Best Civil Engineering Design Software - Page 9

SAFI Steel-Wood Bridge (SWB) Software

The Steel-Wood Bridge (SWB) Software by SAFI is an automated engineering tool designed for the analysis, design, and evaluation of steel girder bridges with wood decks, adhering to the CSA S6 code, including Chapter 14 for bridge evaluation. This program facilitates the efficient assessment of one- and two-lane bridges, utilizing both standard and parametric steel section shapes. It incorporates extensive libraries of standard metric and imperial material properties, while also allowing for the creation of customized materials to meet specific project requirements. Key Features and Functionality: - Versatile Bridge Analysis: Supports the evaluation of one- and two-lane bridges using both standard and parametric steel section shapes. - Comprehensive Material Libraries: Includes extensive libraries of standard metric and imperial material properties, with the flexibility to create custom materials. - Advanced Load Analysis: Facilitates analysis with standard CL-625 and CL-625-ONT truck models for road classes A, B, and C, and allows for the definition of custom truck configurations. - Customizable Element Dimensions: Provides default values for transverse beam spacing and timber sizes, which can be easily edited to suit specific project needs. - Automated Design Process: Offers a fully automated design process based on user-defined parameters, optimizing bridge design and calculating the resistance of steel and wood elements with known dimensions. - Comprehensive Structural Analysis: Automatically determines element weight, skew angle effects, and the impact of lateral stiffener beams or diaphragms. - Evaluation and Analysis: Calculates the resistance of steel beams and wood components, including transverse shear and bearing capacity of transverse beams, and assesses deflection in bridge girders and elements. - Code-Compliant Evaluation: Evaluates existing steel-wood bridges in accordance with Chapter 14 of the CSA S6-19 code, incorporating specific equations from the Ministère des Transports du Québec (MTQ). - Detailed Reporting: Generates comprehensive reports compatible with Microsoft Word, including all relevant design and evaluation results, intermediate calculations, limit states, live load capacity factors, and visual representations of the bridge design. Primary Value and User Solutions: The SWB Software streamlines the complex process of designing and evaluating steel girder bridges with wood decks, significantly enhancing productivity for structural engineers. By automating intricate calculations and providing customizable parameters, it reduces manual effort and minimizes the potential for errors. The software's adherence to the CSA S6 code ensures compliance with industry standards, while its comprehensive analysis capabilities and detailed reporting equip engineers with the necessary tools to make informed decisions, ultimately leading to safer and more efficient bridge designs.

SAFI Telecom Structural Analysis and Design Software

SAFI™ Telecom Software is a comprehensive structural analysis and design solution tailored for steel telecommunication structures, including self-supporting towers, monopole towers, and guyed masts. It adheres to the ANSI/TIA-222-I and CSA S37-24 standards, ensuring compliance with industry regulations. The software features an intuitive ribbon-based interface, facilitating efficient modeling and design processes. Key functionalities include automatic calculation of wind and ice loads on various components, generation of dead, wind, ice, and thermal load cases, and automatic determination of drag coefficients and gust factors. By automating complex calculations and providing a user-friendly environment, SAFI™ Telecom Software enhances productivity and accuracy for engineers designing telecommunication structures.

SAFI Virtual Tower Structures Software

Virtual Tower Structures® (VTS) is an advanced software solution designed to revolutionize the design, engineering, and construction of electrical substations and transmission towers. By integrating modeling, analysis, design, connection design, fabrication, and detailing into a single, cohesive platform, VTS streamlines the entire workflow from concept to fabrication, replacing traditional, fragmented processes with a unified, model-based environment. Key Features and Functionality: - Parametric Modeling: VTS offers parametric modeling capabilities for substations and transmission towers, enabling automated generation of geometry, bracing, joints, and connection details. - Comprehensive Engineering Tools: The software provides robust structural analysis and design functionalities, ensuring compliance with applicable codes and standards for substations and transmission towers. - Integrated Fabrication and Detailing: VTS seamlessly integrates fabrication and detailing processes, facilitating the creation of detailed fabrication drawings and NC file generation within the same environment. - Unified Operational Framework: The software operates on a framework that encompasses Modeling (M), Engineering (E), Fabrication (F), and Detailing (D), delivering an end-to-end solution in a single software environment. Primary Value and User Solutions: VTS addresses the inefficiencies inherent in traditional design and construction workflows for electrical substations and transmission towers. By consolidating multiple processes into one integrated platform, it enhances productivity, reduces errors, and accelerates project timelines. Engineers and designers benefit from a streamlined approach that ensures consistency and accuracy throughout the project lifecycle, ultimately leading to cost savings and improved project outcomes.

SAFI Wood Calculator Software

The SAFI™ Wood Calculator is an essential software tool designed for structural engineers to efficiently verify and design wood beams and columns composed of sawn lumber, timber, glulam, and structural composite lumber under both normal and fire conditions. By eliminating the need for complex 3D analysis models, it serves as an effective validation instrument for quickly assessing specific elements within intricate structural designs. Key Features and Functionality: - Design Code Compliance: Supports American NDS ASD/LRFD and Canadian CSA O86 standards, ensuring adherence to industry regulations. - Versatile Modeling Options: Offers predefined models for simple beams, continuous beams with up to four spans, cantilever beams, Gerber beams, and columns with offset loads. - Comprehensive Input Data: Allows selection of section shapes, definition of basic loads, specification of design parameters, deflection limits, and fire resistance properties. - Detailed Results Presentation: Provides summaries for reactions, internal deformations, and internal forces, facilitating thorough analysis. - Limit States Design Verification: Performs calculations for tension, compression, bending, shear, and combined forces under normal and fire conditions. - Extensive Material Libraries: Includes American and Canadian wood materials, with options to create custom materials and sections. - Automated Load Calculations: Generates load combinations based on various codes and considers permanent, live, wind, snow, and seismic loads. - Customizable Reports: Offers detailed and executive reports with graphical or numerical visualization of results, which can be printed or exported. Primary Value and User Solutions: The SAFI™ Wood Calculator streamlines the design and verification process for wood structural elements, significantly reducing manual calculations and the potential for errors. Its user-friendly interface and robust features enable engineers to efficiently validate and optimize designs, ensuring compliance with relevant standards. By simplifying complex analyses, the software enhances productivity and accuracy in structural engineering projects.

SETAF 2018

SETAF2018 is an advanced geotechnical analysis software designed for engineers who need reliable and efficient tools for geotechnical engineering projects. It is a modern geotechnical software solution—geotech software—that supports the full workflow of geotechnical analysis and design.

Sewer3d

Sewer3D™ is an advanced software solution developed by SewerAI that revolutionizes sewer infrastructure management through precise 3D modeling. By utilizing affordable 360° action cameras, Sewer3D™ transforms standard manhole inspection videos into detailed, textured 3D models of sewer systems. This innovative approach enables accurate measurements, comprehensive geometry analysis, and seamless integration with CAD software, enhancing decision-making processes.

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StructSuite

StructSuite is free, browser-based structural design and load calculation software for residential and light-frame buildings. It runs in the browser with nothing to install, and every design module is free to use with no usage limits. The modules cover a typical permit set from loads to foundations: - Dead and live loads: dead loads built assembly by assembly from ASCE 7-22 Table C3.1-1a, and live loads by occupancy from Table 4.3-1, including the roof live load. - Seismic loads: ASCE 7-22 Equivalent Lateral Force procedure, from site class and the seismic force-resisting system to base shear, story forces, overturning and diaphragm forces, with force diagrams. - Wind loads: ASCE 7-22 Directional (Chapter 27) and Envelope (Chapter 28) procedures, with the four load cases, torsion, roof uplift and pressure diagrams. - Wood and steel beams: multi-span beams and cantilevers in sawn lumber, glulam, I-joists, LVL, LSL and PSL per NDS 2024, or W-shapes, HSS and pipe per AISC 360-22, with shear, moment and deflection diagrams for every load combination. - Wood and steel columns: effective length from the NDS end-condition table, axial plus lateral load, and steel columns per AISC 360-22 Chapters E and H. - Floor joists, ceiling joists and rafters from the 2024 IBC span tables, plus TJI spans and Simpson Strong-Tie hanger selection. - Wood-frame shear walls per SDPWS 2021: draw the walls on the building plan, and the story shear is distributed to each wall line automatically. Includes Simpson hold-downs and SABR anchor bolts, end posts and collectors. - Isolated and strip footings per ACI 318-25: bearing, overturning, sliding, one-way and punching shear, flexure and development length. - Cantilever retaining walls per ACI 318-25 and IBC 2024, with a concrete or solid-grouted CMU stem (TMS 402-22), sloped backfill, groundwater, surcharges and seismic earth pressure. StructSuite is built for plan check. Every step shows its equations with your numbers substituted, and a book icon beside each code value quotes the code paragraph it comes from. The printed report lists every input that changes a result, including the options left off. Modules are combined into one project and printed as a single calculation report behind a cover sheet and table of contents. Each report carries a verification link that a plan checker can open online to walk through the calculations. Who it is for: structural and civil engineers, architects and building designers working on houses, additions and light-frame buildings in the United States. Pricing: Free includes every module with the full calculations on screen and one project saved to the cloud. Pro is $100 per month or $1,000 per year and adds unlimited cloud projects, the printed PDF report and the plan-check verification link. A one-week Pro pass is $50.

TORUS

TORUS Roundabouts is a comprehensive solution that helps engineers design safer and more efficient roundabouts with fewer errors by using built-in design guidelines and analysis tools. It minimizes cumbersome iteration cycles and calculations with automated geometric and analytical features through dynamic feedback. TORUS streamlines time-consuming work in the conceptual, preliminary, and design phases, allowing stakeholders to create reliable transportation infrastructure.

Truss Analysis Tool

Trusted by engineers worldwide for easy, fast, and accurate truss designs. Analyze unlimited load cases, optimize member sizing, and print calc reports in seconds.

VisionPlus

VisionPlus is a simple and intelligent land surveying software from field to finish work for your land survey projects. VisionPlus integrates into BricsCAD, AutoCAD, Microstation, PowerDraft, and helps to automatically draw all the information from plots, segments, annotation distances, directions, as well as areas representing sinuous rivers.

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WayCivil

WayCivil is an AI-powered platform built to automate quality control (QC) for civil engineering plan sets. In today’s engineering workflows, reviewing plans is one of the most time-consuming and repetitive tasks. Engineers often spend hours manually checking for inconsistencies across sheets, missing labels, incorrect references, or drafting errors. These issues, while simple, can lead to costly delays, RFIs, and change orders if not caught early. WayCivil acts as an intelligent “second set of eyes” for engineers. It automatically reviews plan sets—primarily in PDF format—and detects common production errors in seconds. This includes cross-sheet inconsistencies (such as mismatched labels between plan, profile, and sections), missing or incorrect annotations, overlapping text, and deviations from established standards. The platform is designed not to replace engineers, but to enhance their workflow. By handling repetitive and mechanical checks, WayCivil allows engineers to focus on higher-value tasks such as design decisions, problem-solving, and coordination. The goal is simple: reduce review time, improve accuracy, and increase overall project quality. WayCivil is especially valuable during key project milestones (30%, 60%, 90%, and IFC submittals), where fast and reliable QC can significantly impact timelines. It can also be tailored to specific company standards, enabling teams to maintain consistency across all their projects. The platform operates as a cloud-based web application, making it accessible from anywhere without requiring specialized software. It integrates seamlessly into existing workflows by working directly with plan files, without the need for CAD licenses. WayCivil offers flexible plans to support different team sizes and needs. The Pro plan is designed for individual users or small teams with limited monthly reviews, while the Enterprise plan provides unlimited users, unlimited reviews, and customized QC models trained on company-specific standards. Ultimately, WayCivil helps engineering teams move faster, reduce costly errors, and deliver higher-quality plans.

XPDrainage

A visual platform for the design, analysis & review of stormwater controls, XPDrainage takes a treatment train approach to walk you through the design process.

XPSite3D

XPSite3D makes it easy to create and modify any aspect of your road design. Engineers can explore many scenarios, refining designs to deliver an optimal final 3D design.

XPStorm

XPStorm is for dynamic urban stormwater and river systems modeling. It gives you confidence in your model to clearly convey results to engineers, planners, and the general public.