About Graitec Advance Design

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Learn about our latest release: Advance Design 2023.
View the What's new in Advance Design 2023 Video on YouTube.
Watch our 12-video series "My first project with Advance Design - Concrete edition".

Used by many of the top engineering consultancies in North America and around the world, Graitec Advance Design is an easy to use structural analysis software solution for general structural analysis and design, it includes North American design codes (ACI / AISC), Canadian codes (A23.3, S16), as well as Eurocode design for EC0, EC1, EC2, EC3, EC5 and EC8.

Along with a familiar CAD based user interface Advance Design includes full FE capability, seismic, dynamic, generalised buckling for any type of structure mixing concrete and steel members.

Other features includes static, dynamic, modal and non-linear analysis with very easy view and report post processing and detailed design checks.

Advance Design is fully BIM compliant with functionality including export, import and synchronisation links direct with Revit and Advance Steel as well as other programs using industry standard file types and:

Is powerful, easy to use and operate
BIM native: Fully compliant with Revit®
Supported by a strong team of experts
Has a flexible licensing model
Has thousands of references worldwide
Utilises North American codes & Eurocodes

Advance Design Overview

Advance Design Packages

Standard
FEM Structural Analysis package including all the modeling capabilities, the 3D climatic loads generator, all advanced FEM analysis and results postprocessing.
Premium
Standard + Design any type of structure, with any kind of loads, mixing concrete, timber and steel members according to major standard codes (Eurocodes and North American codes)
Ultimate
Premium + Embedded RC modules to accelerate design, detailing & management of reinforcement (rebar) within concrete beams, columns, footings, bearing walls & shear walls.

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Key Feature Summary

Modeling

Dynamic views
Store and use views saved with filtered parameters
Levels management
Easily manage multi-storey buildings
Property templates
Speed up your modelling saving and loading of property templates
Steel structure designer
Extensive range of structure definitions
Multiview ports
Increase control of your project with the display of multiple views
Coordinates system
Postprocess efficiently the results with different coordinates system (Global, loal, user)
Rendering display
Better understand your projects switching from FEM display to realistic rendering
And more....

Loads and FEA

3D Climatic and seismic load generator
Generate seismic spectrums according to North American codes and Eurocode, climatic loads with balanced\unbalanced snow, wind on 3D opened structures.
Analytical links and rigid diaphragms
Easily model analytical links and rigid diaphragms using dofs constrains, master-slave connections, semi-rigid boundary conditions.
Traffic loads Wizard
Define patterns with one or several traffic lanes, footways or cycle tracks. Apply loads templates and get automatic envelope's
Global and local imperfections
Automatic calculation of the equivalents loads (including the 2nd order effects) for global and local imperfections on steel structures
Powerful multicore FEA engine
Static and dynamic analysis, Time-history, geometrical non linearities, general buckling, rigid diaphragms.
And more....

Concrete Design

International concrete design codes
Design your concrete members according to American and Canadian codes as well as Eurocode.
Design templates
Apply design templates to a set of elements to better control all your design assumptions.
Deflection checks
Automatically calculate and check RC deflections on beams and slabs taking into account the crack inertias
Required and real reinforcement calculation
Advance Design provide required and real reinforcement values on linear and planar elements displaying delta values real time.
3D rebar cages and reinforcement drawings
Advance Design designs the full 3D rebar cages on beams, columns and footings including the reinforcement drawings
Detailed Design reports
Check the design with detailed reports including all intermediate formulas and results
And more....

Steel Design

Advanced Lateral torsional buckling checks (LTB)
Advanced method based on 7 dofs elements with 2nd order warping analysis to design LTB on any kind of sections.
Steel member optimization
Optimize all the steel members based on deflection or stability working ratios.
Detailed and comprehensive steel design reports
Check the design with detailed reports including all intermediate formulas and results.
Integrated steel connections design
Design your steel connections within Advance Design.
And more....

Please visit our dedicated Advance Design YouTube channel to explore the functionality of Advance Design Structural Analysis software in greater depth or for support and training videos.

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