ProSteel 2016 changes

Release 7.02c, 7 December 2016

• Beam loading diagram now stacks dead and live loads rather than the two hatches being overlaid.
• Changing theme triggered 'sub-menu not in menu' error - fixed.
• Some changes made to stop expanded windows erroneously reverting to original size.
• Size of steel column load diagram on printout has been increased

Release 7.02b, 30 August 2016

• Library (standard notes) dialog has been made slightly wider. Standard load names grid column widths now dynamically resize depending on content.
• Beam edit dialog, loads page, now always shows the notes header (add/use/notes dropdown/editor) - previously this was replaced by the loads footer when you clicked on the load grid which confused some users.
• Fix for missing toolbar icons on some displays

Release 7.02a, 23 August 2016

• Changes made to printing code to (hopefully) work around change made in Windows 10 August update which can trigger printer errors in previously working code. If you're really interested there's a technical explanation here.
• Various changes made to enhance program appearance, especially on hi-res displays.
• Toolbar Add Beam button and Project Menu, Add Beam option each display a menu which lets you select the beam type (loads, steel, timber or steel+timber). You can still change the beam type within the Beam, Edit dialog.
• Toolbar Add Connection button and Project Menu, Add Connection option each display a menu which lets you select the connection type (angle cleat, end plate or fin plate).
• Copy splice calculation as RTF didn't work - fixed

Release 7.01b, 25 June 2016

• Bug fix: Selecting a standard load with a '!' in the load expression caused an AV error.
• User Setup dialog, File Names and Locations page now includes an extra field showing the setup log file. Right-click to view this if you encountered any errors installing the program.

Release 7.01a, 7 June 2016

• When changing section family in the steel check dialog, AV error could be thrown if changing to a section family with fewer sections than the previously selected one
• Fin plate calculation error: This release fixes an intermittent error which was introduced into release 5.41g, Nov 2011 and unfortunately was not picked up by our test examples or reported by any users. Fin plate connections, check 2 (bolt group resistance), could in certain situations wrongly take the bolt capacity as that of the fin plate bearing resistance, although the beam web bearing resistance was lower.
• Splice drawing printing has been reworked
• For clarity the Print dialog now shows the selected options and copy allocations in bold.
• The beam web opening printout now includes a drawing of the beam side elevation showing the opening size(s) and position(s).
• [User request] Splice and connection design dialogs now add a bolt grade option, 8.8 [previous default] or 10.9. Using the higher strength bolts only makes a difference if the bolt strength is the limiting factor in a connection; if, as is often the case, bearing capacity of of a plate is the limiting factor, increasing the bolt strength won't make the connection any stronger.
• [User request] Previously if you or ProSteel selected a hollow section and the steel grade was set to S275, the grade was changed to S355, since Corus/Tata do not manufacture S275 hollow sections (see Blue Book). It's been drawn to our attention that some UK stockholder websites do list S275 hollow sections (possibly imported) so ProSteel now accepts these without changing the grade, though a warning message is shown.

Release 7.00f, 25 April 2016

Changes in this release

• Licence key file not handled correctly - fixed
• AV error if changing theme when open project includes OLE page(s) - fixed
• Bug fixed that caused display errors with splices and beam openings if a project was renumbered (e.g. following a Move Up/Down)
• Steel default grade could be taken as S355 even though set to S275 in User Setup dialog

Release 7.00e, 5/6 Apr 2016

• A few (out of 300+) users of SB/PS7.00 have reported that an empty rectangle is printed where a beam loading or BM/SF diagrams should be. 6 April build includes reworked diagram printing code to try and fix this.
• Ctrl+C removed as Copy to RTF shortcut so as to allow it to be used for copying text from dialog fields.
• Various small UI changes

Release 7.00d, 24 Mar 2016

• Further to some users reporting that the default dialog font is suboptimal, we have added an extra field in the fonts dialog that lets you select the font to be used.
• Various small UI changes

Release 7.00c, 22 Feb 2016

Changes in this release

Several small changes following user feedback from 7.00a users:

• Dialog font size increased slightly
• Axis values and legend on printed load and BM/SF diagrams were unreadably small - fixed
• In 7.00a we removed the default Enter [OK] and Escape [Cancel] key handling for modal dialogs. A new preference option optionally reinstates this.

There is no 7.00b

Release 7.00a, 8 Feb 2016

ProSteel 7 installs alongside ProSteel 5 (if you have it installed). Once ProSteel 7 is running to your satisfaction, you can uninstall ProSteel 5 if you choose using the Windows Control Panel.

• New theme support - a new button at the end of the toolbar labelled 'RGB' lets you choose one of twenty colour schemes from a dropdown menu. You can find previews of the available themes on our website page www.superbeam.co.uk/themes.htm
• PDF generation now uses the Gnostice library as used in releases 4.58e and earlier. This produces smaller PDF files
• Various technical changes - see readme file