The program can design and optimize members based on a user-supplied table of built-up shapes.

In certain cases, some economy may be realized by specifying built‑up shapes rather than standard rolled sections. The design of such members, however, is made more difficult due to the necessity of checking for compactness and slenderness, with the corresponding allowable stresses and moment capacities. The program can design and optimize members based on a table of built‑up shapes supplied by the user. The program checks the web and flanges for compactness and slenderness criteria of welded shapes, and calculates the appropriate allowable stresses and capacities. Either composite or noncomposite construction may be specified.

Designs may also be performed using user‑defined rolled shapes. This enables designs using shapes common in Europe, Japan, etc. The tables may be in either English or SI units. Allowable stresses are dependent on whether you specify the members in the table as either rolled shapes or built‑up shapes.