Instant load takedowns, for any building.
Manage your building loads, rationalise your structure and calculate results quickly and effectively.
No account needed. Or try the example tower
- Results
- Update as you draw
- Checks
- Load balance, every run
- Imports
- PDF, IFC and ETABS
- Codes
- 12 design codes
No more waiting for spreadsheets to update.
Adjust your structure or move the column, and tributary areas and results update instantly. Use it to understand and visualise your structural design.
Simplified demo: floor 6.5 kN/m², roof 3.5 kN/m², no self-weight.
Manage your loading and calculations quickly
From house calculation packs to towers and preliminary design, every load ready for your design and analysis.
Tributary areas, storey by storey
Every slab split into the area each column, beam and core wall carries, coloured to match the element it loads.
Use stress mapping for load distribution in masonry
A simple overview of the stress in each wall to aid understanding of structural behaviour: how load spreads under the lintels and what it puts on the storey below.
Analysis loads ready for your design
The load at every column and wall on every storey, ready to take into your design.
Loads to global design codes
Imposed load tables for 12 design codes worldwide, from Eurocode with the UK National Annex and ASCE 7-22 to IS 875, AS/NZS 1170.1 and NBR 6120, in metric or imperial.
Saved as you work
Projects save to your account as you work, drawings included, or to a file on your own computer.
From drawings to foundation loads in minutes
Auto build coming soon: instantly create your model from your PDF.
Step 1Model
Build the model from your drawings
Import the architect's plans and LoadTakedown picks out the walls and floors, then works out the tributary areas. Adjust anything by hand with snapping.
- Multi-page PDF
- One- and two-way spans
- Beams and columns
Step 2Elevate
See the stress in every masonry panel
Add windows and doors, and watch the lintels pick up the load and the masonry spread it down to the base, leaf by leaf.
- Openings and lintels
- Stress in N/mm²
- Cavity leaves
Step 3Check
Check every tributary area
Every floor and roof slope split into the area each wall, beam and column carries, coloured to match the element it loads. Change a span and it updates at once.
- One- and two-way spans
- Coloured by element
- Load balance every run
Step 4Report
Export the calculation report
A PDF and Excel report with the marked-up plans, a load summary, the foundation schedule and every wall's working.
- Foundation schedule
- Lintel schedule
- Method and assumptions
Features
A structural planner, more than a column schedule: design and plan the building between its levels, from the first scheme to the final schedule.
Every level's plan on one shared grid, so each column can be followed from the roof to the foundations.
Concept design
Set the strategy for the whole building, level by level
Stack the plans for every level and see how a decision on one floor lands on the floors below. Mark go and no-go zones for structure, then test the frame before the design is fixed.
- Every level's plans on one grid
- Go and no-go zones for structure
- Clashes between levels shown straight away
Rationalisation
Column rationalisation tools to enable buildability
Each column gets a type on every level. Set the capacities, the storeys where a size may change and the utilisation you will accept, and fifty columns on plan become a handful of types.
- Types and capacities by storey height
- Steps only at the levels you allow
- Out to Excel, Revit and IFC
Checking and validation of analysis models
Catch columns that typical FE models may understate
Complex buildings with transfer structures are often calculated incorrectly in FE models. A load takedown is a simple, independent way to check them, and catches these columns before they go on the schedule.
- Load shared by tributary area, not stiffness
- Every column compared with ETABS on plan
- Differences near cores and transfers flagged
Calculation packs
A UK house calc pack, ready for you to check and sign
Beams, lintels, padstones and foundations drafted from the same model as the load takedown, for Building Control.
- Drafted from the architect's PDFs
- Beams, lintels and padstones
- Foundations from the same loads
Pricing
Nothing in modelling is locked. Pro adds clean reports and exports.
Free
Everything in modelling.
- PDF, IFC and ETABS import
- Load takedown, checks and schedules
- Unlimited PDF reports, watermarked
- No card needed
Pro
From £26, €30 or US$34 a month, plus VAT or sales tax where it applies.
- Clean report with your branding
- Word and Excel exports
- IFC export with loads
- Monthly or yearly, cancel any time
Integrate your data across your workflow
Bring your drawings, analysis and BIM models together, check the loads once, and send the results on to every program you use.
In
LoadTakedown
Load takedown
Tributary areas
Load check
Column schedule
Out
No redrawing
Bring in the architect's PDFs, the IFC model or the ETABS model as they are.
One set of checked loads
Column loads from each program compared with one independent takedown.
Rationalised once
One column schedule from the checked loads, out to Excel, Revit and IFC.
Every analysis program
SAP2000, Robot, RFEM, SCIA, Tekla Structural Designer, STAAD.Pro and more.
The jobs on your desk this week
House
Rear extension
The UDL and end reactions on the beam over your opening, ready to size the steel.
Work out the beam loadsHouse
Loft conversion
The new floor load, the reactions from the steels and what they add to the walls below.
Follow the loft loadsHouse
New-build house
The load on every wall, lintel and foundation, in a report a checker can follow.
See the reportHouse
Building Control pack
Beam, lintel, padstone and foundation sheets drafted for you to check and sign.
See the 54-sheet sampleScheme
Scheme design
Slab and beam depths from span and the load on every column, in minutes.
Test a schemeTower
Check the analysis model
Every ETABS column load beside an independent takedown, with the differences flagged.
Check your columnsTower
Column schedule
Column types up the height, rationalised to fewer sizes, out to Excel and Revit.
Build your scheduleTower
Transfer structures
Columns that stop on a transfer followed down, with the reaction at each support.
Read how transfers are followedCommon questions
Tributary areas come from the walls, beams and floors in your model, then the dead and imposed loads you set are taken down storey by storey to the foundations. Every run checks that the load reaching the foundations balances the load applied, and the report shows each wall's working so it can be checked by hand. The engineer stays responsible for the design.
More on the method in the blog →Yes. Import an IFC model from Revit, Tekla, ArchiCAD or any other BIM tool, and its walls, slabs, columns and beams come in at their modelled sizes, one level per storey. Pro exports the model back out as IFC with the loads, reactions and tributary areas attached, so the takedown fits into your BIM workflow.
How IFC import and export work →Yes, from a house extension to a complex multi-storey frame. Use a drawing per level, set the storey heights, and model masonry walls, steel and concrete beams and columns, and one-way or two-way slabs.
You choose a region for each project. US projects use ASCE 7-22 live loads with ASD and LRFD gravity combinations, in psf, plf and lb. UK projects use BS EN 1990 and 1991-1-1 with the UK National Annex, and European projects the recommended values, in kN/m² and kN/m. Anywhere else you can enter your own loads and factors.
Signed in, your projects and the drawings you upload save to your LoadTakedown account as you work, so they follow you to any computer. They are stored securely and are not shared with other users. If you would rather keep a project on your own machine, save it as a file instead.
Every load is worked out the same way every time, straight from the model, so there are no hand-measured areas or broken formulas, and the load balance is checked on every run. Each wall's working is laid out to check by hand, on the plan and in 3D. When the architect moves a wall, change the model and every load updates in seconds instead of reworking the sheet.
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UK · Eurocode · ASCE 7 · Metric or imperial