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IDEA StatiCa Steel – Features

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Here is a comprehensive guide to the applications and functionalities you gain access to when you purchase IDEA StatiCa Steel.

Please note that this information is valid from July 1, 2025, and replaces the previous product packages. You can contact us if you need to speak about the previous packages.

IDEA StatiCa Connection


Code-checking capabilities
Bolted and welded connections, anchoring
Stress/strain analysis of steel sections and plates
Stiffness analysis
Buckling analysis (local stability)
Capacity design (seismicity)
Fatigue analysis
Joint design resistance
Fire design
Horizontal tying resistance
Sections
Rolled sections
Welded sections
Thin-walled sections
General cross-section
Modelling
Cut, stiffener, rib, stub
End plate, connecting plate, gusset plate
Angles
Anchoring
PJP welds
Interoperability with Detail for designing anchors together with the reinforced concrete block
Steel-to-timber connections with gusset plate
Timber-to-timber connections with gusset plate
Export of anchoring to Detail for reinforced concrete block design
250+ editable templates
Pre-design
Connection Library – smart templates, including parametric design
Combination of parametric templates and unrelated operations
Connection Library – company set in the cloud
Saving of user-defined cross-sections to MPRL
Output
Report
Bill of material
Drawings of plates
User-defined views and cuts

IDEA StatiCa Member


Rolled sections
Welded sections
Thin-walled sections
General cross-section
Modelling
Cut
Stiffener
Stiffening member
Opening
Code-checking capabilities
Stress/strain analysis (MNA)
Stability analysis (LBA)
Geometrically nonlinear analysis with imperfections (GMNIA)
Fire resistance
Output
Report

Checkbot - BIM workflows


Links with FEA software - SAP 2000, ETABS, Robot Structural Analysis, STAAD PRO, RAM Structural System, STRAP, Tekla Structural Designer, Scia Engineer, RFEM/RSTAB. AXIS VM and others
Links with CAD software - Tekla Structures, Advance Steel, Revit
Automatically update models in IDEA StatiCa based on changes in the FEA/CAD application
Bulk workflows and critical load filter
IDEA StatiCa Rest API, IDEA Open Model (IOM), support through Github
IFC export

National codes and languages


EN (Eurocode), AISC (USA), AS (Australia), CISC (Canada), SNiP (Russia), GB (China), IS (India), HKG (Hong Kong)
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