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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).

Below you will find 10 unique reasons why it is good to get familiar with Advance Design software.

Reason 1 – Best in Class 3D Climatic Generator

Quickly generate all 2D/3D climatic loads according to the latest updates of Eurocodes and North American codes.

Reason 2 – BIM Solution

Advance Design is part of an entire structural BIM workflow and links with Autodesk Revit and Autodesk Advance Steel for importing, exporting and synchronising projects.

Reason 3 – Model Management through Interactive Tables

Easily manage your model from interactive tables and access the data within Excel.

Reason 4 – 2nd Order Lateral-Torsional Buckling Analysis

Calculate stability of members with any cross section considering initial imperfections and warping.

Reason 5 – Broad number of Steel Connections

Design welded or bolted connections using analytical formulas or advanced FEM calculations using ADC.

Reason 6 – Master-Slave Analytical Links

Analytical links can be defined right from the modelling stage and will stay updated when iterating calculations.

Reason 7 – Methods for Seismic Analysis

Save computation time by using the RITZ solver for modal, seismic and time history analysis.

Reason 8 – Steel Members Optimisation

Optimisation of steel members is enhanced according to predefined criteria allowing you to optimise an entire project in minutes.

Reason 9 – Advanced Meshing Capabilities

Use an enhanced and powerful meshing engine to refine meshes whilst considering geometrical constraints.

Reason 10 – Advanced Reports

Customise parametric reports and have these automatically update, saving hours of time when it comes to generating technical documentation.

If you want to learn more about Advance Design, join Advance Design Week – free webinars sessions from 19 till 23 of October!

Are you structural enginner? Are you doing construction projects ? You want to improve in following areas?

– Complex projects with advanced analyses
– Complex design for concrete and steel structures
– BIM Workflow
– Multi-material projects
– Designing international projects
– Steel connection design
– Modeling complexity
and many, many more…

If YES, join Advance Design Week and boost your knowledge and skills with free webinars provided by our professionals!

If you are Advance Design User – Gain priceless knowledge about  ADVANCE Design and be the first to know about the new features during Advance Design User Summit 2020!

Dear Advance Design users,we would like to thank you for being a Graitec customer and creating great, innovative and complex projects using our software. Maintaining a positive relationship with you is crucial for us, as is developing the new functionalities of our software according to your needs and indications.
In order to thank you for your loyalty, we would like to invite you to our Advance Design User Summit 2020 – an event where you will have the opportunity to gain advanced technical knowledge provided by our professionals, as well as to learn about the upcoming novelties in Advance Design software.
We invite you to read the agenda and register your place!

Advance Design SIMULATE Team

Modeling and defining the values of all climatic loads is a time-consuming process and a source of possible errors. The amount of time spent for the calculation of climatic effects can be significantly reduced, while assuring more accurate results. You can obtain in no time the climatic loads intensity and distribution on your structure using a fast and easy-to-use Advance Design function: the 3D Climatic loads generator.

Implemented Eurocode 1 and National specific standards

Advance Design provides several climatic standards such as NV 2009 (France), NP082-04 / CR1-1-3-2005 (Romania), Eurocode 1, Canadian (NBC2010 or 2015) and US (ASCE 7-10) codes, with different national appendixes:

• General
• France
• United Kingdom
• Romania
• Germany
• Czech Republic
• Poland
• Slovakia

The choice is done in the global project’s settings.

Wide applicability

The structure and roof shape is taken into account, therefore you can create loads on portal frames, parapet walls, lattice structures, scaffolding elements, buildings with dominant face, panels, horizontal roofs, two slopes roofs, isolated roofs, protruding roofs, roofs with awning, etc.

Examples of automatic generation of climatic loads on various structures

Wind loads on multiple roofs

Snow loads on multiple roofs

Wind loads on awning

Snow accumulation on portal frames with a negative slope

Snow accumulation on portal frames with a negative slope

You can automatically generate all the climatic loads on a structure in an efficient way, which saves a great amount of time:

• Select the appropriate climatic standard.
• Generate windwalls on 3D structures.
• Create load case families for snow or / and wind and configure the advanced properties (if necessary).

Access the snow and wind loads values map to define the structure location.
With a single click, the values of the wind speed, wind pressure, snow load and exceptional snow loads on the structure faces and roof are automatically defined according to the selected region:

Launch the climatic generator

The climatic load cases and loads are automatically displayed in the graphic area and also, in the Pilot, in the corresponding loads family, providing access to an efficient management:

Accurate and prompt update

If the structure or the loads properties are modified after generating the climatic loads, a single click is enough to update the loads, according to the new conditions.