Efficient BIM workflows are essential for modern structural engineering. Advance Design offers full interoperability with leading BIM platforms, allowing engineers to exchange data, coordinate multidisciplinary projects, and streamline design processes. The software ensures smooth collaboration across disciplines, reducing errors and saving time on every project.
Key Features
Autodesk Revit
Advance Design enables seamless integration of FEM models with Revit, preserving geometry and analytical data. This allows engineers and architects to coordinate structural and architectural elements efficiently, visualize the project in 3D, and ensure consistency between design and documentation throughout the BIM workflow.
Advance Steel
Linking with Advance Steel enables steel members to be transferred directly for detailing and fabrication purposes. This streamlines the workflow from design to production, minimizes errors in construction documents, and ensures that complex steel structures are accurately represented in both the model and shop drawings.
IDEA StatiCa
With Advance Design, forces and elements from the FEM model can be exported to IDEA StatiCa Connection and IDEA StatiCa Checkbot for detailed verification of steel connections. Using the CBFEM method, engineers can check every component, ensuring code compliance and structural safety, even for highly complex joints.
SAF (Structural Analysis Format)
Advance Design supports SAF to transfer analytical models, including geometry, loads, and boundary conditions, between software platforms. This ensures that FEM models remain consistent and accurate, enabling smooth collaboration across multiple tools and disciplines.
IFC (Industry Foundation Classes)
The FEM model in Advance Design can be exported in IFC format, facilitating open BIM interoperability. This allows all project stakeholders to coordinate, detect clashes, and manage structural, architectural, and MEP elements efficiently within a unified model.
GTCX (Graitec Transfer Center)
Advance Design uses the GTCX format to ensure full interoperability across the Graitec ecosystem. Geometry, loads, and analysis results from the FEM model are transferred quickly and reliably between Graitec applications, maintaining data consistency and supporting efficient project workflows.
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Advance Design is engineered to meet the specific needs of structural engineers, offering powerful FEM capabilities that streamline their workflow.
Discover what our users say
“We use all the capabilities of Advance Design, both in the initial design phase and in the execution detail phase, through the use of post-processing modules included in Advance Design as well as through collaboration with partner applications, a collaboration based on the exchange and synchronization of BIM information.”
Eng. Sorin Chereches, PROCAD Design
“Advance Design has an intuitive interface. We worked with the architects at the same time we were creating the structure. Exporting IFCs allowed a fluid communication. The hardest part of the project was taking into account all architect’s demands while designing a seismic structure.”
Yassine Talmi, OTEIS, France
“In addition to its BIM advanced features, Advance Design was quite beneficial regarding the geometrical modeling process, as well as the structural analysis and design. The seismic and wind load generation is helpful and relatively swift, with its automatic Building Code implementation.”
Adel Sfeir, Lebanese University Faculty of Engineering, Lebanon