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	Product(s):	STAAD.Building
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	Original Author:	Jason Coleman Bentley Technical Support Group

Recently, Bentley Systems, the global leader dedicated to providing architects, engineers, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive architecture and engineering software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, partnered with S-Cube Futuretech Pvt. Ltd. to provide the most comprehensive concrete building design workflow for the Indian market.

This integrated solution is called STAAD.building and it addresses the entire workflow related to the design of reinforced concrete buildings, including conceptual layout and framing, advanced analysis, design and detailing and the production of site-ready drawings along with bill-of-quantity reports. STAAD.building combines the power of STAAD.Pro’s analytical engine with the purpose-built building modelling, design and drawing solutions from S-Cube.

It extends [[STAAD.Pro]], which anchors Bentley's world-leading structural analysis and design software, to accommodate the intricate needs of drawings and design of reinforced concrete structures per Indian standards. The key differentiator is the workflow. Unlike any other software in the Indian market, it helps engineers to conceptualize the engineering model by suggesting preliminary member sizes based on the framing layout, loading conditions, and geographical location. The model is generated in a physical environment to help you generate an analytical model automatically behind the scenes but also offers you the power of STAAD.Pro’s analytical modeling environment to optimize building configurations. It combines the power of a physical modeling system along with an analytical text editor to offer the best possible tools to address every possible need of a building designer.

This is the only solution in the Indian market that completes the workflow by offering an interactive physical member design environment along with complete detailing and drawing generation. Early adopters indicated that drawings are of very high quality and meet the intricate requirements of site-ready drawings. Another recent addition is Bar Bending Schedule (BBS) creation. After detailing structural members, a detailed BBS can be generated in compliance with the Indian detailing standards.

STAAD.building is a bundle package of four products:

• STAAD.Pro is the leading structural analysis and design program (Learn more here )
• STAAD RCDC is the detail reinforced concrete design and detailing program featuring structural components such as beam, column, slab, shear wall etc. and automatically produces drawings and bill of materials
• STAAD Planwin from is a building modeling program that provides physical building modeling environment to create structural frames and components

Also of interest:

[[STAAD Foundation Advanced]] provides the design of common and complex types of foundations along with drawings and step by step hand calculation. STAAD Foundation Advanced may be purchased separately and is a recommended product for end to end building design workflow. (Learn more here)

STAAD Planwin

Some of the features of STAAD Planwin are:

• Seamless integration with STAAD.Pro
• Import architectural centre-line (DXF model)
• Detects beams and columns
• Align / locate members
• Add floor loads and wall loads
• View load distribution element-wise
• Check modelling error at plan level
• Size beams and columns for vertical loads
• Define shear walls
• Generate wind loading
• Generate earth quake loading
• Export 2D and 3D CAD drawings
• Generate accurate 3D analysis model with:
  • Member offsets
  • Releases
  • Beta angles
  • Pier definitions
  • Joint and member loads
  • Wind and EQ load, etc.

With the release of STAAD.Pro CE V22, STAAD Planwin is now included as a feature in STAAD.Pro that is provided as an entitlement with a current subscription program. 

STAAD RCDC

Some of the highlights of STAAD RCDC are:

• General
  • Seamless integration with STAAD.Pro
  • Compliance to latest Indian design standards
  • Auto-detection of design continuum
  • Facility to group members across levels and plan
• Detailing
  • Optimized and practical detailing
  • Interactive detailing interface
  • Control of all detailing parameters
• Drawing: Organized site-ready drawings in DXF format
  • Elevations
  • Cross sections
  • In-plan detailing
  • Layout drawings
  • Text schedules
• Documentation
  • Detailed design calculation report
  • Design summary
  • Failure diagnostics
  • Member properties changed report

For more information on STAAD RCDC, please visit RCDC product page

With STAAD.Pro CE V22, STAAD RCDC is included as a feature with STAAD.Pro Advanced.