Videos
ILX Calcs videos
Short narrated videos: a tour of the app, how every release is tested, and step-by-step training for each kind of calculation. Captions and transcripts included. Videos are hosted here, with no third-party players or tracking.
Overview
What ILX Calcs is, how it is tested, and how reports and drawings work.
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3:01
A tour of ILX Calcs
Sign in, start a project, make a calculation with the wizard, read the checks, and print the report and drawing sheet.
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3:00
How ILX Calcs is tested
What the verification report says: published examples where they exist, hand calculations where they do not, every difference recorded, and what is still to come.
Training
Step-by-step videos for each kind of calculation, with a link to the matching manual page.
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2:54
Getting started with ILX Calcs
Your account, a project, your first calculation with the wizard, the results, the report and the sheet.
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3:17
Reading the checks
Steps and clauses, the governing check, Not adequate and Not feasible, clauses to confirm, and documented deviations.
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2:25
Units, title block, sizes and output
Units, your title block and its project overrides, sheet sizes, report presets, PDFs and DXF drawings.
Manual: Training 2: Projects, settings, title block and output
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1:45
Steel: a floor beam
A W18X40 floor beam with braces at the third points: the checks, the steps, auto-design and what the calculation leaves to you.
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1:38
Wood: a built-up header
A 2x12 header over a 12 ft opening: two plies fail in bending, three plies pass, and the nailing between them governs.
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1:42
Concrete: a simply supported beam
A 16 by 26 in. beam: why you read every row and not only the status bar, and what a stirrup spacing past its limit does.
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1:26
Foundations: a spread footing
An 8 ft square footing under an 18 in. column: soil bearing on service loads, concrete design on factored loads.
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1:47
Masonry: a CMU lintel
A reinforced lintel over an 8 ft opening: not adequate for embedment, not strength, and a plain word on the code basis.
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1:39
Cold-formed steel: a wall stud
A 600S162-54 stud under axial load and wind, with the web holes set by you: unpunched, then punched.
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1:47
Loads: a takeoff and a load combination table
Loads tools have no pass or fail: a floor beam takeoff with live load reduction, and every combination of your load effects.
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1:36
Utilities: beam analysis and unit conversion
A two-span beam with live load patterns, analysis only, and the unit converter.
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2:15
The section builder
Every property of a cross-section: a W18X35 from the database, then the same shape with a cover plate.
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1:51
The truss designer
A Fink roof truss in wood: layouts by picture, automatic sizing, and the preview label on every result.