Thursday, November 20, 2008

About ETABS Tutorial 1

This is an audio visual introduction tutorial of ETABS . The basic procedures and standard commands are discussed one by one. By the end of this tutorial one would get enough background of what we can do with ETBAS and how we get it done.

Major commands used frequently are highlighted, and elaborated in detail. The video is recorded with hight quality (600x480), and it is about 10 minute. As blogspot limits the video size and volume which affects the quality ,I will post the link to download from as soon as possible.

In the mean time , you may have a look at some of screen shots from the tutorial.






Monday, November 17, 2008

Civil Engineering Software Tutorials

There are different software packages used in Civil Engineering. Some of them are mainly for drawing while others are for analysis. Among others AUTOCAD and Chief Architect may be mentioned as a popular software packages mainly used for drawing. For structural analysis, ETABS, SAFE , STAAD, and SAP2000 are popular. Each one has its own peculiar features.For example while ETABS is best for frame analysis of high building, SAFE is is for slab or foundation analysis. Our first tutorial would be on Introduction to ETABS
 
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