Product Name
ACE OCP for ETABS
Product Website
Company
ACE-Hellas
CSI Products Supported
ACE OCP is an innovative plug-in for ETABS 2016 (64-bit only) and the first of its kind to offer a practical solution for value engineering (VE). Through a friendly interface and state-of-the-art algorithms, ACE OCP, automatically optimizes any structure in order to reduce construction and/or material costs consistent with the required performance, reliability, quality and safety.
ACE OCP provides a holistic optimization approach in terms of final design stage for real-world civil engineering structures such as buildings, bridges or more complex structural systems.
- Design and Optimization support for any material (RC/Steel/Aluminum)
- Full-featured state-of-the-art solvers
- Intuitive User Interface including one-click optimization
- Highly parameterized constraints, beyond standard code specifications
- Advanced multi-objective optimization tuned for iterative exploration, design and problem-solving
- Seamless creation of output with comprehensive bill-of-materials (BOM)
- Easy to evaluate, analyze and compare output results (original vs. optimal design)
- Acknowledged by International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO)
Benefits:
- More value, more flexibility, more simplicity
- Less cost, less waste, less energy
- Better safety, better quality, better performance
Product Name
ACE OCP for SAP2000
Product Website
Company
ACE-Hellas
CSI Products Supported
ACE OCP is an innovative plug-in for SAP2000 v.18 (64-bit only) and the first of its kind to offer a practical solution for value engineering (VE). Through a friendly interface and state-of-the-art algorithms, ACE OCP, automatically optimizes any structure in order to reduce construction and/or material costs consistent with the required performance, reliability, quality and safety.
ACE OCP provides a holistic optimization approach in terms of final design stage for real-world civil engineering structures such as buildings, bridges or more complex structural systems.
- Design and Optimization support for any material (RC/Steel/Aluminum)
- Full-featured state-of-the-art solvers
- Intuitive User Interface including one-click optimization
- Highly parameterized constraints, beyond standard code specifications
- Advanced multi-objective optimization tuned for iterative exploration, design and problem-solving
- Seamless creation of output with comprehensive bill-of-materials (BOM)
- Easy to evaluate, analyze and compare output results (original vs. optimal design)
- Acknowledged by International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO)
Benefits:
- More value, more flexibility, more simplicity
- Less cost, less waste, less energy
- Better safety, better quality, better performance
Product Name
Sections Xplorer
Product Website
Company
Vantec Solutions
CSI Products Supported
The Sections Xplorer app provides several options to easily review and edit the properties of area sections used in walls and slabs of ETABS® models. The app runs within the ETABS® 2015 and 2016 interface, after installation the user can readily access it from the Tools menu.
Features:
- Automatically add the slab thickness and material to the section name. If these properties are modified, the user can automatically update the section names to match the new values.
- A single interface to edit section properties such as thickness, color, stiffness modifiers, mass, weight and material.
- Quickly edit the properties for multiple area sections at once.
- Browse through the section properties of multiple sections with a single click.
- Review, compare and edit the property overwrites for all the selected slabs or walls.
- Axonometric views that display the orientation of each one of the stiffness modifiers for slab and wall sections.
Product Name
VIS
Product Website
Company
CSi Italia
CSI Products Supported
VIS is SAP2000 plug-in for the design of concrete members in accordance with the latest versions of the European Codes. Both regular concrete provisions from Eurocode 2 and special seismic provisions from Eurocode 8 are enforced. The design process includes two steps. First, preliminary reinforcing is automatically assigned by the program to all concrete members based on user-defined design rules. Next, the reinforcing is graphically refined by the user with the aid of various design and check tools.
The program offers:
- Four families of concrete members: beams, columns, wall piers, wall spandrels;
- Four design areas: strength, capacity, serviceability, reinforcement limits and detailing;
- Two calculation modes: design (minimum area of required reinforcement), check (demand capacity ratios).
- English Language (graphic interface, on line help, user manual, design manual)
- SAP2000 interactive generation of load combinations based on Eurocode parameters and user preferences
- Import from SAP2000 model to include geometry, material properties, frame and shell element properties, internal forces, section cuts for wall definition
- Friendly graphic environment showing entire model or single member sections
- Powerful parametric and graphic tools for assignment and editing of reinforcement
- Design Wizard for automatic generation of preliminary reinforcing
- PMM and shear strength design
- PMM strength interaction diagrams
- Slender columns
- Capacity design of longitudinal reinforcement for weak beam-strong column condition
- Capacity design of transverse reinforcement for beam and columns
- Capacity design of transverse reinforcement for beam-column joints
- Dimensions and reinforcing of Critical Regions in seismic design
- Non Seismic, Ductile, Large Lightly Reinforced Walls
- Automatic vertical translation of moments for Ductile Walls
- Automatic magnification of shear for Ductile Walls and Large Lightly Reinforced Walls
- Automatic calculation of additional dynamic axial force for Large Lightly Reinforced Walls
- Serviceability Stress Limitation checks
- Serviceability Crack Control checks
- Reinforcement limits and detailing checks
- Graphic and tabular output for all calculation results
- Sketches of reinforcing layout for each member
Product Name
Load Combination Application
Product Website
Company
EDRMedeso AS
CSI Products Supported
Managing and creating load combinations for different scenarios and requirement according to Eurocode is time-consuming work. To make this process more efficient EDRMedeso AS has created an application for ETABS that creates combinations for buildings according to NS-EN 1990:2002+NA:2008. The application is safe and easy to use with possibilities to customize the input values for different countries.
Product Name
CSiXRevit
Product Website
Company
Computers and Structures, Inc.
CSI Products Supported
CSiXRevit, a CSI developed plugin for Autodesk Revit Structure, provides a bi-directional link between SAP2000, ETABS, and/or SAFE and Autodesk Revit® Structure.
Four (4) options are available to interchange data:
- from Revit Structure to create a new CSI model
- from Revit Structure to update an existing CSI model
- from CSI software to create a new Revit Structure project
- from CSI software to update an existing Revit Structure project
These options provide for true round-tripping of data between CSI software and Autodesk Revit® Structure.
Product Name
CInteS
Product Website
Company
NIP-Informatica
CSI Products Supported
InteS allows to get data from SAP2000 and CSiBridge, such as geometry, stiffnesses, element forces and so on.
After that an user can select needed elements and create a text file. This file is used for check and design concrete structures using the software OM SNiP Zhelezobeton (according to the Russian concrete design codes).
Product Name
ggRhinoSAP2000
Product Website
Company
Geometry Gym
CSI Products Supported
Geometry Gym has developed a 3rd party add-in for Grasshopper to allow generation of SAP2000 and ETABS model data. Grasshopper is a graphical algorithm editor run in the Rhino3d CAD software.
There are also tools to exchange data using the openBIM framework IFC (Industry Foundation Classes)
