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PerCode Desktop — the whole project, on your machine.
The browser modules handle one member at a time. PerCode Desktop runs the whole project: a Project Manager that owns your project folder, linked load paths, combined reports next to your drawings, batch runs, and offline work — with your data never leaving your computer.
Your projects live on your machine · Offline · Data stays local
Flagship module
Building Analysis & Design Suite
Whole-building 3D frame analysis of the complete gravity and lateral load path for light-frame (wood / cold-formed-steel / CMU) buildings.
Draw a building on a CAD-style canvas — floors, walls, beams, columns, openings, and footings across any number of levels — and the module converts it into a single 3D frame model and solves the entire load path at once. Gravity, MWFRS wind, and Component-&-Cladding wind flow through joists, studs, headers, posts, diaphragms, and shear walls down to the foundation, with per-element forces traced back to every panel. Each wall, beam, and column can be exported as a self-contained sub-model for detailed design in the component modules.
Product screenshots are coming — placeholders shown for now.
What it models
- CAD input: levels + layers (floors / walls / beams-columns / foundation) on a snap-to-grid canvas with a PDF underlay.
- Automatic framing: floor panels → joists, rim/header tracks, trimmers and a perforated diaphragm; walls → plates, studs, king/jack studs, cripples, headers/sills, posts at beam bearings, and shear-wall bracing; built-up wood/CFS, rolled steel, and concrete sections; fixed-base foundation stubs.
- Loads: dead / live / roof-live / wind up-down per case; MWFRS perimeter wind by true outward-normal classification; C&C out-of-plane pressures per stud/header with Zone 4/5 corner mapping.
- Two analysis configurations: gravity + MWFRS (foundation-fixed) and C&C (diaphragm-restrained).
Outputs
- Base reactions and governing axial/shear/moment for every panel and member, per load case.
- Single-panel sub-models handed off to the wall / beam / column / footing design modules with their boundary forces.
- Interactive 3D model viewer with user-placed X/Y/Z section cuts.
Source: Founder-supplied module spec.
Desktop-only for a reason
Some tools need more than a browser tab.
The Building Analysis & Design Suite and the Truss Design module run only in PerCode Desktop, because they're built on an interactive drawing canvas with AI-vision input — read a drawing, extract the model — that a browser can't provide. The desktop app also runs every browser module, so it's a superset of the web experience. Structural today; MEP and Civil are on the roadmap.
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