SAFE offers a single user interface to perform modeling, analysis, design and reporting. A new model explorer is available for quick access to objects, properties and forms.

Many drawing and drafting utilities are built into SAFE to enhance the engineer's modeling experience. Many of the common industry standard shortcuts and controls are also available.

Wall and ramps can be modeled as line loads or line supports, or explicitly modeled with wall elements. Define ridge zones to prevent slab deformations at the wall or ramp location.

Insertion points are used to define offsets for beams and columns. They can be defined on quick SAFE-defined cardinal points or based on user-defined dimensions.

Columns in SAFE can be rectangular, T-shaped, L-shaped, circular, or general with user-defined properties. Rigid zones can be defined to prevent slab deformations at column locations. Drop panels can be added easily at column capitals.

Spring supports are used to define soil supports. They can be defined as either points, lines, or areas and as tension-only or compression-only.

Design strips are used to define how reinforcement requirements are to be calculated. SAFE can automatically define the strips for you, or you can define them yourself.

SAFE includes the ability to define post-tensioning in slabs, as banded or distributed tendons.

Support lines allow for faster modeling of design strips and tendon layout. They can be drawn and edited on-screen as well as generated automatically along grid lines.

Slab panels can be automatically generated using grids or support lines, or they can be user-drawn. They overlay the floor system and can be used to apply live load for load-pattern analysis, and can also be used to report mid-panel displacements and soil-pressure summaries.

Show the loads in both 2D and 3D views of your SAFE model. Display color contoured area loading diagrams with loading values, or mouse-over various parts of your model to get instantaneous loading values.

Point loads can be defined as single points or point loads on lines or areas. Point loads include a load size for punching shear. Line loads can be defined as uniform or trapezoidal. Area loads can be defined as uniform or non-uniform surface loads.

Auto-pattern live loads are automatically-generated patterns based on slab panels. Results from each “single panel” are combined with the Range Add load combination. User-defined pattern live loads can also be included.

Tendon loads and losses are defined easily and calculated by SAFE. Users can define jacking from either end of the tendon or both. The specified jacking stress is converted to load. Calculation of losses can be based on a force percentage, user-defined stress values, or on more detailed calculations.

Deflection control can be performed using a nonlinear analysis or a long-term cracked analysis which takes into account concrete creep and shrinkage.

Horizontal steel beams, supporting filled or unfilled steel decks, can be drawn and assigned for design. Beams with web openings, including castellated and cellular beams, can be designed. Design can be performed on the model as a whole or interactively on individual members.

SAFE will calculate the minimum reinforcement requirements of area, intensity, or number of bars. Design will be performed at multiple stations. Design strips can be non-orthogonal and of varying width.

Finite element-based design does not require design strips. It is ideal for complex geometry where defining strips can be difficult. The design will output contour plots of rebar density by averaging of peaks over user-defined widths. This helps with identifying "hot spots" for reinforcing design.

SAFE performs design of conventional and post-tensioned concrete beams per code minimum reinforcement requirements. Flexure, shear, and torsion are all considered in design.

The punching shear check and design in SAFE considers column location, openings, and slab edges. SAFE will also perform an additional drop panel check and design punching reinforcement ties or shear studs if required.

Post-tensioning stress checks are performed for transfer, final, and long term conditions. SAFE will display top/bottom of slab stress contours as well as demand capacity ratio contours that users can mouse-over for instantaneous values.

SAFE offers a wide rage of code-based design features for reinforced concrete and PT beam, slab design, and composite steel beams. View the full list of supported Design Codes.

Deformed geometry can be shown after running the analysis. Values are displayed instantaneously when hovering over the model. The deformed geometry can be displayed as filled or line contour plots.

Display force, moment, shear, and stress contour plots based on a particular load case or load combination in both 2D or 3D views.

The report generator features include an indexed table of contents, model definition information, and analysis and design results in tabulated format. The report generation is fully customizable to include only the desired content.

Import models from SAP2000 and ETABS. All loads, geometry, section properties, and wall deformations can be imported. Import and export geometry and result plots from DXF or DWG files. SAFE is also compatible with Autodesk^® Revit^®.

With CSI software, collaboration between different AEC teams is handled efficiently through compatibility with other BIM software.

The API allows external client applications to run SAFE or attach to existing instances of SAFE to perform operations like opening and saving models, creating and modifying models, running analysis and design, and extracting results. Typical applications include specialized templates, parameter studies, and design post-processing. Client applications can be written in several different programming languages, and can connect to SAFE using .NET or COM.