ASCE 7, Snow Load Calculator for Ground, Roof and Drift Loads. Free

Ever wonder what is involved in designing a home. Attached is a worksheet showing the structural calculations for determining the ground snow load, roof snow load and drift snow load. There is much more to designing a home or other buildings. This is why you pay for an experienced architect, engineer, and/or other design professionals to draw and engineer plans for you. This worksheet may seem complicated to some, educational to others and a day at the office for experienced design professionals. 

Many thanks to Andrey Ivashov, author and developer, and Davide Carpi, developer of SMath Studio in the Cloud. SMath Studio is a free WYSIWYG math tool similar to Mathcad or Maple.They have inspired me to share one of my design tools I use.  Follow the link to my Free Snow Load Calculatorhttp://smath.info/cloud/worksheet/2m4FVpQp


All rights reserved, Erik Ost, B Arch. www.plan.house
Picture of the actual Snow Load Calculator. SMath's WYSIWYG interface adds a new level of documentation over spreadsheets. Click picture or link to go to SMath's Cloud for this snow load calc. Courtesy of Erik Ost, B Arch. 

This is educational only, not for commercial usePlease do not use it to design you own house, cut and paste into your "own" program or impress the local building inspectors on your tablet. Well impressing the building inspectors is OK since it is for educational use.