2019i SP3: New features and improvements

Tekla Structures
2019i
Tekla Structures

Fixes

Defect number Development area Description
TSAC-2852 Concrete components Layout tools: The UDA files floorlayout.objects.inp and WallLayout.Udas.dat UDA files are now correctly read from the firm, project, and model folders.


 
TSAC-3016 Concrete components Sandwich wall horizontal seam, Sandwich wall vertical seam: On the Rabbets tab, there is now a new tongue joint connection type based on the center line and a new groove joint connection type based on the outer geometry.
TSAC-3398 Concrete components Lifting anchor (80): You can now select to allow anchor distribution based on percentage of the length.
TSAC-3466 Concrete components Precast foundation block (1028): You can now define angles for grooves on the Grooves tab.
TSAC-3513 Concrete components Anchor (10): The top and bottom offsets were incorrectly calculated for parts with complex parametric profiles and parts that have been cut. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-3516 Concrete components Mesh bars: The bars now always have at least the minimum length set in the Mesh bars dialog box.
TSAC-3523 Concrete components Concrete console (111): Assembly type is now correctly loaded.
TSAC-3524 Concrete components Concrete beam-beam (112): The box used for defining the length of the first washer on the Anchors tab is now dimmed properly.
TSAC-3556 Concrete components Embedded anchors (8): Previously, only concrete parts have been taken into calculations when using the Assembly without steel parts option on the Placement tab. This has now been fixed and miscellaneous parts are also considered.
TSAC-3569 Concrete components Two sided seating with dowel (76): The drainage hole is now generated properly around custom parts.
TSAC-3587 Concrete components The Wall layout dialog box now supports high-resolution screens with high scaling.
TSAC-3595 Concrete components Concrete console (110): The cast unit numbering standard is now loaded and saved properly for all parts.
TSAC-3602 Concrete components Concrete console (110): Previously, incorrect extra secondary parts were found when you defined them using the class or name. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-3720 Concrete components Two sided seating with dowel (76): The drainage hole is now created properly.
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-2680 Steel components Previously, Metsec side rails were wrongly being reported as riveted C rails. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-2878 Steel components UltraZED Cold rolled sleeved (107): When using a ULT-AB1 profile as the stay cleat profile, the stay was not created correctly. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-3416 Steel components Column with stiffeners W (182), Column with stiffeners S (187) and JP floor beam gusset (11): Previously, the component disappeared when the same component was created near to it. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-3440 Steel components Previously, Metsec RoundLok anti-sags were incorrectly creating bolts rather than holes. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-3512 Steel components Kingspan File transfer (18) was incorrectly removing valid holes in the MultiBeam sections. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-3530 Steel components Gusseted cross (62): The default bolt spacing for angle bolts is now the same both when you enter the number of bolts and when you do not enter the number of bolts.
TSAC-3531 Steel components Brace middle tubes and plate (144): Connection plates are now bolted to the gusset plate in the correct order.
TSAC-3536 Steel components Tube gusset (20): Previously, both above and below line welds were created as above line welds. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-3693 Steel components Brace corner tubes and plate (44): Connection plates are now bolted to the gusset plate in the correct order.
TSAC-3702 Steel components Shear plate simple (146): When the secondary part was already cut before applying the component, incorrect part geometry was used when positioning bolts. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-3795 Steel components Create hole around part (92): Previously, the hole was incorrectly rotated in some cases. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-917 Steel components Angle profile box (1040): Upper stiffener thickness, width and height are now correctly applied.
TTSD-30725 Organizer In Organizer, project properties were not previously exported to Excel. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-31350 Organizer Previously, synchronization in Organizer was cancelled when the selection in the model was changed. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-28033 Import, export, interoperability IFC export: The grids were exported incorrectly if you used a base point in the export. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-28999 Import, export, interoperability DWG export: The export now handles base point offsets better.
TTSD-29882 Import, export, interoperability DWG export: When exporting a drawing in US imperial environment, the preview window width was sometimes not enough to show the whole drawing. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-30257 Import, export, interoperability DWG export: Drawing DWG export now handles better views that have cut settings on but with no actual cuts.
TTSD-30742 Import, export, interoperability The handling of IFC reference models has been improved.
TTSD-30924 Import, export, interoperability DWG export: The export is now more reliable when plotting pull-out pictures in templates.
TTSD-31430 Import, export, interoperability DWG export: The export is now more robust when the Educational license is in use.
TTSD-32669 Import, export, interoperability The extra slowness of IFC change management has now been removed.
TTSD-32858 Import, export, interoperability Trimble Connector: Previously in Trimble Connector, the Refresh button in the ToDo view did not synchronize data from Trimble Connect. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-33039 Import, export, interoperability Point cloud data handling sometimes failed from 2019 SP3 onwards, and attaching the model to Tekla Structures was not possible. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-33077 Import, export, interoperability The .stp reference model insert speed has been improved.
TTSD-33216 Import, export, interoperability Trimble Connector: You can assign ToDos to all users in the Trimble Connect project properly again.
TTSD-28023 Templates and reports Reports now show secondary part ID's consistently.
TSAC-3103 Drawings In Drawing 2D Library, text in texts, marks, and dimensions that have a transpartant background mask are now supported in newly created details. previous all the text in details had Opaque background mask by default.
TSAC-3178 Drawings Rebar group dimensioning: The start value of absolute dimensions is now shown correctly again in the Rebar group dimensioning application.
TSAC-3448 Drawings Improvements in the Drawing 2D Library have been done to prevent multi-user models from crashing.
TSAC-3454 Drawings Rebar group dimensioning: The tool now takes the view depths into account to determine the part shape. Previous only the view plane was used.
TSAC-3676 Drawings Rebar group dimensioning: Rebar group dimensioning now works correctly for views that are rotated in cast unit drawings.
TSAC-3690 Drawings Drawing 2D Library had a defect in Tekla Structures 2019i Service packs 1 and 2. The 2D details inserted in section views were incorrectly placed. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-19815 Drawings The Document manager error handling has been improved. Now a message is shown if there is a problem reading any of the saved settings files.
TTSD-22036 Drawings Template width was spread according to the total text length in a multi-line text object, because line breaks were ignored when length is calculated. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-25906 Drawings The Delete button in Document manager has been improved. Now, if you have selected documents in Document manager, clicking Delete deletes selected documents. You can no longer accidentally delete model objects by clicking Select objects in the model for selected drawings and then clicking Delete.
TTSD-26477 Drawings The rebar dimension line now works better for those rebar groups that do not have a planar shape, such as a 3D shape.
TTSD-2741 Drawings "ą" diacritics could not be used in drawing text window - using shortcut for this letter selected entire text. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-27794 Drawings Part marks with the Fittings (NS/FS) element can now be merged more reliably.
TTSD-30043, TTSD-31893 Drawings In some cases, opening and recess symbols in drawings could cause a crash. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-30812 Drawings In some cases rebar mark was incorrectly placed. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-31166 Drawings Opening general arrangement drawings that were created in Tekla Structures versions older than 2017 is now faster.
TTSD-31361 Drawings In some cases, when a GA drawing view was created with certain view settings, it would behave incorrectly when you adjusted the view frame. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-31453 Drawings There was a crash when you made unfolded drawings of planar lofted plates. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-31938 Drawings When moving views from one drawing to another, some dimensions were sometimes rotated a bit. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-32338 Drawings In some cases, a file missing from the environment could cause a crash. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-32546 Drawings If undoing moving a drawing view, the view contents were not properly refreshed if the view did not have any labels. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-31202 System and options The following files are now read correctly from the XS_FIRM and XS_PROJECT subfolders: profdb.bin, profcs.bin, pgdb.bin, matdb.bin, screwdb.db, and assdb.db.
TSAC-3428 Reinforcement Rebar shape manager has been changed so that a bar that contains multiple sequential bends forming a circular arc (according curve tolerance) is converted to an arc only when the bending angles are smaller than ~34 degrees. In practice, a 10-sided polygonal stirrup will never be converted to a circular arc but if the stirrup contains 11 or more sides, it may be converted to a circular arc if it fulfills the curve tolerance value.
TSAC-3477 Reinforcement Rebar shape placing tool has been fixed so that the hook type and length are now set correctly.
TTSD-29759 Reinforcement When attaching rebar set bars to concrete parts, Tekla Structures now uses the center of bars instead of the center of gravity to determine to which parts the bars are attached. Previously, using the center of gravity could cause rebar set bars to be attached to incorrect parts as the center of gravity could locate outside the bars. This happened to L-shaped bars, for example.
TTSD-31061 Reinforcement Previously, rebar set adaptivity did not work correctly when magnetic grid planes were used in the model. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-31463 Reinforcement Previously, all rebar sets were modified after you set the work plane. This happened when you deleted a rebar set, undid the delete command, and then updated the window. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-32199 Reinforcement Previously, when you created a concrete part with a round part cut, a rebar set bar that intersected the edge of the cut was not correctly attached to the concrete part. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-32834 Reinforcement Previously, if a rebar set had a rebar that was assigned to two different groups, rebar set numbering was not kept when reopening the model. Now you can check and repair these duplicate assignments using the Diagnose & repair command.
TTSD-29843 Modeling Previously, it was not possible to enter the decimal symbol after the inch symbol when defining radial grid properties in the property pane or when using the Radial grid component. This has now been fixed and you can enter values in the format 1'-2".5, 1-2".5, or just 2".5.
TTSD-31203 Modeling The profitab.inp profile catalog file can now be read from the XS_FIRM and XS_PROJECT subfolders.
TTSD-31237 Modeling

Sometimes, when you used direct modification to modify the height of a lofted plate, the height was modified in the opposite direction when you entered a dimension. This has now been fixed.

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TTSD-31300 Modeling Previously, opening a 3D model view could in some cases cause Tekla Structures to crash. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-31395 Modeling Certain types of pour breaks now work on slabs with recesses.
TTSD-31590 Modeling Previously, when you created a stand-alone bent plate so that the top arc start point was the same as the top arc center point, Tekla Structures stopped working. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-31648 Modeling Previously, while adding an edge to an item, using the Undo command caused the Edge command to stop working properly. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-32449 Modeling Previously, polycurve geometry was removed when repairing the database if the XS_DELETE_UNNECESSARY_INT_ARRAYS advanced option was set to TRUE. This lead to corrupted polycurve geometry that caused Tekla Structures to crash. This has now been fixed. Polycurve has been added to the Diagnose model command so that it removes the corrupted geometry. In this situation you need to recreate the polycurve.
TTSD-32752 Modeling Previously, lofted plate geometry was removed when repairing the database if the XS_DELETE_UNNECESSARY_INT_ARRAYS advanced option was set to TRUE. This resulted in corrupted lofted plate geometry and the next repair would delete the lofted plate parts. This has now been fixed. Lofted plate has been added to the Diagnose model command so that it removes the corrupted geometry. In this situation you need to recreate the lofted plate.
TTSD-32783 Modeling Previously, creating a view from a radial grid when the view was different from the default XY plane view produced incorrect results. Now this has been fixed.
TTSD-33083 Modeling

The following folders and all their subfolders are now excluded from property file search in the XS_FIRM and XS_PROJECT folders, but only if they are immediate subfolders of the XS_FIRM and XS_PROJECT folders:

  • ProjectOrganizerData
  • AdditionalIPSets
  • macros
  • Drawing Details (note that there is a space in the folder name)
  • extensions
  • CustomInquiry
  • PropertyRepository
  • symbols
  • template
  • profil
TTSD-33288 Modeling Previously, pour breaks did not work in some cases where the parts forming the pour overlapped and shared a face. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-5272 Modeling Pour breaks now work more reliably in cases where the parts forming a pour object partially touch each other.
TTSD-31525 Licensing The error message for an expired Tekla Structures license has now been fixed.
TTSD-33171 Analysis and design When you modified a property in the Analysis model properties dialog box and clicked OK, and then used the Undo command, the modified property still stayed in the Analysis model properties dialog box. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-21410 Tools and components Outdated locked custom part instances are no longer automatically updated when they or their objects are unlocked.
Outdated custom parts are updated to use the latest definition with modify when the custom part or its objects are not locked anymore.
TTSD-27133 Tools and components The Shape value type is now available in the custom component editor. You can use it to open the shape catalog from the custom component dialog box.
You can use the new value type in existing custom components that include items by editing the components.
TTSD-32086 User interface The contextual toolbar now loads the previously used contextual toolbar profile when Tekla Structures is started even if the profile file is saved in the firm folder. The firm folder location needs to be defined in the teklastructures.ini file.
TTSD-32668 User interface Previously, Tekla Structures sometimes crashed when you tried to drag a floating side pane window or the changes list. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-33507 User interface Previously, changing very long rebar bends to straight bars in large rebar sets could cause Tekla Structures to stop working. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-3605 Import, export, interoperability (steel) NC files: The quantity of parts in the NC file was incorrect when hardstamp with assembly position was used and the advanced option XS_SECONDARY_PART_HARDSTAMP was set to TRUE. This has now been fixed.
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-3191 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export EliPlan file (68): EliPlan export now supports export version 3.0 (FloorMES).
TSAC-3192 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Eliplan file (68): The export now supports export of weep holes in version 3.0.
TSAC-3193 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export EliPlan file (68): The export now supports the export of accessory code to plotter data in version 3.0.
TSAC-3194 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export EliPlan file (68): The new EliPlan export version 3.0 supports the export of stack results. You can select if the UDA is read from the main part or from the cast unit.
TSAC-3269 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export EliPlan file (68): It is now possible to specify a UDA to read the strand code. Default reads the value from the TS_STRAND_CODE UDA.
TSAC-3517 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): You can now specify Output file structure as Single layer, 1 slabdate, n steelmats on the Main tab. This new option only exports the main part of the cast unit as SLABDATE, and meshes and embeds from whole cast unit in one row in export X axis direction with a 1 mm gap between them.
TSAC-3521 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export EliPlan file (68): The Tag for lifters setting has been improved and now also rebars can be specified as lifters using class or name. Now Tag for lifters also has option to specify how the lifters geometry should be plotted - as outline or as center point. It is also possible to specify plotting of additional reinforcement as bounding box or as lines using the setting Plot additional reinforcement or Plot cutout/embed as lines.
TSAC-3522 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export EliPlan file (68): Export version 3.0 supports the export of accessory code for openings.
TSAC-3541 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): The Extend contour and add formwork option on the TS configuration tab has been improved. Now, formwork is not added if there is already an embed with the same geometry. Also, the contour is not extended for electric tube embeds.
TSAC-3543 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): The Double wall turned setting  on the TS configuration tab has been improved. The No option has been renamed to option No, one coordinate system and new option No, shell-specific coordinate systems has been added to export second shell in the Z direction from the bottom of the pallet upwards.
TSAC-3555 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): Previously, when you exported braced girders within the STEELMAT block but with mesh filtered out, the reinforcement block was exported as empty. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-3592 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): Electric tubes are now not excluded for the whole length when you use the Cut outer assemblies option together with non-turned double walls.
TSAC-3656 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): Previously, line attributes were not exported for second shell of the double wall when Double wall turned was set to No, shell-specific coordinate systems on the TS configuration tab. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-3682 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export Unitechnik (79): The visualization in Tekla Structures model for the scanned geometry of the embeds is now drawn in the respective double wall shell.
TSAC-3684 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export EliPlan file (68): You can now specify the accessory code for standard embeds such as steel parts on the Data content tab. This will be the code written to each embed in the #Plotter (if applicable) and #Materials blocks, and the chosen option should be used as a base for further data conversion mapping. The default option is NAME|PROFILE-LENGTH|MATERIALGRADE.
TSAC-3704 Import, export, interoperability (concrete) Export EliPlan file (68): Previously, full depth cuts placed at hollow core profile chamfer lines with certain profiles  were exported with incorrect geometry. This has now been fixed.
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