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Support Symbols
The following symbols are shown for each hanger type
Hangers
A solid, thick, L-shaped black bracket when at the end, a plate when in the midspan.
Other non-wood
A diagonally hatched rectangle, same thickness as a hanger plate.
Sill plates
A 1.5” deep board the width of the bearing length input or design, with diagonals indicating it is a cross section, resting on a slightly wider rectangle open at the bottom meant to convey a concrete or other foundation.
Beams
A rectangle representing the support cross section with diagonals, with the beam depth set to 5.5” (you do not enter this value). Note that there is no attempt to show built-up supports as composed of separate plys.
Columns
Two lines, open at the bottom, spaced the bearing length apart, meant to convey a continuing column,
Walls
Two rectangles with diagonals, each 1.5” deep, representing top plates, with a rectangle open at the bottom to convey a continuing wall stud.
Support Text
The following text appears beside each support .
Bearing length
Bearing length formatted as per your setting for Sections in the Format settings ( previously it was unresponsive to that setting) in format
Lb = [length] .
For unknown bearing before design it says Lb = unknown; once designed it gives the designed bearing length.
Bearing width
The user-input bearing width is output if different than beam width.
Material
On the following line, the material shown is just the major category of material, that is Glulam, Lumber, Timber, MSR Lumber, I-Joists.
No material type is shown for hanger or “other non-wood” supports.
Support Type
After material, the word Column, Wall, Beam, or Sill Plate, so the line says, e.g. Lumber Column.
No support type or material is shown for Other non-wood.
Species and Grade
The species and grade of wooden supports is shown on one line below the material.
Spans
The program now outputs two dimensioned lines at the top of the screen, the upper one spanning the entire beam and giving the actual length of the beam, the lower one dimensioning each clear span. The design distances are shown at the bottom.
The words Design, Full, and Clear are placed the left of the drawing to indicate what each one means.
Beam Length
The program now shows the total beam length, instead of each span individually dimensioned.
The length of the new dimension line for the overall length of the member is now adjusted for sloped members to show the distance from the bottom edge of member at the lower support to the top edge of the member at the upper support.
Clear Span
Each clear span, or distance between the edge of supports, is shown below the beam length.
Design Spans.
The design spans are shown as numbers at the bottom, with zero starting at the first reaction point. This scale correlates with the analysis diagram and location of analysis points, points of interest, etc.
Unknown Bearing Lengths
When bearing lengths are input as unknown, or design has not been performed so that the minimum required bearing length is not known, only the value for the input span type, the other values are given as “unknown”.
The values for unknown bearing length and minimum bearing length from the most recent design are used for span calculations after design, even if the you changes the beam length, materials or other input since they were designed.
Beam material specification
One the design is performed, the material specification is shown on the screen in the same format that appears in the Design Check output.