• Includes options for design with commonly available stress grades of timber and glue laminated timber.

• Caters for a range of floor live loads needed for design of decks, balconies and residential apartment buildings (up to 3.0 kPa / 2.7 kN).

• Includes a floor joist calculator to allow consideration of actual load and support conditions for optimum design, web hole placement and specification of hangers.

• Bearer calculator (similar to joist calculator) allows consideration of a wide range of load and support conditions including offset and parallel load bearing walls and support of concentrated loads to provide optimum solutions without the need for engineering design.

• Serviceability report showing the estimated average deflection and the corresponding limit for the critical load case.

Please note that Series 3 of designIT is not available as an update from Version 2 due to the size and number of files to be updated/replaced.

Users who already have designIT Series 3 or above installed on their computer may update to the latest version by either of the following methods:

1. With designIT open - click on the help tab from the top menu and select 'check for updates' (this will automatically install all current updates).

2. Alternatively download the update manually as an executable file by clicking the link above and following the prompts.
Note: In this case, designIT must be closed prior to installing the update.

• PC with a Pentium II, minimum 233 MHz processor

• The following 32bit operating systems: MS Windows 98, MS Windows XP, MS Vista 

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.01 or later

• 64 MB of memory

• 40 MB of available hard disk space

• CD-ROM Drive

• Super VGA (1024 x 768) or higher-resolution display, with 256 (or more) colours

• Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

• Internet connectivity for updates