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Welcome to Connections

With WoodWorks® Connections, you can design new connections or check the capacity of existing ones, produce fully dimensioned, CAD-quality drawings, and generate a material list for fasteners and steel plates.

It uses bolts, lag screws, wood screws, nails, shear plates or top-mount hangers in beam-to-beam, beam-to-column, and column-to-foundation post-and-beam connections, and single- or double-shear wood-to-wood, wood-to-steel, and wood-to-concrete lapped shear connections.

Let Connections lead you through the design process step-by-step.

Please refer to this on-line Help and the User Guide for operating instructions and program limitations.

The most recent major version of Connections, Version 10, incorporates all the latest design codes and standards. The latest Service Release is Version 10.1, released March 27, 2019.

WoodWorks should not be used or relied upon for any general or specific application without competent professional examination and verification of its accuracy, suitability and applicability by a licensed professional engineer, designer, or architect.

Every effort has been made to ensure the information and procedures in the program are as complete and as accurate as possible. The Canadian Wood Council, the American Forest and Paper Association, Inc., and Acronym Software Inc., do not, however, assume any responsibility for errors or omissions in the software nor for engineering designs or plans prepared from it.