Overview

About the Calculator

The Wood Connectors Calculator provides a fast way to select the connector required for wood joists, including from the Simpson Strong-Tie catalogue, and ensures the connector is strong enough to withstand provided loads.

Quickly view common wood construction connectors without leaving the app

The Wood Connectors calculator allows you to quickly view the Simpson Strong-Tie catalog (with more to come!) with common solid lumber connectors in face-mount, top-flange, and other formats.

Link your wood connectors dynamically to your wood joist design and calculations

Easily link your Wood Connectors to your existing Wood Joist design to dynamically track your load path without copying and pasting your calculations. All types of loads such as dead load, live load, roof live load, etc. will be accounted automatically.

Link your wood connectors to common joist or create your own

Link your solid lumber connectors to common joist our database such as dimensioned lumber, timber, glulams, and LVLs, or create your own custom joists with our Wood Beam Calculators.

Color-coded utilization checks for allowable loads

Verify your calculations at a glance with easy color-coded demand-to-capacity ratios using our traffic light system to ensure allowable vertical dead load, floor load, snow/rain load and roof live load are passing.

Why ClearCalcs?

Frustration to Flow

See how ClearCalcs transforms structural calculations from a tedious, error-prone chore into an efficient, stress-free process.

With spreadsheets and clunky software

Frustration, fuss, and fragile formulas—the old way of engineering calculations that holds you back

Struggle with endless spreadsheets and custom formulas.

Building codes change, but outdated software and spreadsheets don’t.

Triple-check and verify manual input at every turn.

Old software feels like a maze, with unclear settings, limited templates, and rigid interfaces.

With ClearCalcs

Effortless, efficient engineering calculations at your fingertips.

100+ pre-built calculators for different materials.

Every calculation comply with the latest codes and standards.

Forget the worry of “black box” calculations; verify calculators with inline formulas, codes, and checks.

Intuitive tools built to your workflow, plus unmatched customer support.

How It Works

Your code-compliant calculator

Tired of complex calculations? ClearCalcs Calculator Library keeps it simple, secure and code-compliant – so you can calculate with confidence.

Save time with ready-to-use templates for wood, steel, and concrete

ClearCalcs offers an extensive library of easy-to-use calculators for beams, columns, and footings, designed to make structural calculations simpler and faster.

Choose from a wide range of pre-configured beam and column options, complete with automatic member sizing, so you can quickly reach reliable designs and reduce rework.

Beams

Columns

Foundations

Walls

Loads

Dynamically track your load paths from roof to foundation

No need to copy and paste reactions between calculations! If the top calculator's reactions change, the loads being inherited onto the lower calculator will update automatically. This includes all loads such as dead, live, snow, seismic, and wind.

Submit professional reports for permit review

ClearCalcs is not only easy to use, but also easy to check! All calculations follow an easy to understand traffic light check system, with multiple levels of detail available giving you the choice of printing every step of the calculation and all code and standard references, or simply a compact, one-page print out.

Report heading includes your project name and address

Easily upload your organization logo for a professional report

Use custom PDF upload to merge additional documents to your structural calculations

Download a sample report

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Wood Connectors (ASD)