IES, Inc. creates high quality structural design software for engineering and related professionals. Your solution for general analysis, frames, trusses, shear wall systems, foundations, retaining walls, floor systems and more in steel, wood, concrete, aluminum, cold-formed, and masonry.

Why use VisualFoundation? You have choices in the marketplace, for mat footings -even among IES tools! VisualFoundation shines in a number of areas:

• Dedicated to foundations, so easier to use than VisualAnalysis for this task.
• Automated modeling - the FEA model is built and refined automatically.
• Incorporate the effects of walls and beams in the slab.
• Over 2500 companies use IES tools: one part-time support person at IES!

Major Benefits and Abilities:

• Mat foundation analysis and design.
• Complex mat boundaries, including circular and polygonal templates.
• Generate copies of modeling elements using rectangular or circular patterns.
• Multiple mat thicknesses or soil properties.
• Holes in mats.
• Combined footings.
• Wall footings.
• Walls, grade beams, columns and pile supports.
• Unlimited model size.
• Support for codes: IBC, ASCE 7, ACI 318.
• Automated FEA meshing and soil-spring supports.
• Sophisticated thick-plate finite element formulation.
• Import & Export DXF files.
• Import & Export with VisualAnalysis.
• New! Improved usability: easy graphics and toolbar commands.

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