolt extra length is now correctly applied in the component.
TSAC-4306 Steel components Base plate (1042): Previously, when you specified to create anchor rods as custom components and did not define the thickness of the cast plate, the component was not created. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-34498 Import, export, interoperability IFC2x3 export: You can now export all project properties as property set properties with IFC2x3 export.
TTSD-35407 Import, export, interoperability DWG export: Some relative image paths did not work correctly in drawing DWG export, now they do.
TTSD-36623 Import, export, interoperability Objects are now imported from locked reference models when you refresh the reference models, provided that the XS_REFRESH_ALSO_LOCKED_REFERENCE_MODELS advanced option is set to TRUE. In addition, Hole Reservation Manager now updates voids in locked reference models correctly.
TTSD-36956 Import, export, interoperability IFC reference model assembly selection sometimes selected too much. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-37030 Import, export, interoperability Drawing DWG export: Export rules with rebar set object filtering rules work better now.
TPLED-145 Templates and reports The contents of the hidden templates in drawings are no longer calculated, which reduces the drawing opening time.
TTSD-33849 Templates and reports Using the SIMILAR_TO_MAIN_PART attribute could sometimes cause crash. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-36176 Templates and reports Some revision table styles were not working. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-36696 Templates and reports Template Editor no longer crashes when you are dragging several lines and cancel by pressing the Esc key.
TTSD-36770 Templates and reports The ROW_IN_PAGE template attribute now works properly again.
TTSD-37026 Templates and reports Columns are now working again in reports.
TTSD-23589 Drawings Printing: Previously, hatches were sometimes placed outside their boundaries and covered areas incorrectly. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-26872 Drawings Section marks disappeared when you moved a section view to another drawing. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-28183 Drawings Previously, when you changed the color of dimensions in drawings using the contextual toolbar, the positions of the dimensions sometimes changed. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-29849 Drawings The attributes *_LEVEL_BASEPOINT and *_LEVEL_PROJECT were changed to string, and new attributes *_LEVEL_UNFORMATTED_BASEPOINT and *_LEVEL_UNFORMATTED_PROJECT were created as double.
TTSD-30197 Drawings A crash could occur when you tried to write and then open a PDF file with an invalid file name. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-30350 Drawings Holding down Shift and dragging connection marks no longer moves the leader line start point to the view origin.
TTSD-31089 Drawings Previously, when you created a new multi-drawing, the merged reinforcement mesh marks could not show single mark content. This has now been fixed. However, existing multi-drawings created before this fix still show erroneous marks when opened in TS2019 or newer. You can fix the marks by splitting the erroneous merged marks and merging the single marks again.
TTSD-32203 Drawings In the Finland environment, saving standard print settings resulted in two standard entries in the settings file list. This has now been fixed by renaming the incorrectly named standard.PdfPrintOptions.xml settings file in the Finland environment to PdfPrintOptions.xml.
TTSD-34102 Drawings Tekla Structures could hang while opening a model if files were being modified in the folders tracked by Document manager. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-34565 Drawings Previously in some cases, items were misplaced and incorrectly oriented in GA drawings. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-34919 Drawings In single-part, cast unit and assembly drawings, Tekla Structures sometimes incorrectly combined end views so that only one of them was visible, and both had an A symbol. This happened only in view-specific dimensioning if you had selected something else than Integrated dimensioning. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-35012 Drawings In the .htc file for hatch pattern settings, material names can now be 32 characters long. Previously, the character limit was 21 characters.
TTSD-35516 Drawings The arrow symbol 0 (no arrow) is now always available in drawing properties, view properties and mark properties, despite the values in the arrows.txt file.
TTSD-35568 Drawings Previously in some environments, after you moved a table in Layout editor, you could not select the table again by clicking it. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-36802 Drawings Sometimes you got duplicate marks to parts when adding marks manually through the context menu. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-35034 Tekla Model Sharing Previously in some cases, when a shared model was diagnosed and obsolete object modification rows were found, using the Repair model command did not solve the issue. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-3975 Modeling In the Radial array tool, the box for defining spaces between the copies now adjusts to the size of the dialog box.
TSAC-4127 Modeling Linear array tool: When copying objects, if you do not enter the number of copies, Linear array tool now takes the number of copies from the defined space distances between the objects. 
TSAC-4266 Modeling

In the Radial array tool, if the box for defining the number of angles or distances is empty, the tool now takes the number of copies from the space between copies box. 

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TTSD-30409 Modeling The XS_LINE_WIDTH advanced option is not in use anymore, and it has been removed from the Advanced options dialog box.
TTSD-32859 Modeling Previously, the coordinate symbol did not follow the local coordinate system when the view was created with the On plane command. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-35464 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-30326 User interface When changing the value of XS_VIEW_PART_LABEL_COLOR, you no longer need to restart Tekla Structures to activate the new value.
TSAC-4170 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): Previously, some cut bent meshes were exported with incorrectly unfolded geometry. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-4220 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): Now, when there are the multiple wire sizes for the same direction of wires in the STEELMAT block, they are exported with the same concrete cover (the same Z coordinate offset).
TSAC-4310 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): Previously, reinforcement meshes with multiple wire sizes in a layer had incorrect reinforcement types for some of the mesh wires. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-4333 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): On the Reinforcement tab, you can now select how mesh wire levels are calculated by using the Mesh wire layer level setting. The options are Actual level, Highest level, Wire size, and Manual.
Actual level is the relative wire level in the model, Highest level means all wires in the layer are moved to the level of the wire with the highest z position, Wire size means that the relative level of the 2nd layer is written according to the wire size, and Manual means the 2nd layer wire level can be defined manually.
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