WallPanelPro

WallPanelPro is a wall design and analysis software that integrates with Truss D&E and Truss Modeling.

Capabilities:

• Draw, label and dimension walls:
  • Common wall deletion
  • Wall insets
  • Wall extensions
  • Interior bearing and non-bearing walls
• Design walls quickly
• View single wall panels, complete floors, and complete buildings with 3D Viewer
• Layout wall studs
  • Break walls into panels
  • Distribution beam at top of wall
  • User created beam pockets in wall
  • Add wall stud at specific location (include rotation)
  • Mirror Interior Walls (floor to floor)
  • Set initial stud spacing
  • Add door and window openings
    • Input screen of standard openings with ability to set distance to opening and opening height
    • Ability to copy all openings to adjacent floors
  • Label studs, plates, headers, etc.
  • Dimension to each stud
  • Dimension to openings
  • Initially calculate Material Cut List and Wall Cost for all walls (per level)
• Miscellaneous materials
  • Wall stud fasteners (to top and bottom track)
  • Bridging clips and screws
  • Top or bottom track splices (stud + fasteners)
  • Header clips and screws
  • L-Header fasteners (to track and studs)
  • X-Bracing connectors and plates
    • Cost: Plate size, connection type/number of screws, base plate connection type/number, hold-down type/number
  • Shear wall connectors (base and top)
    • Cost: connection type/number of screws, base plate connection type/number, hold-down type/number
    • Panel to Panel connectors
• Summarize wall cost and sections
• Sheer Wall Analysis done with a click of a button
  • Diaphragm analysis, per level
  • Plan layout of shear forces on walls, per level
  • Shear wall analysis report
  • Create alternate X-braced bays, Left-Right, Left-Right, until shear resistance exceeds actual building shear forces.
  • Align X-braced bays, top level to lowest level
  • Option to X-Brace both sides of wall
  • Allow user to Set/Change X-braced Bay
  • X-Brace hold-down connection design
  • Design Type I shear panels (solid wall area) with criteria similar to X-brace design.
  • Create Type II shear panels(perforated wall) until total shear panels along design plane exceed design requirements (single level only)
  • Type II shear panel hold-down connection design
  • Show failed design in red. Also list failed results on 1st page of analysis report.
  • Diaphragm and shear wall deflection calculations
• Designs Studs + Connections, Bottom and top plates, Headers + Connections, and Bridging: Straps +Blocking Connection
• Design up to a 6 story building
• 

  Wall design data
  View and edit drawings of wall layout or wall panels
• Add and change openings for doors and windows easily
• Review layouts
• Set default data for entire project
• Quickly change layout levels with one convenient button to view and edit
• Mirror openings from one level to level
• Easy to use and learn
• Break walls into panels
• Set stud spacing
• Connection designs
• Component design
  • Floor Joist/Beams
  • Rafters
  • Columns
  • Headers
  • Review feature (like truss review)
• Print
  • Cost report
  • Wall components
  • Shear analysis
  • Material cut lists
  • Shop drawing
  • Shear Analysis report
  • Review feature (like truss review)
• Typical wall details sheet
  • Exterior wall corner
  • T-Intersection
  • Top or Bottom plate splice
  • Top plate to floor support
  • Roof Truss-Truss Blocking (Roof-Wall Shear distribution)
  • Floor Truss-Truss Blocking (Floor-Wall Shear distribution)
  • Bottom plate to floor support
  • Distribution beam to Top plate
  • In-line stud bracing (about minor axis)
    • U channel + clip
    • Snap in-place angle
    • Straps + End Blocking
  • Header details
    • Box headers
    • Back-to-back headers
    • L-headers
  • Panel hold-down connection, floor to floor (Simpson CD)
  • Panel hold-down connection, floor to foundation (Simpson CD)
  • X-Brace corner Plate/Strap connection and tensioning
  • X-Brace hold-down connection, floor to floor (Simpson CD)
  • X-Brace hold-down connection, wall to foundation (Simpson CD)
• Building Beam designs
  • Beam design @ wall insets
  • Beam design @ wall extensions
  • Create beam pockets in wall panels (left and right wall panels)
• Gable walls
• Door and Window schedules for each building project. Schedules are located in building project sub-directory.
• Create Interior non-bearing walls
• Create DXF export file for Wall Plan (walls + labels)
• Create DXF export file for wall panels
• Model individual wall (without analysis)
• Special design features to the Component Design Module
  • Design Rafters per AISC (structural steel)
  • Design Columns per AISC (structural steel)
  • Design Beams per AISC (structural steel)

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