Features
Some of the prominent features of PLAN23D are here:
- Produces ready-to-go input files for
general purpose structural analysis
software packages
- Fast, easy and error-free modeling
of multi-story buildings
- As a self-learning tool, the user
learns it fast
- Enables the user to model
multi-story buildings without using any
manuals
- Has a new modeling approach based on
the following principles:
All input data relates to the floor plan
layout.
The user does not have to visualize the 3-D structure prior
to starting input.
- Offers the power and flexibility for
fast and easy modeling of multi-story
buildings
- Frees the user numbering of
elements, joints, bays or columns before
starting the input data.
- Frees the user from the complexities
of local and global axes in defining
sections
- Generates live load
patterns with a few clicks of the mouse
- Distributes loads
to the beams automatically for one-way
and two-way slabs
- Allows section
assignment to beams and columns with a
click of the mouse
- Allows the user to
specify the wall loads with mouse
clicks
- IBC 2003 response
spectrum for users specified soil
properties
- Rigid diaphram
modeling with a single click of the
mouse
PLAN23D is just a modeling tool for multi-story buildings. It produces a ready-to-go input data file for your structural analysis software package of your choice. PLAN23D does not perform structural analysis.