Modeling Frames, Trusses, Grids, Beams, Tanks... Beam or Truss Members, Plate/Shell Elements Elastic Spring Supports Auto-meshed Areas (for easy wall or slab modeling)** Tension-only/Compression-only members or spring-supports Cartesian, Polar, Cylindrical or Spherical Coordinates No built-in size limit (20,000+ nodes are practical) Typical Manufactured Shapes: Steel, Wood, Aluminum, Cold-formed Parametric, Custom or Shapes imported from ShapeBuilder Just about any Material, Libraries included, Customizable! CAD-style selection box Generate linear copies Simple, Rigid, Semi-Rigid** Connections Catenary Cable Elements** Many Ways to Construct Models: Sketch models graphically Copy & Paste existing objects Import/Export .DXF files Import from Spreadsheet/Clipboard Legacy or Interchange .STD files (basic model & loading) Customizable parametric generation Analysis & Results Static Analysis (1st order, P-Delta, Iterated) AISC Direct Analysis (notional loads, stiffness reduction)** Dynamic Analysis (Sparse Lanzcos, Newmark) Superposition Results and Envelopes** Member Internal Forces, Displacements, Diagrams Plate Forces, Stress, Contour Diagrams, Edge Results Automatic Mesh Refinement with Auto-Meshed Areas** Nodal Reactions, Displacements Graphical Results Viewing Sophisticated, Customizable Text Reports Spreadsheet report, and save directly Excel XLS**