https://structsuite.com/videos/how-structsuite-works 2026-10-11 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/how-structsuite-works.jpg Structural Calculation Package Step by Step — Full Worked Example (ASCE 7-22, NDS 2024, ACI 318-25) Build a complete structural calculation package for a permit submittal, start to finish — ten design modules, every step, then printed for submittal and shared as a live link a plan checker can open. Nothing is skipped and nothing is a highlight reel: every input, every code table selection, and every demand-capacity check is on screen, for a two-story residential addition in Seismic Design Category D. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fhow-structsuite-works.mp4?alt=media 1907 2026-09-11T13:40:38-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/glulam-beam-design-example-cantilever-balcony-nds-2024 2026-10-11 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/glulam-beam-design-example-cantilever-balcony-nds-2024.jpg Glulam Beam Design Step by Step - Cantilever Balcony Example (NDS 2024) How do you design a glulam beam that cantilevers? You check it twice - because the cantilever flips the tension face, and a glulam is not equally strong both ways up. A 24F layup puts its premium tension laminations on the BOTTOM, so the top face earns only Fbx- = 1,450 psi against 2,400 psi sagging, and over the support that weaker face is the one in tension. This video designs one end to end by Allowable Stress Design per NDS 2024: a 5-1/8 x 13.5 24F-1.8E Douglas Fir glulam, 16 ft between a pin and a roller, cantilevering 6 ft past the wall to carry a balcony with a guardrail. Then the same beam is entered field by field in StructSuite and every number is checked against the hand calculation. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fguide-glulam-beam-design-example-cantilever-balcony-nds-2024.mp4?alt=media 2350 2026-09-20T19:16:02-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/hip-rafter-design-example-sloped-roof-nds-2024 2026-10-11 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/hip-rafter-design-example-sloped-roof-nds-2024.jpg Hip Rafter Design Step by Step - How to Size a Hip Beam, Worked Example (NDS 2024) How do you size a hip rafter? A hip rafter is designed on its OWN pitch - not the pitch of the roof it carries - it carries a TRIANGULAR load, and its dead load and roof live load are measured on two different lengths. This video sizes one all the way through: a 19.8 ft (horizontal) hip beam on a 6:12 clay-tile hip roof, as a 6x12 Douglas Fir-Larch No. 2 (Beams & Stringers) by Allowable Stress Design per NDS 2024. Then the same hip is entered field by field in StructSuite and every number is checked against the hand calculation. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fguide-hip-rafter-design-example-sloped-roof-nds-2024.mp4?alt=media 2455 2026-09-20T23:59:53-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/seismic-base-shear-example-asce7-22-two-story-wood-house 2026-10-11 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/seismic-base-shear-example-asce7-22-two-story-wood-house.jpg Seismic Base Shear Step by Step - How to Calculate V (ASCE 7-22 ELF Worked Example) How do you calculate seismic base shear? V = Cs x W. This video works the whole ASCE 7-22 Equivalent Lateral Force (ELF) procedure end to end on a two-story wood-frame house: an honest seismic weight takeoff (W = 81,100 lb), design spectral accelerations SDS and SD1, Seismic Design Category, the R / Omega-zero / Cd system factors, the approximate period Ta, the response coefficient Cs with all four limits, base shear V = 12,477 lb, the vertical distribution to story forces Fx, and the diaphragm forces Fpx that are a SEPARATE calculation people routinely miss. Then the same house is entered field by field in StructSuite and every number is checked against the hand calculation. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fguide-seismic-base-shear-example-asce7-22-two-story-wood-house.mp4?alt=media 2352 2026-09-20T23:59:53-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/wind-load-calculation-example-asce7-22-chapter-28-envelope-low-rise-building 2026-10-11 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/wind-load-calculation-example-asce7-22-chapter-28-envelope-low-rise-building.jpg Wind Load Calculation Step by Step - Envelope Procedure for Low-Rise (ASCE 7-22 Ch. 28) When do you use the Envelope Procedure instead of the Directional Procedure? For low-rise buildings, ASCE 7-22 Chapter 28 replaces surface-by-surface Cp with pseudo-pressure ZONES that already envelope the worst wind direction - which is faster, and usually more conservative. This works one all the way through on a two-story suburban house: velocity pressure qh with the Exposure B footnote unique to Chapter 28, internal pressure, the edge-zone dimension a, every GCpf zone for all four load cases of Figures 28.3-1 and 28.3-2, zone areas case by case, base shear and uplift, and the Section 28.3.6 minimum - which governs three of the four cases here. Then the same building is entered field by field in StructSuite and checked against the hand calculation. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fguide-wind-load-calculation-example-asce7-22-chapter-28-envelope-low-rise-building.mp4?alt=media 1666 2026-09-20T19:16:02-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/wind-load-calculation-example-asce7-22-chapter-27-gable-roof-house 2026-10-11 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/wind-load-calculation-example-asce7-22-chapter-27-gable-roof-house.jpg Wind Load Calculation Step by Step - How to Calculate MWFRS Wind Pressure (ASCE 7-22 Ch. 27) How do you calculate wind load on a building? This works the full ASCE 7-22 Chapter 27 Directional Procedure end to end on a two-story gable-roof house: velocity pressure qz, external pressure coefficients Cp from Figure 27.3-1 with the roof-angle interpolation done in full, design pressures p with BOTH internal-pressure signs, the four MWFRS load cases of Figure 27.3-8, and the Section 27.1.5 minimum design wind load. Then the same building is entered field by field in StructSuite and every number is checked against the hand calculation. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fguide-wind-load-calculation-example-asce7-22-chapter-27-gable-roof-house.mp4?alt=media 1682 2026-09-20T19:16:02-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/wood-column-design-example-tall-wall-wind-nds-2024 2026-10-11 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/wood-column-design-example-tall-wall-wind-nds-2024.jpg Wood Column Design Step by Step - Tall Wall with Wind + Axial (NDS 2024 Worked Example) How do you design a wood column that carries wind as well as gravity? You stop treating it as a column. A stud in a 22-ft tall wall is a BEAM-COLUMN - it carries axial compression and bending at the same time - and the NDS 2024 Section 3.9.2 combined-stress equation (Eq. 3.9-3), not the axial check, is what actually governs it. This video sizes one all the way through, by Allowable Stress Design per NDS 2024: an 8x10 Douglas Fir-Larch No. 2 in a 22-ft tall wall under 227 plf of wind. Then the same column is entered field by field in StructSuite and every number is checked against the hand calculation. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fguide-wood-column-design-example-tall-wall-wind-nds-2024.mp4?alt=media 3066 2026-09-20T23:59:53-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/retaining-wall-tutorial 2026-10-18 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/retaining-wall-tutorial.jpg Cantilever Retaining Wall Design Step by Step — Full Worked Example (ACI 318-25, IBC 2024) Design a cantilever retaining wall in StructSuite per ACI 318-25, IBC 2024 and ASCE 7-22 — start to finish. Stability, soil bearing, stem/heel/toe reinforcement, a shear key, development lengths and the seismic earth-pressure increment. The wall fails twice on purpose, and both failures are diagnosed and fixed on screen. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fretaining-wall-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 519 2026-09-11T09:43:46-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/gravity-loads-tutorial 2026-10-11 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/gravity-loads-tutorial.jpg Dead Load and Live Load Calculation Step by Step — Worked Example (ASCE 7-22 Tables C3.1-1a, 4.3-1) Assemble the dead and live loads for a residential floor in StructSuite per ASCE 7-22 — a floor dead-load assembly out of ASCE 7-22 Table C3.1-1a totalling D = 15.20 psf, and the full standard residential live-load set from Table 4.3-1. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fdead-live-loads-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 86 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/framing-tutorial 2026-10-11 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/framing-tutorial.jpg Floor Joist Span Table Explained — IBC 2024 Worked Example: Sizing a 14 ft Joist Step by Step Size a residential floor joist in StructSuite straight off the 2024 IBC prescriptive span tables — member type, loads, spacing, species and grade, then a pass/fail verification that names the exact table it read. A 14 ft span on a 2x8 fails on screen, and the fix takes one click. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Ffloor-joist-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 116 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/foundation-tutorial 2026-10-11 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/foundation-tutorial.jpg Isolated Spread Footing Design Step by Step — Full Worked Example (ACI 318-25, ASCE 7-22) Design an isolated spread footing in StructSuite per ACI 318-25 and ASCE 7-22 — start to finish. Soil bearing, one-way (beam) shear, two-way punching shear, flexure and development length, each reported as a demand-capacity ratio next to the code section it comes from. The first footing fails on bearing at D/C 1.27, and the fix is made on screen. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Ffooting-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 128 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/seismic-loads-tutorial 2026-10-18 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/seismic-loads-tutorial.jpg Seismic Base Shear Calculation Step by Step — ASCE 7-22 Equivalent Lateral Force Worked Example Calculate the seismic base shear on a two-story light-frame wood building with the ASCE 7-22 equivalent lateral force (ELF) procedure — Chapter 12, start to finish: site class and spectral parameters, Risk Category and Seismic Design Category, R from Table 12.2-1, the approximate period Ta, the seismic response coefficient Cs, base shear V, the story forces Fx, and the diaphragm design forces Fpx. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fseismic-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 113 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/cover-sheet-tutorial 2026-10-11 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/cover-sheet-tutorial.jpg Structural Calculation Cover Sheet for Permit Submittal — Free Template, Step by Step Build the front page of a structural calculation package in StructSuite. Pick one of three cover templates, switch off any of the 14 blocks you do not need, and type the project title, address, owner and engineer of record straight onto the sheet. It lays out on an 8.5 x 11 page and is free to use with no account. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fcover-sheet-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 67 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/wind-loads-tutorial 2026-10-18 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/wind-loads-tutorial.jpg Wind Load Calculation Step by Step — MWFRS Worked Example (ASCE 7-22 Chapter 27, Directional) Calculate the wind loads on a building's main wind-force-resisting system (MWFRS) in StructSuite per ASCE 7-22 Chapter 27, the Directional Procedure — start to finish: risk category, basic wind speed, Kd, exposure, Kzt, Ke, enclosure, the velocity pressure exposure coefficient Kz, the velocity pressure qh, external pressure coefficients Cp from Figure 27.3-1, design pressures on every surface in both wind directions, and the four design wind load cases of Figure 27.3-8. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fwind-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 133 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/wood-beam-tutorial 2026-10-11 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/wood-beam-tutorial.jpg Wood Beam Design Step by Step — Two-Span Continuous Worked Example (NDS 2024, ASCE 7-22) Design a two-span continuous wood floor girder start to finish in StructSuite, per NDS 2024, with ASCE 7-22 load combinations and IBC 2024 deflection limits. Geometry and support restraints, loads entered from a tributary width, species and grade off NDS Supplement Table 4A, every NDS adjustment factor, an optional Simpson Strong-Tie hanger, and trial-and-error to the optimum section. The first two sections fail on screen, and each failure is read off its demand-capacity ratio and fixed. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fwood-beam-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 225 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/wood-column-tutorial 2026-10-18 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/wood-column-tutorial.jpg Wood Column Design Step by Step — Worked Example, Column Stability Factor CP (NDS 2024) Design a wood column in StructSuite per NDS 2024, start to finish: unbraced length and end conditions, species and grade read straight off the NDS Supplement tables, the adjustment factors, and the column stability factor CP that actually decides the answer. The first section is overstressed and fails, and the fix happens on screen. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fwood-column-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 121 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/shear-wall-tutorial 2026-10-18 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/shear-wall-tutorial.jpg Wood Shear Wall Design Step by Step — Wind and Seismic Worked Example (SDPWS 2021, ASCE 7-22) Design a wood-frame shear wall in StructSuite per SDPWS 2021 and ASCE 7-22, start to finish — geometry and aspect ratio, the wind and seismic force at the top of the wall line, Table 4.3A sheathing and nailing, a hold-down, and the Step 5 verification. The first trial fails at a seismic unit-shear D/C of 119%, and the fix is on screen: tighten the edge nailing from 6 in to 4 in and the same wall comes back at 77%. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fshear-wall-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 92 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no