VisualAnalysis 9.0

General purpose analysis and design of just about anything.
You have choices in the marketplace for general-purpose FEA tools but VisualAnalysis shines in a number of areas:
- Excellent for everyday projects.
- Great for unusual projects, and large, complicated models.
- Building-code support is optional, use it for mechanical applications too.
- Extremely versatile: model just about anything!
- Reporting is extremely powerful and very flexible (save your own styles)
- So easy to use, most customers are productive within hours of installing
- Over 3000 companies use IES tools: one part-time support person at IES! (Think about it, our products don't need support!)
- BIM support: VARevitLink provides two-way integration with Autodesk Revit Structure.

Main Features:

- Analyze just about anything
- Design steel, concrete, wood, cold-formed, and aluminum
- Excellent graphics and reporting
- Just enough features to get your job done right
- Frames, Trusses, Grids, Beams, Tanks...
- Beam or Truss Members, Plate/Shell Elements
- Elastic Spring Supports
- Auto-meshed Areas (for easy wall or slab modeling)**
- Tension-only/Compression-only members or spring-supports
- Cartesian, Polar, Cylindrical or Spherical Coordinates
- No built-in size limit (20,000 nodes are practical)
- Typical Manufactured Shapes: Steel, Wood, Aluminum, Cold-formed
- Parametric, Custom or Shapes imported from ShapeBuilder
- Just about any Material, Libraries included, Customizable!
- New: CAD-style selection box
- New: Generate linear copies
- Simple, Rigid, Semi-Rigid** Connections
- Catenary Cable Elements**
- Automatic Load Cases & Load Combinations
- Built-in Support for IBC, ASCE7, AASHTO, etc. Combinations
- Customizable Load Combinations.
- Semi-Automatic ASCE 7 Wind Loads (Method 2)
- Static Loads: Concentrated, Distributed, Pressure, Thermal, etc.
- Area Loads (keeps model and loads separated so changes are easy!)
- New: Area Edge Loads (in or out of plane)
- Dynamic Response Spectra, IBC & Customizable
- Dynamic Forcing Function, Time HIstory analysis**
- Moving Loads** (Crane Beams)
- New: Automatic live-load pattern load combinations**
- Import Load Combinations**
- Static Analysis (1st order, P-Delta, Iterated)
- Dynamic Analysis (Sparse Lanzcos, Newmark)
- Superposition Results and Envelopes**
- Member Internal Forces, Displacements, Diagrams
- Plate Forces, Stress, Contour Diagrams,
- Edge Results
- Automatic Mesh Refinement with Auto-Meshed Areas**
- Nodal Reactions, Displacements
- Graphical Results Viewing
- Sophisticated, Customizable Text Reports
- Spreadsheet report, and save directly Excel XLS
- IBC 2009, 2006, CBC 2007, and more load combinations*
- Smart and flexible setup: bracing, deflection checks, size constraints
- Design parameter overrides**
- Steel Design for frame and truss members (AISC, CISC)*
- Wood Design for frame and truss members (NDS)*
- Aluminum Design for frame and truss members (ADM)*
- Cold-Formed Design for frame and truss members (NAS)*
RSG Software's CFS is used internally to perform these checks
- Concrete Design of Beams, Columns, Flat Slabs (ACI)*
- New: Steel seismic compactness checks
- New: Steel warping torsion checks
- New: Visual bracing locations
- New: Moving Loads and Dynamic results are now checked