Cold Formed Steel Design Software

[chsSCse]

What Design Software does everyone use for light ga metal stud design? We have been using LGBeamer, but it looks to be replaced by CFS Designer by Simpson Strong-Tie. Does anyone know what non-proprietary software stud manufacturers use?

 

[brut3]

I made the switch to CFS by Simpson Strong-Tie from LGBeamer a year or two ago and was concerned that my analysis files would be littered with Simpson products. The CFS software allows you to exclude the proprietary clips and track members from its output files, so your output files will look very similar to the old LGBeamer output files. Just wanted to share that piece of information if that was one of your concerns with moving forward with CFS.

To answer your initial question:
CFS Designer by Simpson Strong-Tie
CFS by RSG Software
RISA 3D

 

[phamENG]

SteelSmart is another popular one.