• Generic Design Abilities
    • Design beams, columns, joists,
      and concrete footings
    • Choose materials, species, grades
      and sizes from vast database
    • Easily bring up tables of stress values
      for groups of design materials
    • Input your own custom values and
      materials to design with!
    • Set deflection criteria's, duration
      factors, and notch depth's
    • Use our auto-sizer to quickly
      view multiple design solutions
    • View loading and shear, moment,
      deflection diagrams of your designs
    • Apply area reduction in floor design modules
    • Apply snow loads in roof design modules
    • Quickly print, save, and email using .pdf's
  • Building Codes
    • 2006 International Building Code
    • 2007 California Building Code
    • 2005 National Design Specification
    • Plus 15 Legacy Building Codes!!!
  • Design Modules
    • Uniformly Loaded Floor Beam
      • Simple span floor beam
        with one uniform load
    • Roof Beam
      • Simple span roof beam
    • Combination Roof & Floor Beam
      • Simple span beam with
        roof and floor loads
    • Multi-Loaded Multi-Span Beam
      • Input up to 3 spans, with 2 cantilever
      • Add 6 point loads, and
        4 trapezoidal loads per span
      • Use the trap load wizard to
        add quickly add multi-span loads
        and auto calculate interior reaction loads
    • Multi-Span Floor Beam
      • Up to 3 spans with 2 cantilevers
      • One point load per span
    • Multi-Span Roof Beam
      • Up to 3 spans with 2 cantilevers
      • One point load per span
    • Floor Joist
      • Up to 3 spans with 2 cantilevers
      • Design with I-Joists
      • Two wall loads and one partially distributed load per span
      • Moment of Inertia increases for glued and screwed plywood
      • Apply the code required concentrated load for commercial design
    • Roof Rafter
      • Simple span with one cantilever eave
      • Design with I-Joists
      • Add peak and base notching calculations
  • Column Design Module
    • Stud Wall Design
    • Laterally Loaded Columns
      • Has a uniform load, 3- point loads and 2 partially distributed lateral loads
    • Built-up columns
  • Footing Design Module
    • Rectangular, continuous and square footings
    • Calculate reinforced or non-reinforced footings (plain)
    • Load calculator auto sets your live and dead loads!
    • Add soil surcharge over footing
  • Building Materials
    • Solid Sawn Lumber
      • All 2005 NDS solid sawn wood
        species and grades
      • Choose western or southern types
      • Design with round lumber
        for log homes!
      • Create MEL/MSR lumber
    • Glulams
      • All 2005 NDS glulam wood
        species and grades
      • Choose western or southern types
    • Structural Composite
      • APA EWS LVL Stress Classes
      • Boise Cascade
      • Georgia Pacific
      • iLevel Trus Joist
      • International Paper
      • Louisiana Pacific
      • Pacific Woodtech
      • Roseburg Forest Products
    • I-Joists
      • APA EWS LVL Stress Classes
      • Boise Cascade
      • Georgia Pacific
      • iLevel Trus Joist
      • International Paper
      • Lousiana Pacific
      • Pacific Woodtech
      • Roseburg Forest Products
    • Steel
      • All AISC 13th Edition Steel Shapes
        & Calculations (W, M, S, HP, C, MC, L)
      • Use equal and unequal steel angles
    • Tube Steel
      • Rectangular
      • Round
      • Square
      • Design beams and columns
    • Plus Enter your own custom materials!!!
  • Flitch Beams
    • Solid Sawn & Structural Composite Beams
    • Choose flitch plate width
    • Choose flitch plate width
    • Build multi-material composite wood flitch plates!
  • Hip/Valley Beams
    • Individual or linked roof pitch
    • Individual or linked side length
    • Auto-calc the slope adjusted beam length
    • Add an intermediate support for a two span beam
    • Cantilever hip beam with point load at cantilever end
  • Loading Diagram
    • Quickly view 2-d scaled models of your beams, columns, and footings
    • Mouse interaction with models allows quick access to detailed loading information
  • Shear, Moment & Deflection Diagrams
    • Calculate and view controlling shear, moment, and deflection at specifc points of your beam for specific load cases
  • Project Manager
    • Save time by quickly copying designed members from project to project to cut down on repetitive work!
    • Quickly and easily search and update version 5, 6, & 7.0 project files to StruCalc 8.0
  • Printing
    • Print Previews
      • Each designed member prints to one professional page including a loading diagram and all associated calculations and conclusions
      • Quickly print, save to .pdf, or auto-email to client's and building officials your calculated members
    • Project Files
      • Do the same printing and email features with entire projects full of individual members in seconds!