ETABS general question for experts
ETABS general question for experts
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Hi people!
Just few questions for you ETABS users.
What is the general workflow when designing slabs and foundation in ETABS?
Do you need to have SAFE in order to design plate elements or not?
I dont understand why would someone just buy SAFE and not ETABS?
Do you need to have SAFE if you are using ETABS for you building design?
Thank you.
Just few questions for you ETABS users.
What is the general workflow when designing slabs and foundation in ETABS?
Do you need to have SAFE in order to design plate elements or not?
I dont understand why would someone just buy SAFE and not ETABS?
Do you need to have SAFE if you are using ETABS for you building design?
Thank you.





RE: ETABS general question for experts
RE: ETABS general question for experts
So in ETABS you cannot design slabs for required reinforcement?
RE: ETABS general question for experts
RE: ETABS general question for experts
So in ETABS you can get sectional forces of plate elements (mainly bending moments) but you cannot design the slab and calculate necesary reinforcement?
Does same thing gore for shear walls?
Happy New Year!
RE: ETABS general question for experts
RE: ETABS general question for experts
Ill have to export my model to SAFE to calculate amount of horizontal reinforcements, correct?
RE: ETABS general question for experts
1. Carry out the analysis in ETABS and get the calculated element forces at critical locations
2. CSI suggested me that software here which can carry out the check and design of any cross section
In any way I think that an external tool or even a spreadsheet are necessary to complete the design phase using ETABS.
Regards,
Gigi
RE: ETABS general question for experts
Im asking couse I found an video presentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7cLDIQSlSc
and you can clearly see member forces on 3d frame concrete structure
RE: ETABS general question for experts
ETABS has built-in steel and concrete frame design, as well as concrete shear wall design. Slab or foundation design is not handled in ETABS, but rather in SAFE. That said, you can still extract slab/foundation forces/moments from ETABS to perform a design manually.
Please note, I'm pretty sure CSI has not suggested the software that johnbridge231 linked to in his post. He is associated with that software and has removed his normal signature that indicates his association. Check his posts in other threads.
RE: ETABS general question for experts
Some of you can relabel framas in Etabs 2013 13.1.3? How to proceed for that?
Thanks