Architecture · Engineering · Construction
Software for designing homes and mid-size buildings.
Build the architectural 3-D model in PerCode AEC, and the structural model comes from it with minimum input. Run individual modules in your browser, or work whole projects in PerCode AEC with linked load paths and combined reports. Every report is a stamp-ready PDF: self-contained, code-referenced and repeatable.
21-day free trial · No credit card · Stamp-ready reports
What PerCode is
A suite of programs for the whole building
PerCode AEC
Draw the building in 3-D. The structural model is derived from it: elements that touch are connected, and the connections are the load path. Walls, roofs and floors are framed for you, then every member is designed.
Modules beside the model
Residential electrical one-line diagrams to the NEC, retaining walls, wind, seismic and snow loads, and steel and concrete members — each one a complete report of its own.
Florida product approval
For Florida users: cite each product's FL or Miami-Dade NOA number, and it checks every approval against the State and Miami-Dade databases and produces the approval form the building department asks for.
Reports you can follow
Every process is documented. Each report is self-contained, cites the code clause behind every check, and gives the same result every time it is run.
One project, one site
The project manager ties every calculation to one project address and its site conditions, and combines them into one report. You set the report's form — cover, logo, sections, order — never its content.
An AI assistant beside the work
It speeds up the tasks around a calculation: finding an input, explaining a check, shaping a report's layout. It is never in the calculation loop and never appears on the report.
PerCode AEC
One model of the building. Every member designed from it.
Draw the building over your scaled drawing and the analytical model comes from what you drew — not from a second model you keep in step by hand.
Two views, one model
A physical view of the framing as it will be built, and an analytical view of what the solver sees. Walls are framed stud by stud — kings, jacks, headers, plates — and roofs and floors are framed from their outlines.
Drawn, then designed
The systems most US homes and mid-rise buildings use: wood and cold-formed steel framing, CMU buildings, concrete foundations and structural steel — members, shear walls, diaphragms and footings, each check citing its clause. One analysis, one report.
Loads from the site
Wind, snow and seismic hazards read for the project address, and ASCE 7 calculations written from the model. Drawings out to DXF and PDF, the model to IFC, and a 3-D link anyone can open.
PerCode AEC is the app you install, for Windows and macOS — it needs a drawing canvas — and it is included in your trial.
Calculators
Free calculators that work on your phone
Florida product approval search, section properties, voltage drop and box fill — no account needed.
Draw it once. Design all of it.
Start your 21-day free trial today. No credit card to begin, no long-term lock-in — upgrade when it pays for itself.
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