Материалы за 28.12.2009

This document explains new features, fixes and improvements in Tekla Structures 15.0 Service Release 5. We recommend this service release for all Tekla Structures 15.0 users.

Modeling
Filtering
• You can now hide grids from the view by using a rule in the Object Group - View Filter dialog box. To do this, use the following format:
• Set the Category to Object.
• Set the Property to Id number.
• Set the Condition to Does not equal.
• Select the grid from the model to get the value in the Value column.
Assembly filtering
• In addition to filtering assembly type and series, you can now also filter by assembly name.
Object representation
• When you changed the object representation for an object group to Color by attribute, closing the Color by attribute dialog box using the did not open the list of possible representations anymore until you restarted Tekla Structures. This has now been fixed.
Snapping
• It is now again possible to pick the center point of a construction circle from the edge of the circle.

Drawings
Bolt marks
• Bolt marks are now again merged when the drawing is created.
• The leader lines of bolt marks were displayed as dotted, when you moved the bolt mark. This has now been fixed.
Copying and moving drawing objects
• Moving texts, notes or welds with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + M no longer leaves a copy of the drawing object in the view it was moved from.
• You can now copy and paste weld symbols that have been created manually in drawings.
Selecting drawing objects
• The pop-up menu now works correctly when you have two welds and a part selected in the drawing editor.
Reinforcement in drawings
• Reinforcement meshes were drawn incorrectly: crossing bars were drawn using the value from the Longitudinal field, and vice versa. This has now been fixed.
Reinforcement pull-outs
• Reinforcement pull-outs are now displayed in marks when you move the view to an another drawing.
Showing part openings and recesses
• An application error occurred when you opened a drawing, which included a hole or a recess with only 3 points and the recess symbol was a cross. This has now been fixed.
Protecting areas
• The angle value of a weld mark had too large a protection area, which covered some of the parts in the output. This has now been fixed.
Multidrawings
• Sometimes only one drawing per sheet was created. This has now been fixed.
Drawing wizard
• You can no longer create unfolded drawings of a part that is not a polybeam and includes cut that has been made using a polybeam, when you are using the drawing wizard.
Associativity
• The associative symbol is now drawn also for welds.
Grids in drawings
• Grid lines that run in the same direction are now updated correctly.
Updating marks
• The Annotating > Update Marks > All Part Marks command no longer updates associative marks when the drawing is frozen.
Part marks
• Decimals are no longer shown in sequence numbers in part marks.
Orientation marks
• If a cast unit drawing contained more than one front views, the orientation mark sometimes referred to the wrong view. Now the orientation mark always points to the primary front view.

Import and export
Exporting drawings
• The Use advanced line type and layer conversion option now works correctly: you no longer need to restart Tekla Structures and export the drawings again to have the correct result when you use this option.
NC files
• Inner corners shape 4 now locates drill holes correctly.

Connections
Tube gusset
• The shape of the gusset plate is now correct also when the primary part of the connection has welded stiffeners.
• The angle of the gusset plate is now correct also if you have not defined an angle parameter.
Welded tee
• You now have a new option Slots in on the Bolts tab, which you can use to define which parts get slots (Default, No, Beam, Tee or Both).
Column splice, Splice connection
• The lifting hole is now created only to the web plates, not to the column or beam web.
U.S. Base plate connection
• You now have a new option Slots in on the Bolts tab, which you can use to define which parts get slots (Plates, Beam, Both or No).
Round joining plates
• You can now define the Plate type for the connecting plates on the Parameters tab.
Column with shear plate
• The gap between the near side stiffeners and the flange of the beam was created using the far side stiffener value when the near side stiffener gap was not defined. This has now been fixed.
Bolted moment connection
• The flange plate is now created correctly.
Two-sided clip angle
• Deleting bolts from both sides of the connection did not function correctly in L-profiles. This has now been fixed.
End plate
• When you changed the bolting direction, the bolts were not placed correctly. This has now been fixed.
Full depth S
• In some rare cases, when you tried to apply the Full depth S connection on a beam-tocolumn intersection, there was an application error or the connection was no created. This has now been fixed.
Tapered beam to tapered column
• The lower flange is now split into two parts when you apply the component between a rafter and a column.

Details
Base plate
• The Pos_No field on the Parts tab works again for leveling plates.
Stiffened base plate
• The additional beam and the leveling plate collided when you selected the no stiffeners on flanges option. The position of the additional beam has now been corrected.
Handrailing
• Previously, when the stair incline was increased, the stanchion base plate was offset from the stanchion. This has now been fixed.
Stair base detail
• You can again define the material on the Parts tab.

Modeling tools
Railings
• The spacing of vertical rails was not created correctly when the handrail was sloped. This has now been fixed.

Cold rolled
METL-CON Shearplate to hip
• There is now a separate Bolts tab for defining the bolt settings.
MELT-CON Panel Joint at Mid-Span, METL-CON Autoform Two Sided, METL-CON Multichannel Base plate
• File transfer succeeded even if the actual autoform part of the autoform had been deleted. This has now been corrected so that if the autoform has been deleted, file transfer does not succeed.

Reinforcement components
Slab bars
• If the diameters of the primary and secondary reinforcing bars were different, the radius of the secondary bar was incorrect. This has now been fixed.
• If you set the cover thickness to 50 and then changed the end to have a hook, the cover was incorrect by half the bar diameter. This has now been fixed.
• When there were cuts in both edges of a panel, a mesh was not created. This has now been fixed.
Rectangular column reinforcement
• You can now place the side bars asymmetrically.
Reinforcement mesh array in area
• The default value for cover thickness is now 25 mm.

Analysis & Design
Mapping profiles
• Profile name mapping file is now taken into account when Tekla Structures is getting the analysis results.