# Holdown design now supported in our US Shear Wall calculator

**URL:** <https://blueprint.calcs.com/t/holdown-design-now-supported-in-our-us-shear-wall-calculator/211>\
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**Created:** [December 13, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://blueprint.calcs.com/t/holdown-design-now-supported-in-our-us-shear-wall-calculator/211 "2023-12-13T16:29:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![lgerin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/blueprint.calcs.com/lgerin/32/35_2.png) [@lgerin](https://blueprint.calcs.com/u/lgerin)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://blueprint.calcs.com/t/holdown-design-now-supported-in-our-us-shear-wall-calculator/211/1 "2023-12-13T16:29:04Z")

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We’ve now released holdown design for our US shear wall calculator! With this, when you design a wood shear wall, you’ll be able to select your holdown from the Simpson catalog directly in ClearCalcs using our friendly selector with traffic light checks. We’ve had quite a few of you bring this up lately so we’re very excited to have this out 🙂

Check out a short video outlining the features: [Loom | Free Screen & Video Recording Software | Loom](https://www.loom.com/share/d0568a98a1034351bd8f195665866f85)

Let us know your thoughts - and if there’s anything we can do to improve it! Try it out for yourself by clicking [here](https://clearcalcs.com/new/sheet/timberShearWallASD)!

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**Author:** ![Eric\_Neuharth](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/blueprint.calcs.com/eric_neuharth/32/364_2.png) [@Eric\_Neuharth](https://blueprint.calcs.com/u/Eric_Neuharth)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://blueprint.calcs.com/t/holdown-design-now-supported-in-our-us-shear-wall-calculator/211/2 "2025-07-18T23:23:17Z")

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Love that, I saw that as well.

If you can let us edit it to use alternate that would be great. Or go in and add all Simpson products, we use alot of that as the standard,

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**Author:** ![lgerin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/blueprint.calcs.com/lgerin/32/35_2.png) [@lgerin](https://blueprint.calcs.com/u/lgerin)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://blueprint.calcs.com/t/holdown-design-now-supported-in-our-us-shear-wall-calculator/211/3 "2025-07-23T13:35:21Z")

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Hey Eric, thanks for that! Looking to update this, especially as we understand that Simpson is currently refreshing its selection of holdowns