Centre Pompidou - Metz, France Architects: Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines, in collaboration with Philippe Gumuchdjian Construction Company: Entreprise Générale Demathieu & Bard Engineering Office: CTE Advance Design Advance Design® is the result of 25 years GRAITEC experience in structural analysis. Advance Design® is aimed at structural engineers who require a professional and easy-to-use solution for simulating and optimizing all their projects. Advance Design® includes a userfriendly structural modeler, an automatic load and combination generators, a powerful FEM analysis engine (static,...

1 RAPIDLY MODEL A STRUCTURE AND LOADINGS The software has a complete library for structural elements, supports and loads. These easily customizable elements adapt to all situations: numerical eccentricities, braces, ties with initial prestressing, etc. The CAD has advanced functions that are simple and adapted to modeling for structural analysis. For example, by indicating the presence of levels, Advance Design automatically places elements on the right side. In this mode, a wall is created with 2 clicks! For loadings, the generation of climatic and seismic actions is also automated. The “load...

>» Result Memory technology. How does it work? When a graphical view is stored in memory, Advance Design not only saves the current image, but also the context that generated this image: view angle, zoom, filter of displayed elements, colors and display characteristics, nature of results (iso-values of displacements, values of theoretical reinforcement, magnified stress), load cases, units, etc. The views saved, using this technology, may be inserted in a design report, whose global content (current hypotheses, graphical views) may also be stored in memory. During each calculation, Advance Design...

Minatec Amphitheatre, Grenoble, France Architecture Office: Groupe6, architectes Design office: TEC BAT, Bourgoin-Jallieu Photo : J.C Caillaud, Groupe6 YOUR PROJECT AT A GLANCE 1 2 Structure modeling Automatic generation of climatic loads 3 4 Hypotheses definition Meshing and calculation 5 6 Graphical post-processing Automatic creation of calculation reports Advance Design eliminates repetitive tasks linked to the post-processing by storing graphical views and reports and replaying them at each calculation iteration. Next, the creation of all general arrangement drawings is automated using GRAITEC...

CHU Hospital Heliport, Nantes, France Architecture Office: SEXTANTAchitecture Design office: ETCO Ingenierie / CALDER Ingenierie Better tools, improved workflow, increased productivity... 100% dedicated to Structural Design, Engineering and Detailing Automatically creates and updates construction and fabrication drawings FEM analysis and structural optimization Multi-user environment and integrated document management Powerful technology, easy to use, short learning curve Advance Steel Advance Steel* is specifically designed for structural engineers and steel detailers who require a professional...