Key Features
User-friendly working environment with intuitive CAD tools for easy model creation and editing- OpenGL for fast fly through rendered views, animated results and powerful 2D and 3D graphical representation of input geometry and results
- Intelligent data connections provide options to create your model from architects’ layout by importing of IFC, DWG and DXF files
- Point-point, line-line and edge connections between structural objects for real life situation modelling
- Point, line and surface supports with rigid, free and/or elastic stiffness components
- Section editor for defining custom section shapes for bars, beams and columns with automatic property calculation
- Inbuilt structure wizard for quick and easy input of slab and frame systems
Analysis
Various loading types including, point, line, surface, temperature, support motion and stress loads. Automatic wind and snow loading are also available- Automatic loading combinations for unfavourable loads, combining permanent, variable and accidental loads
- Automatic optimal finite element mesh generation for any geometry with no element limit and the ability to mesh to load positions if required
- Options for advanced static, dynamic (eigen frequencies), stability and seismic analysis. FEM-Design can automatically convert load cases to masses for dynamic calculations and surface loads into line loads in frame structures
- Automatic solving of singularity problems in internal/design force results above supports
Design
- Choose your desired design code for reinforcement and steel from 10 national standards, including British, Danish, Eurocodes, Hungarian, Norwegian and Swedish.
- Steel design includes automatic utilisation checks for stresses, flexural buckling, lateral torsional buckling and web and flange buckling
- Choose your preferred results display from 3D graphs, contour lines, colour palette or sections for each display result
- Documentation editor, for quality multi-page documentation within the FEM-Design environment
- Input and output data as tabular form can be opened in Microsoft Excel









