QuickQnect® Release Notes: April 2022

Coming soon:

• Utility ratio preference to offer a percentage gap between the required force and the designed capacity.
• Total control of designed angles and plates to match inventory and mandated requirements.
• Advanced washer control to use preferences to meet engineering requirements.

On its way

• Ability for Qnect to use connections designed in earlier sessions when designing groups of joints.
• End plate connections - AISC
• Single Angle Bracing connections - AISC
• Double Angles - CISC
• Advanced MAPS capability to filter what you want to show on a MAP.

Available now

• AISC 15th edition is now available.
• Load red cones into model even when no successful connections are designed.
• Highlight engineering related questions from the other preferences for ease of use.
  

• New preferences for preferred cut at setback for sloped filler beams on Fabricators Detailing Preference page.
  

• Provide option for normal shear plate geometry with minimal axial loads.  This question only applies to the trigger of full depth shear plates for these concurrent axial loads applied as a percentage of shear load, and do not affect any other full depth triggers, ie. axial
  loads in the model, integrity loads with passthrough, etc.
• The shear plate, weld, bolts, etc. would all still be designed for the shear and axial load similar
  for example when there is a two-sided connection and the axial load is considered a passthrough
  and the shear plate retains normal geometry. The principal difference is that this small axial load
  will NOT trigger a full depth shear plate to transfer the axial load into the girder flanges.
  This only occurs currently at single sided connections since currently if axial load occurs
  as a percentage of shear load as defined in the Job Preferences, (maximum 9%), design axial
  loads are harmonized on both sides, equal to the larger of two sides, which already allows
  connection with normal shear plate geometry.
  

• Allow "PARTIAL" full depth shear plate with some integrity loads
• At beam to girder connections, for Shear Only basic loading (without standard axial load), we will update to allow “partial” full depth shear plates with the following integrity loads:

1. IBC Integrity Load without pass-through
2. AISC 15th Integrity Load

• Assemblies GUID will no longer change when weld is replaced during a revision.