Wood

Wood truss

Pick a layout, span and pitch: roof and floor trusses in sawn lumber, chord axial and bending, webs, bearing and deflection, sized automatically to ANSI/TPI 1 and the NDS. Plates are not designed.

Preview. The app labels this calculation "Preview: not yet verified, do not rely on these results", on the screen, the report and the drawing, until its review is finished. What the results do and do not show.

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ILX Calcs editor for a wood truss calculation: inputs, status, live checks and the drawing

What you get

From the inputs to a finished wood truss calculation

The applicable checks, step by step

Every check with its equation, the values that go into it, the result and the code section, and the governing case up front. Results update as you type.

A calculation report a reviewer can follow

Inputs, load combinations, every check with its result and reference, and the governing case, in a clear PDF with your title block.

Drawings

Where the calculation has a shape to draw: elevations, sections and the diagrams, on a sheet with your title block, as PDF or DXF.

Your units, your method

US or metric units at any time, LRFD or ASD where the code offers both; the report follows.

Verification

How the wood truss is tested

18worked examples
18values compared
18match
0documented differences, each explained

Against published examples and hand calculations from the code equations, on every change. The method and the sources.

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