Free Portal Frame Design Software

1. Free Portal Frame Design Software
2. Portal Frame Design Example
3. Free Portal Frame Design Software Tutorial

SkyCiv Engineering offers structural design and analysis software for steel, timber, concrete and wood, available in different country codes including USA, Europe.

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Tekla Portal Frame Designer allows you to create cost effective design solutions for steel portal frame buildings. It is packed full of features and functionality that enable efficient and rigorous design.

Trusted by UK Structural Engineers for portal frame design for over 30 year the product retains its unique elastic-plastic analysis approach to efficiently create single and multi-bay portal frame designs. Automated checks for sway, member stability and snap through are included along with automated loading for wind, snow, cranes, ties and parapets. Final designs can be communicated through clear and concise documentation that includes drawing and calculations.

Tekla Portal Frame Designer is an integrated part of the Tekla software family. It integrates seamlessly with Tekla Structural Designer or acts as a stand alone application.

Note:

• If you intend to use either Tekla Portal Frame Designer and/or Tekla Connection Designer program and wish to INTEGRATE with Tekla Structural Designer it is highly recommended the corresponding version of Tekla Structural Designer is installed.
• Tekla Portal Frame Designer & Tekla Connection Designer are shipped as part of the same installation package but licensed separately.

Features:

Analysis and Design features

• Easily produce both preliminary and detailed portal frame design options.
• Understand hinge history of the frame including hinge reversal and spurious mechanisms.
• Fully interactive member stability checks.
• Automate frame sway stability checks (including SCI P292 full second order elastic-plastic analysis).
• Integrate eaves, apex and base plate connections to BCSA/SCI Green Book.

Modelling features

• Build your own steel portal frame.
• Choose from symmetric, asymmetric, propped, monopitch, mansards or flat top portal frames.
• Include valley beams, ties, cranes, floor beams and parapets as required.
• Select from pinned, fixed or partially fixed base conditions.
• Optimise haunches from rolled sections or plated sections.

Loading features

• Apply dead and imposed load cases automatically.
• Calculate wind loading and snow loading to -BS6399 automatically
• Easily apply notional horizontal loading for sway stability.

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Output features

• Customise and export reports to Microsoft Word.
• Export foundation and connection forces to Microsoft Excel.
• Save all output documents in PDF format.

What’s new in version 20.0.0.0:

This release will upgrade your Tekla Portal Frame Designer & Tekla Connection Designer installation to version number 20.0.0.0 and should be installed to ensure optimum function of the program.

• Licensing:
  • New Licenses – Tekla Portal Frame Designer 20 & Tekla Connection Designer 20 will require the activation of a new license. You should already be in possession of your Product Activation Key (PAK) as these are usually distributed prior to the software release. Please contact your local Service Department now if you do not have your PAK. To minimise any down time we advise that your PAK is activated BEFORE installing the software.
  • License Server – If you have chosen to have a separate licence server, it is always our recommendation that you also run the latest version of the Tekla Structural License Service on it to ensure compatibility. Please see System Requirements for specific version details.
• Installation:
  This version will remove any previous version and install 20.0.0.0.
• Integration:
  • Tekla Structural Designer – if you wish to integrate Tekla Portal Frame Designer 20 and/or Tekla Connection Designer 20 with Tekla Structural Designer you MUST install Tekla Structural Designer 2020 available from the Tekla Download Service.

For more information please visit https://teklastructuraldesigner.support.tekla.com/support-article/3028673.

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