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Advance Design America Building to Advance Design: a Natural Transition

If you’re using Advance Design America Building for your structural projects, you’re not alone! Advance Design America is a pillar of the structural engineering industry and has proven itself as a reliable and accurate software for generations of engineers.

Today, we’d like to invite you to try out Advance Design, our finite element calculation software, and realize the full potential of this modern program for fast, easy project management.

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Why switch from Advance Design America Building (ADA) to Advance Design?

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The transition from ADA Building to Advance Design offers a series of significant advantages for engineering and construction professionals. ​
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Advance Design uses technology to facilitate modeling by reducing repetitive, manual processes, while offering an unrivalled calculation engine, enabling complex, iterative structural analyses to be carried out at unprecedented speed.

You already have an ADA license?

Great news! Your ADA license gives you free access to Advance Design! Just download it and contact us if you need help!

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Work in a BIM environment

BIM (Building Information Modeling) enables different teams to work simultaneously on the same model. By choosing to switch to Advance Design, structural engineers benefit from a complete suite of tools and functionalities to successfully complete their projects, all in an integrated work environment enabling a collaborative BIM workflow.

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What sets Advance Design apart:​​

  • A personalized, intuitive interface​
  • Code verification based on Canadian standard NBC 2020 (steel, concrete, wood) ​
  • Fast, optimized modeling
  • A powerful meshing tool with independent loads ​definition options
  • Automatic and combinable load generators (wind, snow, seismic)
  • A concrete module with reinforcement ​optimization features
  • Market-leading synchronization capabilities with Revit and Advance Steel

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DTA Consultants Testimonial

Discover in this 4 video series how Quebec-based company DTA Consultants successfully made the transition to Advance Design, saving time and energy by centralizing its structural operations.

Why Advance Design?

Jean-Philippe Laberge introduces us to DTA Consultants and explains the reasons that led the company to make the transition to this modeling and calculation software.

Optimized work

Jean-Philippe explains the aspects of Advance Design that make the difference in his work: optimized modeling, the meshing tool and load generators.

The concrete module

In this video excerpt, we discuss the ease of modeling and reinforcement optimization included in the Advance Design Ultimate version.

The GRAITEC advantage

Mr. Laberge explains the decision-making process that led the DTA team to decide to work with a human-scale, Quebec-based, forward-looking company.

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Do you currently own an Advance Design America license?

If so, you already have FREE access to Advance Design!