Framing Designer

Design a one-story shed, workshop or detached garage on a slab. Set your building department's loads, design the slab, stand walls on it, open any wall to see every stud, add the roof, then print a draft plan set. The slab stage is the Slab Designer.

Jurisdiction setup, before design

Get these from your building department. Each value keeps its source and the date you confirmed it, and both print on the cover sheet.

Local amendments

Building

This tool covers one-story detached buildings. Anything else gets an engineer package instead of a permit set.

Lot

Setbacks

None yet.

Easements

None yet.

Existing buildings

None yet.

Sheets are drafts to take to your building department. Every check is against a starting set of 2021 IRC rules that a licensed reviewer has not validated, and nothing here is an approval. Designs outside the prescriptive limits get an engineer package instead of a permit set.