Masonry Design Software
Masonry Design Software
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I am doing quite a bit of masonry design as of lately....including bearing walls, shear walls, lintels, beams, and pilasters. Does anyone have an opinion on a good design software that would cover all these situations using updated code checks? Crunching numbers by hand is really getting old.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.






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Enercalc does it as well, but I don't trust it personally.
For simple ASD stuff, you should be able to write a spreadsheet fairly easily.
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link to ies quickMasonry page
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I'm not convinced software is any faster than using the tables in Amrhein. But TEDDS is pretty good.
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'kipfoot' - trust me this is not a marketing ploy for IES....although that is one of the software packages I'm looking at.
FS
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It is a simple program and reasonably priced. It designs to the latest IBC and does both ASD and LRFD, which can be really helpful if you have a hybrid system and have all the LRFD load values handy already.
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IES so far is the most user friendly and intuitive I have demo'd so far. The NCMA software is "okay" but I don't like the limited loading conditions.
I haven't found any software that designs the opening jambs though. Probably have to stick with the handy dandy spreadsheets. I know many people like to stick with their spreadsheets, and I do like mine and I'm partial to them because I put a lot of effort into getting them the way they are...BUT...it's so time consuming going through and updating them or checking them as codes change.
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You mean like designing the entire opening rather than just designing is like a pier? Or you can't input point loads?
Just curious...
EIT
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IES software doesn't allow a pier that is less than 2 blocks in depth. I don't think the NCMA software allows the different loading conditions one may encounter (multiple openings in the same vertical plane causing multiple point loads and distributed loads, etc.)
Maybe I'm missing something that the programs do, but I haven't been able to see it done yet.
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Best software
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Do you happen to have any screen shots of the program? I don't see anything on the website to show what/how the program works.