Features of the Basic InfoCAD Modules

• Interactive 3D CAD user interface with layer functions
• CAD functions such as copy, mirror, move and others for all objects
• NURBS objects for handling free-form geometries
• Drawing objects as construction aids
• Automatic and manual dimensioning
• Fully automatic mesh generation for 2D and 3D systems with an option for manual partial meshes
• Intersections and generation of ruled surfaces
• Manual element editing including condensation, adjustment, node movement, etc.
• No restriction on directions of internal forces and reinforcements
• Independent mesh controls
• Automatic alignment of element eccentricities
• Line joints, beam joints with spring rigidities, link joints and single links
• Spring elements with any nonlinear characteristic (FEM)
• Elastic bedding with exclusion of tensile stresses with a bedding factor or the modulus of compressibility method
• Rigid or spring-mounted single and line supports, exclusion of tensile supports (FEM)

• Predefined concrete qualities, steel, timber, user-definable materials
• Polygonal sections, steel construction profile library, custom profile database
• Tension and compression beams
• Management of construction stages
• Element-independent point, line and area loads, support displacement, temperature, hydrostatic pressure (FEM)
• Generation of train loads
• Determination of influence lines and surfaces
• Internal force and stress determination
• Design objects for stress integration at any section
• Load case combination with min/max determination of all system reactions
• Actions and situations for ultimate and serviceability limit states
• Combination information for defining the load cases involved in a result with their respective weighting

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Ultimate Limit State Checks
Minimum reinforcement for securing ductile behavior	●	●	-	●	●	●	●
Bending with or without longitudinal force or longitudinal force only	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Lateral force with minimum level of reinforcement	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Torsion and torsion with lateral force	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Checks against punching shear	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Checks against fatigue for concrete, bending, lateral force and   torsion reinforcement as well as for tendons	●	●	-	○	○	○	○
Serviceability Limit State Checks (Single check)
Minimum reinforcement for the limit of the crack width	●	●	●	●	●	●	-
Limiting the crack width via direct calculation	●	●	●	●	●	●	-

• E-E and E-P checks according to DIN 18800
• Stress checks for beams made of homogeneous materials
• General section analysis for polygonal beam sections

• DXF interface, Windows clipboard
• DSTV and IFC data transfer
• Transfer of reinforcements to construction programs

• Graphical and tabular views
• Serial print with automatic updating of results plots
• Photorealistic präsentation and animation