Structural · studio

Steel structure studio

Draw a steel portal, mezzanine, truss or multi-storey frame on the grid, load it from area loads or by hand, and the studio analyses every AS/NZS 1170.0 combination as you draw. Each member is designed to AS 4100 — section and member capacity, lateral–torsional buckling, column buckling, shear and combined actions, deflection and sway — and can be auto-sized to the lightest passing section. Then estimate the whole building (steel, coatings, connections, purlins, cladding and pad footings), print A3 drawings and export a PDF calculation report, Excel, DXF and JSON.

Preliminary design: first-order elastic analysis; connections, second-order effects and bracing are for the engineer to complete. Rates are indicative.