Has anyone found weird errors with this new build? I have stumbled upon some new frustrating 'features' that have made me switch back to the previous build (and maybe even to version 2006, this seems to be a recurring issue lately).
- Adding beams by perpendicular intersection no longer works. It used to work by asking the origin node and then the destination beam, but now it creates a new beam where the origin node is indefectibly the origin (0,0,0) regardless of which node you select to begin with.
- Adding surfaces no longer works. You click on the four nodes (coplanar) and you get an error message saying that it is "Not a valid STAAD surface definition". Just try starting from scratch with a new model, four simple nodes, and try creating a simple surface out of them... I had just upgraded to the latest version because I was having lots of problems with a model that relies heavily on surfaces, only to find that I could no longer create new ones! And yes, I have been working with surfaces for a good while.
Quite frankly, there are several other issues I have spotted with this build, some of them which affect features I use on a regular basis. Could anyone point at the changelog for this version? The link given above (http://communities.bentley.com/Communities/Other_Communities/The_Bentley_Structural_Team/b/the_bentley_structural_team-blog/archive/2008/07/10/staad-pro-2007-03-releasing-soon.aspx) does not provide much insight into what has been added/fixed/etc.