What the suite will have

1. Release 1: The first products

   In progress

   Four engineering products, each complete for the scope it states: core, command line, C API, server for AI agents, the desktop program where one is planned, documentation, tests on Windows and Linux with every compiler, and installers.

   Frame analysis

   In frame-analysis

   • Every analysis it has today: linear, second-order, buckling, modal, response spectrum, pushover, large rotations, and isolated buildings and bridges
   • Tapered and haunched members
   • The EN 1990 design basis in full, and imperfections from buckling modes
   • The EN 1993-1-1 member checks and the checks of a plastic global analysis
   • Calculation reports and the desktop program

   Eurocode calculations

   In eurocode-calcs

   • Steel members to EN 1993-1-1 sections 6.2 to 6.4 in full: built-up members, the general method of 6.3.4 and tapered members
   • Plated elements to EN 1993-1-5 sections 4 to 9, and lattice joints
   • The recommended values and the Finnish national annexes, with reports in English and Finnish

   Section analysis

   In section-analysis

   • Steel and any polygon section: gross, thin-walled and finite element properties, torsion and warping, stresses, plastic properties and interaction surfaces
   • The desktop program with plan and 3D views

   Model convert

   In model-convert

   • IFC2x3, IFC4, IFC4X1 and IFC4X2 converted to IFC 4.3, and between STEP text, IFC-XML and IFC-ZIP
   • Checks against the schema's EXPRESS rules and against IDS files
   • Properties and quantities, and meshes written as STL, OBJ and 3MF

2. Release 2: Shells, joints, concrete and timber

   Planned

   Plates, shells and solids, steel joints, concrete and timber design, generated loads, time histories and fire, and most of the remaining Eurocode parts.

   New products

   In structural-analysis and steel-connections

   • structural-analysis: plates, shells, membranes and solids with frames, construction stages and nonlinear analysis
   • steel-connections: EN 1993-1-8 joints by the component method and by a finite element model of the joint, with its buckling, stiffness and resistance

   Frame analysis

   In frame-analysis

   • Concrete and timber design, generated loads, time-history analysis and fire
   • Cables with sag and on pulleys, dampers, buckling-restrained braces, joists, friction and slippage, and springs and hinges given by diagrams
   • Harmonic response, ground-motion records, storey results, semi-rigid diaphragms, the hinge tables of FEMA 356 and ASCE 41, and EN 1998-3 acceptance
   • Moving loads with influence lines and surfaces and the search for the worst position; construction stages and creep on frames
   • Deflection checks, effective lengths from global modes, ice and ponding, and stiffness modification sets

   Surfaces

   In structural-analysis

   • Plates on elastic foundations that lift off, ribs, line hinges, variable thickness, multilayer surfaces, form-finding and cutting patterns
   • Walls and slabs of the project model carried into the analysis model

   Eurocodes

   In eurocode-calcs, frame-analysis and structural-analysis

   • EN 1993-1-3 cold-formed steel, EN 1994 composite structures with bridges, and EN 1999 aluminium
   • The rest of EN 1992: strut-and-tie models, fatigue and detailing, reinforcement proposals, punching shear reinforcement, walls, deep beams and footings
   • EN 1996 masonry, the rest of EN 1998 with member and joint design, and EN 1997-2
   • Fire design to EN 1992-1-2 and EN 1993-1-2, fatigue to EN 1993-1-9, steel shells to EN 1993-1-6 and steel bridges to EN 1993-2
   • The rest of EN 1991, openings in webs, and the reduced stress method of EN 1993-1-5 on buckling modes
   • Vortex shedding, galloping, divergence and flutter by EN 1991-1-4 Annex E
   • Concrete and timber checks in eurocode-calcs, with their reports

   Project model and detailing, ahead of their program

   In project-modeler

   • Roofs over any plan, and roads, railways and other structures in the project model
   • Rebar shapes and schedules, more bracing gussets, slotted tube ends, and DSTV NC1 output for fabrication

   Design-check view

   In frame-analysis, structural-analysis and project-modeler

   • Each element's Eurocode checks shown on the model it belongs to

   Working together

   In project-modeler and model-share

   • Several users on one project, with change sets, locks and worksets

   Solids and drawings

   In model-convert, cad, modeler and project-modeler

   • Boundary-representation solids with STEP AP203, AP214 and AP242, and IGES
   • DWG and DXF drawings, DGN files and iModels

3. Release 3: Modelling, drafting and design

   Planned

   The modelling products: the physical model with its drawings, 2D and 3D drafting, free-form design, timber-frame buildings and wind by computational fluid dynamics.

   New products

   In project-modeler, cad, modeler, timber-frame and wind-simulation

   • project-modeler: buildings, bridges and infrastructure as one parametric physical model, with drawings, schedules and CNC output
   • cad: 2D drafting and 3D solids, with layouts, constraints, and DWG and DXF files
   • modeler: free-form NURBS modelling and visual programming over geometry, data and every product of the suite
   • timber-frame: automatic framing of walls, floors and roofs, prefabricated elements and BTLx output
   • wind-simulation: wind loads on buildings by computational fluid dynamics

   Drawings and schedules

   In project-modeler and cad

   • Views with hidden lines, sections, dimensions and sheets
   • Every drawing type, with automatic dimensions, associative marks, revisions, cloning and a document manager
   • Schedules and bills of material as text, CSV, HTML, PDF and XLSX

   Detailing

   In project-modeler

   • Reinforcement sets, meshes, strands, splices, couplers, cages, shape codes and bending schedules, also placed automatically
   • About 20 more families of steel components, custom components, polybeams and lofted plates, cuts, cast units, pours and numbering

   Exchange and checks

   In project-modeler and model-convert

   • Clash checks with BCF issues, and reference models with change detection
   • IFC export mapping, the Structural Analysis Format, and exports to fabrication management systems, tube cutting machines and STEP and IGES solids

   For programs

   In every product

   • Language packages for Python and Excel VBA, then C#
   • Change events, catalogue operations, macro recording and extension packages

4. Release 4: Geotechnics and geographic information

   Planned

   Two programs that need nothing from the structural phases and can start whenever work is free.

   Geotechnics

   In geotechnics

   • Ground models from site investigations, read from Infra format 2.5, SGF and NGF files
   • Slope stability by every slice method, with slip surface search and every strength model
   • Settlement by 1D consolidation with creep, the Finnish soil models and lime-cement columns
   • Sheet pile walls on nonlinear springs with staged excavation, and gravity and basement walls
   • Shallow foundations, pile capacity, lateral springs, buckling and pile groups
   • Soil springs and pile heads handed to the structural products

   Geographic information

   In gis

   • Coordinate systems, vector data with exact overlay, and shapefiles, GeoPackage and GeoJSON
   • Map rendering with labels, editing with snapping and topology, and an expression language
   • Rasters, terrain analysis, about 500 processing tools, print layouts and atlases
   • Web map services and databases, point clouds, 3D maps, and the remaining formats

5. Release 5: Bridges, precast, energy and special structures

   Planned

   Phases 11 to 17 of the suite, more design in the existing products, and the general finite element platform that the simulation programs build on.

   Bridges and special analyses

   In frame-analysis and structural-analysis

   • Tendons with their losses, construction stages with precamber, force and shape optimisation and incremental launching, composite bridges, and trains crossing bridges
   • Footfall, multiple-support excitation, artificial accelerograms, silo, tank and wave loads, membrane cutting patterns, reliability analysis and fire temperature fields

   New products

   In precast-design, building-energy and pipe-networks

   • precast-design: pretensioned precast elements with production and erection planning and machine exports
   • building-energy: hourly energy simulation of buildings, verified by the ASHRAE 140 test cases
   • pipe-networks: water and district heating networks

   More design in the analysis products

   In structural-analysis, frame-analysis, eurocode-calcs and section-analysis

   • Reinforcement design of plates and shells with punching, concrete member design, cross-laminated timber and masonry, and steel shells
   • Member sizing driven by the design checks, for mass, cost and carbon
   • Section catalogues outside Europe: AISC, BS, AS, GB, IS, JIS, GOST and SANS

   More in the project model

   In project-modeler

   • The analysis model generated from the physical model, reinforcement detailing templates, a bridge and infrastructure modeler, and 3D PDF
   • Construction planning with project schedule exchange, and life cycle assessment by EN 15804+A2

   Codes

   In eurocode-calcs, frame-analysis, structural-analysis and steel-connections

   • The national annexes of every member state

   Special structures

   In structural-analysis and frame-analysis

   • Glass, towers and masts with icing, piping with its codes, and crane runways

   Exchange

   In model-convert and project-modeler

   • About 15 exchange formats of other analysis programs, glTF, COLLADA and PLY
   • Point clouds in the model and layout points

   Collaboration on your own server

   In model-share

   • Shared projects, files and drawings with their history, BCF topics, and shared catalogues, templates and extension packages

   Links to other software and machines

   In cad-links

   • Add-ins inside other modelling and drafting programs, and links to fabrication software and machines, each after its licence is checked

   Digital twins

   In digital-twin

   • Sensor values linked to the model, and digital twins

   Precast tracking

   In precast-tracking

   • Precast elements tracked through production, transport and erection

   Geotechnics

   In geotechnics

   • Groundwater seepage in 2D and 3D
   • Soil continua with staged construction, consolidation and tunnelling

   Simulation

   In mechanical-analysis, multiphysics and fluid-dynamics

   • General finite elements for every field, nonlinear materials, contact, dynamics, fatigue and fracture, and topology optimisation
   • Heat transfer, electromagnetics, optics, acoustics, chemistry and batteries, coupled with each other
   • Fluid flow with turbulence, multiphase and reacting flow, and fluid-structure interaction

   Coastal and river flow

   In hydrodynamics

   • Shallow water flow, waves, sediment transport and water quality, with real-time control and coupling

6. Release 6: Every step of the reference workflows

   Planned

   The rest of what structural designers do today in the programs the plan was measured against, from joints and concrete details to bridges, high-rise buildings and architectural modelling, and the building services programs.

   Joints and anchors

   In steel-connections

   • Capacity design, fire and fatigue of joints, and many joints of a model checked at once
   • Anchoring to EN 1992-4 with headed studs, welded bars and post-installed anchors

   Concrete details

   In concrete-details

   • Concrete discontinuity regions by compatible stress fields in 2D and 3D

   Concrete design

   In eurocode-calcs, structural-analysis and project-modeler

   • Reinforced and prestressed cross-sections with moment-curvature, and the editions EN 1992-1-1:2023 and EN 1993-1-8:2024
   • Concrete members designed with the reinforcement provided, drawn and scheduled
   • Slab reinforcement by the Wood-Armer and Capra-Maury methods, load take-down, core walls and irregularity checks

   Analysis

   In frame-analysis and structural-analysis

   • The direct analysis method, stress-stiffened and Rayleigh modes, floor response spectra, and pushover by the capacity spectrum method
   • Fast nonlinear analysis, frequency domain analysis, hysteresis rules and more time integration methods
   • Plane stress, plane strain and axisymmetric structures

   Bridges

   In structural-analysis and frame-analysis

   • Construction stages generated for each erection method, cable-stayed and suspension bridges, box girders, grillages and camber
   • Heat of hydration, load rating, track-bridge interaction, integral bridges and orthotropic decks

   Buildings

   In structural-analysis, frame-analysis, section-analysis and geotechnics

   • Piers and spandrels, pattern live loads, panel zones, diaphragm design forces and multi-tower models
   • Performance checks over ground-motion suites, design strips, ribbed slabs and composite shear walls
   • Castellated, cellular, corrugated-web and slim-floor beams; machine foundations, combined footings, pile caps and mats

   Architecture and BIM

   In project-modeler

   • Element types with layers; rooms, areas, spaces and zones; parametric families
   • Doors, windows, curtain walls, ceilings, stairs and railings with their code rules, and ramps
   • Massing and the site with toposolids; views, annotation and schedules; phases, design options and worksets
   • Rendered images, MEP fabrication parts, and gbXML and COBie exports

   Heating, ventilation and plumbing

   In building-services and building-energy

   • Loads, indoor climate, energy with the Finnish E-value, air and water networks, sound, plumbing, drainage and sprinklers

   Electrical

   In electrical-design, power-systems, lighting-design, electrical-schematics and earthing-lightning

   • Cable sizing, short circuits, protection and arc flash; power flow and power quality
   • Lighting, earthing and lightning protection, and schematics

   Building automation

   In building-automation

   • KNX and BACnet links

7. Release 7: Concept models, stainless steel and optimisation

   Planned

   The plans of 7 October: concept modelling, stainless steel, optimisation, civil design and explicit dynamics.

   New product

   In concept-modeler

   • concept-modeler: push-pull modelling of planar polygons with components and scripting, and page layouts that present the model

   Stainless steel

   In eurocode-calcs, frame-analysis and steel-connections

   • EN 1993-1-4 sections and members with the Finnish annex, deflections by the secant modulus, joints and fire
   • Stainless bolts to EN ISO 3506, cold forming, the continuous strength method and manufacturers' section catalogues

   Optimisation

   In frame-analysis, structural-analysis, steel-connections, precast-design, timber-frame and mechanical-analysis

   • Gradient, derivative-free, evolutionary and linear and mixed-integer methods, with several objectives at once
   • Costs with rate sets and construction time; sizing of frames, joints, precast elements, timber frames and plates; topology optimisation

   Civil design

   In civil-design

   • Terrain, road and railway geometry, corridors, earthworks with mass haul, drainage, junctions, tunnels, pavements and environmental noise, exported as IFC 4.3

   Explicit dynamics and metal forming

   In explicit-dynamics and metal-forming

   • Crash with failure and erosion, airbags, blast and meshfree methods
   • Sheet metal forming with springback and die compensation

8. On demand: Design codes beyond the Eurocodes

   Planned

   Built family by family as users need them, each after its standards are bought.

   Code families

   In eurocode-calcs, frame-analysis, structural-analysis and steel-connections

   • American, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand, British, Swiss, Chinese, Indian, Spanish, German, Brazilian, Russian, Italian, Mexican, South African and Hong Kong codes
   • More than 40 further families and extensions, among them seismic codes from many countries and codes for offshore structures, towers, nuclear plants and existing structures

The Programs page describes every program named here.