Problem description

In the above mentioned version, projects created in previous versions (2D AE, 2D 2015) which include tunnels will not display the tunnel information inside the “Properties” tab of the Tunnel designer. In the current version, as shown in Figure 1b, the information is there, but it is  just not shown due to an internal program issue. This will be a problem only if changes need to be applied to the tunnel properties.

Figure 1a. Information in “Properties” as in 2D 2015

Figure 1b. 2D 2016.00: Information in “Properties” not displayed

Solution

This is fixed in PLAXIS 2D 2016.01

When using PLAXIS 2D 2016.00, in order to solve the problem you are advised to update the tunnel information in the "Cross section" tab. This can be done by following these steps:

1. Open the Tunnel Designer by right clicking on the existing tunnel in the "Model explorer" and selecting to "Edit" the tunnel
2. Select the blue "Cross section" tab
3. In the “General” tab type a different value than the existing value for  "Axis 1" of the "Offset to begin point" option and press the [Enter] key. This action is performed in order to refresh the displayed information. For example if "Axis 1" is set to 0, you can enter a value of 1 and then press [Enter], as shown in Figure 2.
4. Change back the "Axis 1" value to the original value, so that effectively no change will be applied to the geometry of your tunnel and model.
5. Go to the "Properties" tab, and the tunnel properties information should be present now (Figure 3).

Figure 2. Temporary change of  "Axis 1" value

Figure 3. Information in "Properties" tab refreshed

 

This is fixed in PLAXIS 2D 2016.01