What’s New & Improvements
Engineering Calculators:
- NEW! - IBC 2024 / ASCE 7-22 🇺🇸: Implemented new load combinations with updated snow load factors reflecting the ASCE 7-22 reliability-targeted approach (LRFD factor 1.0, ASD factor 0.7). Documentation has been updated to clarify this transition.
- Steel Beams 🇺🇸: Fixed missing cantilever bracing warnings - they now appear correctly when your beam configuration requires bracing.
- Wood Beam 🇺🇸: Improved one-page print layouts for Wood Beam templates by hiding intermediate calculation factors (like load duration) to create cleaner, more readable summaries.
- Wind Loads (AS/NZS 1170.2) 🇦🇺 🇳🇿: Fixed critical logic for impermeable structures where dominant opening ratios were incorrectly calculated; the ratio now correctly sets to zero.
Atlas Tube Connection Hub
- WF Column Capacity Fixes 🇨🇦: Corrected WF column capacity calculations for local yielding and buckling in HSS-to-WF moment connections.
- HSS-to-HSS Shear Connections 🇨🇦: Corrected eccentricity calculations for coped beam and shear cut sections.
- End Plate–Side Angles 🇨🇦: Enhanced with updated limit states, new bending/buckling calculations, and revised sidewall yielding resistance equations.
- HSS Trusses 🇺🇸: Unified weld calculations across templates, adding comprehensive base metal evaluations and strength-per-unit-length assessments.
- Shuriken Bolts 🇺🇸 🇨🇦: Standardized spacing requirements across various templates, enforcing a minimum 3-inch spacing with dedicated validation widgets.
Calcs Builder
NEW — We’ve opened up several previously internal-only tools, including the new Builder layout, Review Mode, and more. Other enhancements include:- Simpler, smarter sidebar
- Hidden widgets now use a small “bounce” animation so they’re easier to spot when toggled.
- The sidebar highlights sections based on your scroll position, so you always know where you are.
- Added keyboard shortcuts (Cmd/Ctrl+1–4) to quickly jump between pages.
- Review & combine in one place
- Review and Combine modes now work together with the sidebar to show only the widgets and sections that changed.
- You’ll see comment counts and can toggle visibility for changed items directly from the sidebar.
New Help Articles
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Tornado Loads (ASCE 7-22) 🇺🇸
How to calculate tornado loads for components and cladding using ASCE 7-22 Chapter 32. -
Upgrade Your Custom Calculator to Manage Loads (LRFD & ASD)
Learn to set up automated LRFD/ASD factored load calculations in your custom Builder templates. -
Linking Design Calculators to Truss & Portal Frame Analysis
How to use Design Only calculators to check capacity for members in Truss and Portal Frame analyses.