What's New

New tools and changes on WebStructural, newest first. Items marked Pro need a Pro account; everything else is free.

October 9, 2026

Folders inside folders. Put a job's folders inside one folder for the client or the year. Pick the folder a folder sits in from its edit dialog on the dashboard. Pro
Delete saved designs. A trash button on each design in the designers' project list and on the dashboard.

One Footing Designer. The footing calculator and designer are now one tool for column, post and wall footings, square or rectangular, with wind or earthquake uplift, moment and shear: soil pressure off center, overturning, sliding and the ACI 318-19 concrete checks.
Ledgers, stairs and guards in the Deck Framing Calculator. Ledger bolt spacing by the NDS, the tie to the house or knee braces, stair risers and stringers to IRC R311.7, and guard posts, all in the plan, material list and PDF.
Earthquake loads from the base shear in the Frame Designer. V = Cs W by ASCE 7-22 12.8, split among the levels, with the period, Cs, W and V in the PDF report.
Search your projects on the dashboard by title, folder or designer.

Folder PDFs. On the dashboard, open a folder and click Beam PDF, Column PDF, Footing PDF, Anchor Bolt PDF or Frame PDF. You get one PDF: a summary of every design in the folder, then each full report. Pro
Retaining Wall Calculator. Cantilever concrete or concrete block walls: overturning, sliding and bearing, stem bars, a key under the stem, water behind the wall and earthquake soil pressure.
Basement Wall Calculator. Concrete walls held by the slab and floor, with at-rest soil, water, surcharge and earthquake pressure.
Stud Wall Calculator. 2x4 and 2x6 bearing walls under wind and the floors above, with height tables.
Shear Wall Calculator. Wood structural panel walls under wind and earthquake loads to SDPWS 2021, with hold-down forces and anchor bolt spacing for Pro.
ASCE 7-22 earthquake combinations in the Beam Designer.
Frame Designer earthquake checks: story drift, the stability coefficient, overstrength members, and the 0.5 live load factor ASCE 7-22 allows.

Pause billing between projects. Monthly subscribers can pause from the dashboard, keep Pro until the end of the month they've paid for, and resume when the next job comes in. Pro
Free Pro for students for a year, with a school email address. How to get it.
Frame Designer: ASCE 7-22 load combinations, an earthquake load case, second-order (P-Delta) analysis, deflection limits and pattern live load.
Wind Load Calculator: save calculations to a job, and enter the mean roof height from the plans.
Custom tools. We build design tools for your products and load cases.

Wood members, member checks and pinned joints in the Frame Designer.
Wind Load Calculator: nominal wind speed, the wind-borne debris region, opening zones and a design data block.
Worked examples: moment of inertia of an I-beam and a simply supported beam's deflection.

A new Frame Designer for 2D steel and wood frames, with a PDF report. Pro for the report
Wind Load Calculator for low-rise buildings to ASCE 7-22 and 7-16: building pressures, roof components and cladding by zone, overhangs and parapets.
Framing calculators: rafter spans and header spans, each linked to the next one on the job, with results saved to framing jobs.
Continue with Google when you sign in or create an account.
A load combinations calculator in the load combinations guide.

Column Designer for steel and wood columns, with saving and PDF reports for Pro.
Deck Framing Calculator: joists, beams, posts and footings, with a framing plan and material list.
Span calculators for deck joists, floor joists and wood beams, and a flitch beam calculator.
Florida wind speed map from the 2023 code's contour maps, by address or map click.

PDF reports in the Beam, Footing and Anchor Bolt Designers. Pro
Charts and tables: steel beam sizes, a steel beam span chart, an I-beam load capacity chart, a flitch beam span table, and anchor bolt and footing size charts.
The shear and moment diagram now updates as you type.

The dashboard: every tool in one place, and your saved projects in folders when you're signed in.

Something you'd like to see here? Email jeff@webstructural.com.