midas Design is a Unit Member design softre developed by MIDAS. It caters to the design needs of the engineers for quick and efficient design of various building components such as beams, columns, stair case, steel connections, slabs, basement walls, footings etc. After obtaining the design results and the detailing, the engineers can also obtain the AUTOCAD drawings for the designed items. The user can easily perform the parametric study by easily modifying the design parameters and cross section.
Single Software, Multi Use
midas Design combines the design and drawing generation for all the members be it a beam, column, slab or staircase, midas Design can design it based on the latest ACI code and produce the AutoCAD drawings for the same. Its simple GUI eases the process of input of loads and design parameters thus making it a perfect software for structural and peripheral design.
Easy Parameter Definition
midas Design has been created to simplify the input required from the engineer and the input is in the sheet format widely used by the engineers. The parameters can be defined from the excel directly by copy and paste. The diagrams are provided with the parameters input so as to make it more intuitive. These parameters can be modified at any point during the design process.
midas Gen is used for the design of all structural elements including beams, columns, slabs, walls, and footings. The program has an extensive database of RC, Steel, and SRC design codes which can be used to automatically check for failure and over-conservatism in your designs. Specialized functions are available for the design of member sections, footings, meshed slabs, and capacities for steel elements and concrete structures. These functions take the inputted design and loading parameters into account to calculate the optimal section shapes and arrangements. High-end design functions such as these differentiate midas Gen from all other finite element modeling software. These functions make it possible to create highly accurate optimized designs at an accelerated rate without the need for an in-depth understanding of finite element analysis.
Fast and Efficient
midas Design has been equipped with a smart solver and the easy GUI makes it efficient, the calculations are almost instantaneously done. This allows for the optimized design, many sections can be defined at the same time and the optimum of them can be selected based on the bill of material given automatically from the program.
Link with midas Gen
midas Design seamlessly connects with midas Gen, the Finite Element Analysis for the superstructure and midas Design can import the section parameters and the load combinations from the midas Gen analyzed model. This allows for the quick design/checking of the sections after analysis in midas Gen. Also, if the section shape needs to be revised, it can be sent back from midas Design to midas Gen.
