Shear 97 and ShearCAD Recent Improvements

1. 8/12/13 SHEAR 97:
   An optional truck-loading bar code is available for those SHEAR 97 users with the Premium Tagging Module (Bar coding).
   Premium Tagging has allowed for automatic bender bar codes on your SHEAR 97 tags for the last 12 years.
   Now, this new truck-loading bar code provides you with a computerized database of tagged items as they are loaded on the trailer for shipment.
   
2. 1/11/11 SHEAR 97:
   A Scroll-Bar has been added to the SHEAR 97 Barline (dark-blue) entry screen for you!
   As you've done for years using ShearCAD, you now have the convenience of scrolling to see a particular range of line numbers.
   Also, as you enter new barlines at the bottom of a list, SHEAR 97 will automatically scroll one line at a time, and this way,
   you'll see the group of barlines you just entered on the same dark-blue screen.
   This new scroll-bar feature applies to SHEAR 97 Estimating, Barlisting, and Standalone Detailing.
   
3. 8/4/10 SHEAR 97, ShearCAD:
   The BEAM Function has been updated!
   Now, with a single BEAM Function, you can detail or estimate a beam with multiple spans.
   Each span of this beam can have a clear span and support width which is different from the other spans.
   ShearCAD details all top bars, bottom bars, center bars, stirrups or ties on the barline screen,
   while drawing all spans of the beam as a single, integrated beam in your AutoCAD drawing.
   
4. 2/12/10 SHEAR 97, ShearCAD: New SHEAR 97 and ShearCAD feature:
   Generate a standard Microsoft SQL Database from SHEAR 97 data.
   All SHEAR 97 Jobs data, Releases data, Barlines data, Materials data files are condensed into a single standard SQL database!
   When you run the database creation, you can choose to include any or all of these Barlines: Detailing, Barlisting, and Estimating.
   Use your own Microsoft SQL server or other SQL database "engine", or download the free Microsoft SQL Server Express (free up to 4 GIG).
   Your SQL database can be "joined" or integrated with your other company database(s) for Reporting or Accounting purposes.
   For reporting, download a free SQL query/reporting program from the web, or use a program such as the well-known "Crystal Reports".
   Any report you can think of can be readily viewed and/or printed from your newly created SQL database!
   
5. 5/20/08 SHEAR 97, ShearCAD: New and expanded SHEAR 97 and ShearCAD Manual, version June 2008
   This new manual is in the PDF format, and can be downloaded from
   the Downloads page of website www.eRebar.com
6. 1/28/08 SHEAR 97: New SHEAR 97 Feature:
   There is a new Load List format (alternate Loadlist format style 3) which prints with larger characters and is more readable.
   This new Load List format also prints a picture of each bent bar in the same line as the bar line.
   To implement Load List format style 3, in the SHEAR 97 Setup preferences on line 514, enter: 3
7. 12/29/07 SHEAR 97, ShearCAD: New SHEAR 97 and ShearCAD Feature:
   ACI Tension Lap-Splice Lengths and Compression Lap-Splice lengths are now implemented.
   In the lap field of any function code (or most any other length field), the lap is computed based on a lap code you enter, such as the following examples:
   example 1: AT13 (class A, Top bar, Case 1, 3000psi)
   example 2: 11BO28E (size 11, class B, Other, Case 2, 8000psi, Epoxy)
8. 12/6/07 ShearCAD: New ShearCAD Feature: The STRETCH command button now applies to a 'drawn bar callout'.
   A 'drawn bar callout' is a bar that was drawn to scale by double Left clicking on the bend type (even though it is empty for a straight bar).
   To stretch a 'drawn bar callout', first click on the Stretch button at the bottom of the dark-blue ShearCAD screen.
   Next, in the drawing, you will single click on the particular bar leg with you want to increase (or decrease).
   Finally, you click a base point and displacement point, and automatically the appropriate dimension will be increased (or decreased) in length.
9. 3/5/07 Shear 97, ShearCAD: New SHEAR 97 and ShearCAD Feature: FPad Spread Footing (footing pad) function code. You enter footing dimensions, along with the sizes for top and bottom bars, and either the quantity of top & bottom bars or the spacing. All bars (top & bottom bars, and Standees) are computed for you. In ShearCAD, the Footing Pad is also drawn for you.
10. 11/14/05 ShearCAD: Draw any bar to scale and place in your cad drawing. This works for all SHEAR 97 and ShapeMaster bend types, as well as straight bars!
11. 9/3/05 Shear 97: Quickbooks Accounting Interface lets you access your Customer database and create a new Invoice with a few clicks!
12. 1/18/05 Shear 97, ShearCAD: New Panel Stiffener cage (pilaster) function. Automatically generates Vertical bars with either ties or stirrups with caps. Permits you to drop the cages precisely on top of a CAD drawing structure, for example a Panel drawing.
13. 12/6/04 Shear 97 Estimating: There is a new MULTiplier field for each Estimating bar line. This can be a decimal number, such as 1.33 or +33%. It can be set by data entry, or by clicking on "Menu", then click on "Multiply/Divide Lines by a Factor".
14. 11/30/04 Shear 97, ShearCAD: Release number field is now expanded. You can have as many as 12 characters for a release number (instead of 8 characters).
15. 6/7/04 ShearCAD: When entering inputs for any function code, wherever a quantity is expected, you can type "SS" (Span-Spacing) or "SSP" (Span-Spacing Pick) to calculate the quantity automatically.
16. 6/1/04 Shear 97, ShearCAD: A new, flexible and powerful Footing Continuous function (FCON). Continuous bars with stock and lap, transverse, dowels, and standees are computed automatically. ShearCAD draws it up for you!
17. 4/4/04 ShearCAD: Enter -- wherever a length input is expected and the powerful Length Calculator pops up; you can pick a line, a polyline, or arc, or 2 points, and the length is automatically computed for you.
18. 2/23/04 Shear 97, ShearCAD: Enter Q in the quantity field and the Quantity Calculator pops up; the total quantity of accessories such as chairs, bar supports, standees is automatically computed for you from the area (length x width), spacing, clearance. With ShearCAD, you can pick the area from your drawing.
19. 1/20/04 Shear 97, ShearCAD: The BEAM function now includes a single-span beam option. For more info, download the new Manual upgrade and see topic 6.45.
20. 12/1/03 ShearCAD: The (dark blue) entry screen now has a vertical Scroll Bar for your convenience and ease-of-use.
21. 11/28/03 ShearCAD: With the powerful new Stretch Edit, you can easily stretch a Structure on-screen, and its Barlines are automatically re-computed for you!
22. 11/24/03 ShearCAD: Partial Barlist Takeoffs can now be easily performed by Windowing your Selections on your CAD screen.
23. 7/25/03 ShearCAD: MESH function now lets you pick an outer polyline, which may have enclosed polyline openings, and the net square footage is calculated for you!
24. 6/23/03 Shear 97, ShearCAD: The Materials File has been expanded from 100 material line items to 900 lines.
25. 6/9/03 ShearCAD: For bend dimensions, you can Pick either 2 points or an object (such as a line or arc) and the length is automatically entered for you.
26. 10/14/02 ShearCAD: Detailing functions automatically Label Bars with the bar length as you place them in your drawing. Automatic Leader routine is implemented for the Detailing style callout format. You can set the text width scale factor so that text callouts take up less space on your drawing. Popup entry screen is greatly enhanced.
27. 04/23/02 ShearCAD: Range function (RANG) is enhanced. You can set the clearances left, right, bottom, and top, independent of the clearance around enclosed openings. Also, now you can choose to generate and draw either only the vertical bars, or only the horizontal bars. For more info regarding these improvements, please download and install the latest SHEAR 97 Manual upgrade from the Download page, then review topic 6.24.
28. 4/8/02 Shear 97, ShearCAD: Column (Rectangular) Function for Detailing and Estimating. Allows for 2 different vertical bars (staggered), variable spacing of ties, optional embedded structural steel W-beam. You can specify any front/rear face and rt/lt face bar combination, in the format N*x, M*y. Example: 4x,3y is 10 total bars, 4 front/rear face, 3 lt/rt. Using ShearCAD, Columns are automatically drawn for you, in both elevation and end views. In the end view, vert bar labels are automatically generated for you, and match the labels printed on the placement list.
29. 3/1/02 Shear 97: Print bar codes on tags. The bender operator scans the bar code on the tag with a bar code reader wand, and your bending machine knows exactly how to bend this bar!
30. 12/10/01 Shear 97: Import/Merge command button on the Jobmaster screen. This allows you to easily import Detailing (.DET) files and/or Barlist (.DAT) files. If the job is new, the Job Screen line is automatically create for you. For each new Release, the Release Screen line also will be created. As you import files, if a particular file already exists in SHEAR 97, you can choose either to replace, or rename the file to the next available release number.
31. 11/20/01 Shear 97, ShearCAD: Detailing Placement List, landscape, 8.5x14 (legal size) paper.
32. 10/20/01 Shear 97, ShearCAD: Comprehensive documentation for all Detailing and Estimating functions is now available to you in the Manual. First, download and install the latest Manual upgrade from the web site. Now run SHEAR 97; on the Master Menu, click the "MANUAL" button. Review and print topics in chapter 6 of the manual (Topics 6.10 thru 6.51).
33. 10/16/01 Shear 97, ShearCAD: Driller Pier (Caisson) Function for Detailing and Estimating. Allows for pier cap, 2 different vertical bars, center bars, dowel bars, ties, alignment bars. Using ShearCAD, Drilled Piers are automatically drawn for you, in both elevation and end views.
34. 09/21/01 ShearCAD: Beams are automatically drawn for you, in both elevation and end views.
35. 08/13/01 ShearCAD: Bar Entry Popup Window now allows you to enter a full comment line. Also new in the Popup Window, you can enter a mark which has not yet been entered on the blue screen. RANG function now permits openings within the structure; these openings can consist of circles, as well as rectangles and other lightweight polylines.
36. 07/20/01 Shear 97, ShearCAD: Detailing Placement List 11x17: Option to print a Total Pieces column (the extension of Required times Quantity).
37. 07/12/01 ShearCAD: On-screen Bar Entry Popup Window: You can repeatedly enter bent and straight bars and insert their callouts, from a pop-up window directly above your AutoCAD/IntelliCAD graphics screen.
38. 07/11/01 Shear 97: You can optionally suppress the printing of the Grand Totals Weight chart on the Estimating List printout.
39. 07/03/01 Shear 97, ShearCAD: For bend dimension entry, you can change the order in which the bend dimension letters appear in the vertical drop-down entry box.
40. 07/02/01 Shear 97, ShearCAD: Ellipse function for Detailing and Estimating. Tilt-Wall Panel, add slab dowels, top edge bar for sloping or gabled panels. Shear 97: Portrait barlist allows you to enter a note line to be printed as the first line on the first page. Tags and Loadlists, delineate rolls from mesh more clearly. Edit/Print Estimating cover sheet.
41. 06/30/01 Shear 97: New variation 2 for Tagstyle 18.