LoadTakedown
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Load takedown software with live tributary areas

Every floor and roof is split onto the walls, beams and columns that carry it, and the load is followed down to the foundation. Drag a wall or column and the results update straight away.
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A house in 3D with each floor and roof coloured by the wall it loads
Tributary areasStorey by storey
Loads
Dead, imposed, snow, facade
Results
Every wall, beam and column base
Updates
As you draw
Plan
Free

How it works

01

Tributary areas

Floors span one way or two ways, as you set them. Each area is coloured by what it loads.

Each slab's tributary areas coloured by the column or wall it loads
Tributary areasEvery slab

02

Loads

Floor loading areas by use, facade loads on every edge, and point, line and area loads. Load cases and combinations for the UK, Europe, the US and others.

The lower storeys of the tower with the load in each column
LoadsBy level

03

Results you can check

The load at every wall and column base, broken down by level and by the area that put it there. A model check names any element that will not calculate.

A ten-storey tower in 3D Results view with the floors hidden: the load in kN at each column base, the core coloured by load, and the load on each transfer beam
ResultsColumn bases

04

Instant results as you drag

Drag and move elements and the results update instantly, so you can make decisions live as your project changes. No waiting for an analysis to run.

A house plan with the line load on each wall, one wall selected with its load breakdown and its elevation results
Live resultsUpdates as you edit

What changes

Usually

  • Tributary areas drawn on a printout
  • A spreadsheet row per element
  • Every change worked through again by hand

With LoadTakedown

  • Tributary areas worked out as you draw
  • Loads carried down storey by storey
  • Changes update every result at once

What to know

  • Vertical loads only.
  • Floors span as you set them, with no hidden load sharing.
  • Free, with watermarked PDF reports.

Questions

Load cases and combinations for UK and European codes, ASCE 7 in the US, and your own factors anywhere else.

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Masonry walls

Stress in every wall, lintels over openings, cavity walls leaf by leaf.

Reports and drawings

A full calc report, the architect's sheets marked up, Word, Excel and IFC.

Check analysis loads

Compare the column loads from ETABS with an independent takedown, column by column.

Start free. Upgrade when you export.

Everything in modelling is free. Pro adds clean branded reports and Word, Excel and IFC exports.

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