What are the popular software for civil engineer currently?
What are the popular software for civil engineer currently?
(OP)
I used to be a civil engineer in China and back to Canada recently. Does anybody know the popular software / tool in North America? I knew AutoCAD must be one of them. And BIM will be one of them. Anything else?






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For structural analysis, I see a lot of RISA, SAP2000, and STAAD. But there are a dozen or so less popular packages (LUSAS, LARSA, LS-DYNA are a few) that typically have the same general capabilities and often have an area of specialization where they are very good, often at the cost of simplicity for users.
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Staadpro - Steel & Concrete
CSC Orion - Concrete
Tekla Structure Designer -Steel & Concrete
Protastructure Steel & Concrete
Drafting work
Autocad
Embedded wall analysis and design
Deepexcavation
Wallap
Frew
These are just to name a few.
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AutoCAD
Conceptual Modeling:
SketchUp
Structural Analysis (primarily wood for me):
RISA3D and RISA2D
Most of what I do is residential structural engineering.
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Structural analysis - Sap2000, Etabs, Stad
Geotechnical - Plaxis, Geostudio
Drafting - Autocad
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Autocad is strictly a drafting tool.
They are two different types of programs with different uses. You will need multiple programs to have a complete design package.
That being said, technically you could get away with zero programs like they did in the old days. Hand calculations and hand drafting were used to build the majority of the infrastructure in place today.
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All of the calculations in Profis are based on using Hilti anchors and/or epoxies. You should not use this program to do anything other than determine which Hilti anchor or epoxy, and embeddment depth to specify.
Hilti wrote the program after the changes to schedule D made the tables published in their hand books overly conservative, due to the the expanded number of variables in appendix D and the tables needing to apply to the most conservative case.
If you are using it to do anything other than specify Hilti products all potential liability is on you.
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Foundation Design = Staad Foundation
Tower Analysis = Guymaster
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@ OP: These are quite expensive packages, are you looking to set up your own practise? Revit can be useful if you are part of a large design team eg. Architect, M+E, Structures etc. but for the smaller projects, not so much. If you are looking to be employed, the choices (outside of your own downloads) will be limited to whichever package your employer has invested in. AutoCAD and Microstaion are drafting staples though so you won't go wrong with one of those.