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Hello

I have been given a project to design a steel portal-frame building and I need a structural analysis program that will help me with my calculations. The programs I am used to cost 1000's of £/$ and out of my league. I could afford £500-£600 but the program must be able to "do the job". I have Revit and AutoCAD.

Any recommendations - please no selling.

Regards

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cve60069,
Since you are in the UK you could look at FEM Designer.They are not too expensive.
B.E.

http://www.femdesigner.com/

The good engineer does not need to memorize every formula; he just needs to know where he can find them when he needs them. Old professor

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Of course you could do in with the Hardy Cross method.

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Why not spend an afternoon creating a simple excel sheet that designs moment frames? It would be fairly simple to do a single frame with the DSM or with the Hardy Cross method.

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Yes, Hardy Cross is relatively easy to put into spread sheet form. I have done so. But I rarely use it! Usually just ask one of the young engineers to tun it on ETABS or similar program. I too am looking for a cheap program here in Canada to do 2-D frames. Let me know if you find one.

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To design such things as concrete and steel, it seems to me we should only need hardware, no software.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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