What’s New & Improvements
Engineering Calculators:
- Masonry Shear Wall (LRFD) 🇺🇸: Introduced axial capacity calculations, optional horizontal reinforcement design, and a new Seismic Design Category selector with TMS 402-22 limit validations.
- Wind Loads (ASCE 7-22) 🇺🇸: Enhanced with comprehensive monoslope overhang calculations for both MWFRS and Components & Cladding.
- Snow Loads (ASCE 7-16/22) 🇺🇸: Improved transparency for unbalanced gable-roof loads by providing explicit windward and leeward outputs.
- US Seismic SFRS 🇺🇸: Added “Steel ordinary concentrically braced frames” (OCBF) to the system library with dynamic height limit footnotes.
- Wood Beam (NDS 2024) 🇺🇸: Released new ASD and LRFD templates fully updated to NDS 2024 and IBC 2024 standards.
- Concrete Beam/Column/Slab 🇺🇸: Updated all templates for IBC 2024 compliance with refreshed technical references.
- Pier Footing 🇺🇸: Added a “Consider Self-Weight for Uplift” toggle to include foundation weight in resistance checks per ICC and ACI 318-19.
- Timber Species 🇺🇸: Fixed values for 2.1E-3100Fb grade, correcting the value from 2800 to 3100 psi.
Atlas Tube Connection Hub
- HSS-to-HSS Shear 🇺🇸: Added “Extended Configuration” supporting single plates, coped beams, exterior plates, and through-bolt moment calculations with new widgets for bolt configuration and moment calculations.
- WF-to-HSS Shear 🇺🇸: Fixed bearing length calculations to properly account for beam setback.
- HSS Splices 🇺🇸 🇨🇦: Converted bolt spacing from computed values to adjustable user inputs with integrated validation for end-plate configurations. Added shear load inputs expanding from P,M to P,V,M load vectors with updated demand calculations
- WF-to-HSS Moment 🇺🇸 🇨🇦: Refined dynamic diagrams with enhanced weld symbols
- Column Brace 🇺🇸 🇨🇦: Added AISC 360-22 J10.5 web compression buckling checks for mirrored connections. Enhanced interaction checks considering eccentricity-induced bending moments and improved buckling calculations for bolted splice-to-gusset connections
- HSS Beam-to-HSS Moment 🇨🇦: Corrected shear area logic to account for both HSS section walls, effectively doubling the calculated capacity.
Calcs Builder
- Sticky Sidebar Visibility: Your widget visibility preferences (hidden vs. shown) are now saved via local storage, so they persist when you return to a template.
- Widget Commenting: Comment input boxes now automatically focus upon opening, allowing for immediate typing without an extra click.
- PDF Export Branding: All PDFs exported from custom calculators now feature a “Custom Calculator created on Calcs.com” banner.
- Admin Feature Tiers: Organization admins can now toggle between “Standard” and “Early Access” feature tiers to test new Builder functionality.
Platform Improvements:
- Navigation Sidebar: Added “Collapse All” and “Expand All” functionality for the widget tree to manage large templates more easily.
- Color Coding Cleanup: Removed green color overlaps between preset layers and test results to ensure “Passing” status is visually distinct.
- Status Page: All system links updated to point to the new status.calcs.com domain.