Model a Steel Building

This course teaches you how to model a steel building in SOFiSTiK SOFiPLUS.

You will model a three-storey steel structure with various cross sections from scratch to practise the workflow.

Covered Topics:

• New project
• Use of standard cross-sections
• Grid system
• Use of structural elements (structural lines, structural points)
• Point supports (multiple assignments)
• Group definition and assignment
• Working with the SOFiPLUS Filter
• Load assignment
• Load Distribution Areas
• How to combine and analyse loads in SOFiSTiK Structural Desktop (user-defined and automatic)
• SAF (Structural Analysis Format) to export data to IDEA StatiCa

Used SOFiSTiK Version: 2023