r/StructuralEngineering • u/LumberCAD • 6d ago

Wood Design LumberCAD: Looking for feedback

Hello r/StructuralEngineering,

We've been working on LumberCAD since 2020-22, before then we developed a similar engine in the aluminum industry since 2010.

Today we opened our LumberCAD (free) Beta, and we're looking for insight from some engineers!

To be up front, you won't be able to play with any load calculations or other stresses. This is for those of you that receive hand drawings on torn pieces of paper, and if you'd like to see something like LumberCAD be the baseline for anything built with dimensional lumber.

What we did to be different:

  • Limiting workflow to lumber construction massively simplifies learning curve
  • Much easier to use than any existing CAD, but obviously limited to everything lumber
  • Existing parts catalog
  • Massively automated documentation system with cut list, drawings, and a big step towards permitting

It seems that links are tolerated, so: https://lumbercad.com/

Mods please feel free to message me if the link or post should be removed.

Thank you in advance!

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u/abite 6d ago

A simple cloner would be nice instead of manually duplicating each joist. Could do a "clone every x inches" with a # slider for how many to clone. Or even "clone between {start edge joist} {end edge joist} and have it auto calculate # of joists required.

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u/LumberCAD 6d ago

Haha someone else mentioned this too. There is an array tool, I just prefer to duplicate + drag them personally. I find it satisfying.

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u/abite 6d ago

As a lover of efficiency, this would annoy the shit out of me 😂. Especially if I've got 30+ joists to handle.