Best Structural Engineering Software for Cloud - Page 2

OpenBuildings Designer (formerly AECOsim Building Designer), Bentley’s multi-discipline building information modeling (BIM). Explore, design, and deliver innovative buildings faster. Design, analyze, document, and visualize buildings of any size, form, and complexity. Effectively communicate design intent and bridge barriers between building disciplines and geographically distributed teams. OpenBuildings Designer (formerly AECOsim Building Designer) provides building information modeling (BIM) advancements so you can deliver buildings faster and with greater confidence – confidence in your design, workflow, capabilities, and deliverables. Increase collaboration among architects, mechanical, electrical, and structural engineers with a shared set of tools and workflows. Integrate information you have from multiple formats and easily work on projects of any size. Clearly communicate your design intent with reliable deliverables that you can easily customize.

The Akselos Cloud platform delivers a complete Digital Twin framework via the cloud. It provides an end-to-end solution covering automated updates of asset loads and condition, through to clear dashboards showing current asset integrity. No more limitations, Akselos technology enables you to model the most complex problems in structures of any size, and in full detail. Our approach runs structural simulations a 1000x faster than legacy software. Design and operational workflows that used to take months can now be done in hours. Any relevant data, such as sensors and process parameters, can be directly connected to our models, allowing you to optimize your asset even further. All of our simulations will validate results against the applicable engineering code/standards, so that you can feel confident you asset is safe and meets all the relevant requirements.

STRAP (STRuctural Analysis Program) presents optimized software solutions for structural analysis and design. Covering the entire design process from analysis to the production of drawings, STRAP offers the design engineer versatile solutions for a wide range of concrete and steel structures including residential/commercial buildings, bridges, industrial facilities, retaining tanks, towers, and many more. STRAP is a versatile solution for the design of a wide range of concrete and steel structures including residential/commercial buildings, bridges, industrial facilities, retaining tanks, communication towers, and many more. With a comprehensive workflow that covers the entire design process, STRAP’s reliable toolsets meet all the requirements needed for the analysis and design of a wide range of projects from a small scale plane frame structures to large scale hi-rise buildings. Intuitive node definition with a cartesian or cylindrical coordinate system.

Create initial hull designs and assess stability of existing vessels more quickly with integrated naval architecture capabilities in MAXSURF. Streamline hull optimization with easy-to-use tools like hull design, stability and strength analysis, resistance and motions prediction and initial structural design and structural strength analysis. Visualize and optimize vessel designs with the complete set of naval architecture tools in MAXSURF. Create fair hull shapes, comply with stability requirements, minimize power requirements, and ensure crew and passenger comfort in varying sea states. Minimize structural weight while ensuring scantling compliance through initial modeling and stress analysis of beam and plate structures. MAXSURF helps you redefine design excellence for any size vessel. Design, analyze, and optimize all types of marine vessels. Free your creativity with fast and convenient modeling of complex vessels using dynamically trimmed 3D NURB surfaces.

Better bridges beginning to end. OpenBridge Designer features advanced interoperability, allowing access to Bentley’s civil application data, as well as a seamless connection to Bentley’s bridge design and analysis applications. Project team members can take the conceptual model from OpenBridge Modeler into the design stage and move through the workflow by performing analysis and design including evaluation of construction work stages using Bentley’s LEAP applications and RM Bridge, OpenRoads Designer, ProStructures, ProjectWise, and other applications. With all these capabilities in one application, you’ll accelerate performance, produce intelligent models through intuitive capabilities for 3D parametric bridge modeling, and improve project deliverables with intelligent data management and automated drawing production that revolutionizes the bridge delivery process. OpenBridge Modeler is a 3D parametric modeling software for bridges.

FrameWorks® Plus is a powerful structural modeling and drawing tool that supports your total workflow: drawing, modeling, analysis and reporting. Add value to your modeling process by integrating structural tasks with the plant creation process. Because it integrates with third-party analytical and steel detailing software, as well as with other Hexagon plant design software, FrameWorks Plus supports all parts of the structural engineering workflow to keep your data accurate and current. FrameWorks Plus fully supports PDS. You can create structural models of plants and, through an interface to PDS, share the most recent project data across your workplace and around the world. FrameWorks Plus integrates with the engineering and construction workflow. More than just a CAD program, FrameWorks Plus provides intelligent graphics that support easy modeling, analysis and reporting.

ProtaDetails is revolutionary system for automatically creating and organising all your structural concrete detail drawings in one go. Save hours of drafting time by seamlessly extracting design details from ProtaStructure and automatically arranging them onto your company drawing sheets. Use focused CAD editing and detailing capabilities tailored to structural engineering to fine tune your drawing production. Make informed design choices with full quantities extraction to value engineer projects and offer improved design services to clients. Handle changes efficiently by seamlessly updating project design changes from ProtaStructure. Use ProtaDetails growing library of component macros to instantly design and detail common project elements including retaining walls, stairs, piles and foundations. Save hours of drafting time, deliver projects faster, be more productive and profitable with ProtaDetails.

ProtaSteel allows structural engineers and detailers to perform automated steel connection design and produce high quality steel detail drawings in minutes. Take models designed in ProtaStructure directly into ProtaSteel and save hours with automated design of a comprehensive range of bolted and welded steel connections of your choice. Visualize and coordinate your models in 3D, add ancillary steelwork, and fully quantify and value engineer your projects. Significantly reduce design and detailing time by automatically producing high quality engineering drawings for all steelwork and connection details. Increase your design teams productivity and business project profitability. Save valuable project management time by coordinating your projects with other leading BIM platforms including Tekla Structures and Revit.

ProtaBIM has been designed to allow engineers to easily create, communicate and coordinate models with other project stakeholders including architects, fabricators, BIM specialists and owners. Using our revolutionary ProtaHUB technology we can easily create models from a range of both 2D and 3D information including 2D and 3D DXF, IFC and Revit. Using intelligent physical objects means ProtaStructure models can also be accurately and directly shared with other leading BIM platforms including Autodesk Revit without wasting time re-creating model data and fixing building setout. Save hours of modelling time by starting in either your chosen BIM platform or ProtaStructure and simply sharing your model back and forth, as many times as you wish. Make changes and enhancements along the way and seamlessly synchronize projects to keep your BIM models up to date.

Oasys software’s innovative solutions are characterized by attractive, intuitive interfaces and the speed and power with which they allow users to test ideas quickly and cost-effectively. Enabling engineers to define and solve the most complex of design problems accurately, with complete confidence in their compliance with international standards and compatibility with other leading packages. Oasys software tools are offered individually or as discounted bundles of related tools. Oasys Software offers a range of analysis and design solutions for building, bridges, geotechnical engineering, and pedestrian movement. Providing architects, engineers, constructors, students, consultants, planners, and many other disciplines with comprehensive engineering solutions. From the most basic low-rise structure to the most complex high-rise or specialist structure with challenging loading conditions, Oasys has the tools that you need to complete a rigorous analysis and design.

Framing, the design tool for timber frame and floor construction, is a modular solution to fit the needs and requirements of today’s offsite construction market. Utilized extensively by timber frame manufacturers, structural engineers and design practices, the Framing software is used for the detailing of timber frame buildings in 3D, producing comprehensive material schedules, and manufacturing drawings for manual production along with direct links to industry automated machinery and saws. Framing is used for the detailing of various different types of timber frame buildings. Whilst working in primarily a 2D environment, a 3D model is created based on the user’s input, thereby allowing easy checking of levels and heights within the application.

Hilti PROFIS Engineering Suite is a user-friendly, cloud-based software that makes designing structural connections faster and easier in construction projects with time saving productivity features. Design connections for multiple base materials and applications. Design anchors in multiple base materials such as concrete, masonry, and concrete over metal. Not just for anchors, PROFIS Engineering designs post-installed rebar, base plates, and diaphragm shear fasteners for metal deck attachments. Help save time with productivity features such as Smart Design anchor layout, import loads, running multiple load combinations and developing design templates. New to PROFIS Engineering? Sign up for a free 30-day trial of the premium version or try the free standard version.

ikeGPS is a specialized overhead asset data acquisition and analysis platform that helps utilities, communications companies, and engineering service providers collect, measure, manage, and analyze critical infrastructure data, especially for utility poles and overhead assets, more efficiently, accurately, and safely. It combines field-ready hardware like the IKE and IKE+ devices (which integrate GPS, laser rangefinders, calibrated imaging, and intuitive field apps) with cloud-connected software such as IKE Office Pro to capture geospatial measurements, heights of attachment, spans, and equipment details, upload field data in real time, and organize it for collaborative review, quality control, and export into formats like JSON, Excel, PDF, KML, and integrations with analytical tools.

Transform your infrastructure design productivity with our end-to-end solution enabling the production of fast, accurate and fully-integrated design models. Causeway’s Infrastructure Design solution is used extensively by civil and structural engineers, incorporating modules for volumetric, alignment design, drainage design and vehicle path analysis, as well as functionality for creating road markings and designing traffic signs. Offering intelligent 3D modelling capabilities and powerful integration functionality, the solution delivers all of the benefits of Building Information Modelling (BIM) to the civil engineer. Causeway PDS delivers powerful 3D design tools to aid the design engineer in producing the best designs possible. Offering dedicated auto-design and auto-updating features, the solution is designed specifically to save engineers' time, to reduce risk, and to ensure value is engineered into every design.

Integrated solutions are essential in times of tight schedules and scarce resources. Therefore, RIBTEC offers various synergies in calculation, design and construction. You benefit from a time-saving data flow in the sense of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the overall process of structural design. RIB's software solutions for structural engineers range from structural, building and ground engineering as well as finite element calculations to tunnel and bridge construction and the drawing of formwork and reinforcement plans. RIB has been developing pioneering solutions for structural design and FEM since 1961. The RIBTEC programs are successfully used by over 5,000 engineering offices, inspection engineers, construction companies and planning departments in the public and industrial sectors. With more than 100 structural analysis programs, RIBTEC comprehensively covers the practice of structural design.

The iStruct® application suite is an essential tool for the design, specification and delivery of structural products in residential and light commercial construction. These applications seamlessly integrate to share common features like product availability, pricing, templates and customer data, making it easier to deliver consistent results with less effort. Developed with interdepartmental collaboration in mind, iStruct® elevates your company’s output while streamlining the design process, resulting in increased efficiencies and cost and time savings. Get gravity and wind analysis for all components of the wall.

WeStatiX SHM combines true simulation-based Digital Twins with Artificial Intelligence into a revolutionary platform for infrastructure monitoring. It can be applied to any kind of structure, from bridges to tunnels, and even to slopes and rock walls, to provide accurate insight into the current and future behavior of the monitored object. WeStatiX can be used to improve structure safety, optimize monitoring costs, and reduce the environmental impact of the build world. All in your favorite browser. With WeStatiX|SHM, you can create custom digital twins for real-time monitoring of existing structures in the cloud. This is possible for many kinds of infrastructure, such as bridges, rock walls, slopes, dams, buildings, and much more! The system is based on the combination of several innovative digital technologies, and thanks to artificial intelligence algorithms it is a powerful tool for the inspection and maintenance of any monitored object.

Subject your designs to real world conditions to raise product quality while reducing prototyping and physical testing costs. SOLIDWORKS® Simulation is an easy-to-use portfolio of structural analysis tools that use Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to predict a product’s real-world physical behavior by virtually testing CAD models. The portfolio provides linear, non-linear static and dynamic analysis capabilities. SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional enables you to optimize your design, determine product mechanical resistance, product durability, topology, natural frequencies, and test heat transfer and buckling instabilities. It can also perform sequential multi-physics simulations. SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium lets you efficiently evaluate your designs for nonlinear and dynamic response, dynamic loading, and composite materials. SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium includes three advanced studies: Non-Linear Static, Non-Linear Dynamic, and Linear Dynamics.

Powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, SIMULIA delivers realistic simulation applications that enable users to reveal the world we live in. SIMULIA applications accelerate the process of evaluating the performance, reliability and safety of materials and products before committing to physical prototypes. Delivers powerful simulation of structures, fluids, multibody, and electromagnetics scenarios including complex assemblies directly linked with the product data. Modeling, simulation, and visualization technology are fully integrated on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, including process capture, publication, and re-use. The value of the customer’s existing investment in simulation horsepower is maximized by allowing simulation data, results, and IP to connect to the platform and become true corporate assets that powers innovation for all users.