ILX Calcs user manual

ILX Calcs does structural calculations on the web: documented member and element calculations for steel, wood, concrete, foundations, masonry and cold-formed steel, and the loads and analysis tools around them. Every calculation shows its equations with the code clause, the governing load combination and a status for each check, with diagrams, a calculation report and, for most types, a drawing sheet.

You are the engineer of record. ILX Calcs applies the code provisions as written; where a provision leaves a choice to the engineer (a deflection limit, a load factor option, a bracing assumption), the choice is an input with its usual value prefilled, never a hidden assumption. How far each type has been checked is stated plainly in its chapter, under Verification examples.

New here: training #

Short walk-throughs with real inputs and the results the app gives.

Training	What you learn
1. Getting started	One steel beam, start to report
2. Projects, settings, title block and output	Your firm on every report and sheet
3. Reading checks, steps and clauses	How to read a calculation that fails
4. The Wizard and auto-design	Picture cards, and letting the search propose a member
5. Units, and shapes from other markets	Metric, and European shapes on AISC 360
6. Steel, 7. Wood, 8. Concrete, 9. Foundations, 10. Masonry, 11. Cold-formed steel, 12. Loads, 13. Utilities	One worked calculation per subject
14. A small project	From floor load to footing, chaining calculations
15. The section builder	Properties of any section, built up from parts
16. The truss designer	Layout, automatic sizing, and its preview label
17. The verification report and deviations	What stands behind a result
18. Limits and your responsibility	What stays with you

Using the app #

Getting started, Projects and files, Reports and settings, Verification, Keyboard shortcuts and troubleshooting.

Calculation types #

This version has 230 types. The New calculation window lists the ones this server has.

Steel #

Wood #

Concrete #

Foundations #

Masonry #

Cold-formed steel #

Loads calculations #

Utilities #

Code basis #

The target editions: AISC 360-22 and the AISC Manual 16th Ed.; ACI 318-19; NDS 2024 and SDPWS 2021; TMS 402/602-22; AISI S100-16 and S400-20; ASCE/SEI 7-22; IBC 2021 for the deflection limits you enter. Not every module has been compared line by line with its target edition: each chapter says what its module rests on, and Verification explains how to read that.