Available joints modules

Welded and bolted joints

You can find detailed information on each of the program’s joint modules via the following links:

• Joints I: Warehouses with steel I sections. Welded joints

• Joints II: Bolted joints of rolled and welded steel I sections

• Joints III. Welded – Building frames with rolled and welded steel I sections

• Joints IV: Building frames with steel I sections. Welded joints

• Joints V. Flat trusses with hollow structural sections

These joints modules can be used in both CYPE 3D and CYPECAD (including integrated 3D structures).

Note:

The types of fixed joints in the "Joints I", "Joints II" and "Joints V" modules are most commonly used in industrial buildings designed in CYPE 3D and in CYPECAD's integrated 3D structures, whilst the types of joints analysed by the “Joints III” and “Joints IV” modules have a broader scope of application in building structures consisting of frames analysed in CYPECAD. In any case, every joint analysed by any of the modules mentioned is solved in the same way in one program or another. In fact, the “Joints I”, “Joints II”, “Joints III” and “Joints IV” modules share common joint types.

Baseplates

CYPE 3D offers several modules that enable the editing, checking and design of anchor plates: the "Baseplates" module and the "Joints I", "Joints II", "Joints III" and "Joints IV" modules.

The "Baseplates" module analyses baseplates for any layout of steel columns, whereas the aforementioned connection modules only analyse welded baseplates made from rolled and reinforced I-beams.

You can find detailed information about the specific baseplate module available in the program via the following link:

• Baseplates

Note:
The types of joints that CYPE 3D can analyse correspond to the collections of connections available in each of these modules. Joints not covered by CYPE 3D can be defined and analysed in CYPE Connect or StruBIM Steel. The geometry data for the bars and the internal forces analysed in CYPE 3D can be exported to a BIMserver.center project and then imported into these programs.