A Decade of Making the Right Connections

IDEA StatiCa lets you seamlessly integrate with 20+ of the world's most used FEA and CAD software, giving you the freedom to use your favorite software to design, assess, and model structures. Designing in IDEA StatiCa enables you to go beyond the limitations of these global solutions, both in modeling speed and calculation complexity.

By streamlining your structural steel design workflow, you can save time, minimize errors, optimize, and make the design data available to your colleagues or subcontractors doing detailing and fabrication.

Using IDEA StatiCa Checkbot as your BIM link manager, you can:

• Export and synchronize connections and members easily
• Have complete control over all of your imported connections and members

Tackle any connection challenge with ease with our comprehensive solution and enjoy the creative freedom it brings you.

IDEA StatiCa brings delight to even the most repetitive structural engineering tasks. Thanks to this, you can rediscover the explorer in you by seeing how your design behaves when you change any of the thousands of conditions or details of the structure you're working on.

Plus, there is no need to worry about ever placing your project's tight deadlines at risk. Instead, by using IDEA StatiCa, you can be certain that the solution you propose is the best and most appropriate one, and not just for you, but also for the fabrication shop, detailers, erectors, and general contractor.

Listen to our users from all over the world about their day-to-day experience of working with IDEA StatiCa and see the happiness it brings them.

IDEA StatiCa is intuitive, instructional, and easy to use, meaning you can be up and running fast.

Using the simple navigation structure, clear and customizable workflows, views, results, and reports, plus the connectivity between the properties list and 3D graphical scene, you can immediately see what is going on with your model.

As the loading applied to the model is also visualized, you always have clear overview of what situation you are inspecting. 

If you still need help, you can rely on our robust safety net of support team professionals standing by to assist you and the vast array of educational materials tailored to address any questions or concerns you may have.

It is often easy to predict the behavior of a simple connection arrangement, however, when several structural members meet in the same node, and all of them have a different set of internal forces from hundreds of different load combinations, the situation starts to get tricky.

Using the Connection app, you can clearly visualize the deformed shape of the model with stresses on plates and welds, and the forces in all involved bolts.

Plus, because you can see these results in a 3D scene, you can clearly observe what’s happening, eliminating any need for guesswork.

It could be argued that it often does not make sense to optimize your steel structural connections when dealing with small structures built of light members joined by simple and standardized connections. But what about when at least one of the following situations is the case in your projects?

• The structure is large or has complex geometry
• The number of connections is high
• The client’s or contractor’s requirements are specific

Not only can you take advantage of an application that combines sophisticated and advanced FEA with an easy-to-use and intuitive UI, you can also automatically compare the results with the requirements of your regional design code (we cover eight global design codes, in fact).

So, unlike robust FEA solutions such as Abaqus or Ansys, IDEA StatiCa directly compares your calculations with your desired code directly in our software, making the endless flipping through thousands of pages of standards, codes, annexes, tables, and formulas a thing of the past. 

Do you need urgent support and cannot afford to wait? Don't worry, our dedicated team of structural engineers is standing by with the professional help you need to get your issue solved fast.

With IDEA StatiCa support, you get free access to:

• A wide network of technical support partners able to advise and assist in your local region
• Self-learning content in our Support Center with 1,000+ articles, tutorials, and videos
• Guided studying through in our self-paced e-learning platform

IDEA StatiCa's two major releases per year are driven by your, our customers', feedback, enabling us to deliver innovation based entirely on users' needs. This means you can stay at the cutting edge of innovation by always having the latest and most powerful tools at hand.

But it doesn't stop there. In between major releases, you get:

• regular patches to ensure our products deliver you the most bug-free and reliable experience possible
• updated BIM links within three months of major releases to prevent any workflow issues
• constantly updated Cloud applications

Although it is true that the physics and mathematics behind structural mechanics remain the same, our ability to simulate real material behavior has advanced significantly. This is where the Component-Based Finite Element Method () has made a positive impact on your ability to deliver accurate, fast, and safe connection design projects.