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03.05.2010
Service Release 3 zu Allplan Precast 2008.2a
The use of this service release 2008.2a3 is only possible after installation of CD Nr. 04-02-04-09-FTW !
Servicerelease 3 for Allplan Precast 2008.2a
You can only use this version when you have installed CD no. 04-02-04-09-FTW.
Possible initial versions:
Allplan Precast 2008.2a (use CD for installation)
Allplan Precast 2008.2a1 (Servicerelease 1 for Allplan Precast 2008.2a)
Allplan Precast 2008.2a2 (Servicerelease 2 for Allplan Precast 2008.2a)
This Servicerelease provides the following features:
General notes:
We improved the stability in many areas thanks to the quality reports you sent us.
The “Copy/Move Elements between Documents” tool handles drawing files with reinforcing bar elements more quickly.
We have improved the process of importing PDF files with layers. Please note the information on PDF layers provided in the online help: for example, the full layer name is created from the first 28 characters of the PDF layer name; the short layer name from the first 8 characters. If the PDF layer name is empty for several PDF layers, they are imported to a single Allplan layer.
We have improved list preview in conjunction with high resolution display.
Associative views / shell:
We have improved the process of deleting dimension line points from existing dimension lines (elevation points, in particular).
Mark boxes of elements in associative views that are created with the “position of mark text” = “centered at top” setting are retained when you update mark numbers (“Modify Mark Number” tool).
When you copy drawing files using ProjectPilot, associative views are always placed correctly.
Precast elements in general:
“Passive” basic reinforcement is displayed correctly in the “Plot Layout” module.
We improved various features in conjunction with wizards:
- Plan display settings are ignored in wizard windows.
- You can use starter bars in conjunction with wizards.
- Precast elements in wizards are ignored when you place legends or rearrange precast elements.
- When you add assembly parts to walls (cast-in nuts), the program no longer copies the walls from the wizard into the drawing file.
Identical symbol fixtures are detected at once when you rearrange precast elements in "identical" mode.
Precast floor:
Hollow objects are displayed correctly when you change the panel type of individual elements and then design the entire region again.
We improved the process of applying reinforcement to ribs of fitted panels. In addition, we improved automatic generation of fixtures at longitudinal sides of openings for light in TT floors.
We improved various features for the “suspended brick floor" design mode:
- The program calculates the lattice girder overlap when the bar overlap is set to 0.
- You can match the bar overlap in conjunction with secondary bars.
- The program shortens filling objects that are cut.
- The program processes large support depths correctly and no longer displays an error message.
The program directly calculates the proposed value for the minimum reinforcement to ensure the ductile behavior of components in accordance with DIN 1045-1while taking the concrete (fctm) and steel grade (fyk) currently set into account. The program now proposes this reinforcement when you click in the “Req. bar cross-section in span direction” box. In the transverse direction, the program proposes the percentage of the reinforcement obtained from the “Percentage of transverse reinforcement for longitudinal reinforcement“ setting in the “Options | Precast Elements | Floor Programs | …| Entry | Reinf. types | Basic reinforcement“ multiplied by the minimum reinforcement.
Precast wall:
You can only apply the “Modify Design” tool to walls you have already designed.
Wall elements are no longer assigned to the layer of the fixture when you insert a shaped fixture and set the interaction setting to “negative".
We improved various features for wall elements of the “wall panel” type:
- When you create facing elements manually using “Modify Wall Panel | Add facing elements manually“, the program takes the parameters for the reinforcement from the configuration and saves the new values when you quit the dialog box. We added the missing lines for entering “exterior reinforcement”.
- Bending shapes are now assigned correctly to exterior or interior reinforcement.
- We improved the process of cutting horizontal joint sections and creating a “smooth” section in the area of the opening when the bottom of the opening coincides with the top of the wall panel element.
- The layer thickness is assigned correctly to the “layer thickness” attribute for label styles if layers pass through corners.
- The program no longer deletes fixtures in a wall already designed when you modify the horizontal joint division using “Modify Design | Divisions”.
- The program divides walls correctly when you increase the tolerance values used to determine the polyhedron for dividing wall panel elements.
- We improved the process of creating facing elements with the “fixed width” setting in the area of corner columns.
- Reinforcement in associated views in placement drawings is still visible after you have added solid strips.
- The program immediately updates marks in associative views when you enter surfaces in partial areas and specify “Mark text for special surfaces” in the “Options | Precast elements | Wall programs | Wall panel | Entry | Labels | Miscellaneous“.
- The program now creates separate elements beside the opening when you set the “Mandatory points at top level of opening” and the “Mandatory points at bottom level” options in the dialog box. In earlier versions, the program sometimes created connected wall panel elements across the opening.
The element plan updates immediately when you add assembly parts (cast-in nuts).
The automatic calculation process of the width of lifting bolts runs correctly.
Structural precast elements, i-Parts:
In the case of parametric structural precast elements of the “beam" and "girder" types, you can now change the "length" by entering a value after you have defined the start and end points or when you make modifications later. The start and end points of the “beam” or “girder” are then lengthened or shortened. Please bear in mind that the program will not update the parameters displayed if you use the “Stretch Entities” tool!
The “LocZ” label variable indicates the “height” value for structural precast elements of the “beam" type you define by entering parameters. In earlier versions, the program saved the difference between the highest and lowest points of the beam.
We improved the ”Join Precast Elements” tool as follows:
- The girder width does not change if the girders are lengthened as a result of the "column and rectangular beam/girder" connection.
- When you select the “column and rectangular beam perpendicular to column” connection, the program no longer resets the “edge offset" of the empty conduit and reinforcement to the beam end while you make entries in the dialog box.
- The values displayed for the lateral edge offset and axis offset in the dialog box are updated correctly in conjunction with the “column and rectangular roof trusses (interior column)” connection.
The span direction for structural precast elements of the “slab” and “beam” types is analyzed correctly in conjunction with the “direction definition B" in the layout catalog.
The height association of parametric structural precast elements of the “column" type is interpreted correctly when you make modifications later.
Formwork:
We increased the tolerances for creating and editing shuttering boards. This results in various improvements:
- You can create shuttering boards for oblique-angled and inclined components.
- You can split shuttering boards later.
- You can intersect shuttering boards created manually
- You can determine the formwork area’s center of gravity.
We improved the handling of shuttering boards in conjunction with the “Edit Element” tool:
- The program no longer dimensions “sloping” edges of shuttering boards.
- When you select the “Shorten/lengthen shuttering board” tool and click an edge, the program only displays the selected edge in the selection color (as in version 2005).
Placing drawing:
The special schedule for stirrup cages no longer includes longitudinal bars within bent-up meshes you placed using the “Additional Reinforcement | Bent-Up Meshes" tool.
We improved the handling of fixture labels with label styles in conjunction with the visibility settings in the “Plan Display” tool.
The program no longer moves text below mark numbers into the mark number when you place an FF stirrup cage.
Element plan:
Longitudinal bars of stirrup cages are listed correctly in element plan tables.
Schemas are displayed correctly in element plan tables.
We improved various features in conjunction with layers:
- Special layer settings and display options (pen, line, ..) for visible or hidden edges of associative views that are displayed with the “hidden” option in placing drawings no longer cause all edges of the corresponding precast element to be placed on the same layer and to be displayed with the options previously set in element plans. The program always takes the display settings from the layout catalog.
- The “from layer” setting and changed values for “pen/line/color" for additional reinforcement are handled correctly when printing.
You can only select colors that are smaller than or equal to 9 for the display of mark numbers in element plans.
Bar reinforcement you have not placed no longer causes error messages when you apply the "Delete Element Plan" or "Create New Element Plan" tool.
Label styles are no longer missing when you apply the “Print Element Plan” tool.
You can quickly switch between drawing files containing precast elements with element plans and legends in element plans.
We improved the process of dimensioning lattice girders in wall elements when you create element plans using the “Element Plan in Batch Run" tool.
Schema labels in element plans are included when you copy drawing files using “Copy/Move Elements between Documents”.
We corrected stirrup cage numbers with the index “1”.
You can apply the “Resize” and “Ungroup” tools on the shortcut menu of legends to element plans.
Engineering:
The program positions hooks of stirrups correctly in the “Bar Shape” (closed stirrup) tool after you have placed them in the shell.
FF components/reinforcement:
We corrected the process of entering FF stirrup cages across elements in the “Edit Element” tool: when you display a single element in the “Edit Element” tool, the program only displays the cut FF stirrup cage of this element.
The program assigns stirrup cages to the correct double wall leaf when you modify the relevant element later. FF cages (additional wall reinforcement) are always assigned to the leaf produced first.
Instead of cage names, FF cages are now labeled with a mark number preceded by “FF” in views and in the table of the element plan.
The predefined cage name (created from four digits of the contract number (project attribute), four digits of the fileset name, 3 digits of the element number and 3 digits of the consecutive stirrup cage number) also takes into account contract numbers whose first four characters are figures.
We improved various features in conjunction with FF cages: placing FF cages in the area of niches, creating niches in the area of FF cages later and copying and moving wall elements with FF cages.
The program analyzes the “Integrate stirrup in leaf 1” option in the same way as in version 2005. Please note that the options in the lower part of the dialog box for FF cages are only analyzed correctly when you create the cages using the “Additional Reinforcement | FF Reinforcement" tool of the element plan. The same applies to the automatic tools for labeling FF cages (additional wall reinforcement) described previously. These settings are not taken into account when you use the “FF Components” tool of the Engineering family!
When you select “girder type 2 with support”, the program creates the stirrups along the top of the girder as far as the offset of the girder at the bottom (cope at support) (as with “beam type 1 with support”).
Basic reinforcement:
The program issues a waning when you try to create a schema for “passive” basic reinforcement.
Additional reinforcement:
Additional bars you create with the “Show middle bar only” setting in the element plan (placing drawing) are displayed in the same way in the “Plan Display” tool. When you select the “Show any bar” or “Show a single bar displayed as folded” setting for the element plan (placing drawing), you also need to define the bars to be displayed in the “Plan Display” tool. When you select the “Show any bar” or “Show a single bar displayed as folded” setting for the placing drawing and you have not opened an element plan, you can only select the bars to be displayed in the “Plan Display” tool. In this case, the element plan always displays all bars.
We improved the process of assigning mark number s to stirrup cages you modify later using the “Modify Label/Reinforcement" tool, “Modify Stirrup Cages” option.
Offset labels applied to additional bars (“Options | Precast Elements | General | Program Sequence | Labels | Additional bar offset“) are retained when you modify the support later.
The program no longer issues the inappropriate warning "Bending shape has changed; unable to calculate the bending shape!" when you open the "Stirrup Cages” tool in the element plan. In addition, the program now creates the stirrup cages correctly.
The minimum width and length of recesses are calculated correctly when you place additional reinforcement (“Options | Precast Elements | Floor Programs | … | Calculation | Additional Reinforcement | Cut with recess“).
Structural starter bars:
The program no longer includes parameters with a value of 0.0 (e.g. lengths, weight) in the special schedule for stirrup cages.
Mesh welding system/attached reinforcement:
Reinforcement in roof elements on inclined planes is created correctly.
We increased the tolerances for the “Lengthen bars up to the minimum length” option.
The “Prompt for moment/as_req for each element“ option is available for attached reinforcement again.
Fixtures:
The program creates correct drawing file data when you place a fixture that cuts a girder and enable the “Intersect girder” option (“Fixture Catalog | Reinforcement“).
Various variables are now analyzed correctly:
- “A$“ variables (reveal) in list text of fixtures (“Fixture Catalog | Logging“)
- “$PH“ variable in plan text of fixtures for double walls and wall panels
Now you can enter fixtures in 3D objects with associative sections you have already created.
You can successively copy dynamic group fixtures a number of times. You no longer need to select the group fixture after each copy operation
Production planning:
When data is transferred to production, the bricks of the “solid brick floor” design mode are listed separately in the DAT file.
The program handles tolerances correctly when you transfer data of surface fixtures and meshes in solid wall elements to production.
The program correctly transfers data to production after you have copied data to a different drawing file using the “Copy/Move Elements between Documents” tool.
We improved the (customer-specific) lists/schedules you can create straight from Allplan using the "List Generator”:
- The “Floor measurement sheet” outputs the "total steel weight".
- The “Single panel schema floor 1”, “Single panel schema floor 2” and “Floor measurement sheet” correctly analyze the “assignment” attribute from the fixture catalog.
- The ”iParts item list” outputs the concrete volume, element weight and concrete grade.
We improved the (customer-specific) lists/schedules created using the “BFT menu”:
- The program calculates the wall area when a large opening that stretches over the entire element length is below a wall element (invoice list).
- The program calculates the length of floor elements when you have changed the element length using the "Model Precast Elements" tool (invoice list and stack list).
- The quantity of formula fixtures that are added up is multiplied correctly by the number of elements.
The “File | Print Preview“ tool for viewing a DMMYFILE in BFT_edit is no longer available for (customer-specific) lists/schedules created using the “BFT menu”.
We improved the calculation of “special formwork” when you create UNITECHNIK data.
We adjusted the position of the center of gravity marking, which is created when you enable the “Mark center of gravity” setting (“Options | Precast Elements | Production Planning | General | Production Data Transfer | Wall Panel“), so that it is consistent with the calculation in the CAD system.
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