CADS RC 2024.0

CADS has established an enviable reputation for providing expertise as well as expert software for reinforced concrete detailers. Running in AutoCAD, CADS RC has been the market leading reinforced concrete detailing software in the UK and around the world for more than 20 years. CADS RC’s success is due to its advanced detailing features and technical excellence, which include integration with design and fabrication software. The automatic bar bending schedule is updated in real time which means errors are eliminated and time is saved. CADS RC can detail anything and has been successfully used on all sorts of building, transportation, water, process and power projects including precast concrete elements.

CADS RC builds on AutoCAD, the industry standard CAD platform. It fully exploits the stable 2D drawing environment of AutoCAD, tailoring a solution for rebar detailing and bar bending scheduling that meets the stringent requirements of the industry. As an integrated AutoCAD application, CADS RC adds functionality and toolbars to your AutoCAD system and is supported by quality user manuals and training.

If you are a CAD Manager you will find it easy to recruit trained and experienced technicians for such an industry standard solution, whilst the level of support, advice and expertise available through our help desk will impress all users.

CADS RC is a global player in the truest sense of the word. Since the original software was launched as CADS RC in the UK over 20 years ago, further versions for North America, India and South Africa have been released. High quality output, stability, integration and flexibility have seen the adoption of CADS RC across diverse worldwide markets. CADS RC is often the default choice for many international and prestige projects, the software having earned its’ reliability and consistency credentials.

CADS RC maintains a reinforcement database that always reflects exactly what is on the drawing. In addition, all new bars and changes are instantly added to the bar bending schedule which means that checking is reduced and errors virtually eliminated. Additional audit commands detect incomplete or unlabelled bars and ensure compliance with the configured detailing standard. CADS RC drawings require less manual checking, thus scheduling errors are virtually a thing of the past!

Rebar detailing can be a slow manual process, with no certainty as to the accuracy or consistency of the eventual drawing output. Scrap and wastage due to inaccurate reinforcement drawings, mistakes in Bar Bending Schedules (BBS) and unutilised off-cuts costs the construction industry. Reinforcement detailing and bar listing has never been easier. CADS RC helps you accomplish this faster and more accurately than manual methods by creating drawings whilst automating the preparation of BBS.

CADS Design 2024.0.2:

Analyse 3D v4.59, Composite Beam Designer v3.48, RC Beam Designer v4.30, RC Column Designer v2.28,

RC Pad Base Designer v3.28, RC Slab Designer v1.38, SMART Engineer v6.56, SMART Portal 3D v3.50,

Steelwork Member Designer v3.80, Steelwork Moment Connections v2.1, VelVenti v6.56

Analyse 3D provides a powerful and flexible frame analysis package for 2D or 3D, elastic/plastic/P-delta analysis and can solve any size job with no limit on the number of members or load combinations. Links to CADS design and detailing software as well as Revit compatibility via an IFC export.

Composite Beam Designer is a program for the structural design or checking of Composite Beams. CADS Composite Beam Designer prepares calculations for strength, stability and stiffness.

RC Beam Designer is a comprehensive selection of complete reinforcement solutions, which the software creates automatically in accordance with the chosen design standard. Users may also define their own bar arrangements or select from the user-library. Hence, the software can be used to automatically create a new design or for checking an existing one.

RC Column Designer is a software application for the analysis and design of reinforced concrete columns.

RC Pad Base Designer executes the designing or checking of bases rapidly and reliably and can be used stand-alone or as part of the CADS integrated analysis, design and detailing solution.

RC Slab Designer provides fast, automatic RC design to BS 8110 for all typical bar arrangements, mesh and slab configurations and can be used stand-alone or as part of the CADS integrated analysis, design and detailing solution. It can check a user-defined base design or autodesign an optimum solution to suit user and code criteria.

SMART Engineer is a Civil & Structural Engineers’ compendium of calculation templates to either British Standards or Eurocodes and includes tools for 1D and 2D frame analysis.

SMART Portal 3D is a complete building modeller for single & multi-bay portal frame buildings. Complete 3D solutions can literarally be designed in seconds by simply entering the span, roof slope and number of bays!

Steelwork Member Designer is a program which prepares calculations for the strength, stability and stiffness of steel members to the requirements of EC3 and BS 5950 Part 1 2000.

Steelwork Moment Connection Designer provides an efficient and versatile method of designing steelwork moment connections.

VelVenti enables the rapid calculation of peak wind speeds and pressure in accordance with a number of structural design standards. Used as a standalone tool, it will provide the effective wind speeds at varying heights of a building or structure that can then be passed to any structural design software.

CADS Geotechnical 2024.0.2

Bearing Pile Designer v2.16, Piled Wall Suite v7.02, Reslope v2.07

Specialist software for sheet piles, diaphragm, secant walls and king posts. Slope stability analysis, bearing pile and retaining wall analysis and design.

Bearing Pile Designer
Geotechnical design software that calculates the vertical and horizontal bearing capacity of bearing piles and pile groups. Can be used with CADS RC Pilecap Designer.

Piled Wall Suite
Practical analysis and design of embedded walls in concrete or steel to various methods including BS and EC7. Analysis and design of sheet piles, king piles, contiguous bored piles, diaphragm walls and cofferdams; excellent calcs, dwgs and dxf files.

ReSlope
Slope stability analysis software including soil reinforcement circular and non-circular failure surfaces, Bishops's, Janbu, etc.