The modeler in ELS v3.0 allows users the ability to create structures in both 2D and 3D modes with:

• Default and customizable styles for columns, girders, slabs, walls, windows, and reinforcement
• Industry-standard and built up steel sections
• Pre-stressed concrete
• Pre-stressed link elements
• Custom rebar and stirrups
• Link members
• Pre-defined cracks and holes
• Automatic mesh adjustment
• Linear & non-linear materials models for concrete, steel, aluminum, brick, glass, elastic, and tension only
• Data Exchange:
  • Import BIM structural components from Autodesk^® Revit^® Structure (2008/2009/2010)* and Bentley MicroStation (.dgn).
  • Import models from 10 commercial FEM software:
    

    Abaqus	I-DEAS	SAP 2000
    ANSYS	LS-Dyna	STAAD
    ETABS	NASTRAN
    Gambit	Patran

  • Additional import file types include .dxf and .stl.
  • Import .jpg images or single frames from .avi movies

Various static and dynamic loading scenarios can be implemented in ELS v3.0 utilizing its multi-stage sequential loading:

• Static Loading: Concentrated Load, displacement, moving load, uniform, and hydrostatic pressure loads
• Dynamic Loading: Concentrated load, displacement, moving load, earthquake, blast, impact, uniform and hydrostatic pressure loads
• Multi-stage sequential loading scenarios
• Static and dynamic staged construction and deconstruction
• Uniform and hydrostatic pressure
• Initial velocity and acceleration

 *Special License Required. See the Plug-in's page for more information.