StruCalc 7.0 Features

StruCalc 8.0 is the next generation of structural analysis software. The intuitive interface combined with the power to design multiple span members using steel, wood, flitch beams or manufactured lumber propels StruCalc ahead of the competition.

This is the features page for StruCalc 7.0, a now outdated version of our software. To see what StruCalc 8.0 looks like please go to our homepage and follow the links from there.

Feel free to browse any of our detailed information pages by following the below links:

• Hip/Valley Beams
• Cantilever Columns
• Column Design

Features for StruCalc 7.0

• Steel Angle design-braced or unbraced with leg up or down.
• Cantilever column design
• Fully customizable database-add or remove materials and control what sizes appear in StruCalc
• Round member design
• Multi-span I-joist design
• 2006 building codes
• 2005 NDS values
• 2005 AISC Steel values

Minor New StruCalc 7.0 Features

• Loading diagram now scales to show relative load strengths.
• Added Two partially distributed loads to the column module
• Added a second wall load to the floor joist module
• Can now change the building code for an entire project
• Autosize by double clicking on the desired value
• multiple steel plates for Flitch beam design
• Button to clear all inputs in the multi-loaded beam module
• Copy Autosize options to Notes at end of Calculations
• Set default grades or steel shapes

StruCalc Features

• 95 CABO One and Two Family Dwelling Code
• Includes Ten Design Modules
• Footing (Square, rectangular, and Continuous)
• Uniformly Loaded Floor Beam
• Roof Beam (Including Hip Beams)
• Combination Roof and Floor Beam
• Multi-Loaded Beam
• Multi-Span Floor Beam
• Multi-Span Roof Beam
• Floor Joist
• Roof Rafter
• Column
• Multiple Span Analysis with Increased Loading Options
• Up to three spans with cantilevered ends
• Six point loads per span
• Four trapezoidal loads per span
• One uniform live and dead load per span
• Rectangular and continuous footing design
• Sizes and specifies reinforcement
• Load calculator assists in load determination
• Specify column type (Steel, wood, concrete or masonry)
• Design for overburden pressure
• Laterally loaded column design
• Stud wall design
• cantilever column design
• Structural Composite lumber columns
• Deflection criteria for laterally loaded columns
• Design for vertical and lateral loads
• Up to three lateral point loads
• One lateral uniform load
• Multiple laminated solid sawn columns
• Multi-span Hip beam design
• Shear, moment, and deflection diagrams
• View diagrams for all load cases
• Determine values at any point along a beam
• Negative loads
• Improved loading diagram
• Tube steel beams in all beam modules
• Wide flange steel columns
• User notes on print-outs
• Built in translator to open StruCalc 5.0 files
• Comprehensive Material Database
• Solid Sawn lumber from the 91, 97, 01 and 05 NDS
• All Available Glulam Combinations including new NDS Stress Class’s
• Structural Composite Lumber from six Manufacturers
• Wide Flange Steel beams and Columns (five shapes)
• Equal Leg Single Angle design
• Tube Steel Beams and Columns
• I-Joists from six Manufacturers
• Flitch beam design with solid sawn or structural composite side members

All major Building codes

• Use any year NDS with any Building Code
• 2006 International Building Code
• 2006 International Residential Code
• 2003 International Building Code
• 2003 International Residential Code
• 2001 California Building Code
• 2000 International Building Code
• 2000 International Residential Code
• 98 International One and Two Family Dwelling Code
• 94 and 97 Uniform Building Code
• 94, 97, and 99 Standard Building Code
• 93, 96, and 99 BOCA National Building Code

Powerful Solutions For Every Project

Beams & Columns

• Wood
• Concrete
• LVL & Glulam
• Masonry
• Steel

Retaining Walls

• Gravity Retaining Walls
• Cantilever Retaining Walls
• Counterfort Retaining Walls

Posts & Footings

• Isolated Footings
• Continuous Footings
• Embedded Posts

Roofs

• Roof Beams
• Roof Rafters
• Hip & Valley Beams
• Collar Ties
• I-Joists

Floors

• Floor Beams
• Floor Joists

Decks

• Deck Footings
• Deck Beams

Walls & Framing

• Shear wall
• Stud Wall
• Bearing Wall