CYPE has launched version 2021 with a firm commitment to integrate its structural design solutions into the Open BIM workflow via the BIMserver.center platform, thus increasing the possibilities for its users. Thanks to this, CYPE users will be able to carry out the entire structural design cycle, which includes the modelling and manufacturing phases, with CYPE solutions without the need to use other third-party software.
To achieve this, CYPE has adapted the CYPE 3D structural design program to the Open BIM workflow and integrated it into the BIMserver.center platform under the name StruBIM CYPE 3D. With this program, users can design any type of structure made of any material as well as design connections and foundations with baseplates, footings, pile caps, tie beams and strap beams.
Furthermore, thanks to the collaboration and interconnection possibilities offered by BIM technology, StruBIM CYPE 3D users will be able to create the structural model from the model created with the new CYPE Architecture, a free 3D architectural modelling program that incorporates a 3D working environment with no geometric restrictions.
According to Carlos Fernández, CYPE's technical director, "The new CYPE Architecture is an evolution that will complement IFC Builder with a much higher 3D modelling capacity by allowing the modelling of complex structures in the conceptual design phase of the project". This means that the technician can model the structure of a project in CYPE Architecture and read all the information generated in the StruBIM CYPE 3D program to perform the model and structural analysis directly.
Additionally, designers will also be able to carry out the detailing of steel structures from BIM models with the new StruBIM Steel program and the design and checking of reinforced concrete coupling beams between shear walls reinforced with diagonals by means of the StruBIM Coupling Beams module in the StruBIM Shear Walls application.
"With the design and structural analysis carried out, the technicians will also be able to contemplate the evolution of the structure from the conception, detailing, manufacturing and construction phases, visualising it in BIMserver.center, and seeing how the structure is coordinated with all the building elements and the project's facility systems", highlights Carlos Fernández.
New CYPECAD module
Version 2021 also brings an important new feature to the CYPECAD program, as CYPE has developed the "Soil-structure interaction (footings and pile caps)" module so that designers can consider the effect of foundation settlement of the structure in contact with the ground by considering an elastic stiffness entered by means of the subgrade modulus of the soil in footings and the axial stiffness of the piles in pile caps.
"This interaction is very important for our users practically all over the world, as it allows us to optimise the behaviour of structures and their foundations, especially in the areas of the world where earthquakes are a determining factor, such as in Latin America", says Carlos Fernández.
