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The highlights of version SOFiSTiK | 2025

Connecting Use Cases

 

Benefit from the experience of the only construction software manufacturer with products for structural analysis and design. The current challenges of digitalization in structural design require the combination of use cases. Start consistently using the advantages of BIM models for structural analysis by automatically generating the analytical model from the architectural model and adapting it appropriately - quite simply with the milestone product Analytical Model Generator for Autodesk Revit.

Stay in the BIM workflow with member design and overall model calculation with the new user experience and transparent load transfer functions of the structural analysis interface Analysis + Design from the SOFiSTiK FEM Packages. Advise building owners using the data from the Life Cycle Assessment Task in the SOFiSTiK Structural Desktop, combining statics and sustainability made easy. 

At the interface to Detailing, the Rebar Check functionality provides you with the optimum connection for loss-free transfer of the design results for 3D reinforcement modeling. While the derivation of reinforcement plans for bridges and infrastructure structures was previously difficult, it is now possible both precisely with tendons in the Bridge + Infrastructure Modeler and consistently with the proposal for orderable and sensible simplifications to the 2D reinforcement plan in Revit with SOFiSTiK Reinforcement. 

 

 

 

Discover the highlights of the new version in our focus areas:

Modeling

 

Analytical Model Generator: Automated creation and effortless optimization of the analytical model in Autodesk® Revit®

  • Use the created analytical model with third party software solutions other than SOFiSTiK
  • Optimization of curved elements, more user control for vertical alignments of floors and beams 
  • New tool set for enhanced usability, providing commands to modify existing analytical models and add multiple loads and boundary conditions in just a few clicks

The Analytical Model Generator is now available as a stand-alone product, as well as part of all FEM packages.*

 

Bridge + Infrastructure Modeler: Modeling axis-based, parametric bridge and tunnel structures in Autodesk® Revit® 

  • Add Tendons to your model with the new Tendon Generator 
  • Custom Styles for Axis/Edge Dimensions 

For more information on the Bridge + Infrastructure Modeler and a free trial, please click here.

 

SOFiPLUS /-X: AutoCAD® add-on for graphical modeling 

  • New Tendon Manager for efficient handling of generated tendons in your model 
  • Fast modeling of curves between reference lines 
  • Improvement of Design Element definition for Composite Cross Sections and Shear Walls 
  • New tool for easy renumbering of structural elements  

SOFiPLUS is part of all three FEM packages.


SOFiSTiK Rhinoceros interface: Rhinoceros from Robert McNeel & Associates / Grasshopper® add-on for graphical and parametric modeling

  • Optimized workflow for multi-girder bridges with new components and a comprehensive tutorial
  • New methods for defining prestress geometry using 2D projected views
  • Introducing an automatic loader for controlling and managing installed versions of the SOFiSTiK Interface 

You can find more information on the Rhinoceros Interface here.

 

Analysis

 

Discover the new SOFiSTiK Viewer for a modern visual post-processing experience 

  • Explore and control the FE model with ease 
  • Visualize and animate the deformed FE structure
  • Filter the model by primary and secondary groups in real time
  • Visually inspect generated towers and storey levels
  • Experience high performance powered by state-of-the-art modern graphic technology

The Viewer is now the default visualization in the SOFiSTiK Structural Desktop and part of all three FEM packages.

Analysis + Design for Revit: Structural analysis of buildings and member design within Autodesk® Revit® 

  • New Main System command as base camp of the project to never get lost in the BIM model 
  • Generate in a click subsystems from any part of the model to analyse individually
  • Manage easily and efficiently many subsystems with the Analysis Browser
  • Bring speed and efficiency to your analyses with the calculate immediately concept
  • Connect easily SOFiSTiK result tables of your choosing to the BIM model by accessing the GUID of its host member in Result Viewer 

Analysis + Design for Revit is part of all three FEM packages.* More information here. 

 

New Load Take Down Workflow in SOFiSTiK Analysis+Design for Revit

  • For more transparency and more flexibility when transferring loads between subsystems
  • Supports any project layout including the more complex e.g. presenting transfer floors or split levels
  • Dedicated commands to evaluate the Load Take Down results are seamlessly integrated to existing post-processing tools (Reports, Graphic, SOFiLOAD module etc.)

Analysis+Design for Revit is part of all three FEM packages.* More information here.

 

New Cross Sections

  • New standard cross section for one sided T-beam on edges
  • Define parametric cross sections with elliptic boundary e.g. for bridge piers as well as asymmetric chamfer through two radii

The new cross sections are part of all three FEM packages.


Beam Design improved for member design workflow in 3D models

  • Design Group concept:
    • Grouping of geometric similar beams
    • Concise representation of decisive beam members and load case combinations in the report
  • Manual definition of the reinforcement layout for SLS checks
  • Improved calculation of deflection within the main model according to DIN EN 1992-1-1 ch. 7.4.3

The Beam Design Workflow is part of all three FEM packages.*

Life Cycle Assessment

  • New task Life Cycle Assessment allows to estimate the environmental impact of your structural model
  • Definition of Global Warming Potential (GWP) values per life cycle phase for the materials in the system
  • GWP assessment for the different phases with consideration of calculated reinforcement from the design
  • Result output for: material, groups, secondary groups and design element types
  • Connection to the database ÖKOBAUDAT from the German Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building (BMWSB) (DIN EN 15804+A1 and +A2)
  • Default values for Concrete and Reinforcement Steel
  • Compare the results of different variants by exporting them into one Excel file 

The Life Cycle Assessment is part of all three FEM packages.*

 

Composite Bridges: Elastic ULS Design Checks 

  • Module COMPOSITE (available since Version 2024) now also able to do elastic ULS design checks
  • Cross-section classification
  • Stress checks structural steel - section class 1 to 4
  • Stress checks reinforcement and concrete

The module COMPOSITE is part of the package 3D FEM ultimate/ultimate 50.*

 


New Graphical User Interface for Dynamic Analysis of Railway Bridges

  • New graphical task for Dynamic Moving Load Train Analysis
  • Improved automatic selection of time step size

For the Dynamic Moving Load Train Workflow, the package 3D FEM ultimate/ultimate 50* in combination with either the license LIN-DYN or NONL-DYN is required.  

Seismic Response Spectrum Analysis (RSA) for Buildings

  • Alternative modeling option: Maintain rigid diaphragms from COR computation consistently throughout the whole analysis workflow
  • Refined stiffness modifiers provide more flexibility in engineering judgement for adequately resolving structural behavior (stiffness reduction due to concrete cracking)
  • Alternative mode scaling methods (normalization) are convenient, e.g. for calibration in context of wind tunnel experiments

For the RSA Workflow the package 3D FEM premium* in combination with either the license BASE-DYN, LIN-DYN or NONL-DYN is required. 

 

Performance-Based Seismic Design of Bridge Piers (Pushover)

  • New concept of performance categories and limit-strain based criteria​
  • Full plastic hinge support for concrete, structural steel and composite cross sections​
  • Support for nonlinear soil-pile interaction (P-Y curves)​

For the Pushover Workflow, the package 3D FEM ultimate/ultimate 50* in combination with either the license BASE-DYN, LIN-DYN or NONL-DYN is required. 

Detailing

 

Rebar Check

  • Live display of reinforcement quantities read from the BIM model (provided reinforcement) and from a SOFiSTiK data source (required reinforcement)
  • Checks available for Slabs, Columns and Beams
  • Down stand beams also account for reinforcement from the slab

The Rebar Check is available in Analysis + Design and Reinforcement. 


Reinforcement: Create 2D reinforcement sheets out of 3D-Rebar models in Autodesk® Revit®

  • Improvements for infrastructure projects and complex formwork geometry
  • Warnings appear now sooner, with detailed description and proposal for fix
  • New functionality to override or simplify the rebar set geometry as a two-dimensional shape
  • 3D Spacers are supported by the Schedule tool also in hosts with varying height
  • Explode tool will now create Shape Driven sets for varying distributions

For more information on Reinforcement and a free trial, please click here.

* The function described requires products of the newest price- and licensing model.
Our sales team will be happy to inform you about upgrade options: customercare@sofistik.com.