Wood Design Tutor

L-Shaped Building Design With Automatically Generated Wind LoadsThis tutorial shows how to create an L-shaped building using US WoodWorks Shearwalls 2004, and design it for automatically generated wind loads. The design example is a two-story house with a hip roof, and dimensions of 30 x 50 ft. To access the tutorial in PDF format please click here.

WoodWorks® is structural design software produced with technical guidance from the wood industry’s codes and standards engineers. Based on the American Forest & Paper Association's National Design Specification® (NDS®) for Wood Construction. Design light-frame or heavy timber structures including connections. Size structural members one at a time or model entire structures. Use sawn lumber, heavy timber, glulam or engineered wood products.

WoodWorks® Design Office Suite includes three programs:
Sizer - Size beams, joists, columns and wall studs, one at a time or in a system, under various load conditions
Shearwalls - Design wood-frame panel shearwalls to resist wind and seismic loads
Connections - Design new connections using bolts, nails or shear plates, or check the capacity of existing connections

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