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    The new Dlubal API service (gRPC) provides you with a flexible interface to the structural analysis software based on Python and C#, with direct access to the entire Dlubal product range. Benefit from seamless and powerful integration into your Dlubal software—ideal for parametric modeling and complex optimization tasks.

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    RFEM 6

    The structural analysis software RFEM 6 is the basis of a modular software system. The main program RFEM 6 is used to define structures, materials, and loads of planar and spatial structural systems consisting of plates, walls, shells, and members. The program also allows you to create combined structures as well as to model solid and contact elements.

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    RSTAB 9

    RSTAB 9 is a powerful analysis and design software for 3D beam, frame, or truss structure calculations, reflecting the current state of the art and helping structural engineers meet requirements in modern civil engineering.

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    RSECTION 1

    Do you often spend too long calculating cross-sections? Dlubal Software and the RSECTION stand-alone program facilitate your work by determining section properties of various cross-sections and performing a subsequent stress analysis.

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    RWIND 3

    Do you always know where the wind is blowing from? From the direction of innovation, of course! With RWIND 3, you have a program at your side that uses a digital wind tunnel for the numerical simulation of wind flows. The program simulates these flows around any building geometry and determines the wind loads on the surfaces.

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    Are you looking for an overview of snow load zones, wind zones, and seismic zones? Then you are in the right place. Use the Geo-Zone Tool to determine quickly and efficiently snow loads, wind speeds, and seismic data according to ASCE 7‑16 and other international standards.

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RFEM 5 | 3D FEA Software | User Interface

RFEM 5 | 3D FEA Software | User Interface

The FEA program RFEM allows for quick and easy modeling, structural and dynamic analysis, as well as design of models with member, plate, wall, folded plate, shell, and solid elements.

Thanks to the modular software concept, you can enhance the basic program RFEM with the corresponding modules and thus use it in a wide variety of areas.

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Customizable Graphical User Interface for Individual Adjustment

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Intuitive User Interface

The Dlubal programs are user-friendly. This way, you will have a short induction period and easy handling of the software.

Your structure is created in a user interface usual for CAD or via tables. By right-clicking the graphical or navigator objects, you can activate a shortcut menu that allows you to easily create or modify the objects. Try it out for yourself and let yourself be inspired by the intuitive user interface! Therefore, you can create the structural and loading objects in a minimum amount of time.

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Multilingual Program Operation

Dlubal Software customers come from all over the world and there are, of course, numerous language options for the structural analysis software. It is possible to operate the program in the following languages: English, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

You can also modify the design of the RFEM/RSTAB user interface: There are nine different styles of graphical user interface to choose from; for example: Office 2007 Blue, Silver, Aqua, and Black. Customize the programs to your individual needs.

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User-Defined Configurations

If you are interested in making your daily work easier and more efficient, you should also pay attention to this feature. Program configuration menus and toolbars can be freely customized. This allows you to arrange your frequently used functions in a user-defined way and save time. Everything from the beginning? No problem: You can restore the default settings of the program with a mouse click. Tables, navigators, and toolbars can also be moved and docked as required.

Furthermore, you can use the configuration manager to set the graphic display properties, toolbars, and so on in a user-defined way and save them as your own configuration. Thus, the software becomes your individual productivity enhancer.

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Photorealistic Visualization

Keeping track of your model has never been so easy. Thanks to the photo-realistic visualization in 3D rendering, you always have immediate control of the input. Adjust the display colors freely and separately for screen and printout. In this way you can see the important aspects directly.

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Display Properties

Always keep track of things by assigning different colors to the various objects in your structure. Thus, the rendering display of the structure is even clearer; and you can see the essentials at a glance.

You can distinguish between Materials, Cross-Sections, Member Types, Member Hinges, Surface Types - Geometry, Surface Types - Stiffness, Surface Thicknesses, Solid Types, Surface Sides, Named Visibilities, and Effective Length Factors.

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Displaying and Hiding Objects

Customize your model to work even more efficiently. You can selectively display or hide various objects, such as nodes, members, supports, and others. The model can be dimensioned by using lines, arcs, inclinations, or height elevations. Freely createable guidelines, sections, and comments facilitate you the input and evaluation. You can also display or hide the guide objects individually.

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Global Unit Settings

A global dialog box manages the units of input data, loads, and results in RFEM/RSTAB as well as in all add‑on modules.

Take advantage of the helpful functions offered below: You can save your settings and import them again later. Thus, it is possible for you to use different sections in steel and concrete structures, for example.

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