SOFiSTiK eLearning

This curated collection of feature videos for SOFiSTiK Bridge + Infrastructure Modeler guides you through key functions and explains how and when to use them in your daily engineering workflow.

All videos are in German, with English and French subtitles.

This course introduces structural analysis and reinforced concrete design in Autodesk Revit using SOFiSTiK Analysis + Design.

You will learn how to generate an analytical model directly from an existing BIM model, enabling efficient reuse of project data. The course demonstrates how to prepare models for both global structural analysis and local investigations, perform linear analysis, evaluate load transfer, and design reinforced concrete elements.

Finally, you will review, visualise, and share results to support efficient documentation and collaboration within a BIM-based workflow. The course also presents the general workflow for modelling building projects in Revit using SOFiSTiK Analytical Model Generator and SOFiSTiK Analysis + Design.

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Ce guide Premiers pas vous présente les flux de travail de base et les outils essentiels de SOFiSTiK Reinforcement dans Autodesk Revit.

Êtes-vous déjà un utilisateur expérimenté de Revit et familiarisé avec la modélisation et le coffrage ? Il est maintenant temps de passer à l’étape suivante vers le ferraillage professionnel.

Dans cette introduction structurée, vous apprendrez à placer, modifier et documenter efficacement les armatures à l’aide d’outils BIM intelligents. Vous découvrirez les armatures pilotées par forme et les armatures libres, travaillerez avec des ensembles d’armatures, générerez des listes de façonnage et produirez des plans clairs, prêts pour l’exécution.

L’accent est mis sur des flux de travail pratiques et orientés vers l’application, vous permettant de passer en toute fluidité de la modélisation pure à la planification détaillée des armatures. En combinant l’environnement de modélisation de Revit avec les fonctionnalités spécialisées de SOFiSTiK Reinforcement, vous construirez une base solide pour un ferraillage précis, efficace et basé sur le modèle.

Ce guide Premiers pas vous fournit les bases nécessaires pour commencer à travailler avec SOFiSTiK Reinforcement en toute confiance dans vos projets BIM quotidiens.

This Getting Started guide introduces you to the basic workflows and essential tools of SOFiSTiK Reinforcement in Autodesk Revit.

Are you already an experienced Revit user and familiar with modeling and formwork? Now it’s time to take the next step into professional reinforcement detailing.

In this structured introduction, you will learn how to efficiently place, modify, and document reinforcement using intelligent BIM-based tools. You will explore shape-driven and free-form reinforcement, work with reinforcement sets, generate bending schedules, and produce clear, construction-ready drawings.

The focus is on practical, hands-on workflows that help you transition smoothly from pure modeling to detailed reinforcement planning. By combining Revit’s modeling environment with the specialized capabilities of SOFiSTiK Reinforcement, you will build a solid foundation for accurate, efficient, and model-based reinforcement detailing.

This Getting Started guide provides you with the fundamentals you need to confidently begin working with SOFiSTiK Reinforcement in your daily BIM projects.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to perform a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for your structural model using SOFiSTiK’s LCA Task. Starting from a prepared project with defined materials and geometry, you will link materials with Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) data, calculate embodied impacts, review results, and export them for documentation or further analysis.

In this Getting Started, you will learn the fundamental steps for modelling a simple concrete structure in the BIM platform Revit® and performing analysis and design using the SOFiSTiK software package.

Diese Einsteigerschulung vermittelt die grundlegenden Arbeitsabläufe in SOFiSTiK anhand einer Hochbauplatte.

Schritt für Schritt lernen Sie, ein neues Projekt anzulegen, Materialien und Querschnitte zu definieren sowie das System und die Lasten grafisch in SOFiPLUS zu modellieren. Anschließend werden Einwirkungen verwaltet, Kombinationen erstellt, Einzellastfälle berechnet und Überlagerungen durchgeführt.

Darüber hinaus erhalten Sie eine Einführung in die Bemessung von Flächen- und Stabelementen sowie in die strukturierte Ergebnisdokumentation. Die Schulung vermittelt ein grundlegendes Verständnis des modularen Aufbaus von SOFiSTiK und der zentralen Datenbankstruktur.

Dieser Kurs vermittelt den vollständigen Workflow zur Modellierung, Berechnung und Bemessung einer Spannbetonbrücke mit SOFiSTiK.

Behandelt werden die Definition von Materialien, Querschnitten, Achsen, Lagern, Einwirkungen und Lastfällen sowie die Modellierung in SOFiPLUS und die Weiterbearbeitung im SSD. Darüber hinaus umfasst der Kurs die Berechnung mit ASE, Bauphasen mit CSM, Überlagerungen mit MAXIMA sowie die Definition und Auswertung von Vorspannung.

Ergänzend werden die Ergebnisse im Result Viewer, WINGRAF, Animator und Report Browser ausgewertet. Auch CADiNP wird eingesetzt, um technische Zusammenhänge und projektspezifische Eingaben nachvollziehbar darzustellen.

This course introduces the workflow for modelling a steel footbridge structure using SOFiSTiK.

Starting from a practical example, you will define the design code, materials, and cross-sections before creating the structural geometry using geometric axes and structural elements. The tutorial demonstrates how to model the bridge deck, assign supports, and define loads such as self-weight. After building the structural system, you will perform structural analysis and review the bridge model’s behaviour.

By following this step-by-step process, you will learn how to create a consistent bridge analysis model and evaluate structural performance within a professional SOFiSTiK workflow.

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This course provides a complete workflow for modelling, analysing, and designing a prestressed bridge using SOFiSTiK.

Starting with project creation, you will define materials, cross-sections, geometry, loads, and prestressing. You will perform linear analysis, refine the structural model, and consider construction stages and traffic loading. A key focus is on load case superposition and stress design evaluation. Step by step, you will learn how to combine results correctly and assess structural performance.

By the end of the course, you will understand the full process from system definition to structural verification and professional documentation.

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This course introduces modal analysis and eigenvalue extraction in SOFiSTiK FEA, referencing EN 1991-2, Section 6.4.6, and UIC Code 776-2, Section A.6.1.

You will learn how to define the structural system, prepare the model for dynamic analysis, calculate eigenmodes, and interpret results correctly. Step by step, you will understand how stiffness, mass distribution, and boundary conditions influence structural vibration behaviour. The course combines theoretical fundamentals with practical workflows, enabling you to confidently perform eigenvalue analyses for railway bridge verification and dynamic compliance with European standards. You will also learn how to calculate eigenfrequencies and mode shapes, define load trains, perform dynamic analyses for train passages, and postprocess results using time histories and envelopes.

This tutorial series introduces the SOFiSTiK Rebar Modeler workflow, covering shape modelling, system-based reinforcement placement, duplication strategies, and splicing techniques.

You will learn how to efficiently create, modify, and manage reinforcement systems while maintaining parametric control and design consistency. Practical use cases demonstrate how to streamline repetitive tasks, optimise detailing workflows, and ensure accurate reinforcement modelling within complex structural elements.

This course presents a complete workflow for performing seismic nonlinear time-history analysis of a reinforced concrete bridge pier using SOFiSTiK. Participants learn how to model material nonlinearity through plastic hinges, define hysteretic behaviour with the Modified Takeda model, and apply strain- and rotation-based performance criteria.

The tutorial guides users through the full analysis chain, from linear static and modal analyses to nonlinear dynamic simulation under real earthquake excitation (El Centro record). Key steps include damping definition, effective stiffness reduction, and time integration with adaptive convergence control.

Post-processing focuses on interpreting hinge behaviour, displacements, and performance level exceedance to assess structural safety and seismic performance. The course emphasizes performance-based evaluation and realistic interaction of static, modal, and dynamic analyses for reinforced concrete bridge structures.

L’application SOFiSTiK Bridge + Infrastructure Modeler pour Autodesk Revit vous aide à créer des géométries d’infrastructure en 3D directement dans Autodesk Revit et met à votre disposition des outils pour l’élaboration des plans d’exécution.

The SOFiSTiK Bridge and Infrastructure Modeler for Autodesk Revit App helps you create 3-dimensional infrastructure geometries directly inside Autodesk Revit and provides tools for developing shop drawings.

In this course, you will learn how to model a simple piled raft foundation and understand the fundamental principles of soil–structure interaction using half-space analysis. Starting from a blank project, you will build the complete example step by step, defining soil profiles, applying the Soil–Structure Interaction task, and generating clear, meaningful graphics for your report. You will also design the raft and piles using the available tasks in SOFiSTiK Structural Desktop, developing a full and consistent model throughout the lessons.

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This tutorial introduces practical nonlinear analysis and design workflows for reinforced concrete structures using SOFiSTiK.

Across multiple example models, it explains how nonlinear material behaviour, cracking, stiffness reduction, spring elements, long-term deflection, beam behaviour, wall capacity, and volume elements are handled in finite element analysis. The lessons demonstrate how to define realistic material properties, create suitable load combinations, interpret iterative solver behaviour, and evaluate structural response under serviceability and ultimate limit states.

Special attention is given to cracked concrete modelling, reinforcement effects, and the differences between shell, beam, and solid element approaches for reliable engineering assessment.

This course introduces the parametric modelling and analysis of a truss structure using SOFiSTiK's text interface.

Starting from a practical example, you will create a new project, define cross-sections, and establish system properties before introducing variables that control the structural geometry. Step by step, you will generate truss nodes, top and bottom chords, vertical members, and diagonals. Supports and loads are then applied before the structural calculation is performed. A key aspect of the tutorial is the use of CADiNP, SOFiSTiK's text interface, which enables efficient parameter-driven modelling and transparent control of the structural analysis workflow.

This course will teach you the fundamentals of Text Input in SOFiSTiK FEA.

You will hear about the Text Editor, the Input Structure, and the Syntax CADiNP. Every lesson introduces you to new commands and input options while working on your first script. More than 60 lessons, totaling 7 hours of video content, are waiting for you to dive into the most powerful input option in SOFiSTiK FEA.

Learn about the powerful text input of SOFiSTiK that can help you to optimise workflows and increase your efficiency!