I have a project wherein the owner would prefer to use small HSS members for columns instead of timbers… since these will be very lightly loaded, while they don’t meet the traditional cut-off of KL/r < 200, they will work fine using the newer method of calculation wherein you take a reduction and get on with it… imagine my surprise when I found out Clearcalcs will fail out members not meeting KL/r < 200…
Can you please change this to a warning instead of a failure, as this “requirement” was abandoned nearly 20 years ago in 2005?
Cheers,
-Andrew