Advance Design is a mature and easy to use FEM Structural Analysis solution dedicated to structural engineers operating in a BIM environment.
It fully designs any type of structure, with any kind of loads, mixing concrete, timber and steel members. It includes major code standards (Eurocodes / North American).
Powerful, Easy to use and operate
BIM: Fully compliant with Revit®
Supported by a strong team of experts
Flexible licensing model
Thousands of references worldwide
Advance Design provides an outstanding BIM experience.
It enables intelligent model-based workflows for Engineers and construction professionals. Advance Design acts as a BIM platform and guarantees the continuity of geometric and analytical data through model transfers all along the design cycle.
Analysis results are also stored in the Digital Model and are part of the BIM process. For instance, they can be used to start a rebar design or a steel connection process directly from Revit. These options open new disruptive opportunities.
With all our software solutions we offer a Graitec Advantage Maintenance Contract. This maintenance contract is the solution to perpetuate your investment with the following benefits:
All product updates and upgrades are available during the term of the agreement. These updates can be minor or major versions.
By phone, e-mail, or remote access our dedicated team will assist you for all your questions around our solutions simplifying your daily tasks.
Access to a dedicated customer portal with a personal user account. Tutorials, documentations, downloads are available in this area.
Advance Design provides an outstanding BIM experience and enables intelligent workflows for Architects, Engineers, and Construction professionals. It supports model import-export- synchronization mechanisms using main industry standards (IFC, CIS/2, SDNF, STP…) and through an API with Autodesk Products: Autodesk Revit® and Autodesk Advance Steel®.
Connected structural workflows are no longer science fiction but a stark reality that is delivering newfound accuracy and performance. Discover how!
Advance Design connects to Revit® through an API and streamlines BIM workflows. Import, export, synchronisation of models and results package storage are available.
Advance Design interoperates with 3rd party BIM platforms using IFC.
The strong link with Advance Steel® speeds up modelling and detailing of steel structures.
Complete your structural analysis with the integrated Advance Design modules for steel and concrete members and get automatically detailed design reports, design intents and drawings.
Advance Design comes with effective tools to solve geometrical issues such as merging nodes, extending linear elements, checking vertical alignment, etc.
Advance Design is probably one of the easiest to learn and use structural package. Modelling is intuitive thanks to a complete library of structural elements, advanced wizards and automatic loads generators (climatic loads, seismic loads, traffic loads…). These easily customisable elements and wizards adapt to any situation: numerical eccentricities, braces, ties with initial pre-stressing, complex loading systems…
Modelling
Views can be saved dynamically during the modelling phase. This allows you to come back at any time on any stage of your design, showing the saved filtered elements, colours, zoom level, displayed tags, etc.
Advance Design helps to easily manage multi-storey buildings. Structural members are created in the right floor in a few clicks, floor height is changed easily, storeys are duplicated or moved in a few clicks, etc.
Save and load property templates of Advance Design objects to speed up your structural FEM modelling and customize the software.
Loading
Advance Design embeds a strong 3D climatic load generator allowing users to quickly create wind and snow loads according to Eurocodes, Canadian and American codes.
Generate the seismic spectrum and loads according to local standards (Several seismic codes implemented).
The moving loads generator allows users to rapidly create traffic loads on bridges and buildings in order to simulate traffic movement effects, as well as crane loads on structures in order to simulate a single or multiple cranes movement.
Advance Design features a powerful mesh and multicore FEM analysis engine, automated post-processing tools and detailed smart reports, automatically updated after every iteration. Achieve a new level of computer aided engineering with Advance Design!
Meshing is an essential step for a FEA. Advance Design embeds a Delaunay mesh engine able to mesh huge 3D models within a few seconds.
Handle all your FEM analysis with Advance Design: static, dynamic, non-linear analyses, large displacements, generalised buckling, step calculation, etc.
The capacity design method is critical when designing concrete frames in a seismic area. Handle this advanced calculation within a few clicks in Advance Design.
Several graphical post-processing methods are available: directly on the model; along a cut placed anywhere in the model; stresses diagrams. Post-processing on planar elements is made easy as it can be done on a grid independent from the mesh size.
Fully customisable design reports: styles, tables and graphical images, cover sheet, user input text, linked documents, etc...
Handle all your FEM analysis with Advance Design: static, dynamic, non-linear analyses, large displacements, generalised buckling, step calculation, etc.
You can define postprocessing templates allowing users to automate the creation of reports containing right away predefined tables and real-time graphical views with results.
Several graphical post-processing methods are available: directly on the model; along a cut placed anywhere in the model; stresses diagrams. Post-processing on planar elements is made easy as it can be done on a grid independent from the mesh size.
Model the realistic behaviour interaction between components and obtain solutions to your geometric nonlinear problems.
Handle all your FEM analysis with Advance Design: static, dynamic, non-linear analyses, large displacements, generalised buckling, step calculation, etc.
Study the dynamic response of a structure to a specified loading that may vary with time.
Predict the non-linear behavior of a structure under seismic loads using the Pushover analysis.
Advance Design performs a global reinforced concrete design that computes theoretical and real reinforcement, crack design, interpolated cracked inertia, deflection checks, etc. All these results are available for all elements in detailed reports.
Advance Design modules also provide detailed design intent and reinforcement drawings. Advance Design includes design and detailing modules for the main structural elements: reinforced concrete beams, columns, footings, RC bearing walls and shear walls allowing to go deep in the level of details such as openings, depressions, precasts, flanges, 3D reinforcement cages… Advance Design modules also provide detailed drawings required for the construction site.
Advance Design is a BIM FEA solution dedicated to structural analysis and design according to the latest versions of international standards such as Eurocodes (EC2) with their National Appendixes, American codes (ACI318-14) and Canadian codes (CAN/CSA A23.3-14)
To better control all assumptions and avoid mistakes, design templates allow to group elements by design properties: concrete quality, cracking hypotheses, concrete cover, etc.
Advance Design computes the required reinforcement and propose the best possible reinforcement solution (bars, spacing, etc.) matching the constraints of the project.
The reinforcement of slabs can be entered by the user (fabrics or bars) or can be calculated precisely with the following checks : Cracked and non-cracked inertias, Cracking verification, Reinforced concrete deflection calculation, Punching verification.
Advance Design performs a complete crack width check, which is mandatory in several codes, depending on the real reinforcement quantities on linear and planar elements
Complex design checks can be performed on slabs such as punching verification, for punctual supports and punctual loads
When using Advance Design modules, you get a detailed design report considering all detailed characteristic for beams, columns, footings, walls, shears walls… including references to sections and formulas from the code.
When using Advance Design modules, you can also get an automatic drawing for beams, columns, footings, slabs, bearing walls and shear walls.
Reinforced Concrete Modules are an innovative series of applications for rebar detailing and modeling using engineering BIM data, helping users to create, design, document, track and control structural members of a BIM project.
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Advance Design performs an advanced analysis and optimisation of steel elements and connections according to the selected standards. Design templates, shape and deflection optimisation through automated calculation cycles, a wizard for steel structures and a detailed global report including all design checks and graphical results makes Advance Design a high-end solution to design steel structures.
Advance Design performs an advanced analysis and optimisation of steel elements and connections according to the selected standards. Design templates, shape and deflection optimisation through automated calculation cycles, a wizard for steel structures and a detailed global report including all design checks and graphical results makes Advance Design a high-end solution to design steel structures.
To better control all assumptions and avoid mistakes, design templates allow users to group elements by their design properties: buckling lengths, lateral-torsional buckling restraints, deflections, durability and fire resistance, etc.
Advance Design performs the fire verification of steel elements according to §4.2 (simplified method) of Eurocode 1993-1-2 as fire resistance (§4.2.3) and critical temperature (§4.2.4).
A valuable application that incorporates an extensive range of structure definitions and tools allowing users to model projects in minutes..
Streamline the design of connections with the connection group management of Advance Design.
Advance Design connects to IDEA StatiCa Connection for designing any 3D complex joint using a unique finite element method combined to Eurocode 3 and AISC.
IDEA StatiCa Connection needs to be purchased separately
Advance Design includes a module to design 2D steel connections according Eurocode 3. The user can group connections depending on the geometry and get fast design and details on the worst connection from the group.
Buckling and lateral-torsional buckling checks on all sections using specific elements with 7dofs for warping effects, classification of cross sections, deflection checks, optimisation of the entire structure according different users criteria.
The member optimisation can be performed for the entire model, per element, per member’s families, considering different user’s criteria: maximum deflection, weight, inertia, width, height… Get the optimal solution in one clickSame.
Advance Design allows the verification of members made from cold-formed sections, based on EN 1993-1-3 and EN1993-1-5 regulations.
Timber is getting more and more traction in the construction space and timber design has become more complex with the application of the Eurocode 5.
Advance Design performs a complete analysis and optimisation of timber elements. The verification - a complex, but fast process, even if the structure has a high degree of complexity - offers a competent diagnosis of your model.
Advance Design is a BIM FEA solution dedicated to structural analysis and design according to the latest versions of international standards such as Eurocodes (EC5) with their national appendixes.
To better control all assumptions and avoid mistakes, you can define design templates that can be applied on a selection of elements. Design templates can be saved and used in different projects.
Advance Design also performs the fire verification of timber elements. You can easily define the fire exposure period and the faces exposed to fire.
Advance Design performs the timber verification and provides access to results for safety coefficients, deflections, buckling, cross section strength and element stability.
The optimisation process offers solutions to find the best section for elements of the structure according to the loads.
The shape sheets command allows users to view at one glance all the available results for a timber element: cross section properties, deflections, strength, stability and fire resistance, in one dialog box.
A customisable report manager allows users to create and save detailed design reports that can be reused for any project.
Generate engineering drawings starting from configurable templates.
Calculate and display rebar quantities in a bar schedule.
Configure, generate and customize detailed design reports.
Display detailed graphical results for performed checks.
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