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With an intuitive user interface, extensive libraries of structural components, and powerful tools for modeling, drafting, and reporting, Structural supports all phases of the structural workflow, from the design and modeling of structural systems to structural analysis and construction documentation. Integrating design, visualization, drawing production, and reporting, Structural is part of BIM solution of integrated design, engineering, and management applications for the entire lifecycle of constructed assets. Used on large and complex projects around the world, Structural was specifically developed to support workgroups and distributed teams in a managed environment, allowing architects, engineers, and contractors to build as one.
BIM enables business-critical benefits over traditional computer-aided drafting (CAD), eliminates waste, significantly reduces errors and omissions, provides greater predictability of costs and performance, allows exploration of more design options, and ultimately results in better buildings.
Structural design and information modeling
A comprehensive range of dedicated tools supports the design and modeling of structures in steel, concrete, and timber. Parametric components, such as walls, foundations, columns, beams, trusses, slabs, and bracings, allow dimension-driven creation and modification. Intersecting members are automatically coped or cut back from supporting members, and if necessary, rotated to the slope angle of their supports.
Choice of 2D, 3D, or both
The building information model can be created and manipulated in a traditional 2D plan or an advanced 3D model environment – using the same tools and interface for either.
Integration with analysis and detailing
Simultaneously with the physical members, an analytical model is created, to which boundary conditions, member releases, and various load combinations can be added. This finite element information integrates directly with leading structural analysis applications. Integration with steel detailing and concrete reinforcement software is supported via industry-standard exchange formats.
Rule-based drawing production
Plans, framing layouts, sections, and elevations comply with user-definable drawing standards and rules for resymbolization and annotation. Options are provided for single- or double-line representation, removal or display of hidden lines, and extensive labeling and annotation of structural members. Coordination and consistency is thereby ensured across all documentation.
Integrated schedules and reporting
User-definable properties associated with structural members can be used to query the structural information model, to make selective or global changes to the geometry and nongraphical information, and to generate accurate component schedules that include lengths, volumes, weights, centers of mass, and more. Changes in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, affecting attributes such as steel section size and height of single or multiple structural components, update both physical and analytical models.
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