Servicerelease 1 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)

Installing this Servicerelease improves Allplan Precast 2008.2a as follows:


General notes:
We have eliminated the cause of error messages that might have occurred when you retroactively changed the “Same folder name as project name“ setting in ProjectPilot or in the project settings.


Associative views:
New tool: “Link dimension lines to views”. When you use this tool to link dimension lines created manually to views, the program analyzes the x and y factors of the view/section. In addition, the linked dimension lines are always deleted, moved, … along with the view/section.

Now the program analyzes the settings for displaying surface elements as fills in custom associative views.

You can no longer use filters to hide smart symbols. Filters only apply to the shell, reinforcement and fixtures.


Precast elements in general:
The list text for fixtures is complete even if individual prompts remain empty or are assigned a value of 0 during input.

Now you can apply the “Stretch Entities” tool to shaped fixtures or to objects created with “Model Precast Elements” and added to associative views that have already been dimensioned.


Precast floor:
Taking meshes from the mesh catalog into account, the program correctly determines the reinforcement percentage in the slab types’ reinforcement type catalogs. In earlier versions, only the transverse mesh reinforcement was used and also applied to the longitudinal direction.

The program no longer crashes when you shade recesses (“Shading on/off” setting in “Plan Display”) with drawing files converted from earlier program versions (2003 or 2005) in the background.

Labels of linear fixtures are retained when these fixtures are cut later due to modifications to the element division.

Improved algorithm used to assign ascending mark numbers to copied slab spans.

Improved update of precast slabs/floors (and legends) when one (or more) legends are placed in a drawing file.

The layer for girders and shear girders calculated with the “Shear Reinforcement” tool is retained when you modify data later (e.g. insert a recess, …).


Precast wall:
The “Design Mode” option is available with the "Modify Design” tool again. However, you can only change the parameters that cannot be modified using the ”Modify Parameters, Basic Reinforcement” tool (panel thickness, shortening TL and BL, specific type of production).

During design, niches (cavities) within a wall are taken into account.

New option for wall panel elements: now you can modify profiles of vertical joints in specific areas in the same way as profiles of horizontal joints.

The mark number line and additional lines below the mark number line no longer disappear when you copy wall elements.

The design updates correctly when you define an upstand after you have changed the leaf thickness of a double wall (”Modify Parameters, Basic Reinforcement” tool).

Now the program internally converts data from the previous version in conjunction with the "Structural Starter Bars" tool. You no longer need to convert the data manually. The program used to issue a message indicating this when you saved new "Structural Starter Bars".

The "Structural Starter Bars" tool displays cages and joined cages correctly.

Assembly parts (cast-in nuts):
§ Cast-in nuts are also created on the layer for assembly parts.
§ Improved linking with precast element.

Fixtures are no longer deleted when you modify walls using the “Delete Section of Linear Component” tool.

Improved update of precast walls (and legends) when one (or more) legends are placed in a drawing file.

Improved dialog box for connection parameters (“Connections” tool) in conjunction with high resolution display.

Drawing file data is created correctly when you modify custom planes of drawing files with wall element design.


Structural precast elements, i-Parts:
Now you can use the additional custom attributes for the text lines below the mark number line.

Improved automatic tools for creating the subtraction/addition solids, which are required for the generation of connections ("Gable column and rectangular gable beam (interior column)" and "Column and rectangular roof beam (edge column)”). This also applies to connections between beams and columns of the “Façade” type.

We have eliminated problems with slow updates and inappropriate error messages that might have occurred when you modified the “straight stair” i-Part.

The layer of multi-pitch roof planes is retained when you make modifications later.

We have corrected the inappropriate error message for ridge lines that are longer than 100 m.


Formwork:
Shuttering boards created manually:
§ Improved handling of boards that do not touch the object shuttered.
§ Higher tolerances for intersecting boards created manually with the object shuttered.
§ Modeled recesses in boards can be deleted again.
§ Improved display in animation when recesses are added or deleted later.

Improved process of selecting predefined outlines in the "Select Outline" dialog box in the “Model Shuttering Board“ tool.

Placing drawing:
When you list stirrup cages, the overview diagram is only displayed in the list when the relevant stirrup cage consists of more than one bending shape (e.g. stirrup and longitudinal bar). The overview is not included when you list stirrup placements without longitudinal bars.

Individual wall elements created as construction lines are displayed correctly when you match the view.


Element plan:
Bars placed in batch are handled correctly in element plan tables.

The following applies to bars created with the engineering modules: segment length labels and bar lengths calculated in schemas of element plan tables are the same as those created in manual schemas. Please note that updating existing element plans may result in differences between old and new labels in element plan tables.

By entering the local mark number, you can now create manual schemas for bars that are only visible in the element plan and not in the placing drawing.

Mark number s of fixtures you have mirrored are no longer moved in element plans.

Label styles for labeling fixtures are only displayed once. They are no longer duplicated each time you open the element plan.

When you change the values of attributes later, the project attributes (edited by, construction project and drawing name) used in label styles (title block) of element plans update automatically.

The pen settings in the layout catalog are applied correctly to automatically created mark numbers for bar labels.

Improved process of retaining manual changes in element plans.

We have improved the “Element Plan in Batch Run” tool in various ways: ellipses are displayed correctly when you print plt files; error messages for incorrect elements etc. have been eliminated.


Engineering:
Now you can apply the “Enter Area Reinforcement” tool directly to i-Parts without having to create a view/section or element plan beforehand.

Improved process of calculating the placing region for placement in polygon in conjunction with “Reinforce with Model “set to off.


FF components/reinforcement:
The hook angles can be entered correctly for the “column type 2“ and “column type 3“ FF components.

Improved "Cut Mesh" tool when used in conjunction with FF mesh reinforcement.

We have considerably improved the performance of the dialog boxes in the “FF Components” tool by reducing the number of times the mesh cross-section catalogs are accessed.

If you select the “straight stair” FF component and define a very short landing, the program will only provide the loop for the reinforcement. Based on the existing stair geometry and the concrete cover(s) set, this option is set automatically.

Now you can enter the concrete covers at the top and bottom of straight bars and meshes placed in stairs independently of loops. All you need to do is select “Loop at top” and/or “Loop at bottom”.

Additional reinforcement:
We have eliminated problems with tolerances that might have occurred when you created bar overlaps at panel edges of elements that are far from the origin.

The correct concrete cover is taken into account at joints produced by connection and division for longitudinal bars in stirrup cages.

Improved process of placing stirrup meshes as top reinforcement (for solid floors, for example).

Stirrup cages placed with the “Anchorage up to edge” option being enabled are retained when you use the “Modify Stirrup Cages” tool to retroactively disable the hook generated during creation.

Longitudinal bars are displayed correctly when you create open stirrup cages with segments of variable length.


Mesh welding system/attached reinforcement:
Instead of hard-coded values for the “lateral” concrete cover at the front and longitudinal sides of wall and slab elements, the program always uses the values defined for the bar overlap (with the exception of slab elements of the BubbleDeck type). If you enter 0 for the bar overlap, the setting in the configuration is used (“SetValue (bar overlap = 0)” setting for slabs and “General bar overlap” setting for walls). The value you enter for the lateral concrete cover is used as usual for slabs of the BubbleDeck type.

Instead of hard-coded values for the offset from fixtures to longitudinal bars and cross bars (settings in fixture catalog on the “Reinforcement” tab), the program always uses the values specified in the catalog.

The program no longer crashes when you activate the "Mesh Welding System Editor" tool.


Production planning:
Now you can enter special characters (e.g. ä, ö, ü) for the name of the file with the production data (DAT file).

We have improved the (customer-specific) lists/schedules which you can generate straight from Allplan using the “List Generator”.

We have eliminated problems with tolerances that might have occurred when you
§ calculated recesses with rabbet
§ transferred recesses in conjunction with the following setting: Options – Process planning – General – Production data transfer – General – “Parameters for calculation tab – “Unitechnik method” active.

Now you can transfer stirrup cages and stirrup meshes separately as ‘STEELMAT blocks’ in Unitechnik files.


Shear force analyses, DIN 1045-1:
Reinforcement projecting beyond the supports is calculated correctly. Please note that only bars that project beyond the panel edge are taken into account. If the values for the two supports differ, the program always applies the smaller value to both sides.