CYPE STRUCTURAL SUITE
Since 1983, CYPE has been a trusted name in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, serving over 300,000 users across 160+ countries, including professionals, government bodies, and universities. CYPE offers a modular ecosystem of BIM-based tools with over 150 software applications that span the full spectrum of AEC in Architecture, Structures, MEP, Energy, Fire systems, acoustic simulation, and Management.
CYPE seamlessly integrates all these applications across disciplines using the BIMservice.Center, a cloud-based server with unlimited storage, allowing users to share, collaborate, and manage projects. Additionally, CYPE solutions are integrated with the OpenBIM Database, which consists of a huge database of manufacturers’ data across all disciplines and can be readily used within the CYPE solutions.
CYPE Structural Suite is a comprehensive solution for structural analysis, design, and detailing. It consists of 15 specialist modules, such as CYPECAD, CYPE 3D, CYPE Connect, StruBIM Steel, Portal Frame Generator, StruBIM Embedded Walls, StruBIM Cantilever Walls, etc. Key features of CYPE Structural Suite include:
- Supports a wide range of materials: reinforced concrete, steel, timber, aluminium, and composite materials.
- Capable of modeling and analyzing simple to complex structures and connections.
- Foundation design with soil-structure interaction: pad, strip, mat, pile cap, and combined footings, as well as bored and precast piles.
- Automated step-by-step design calculation report (DOCX, PDF, XML, TXT, HTML, RTF).
- Automatic drawing generation (DXF, DWG, PDF, JPG, GLTF, FBX, BMP, PNG, EMF).
- Includes design of embedded and concrete retaining walls supporting construction stages, customized box culverts, and deep beams.
CYPECAD
Portal Frame Generator
CYPE 3D
CYPE CONNECT
StruBIM Steel
StruBIM Embedded Walls
StruBIM Cantilever Walls
StruBIM Box Culverts
CYPECAD is a powerful BIM-based structural design tool tailored for low- to high-rise buildings, and its key features are:
- Structural modelling features:
- Foundations (with soil–structure interaction, uplift checks, stability/negative friction for piles)
- Supports an extensive library of soil types and soil layers definitions for designing foundations
- Columns (composite and custom cross-sections)
- Beams (pre-stressed, post-tensioned, and composite with shear studs)
- Slabs (lightweight, hollow-core, bubble deck, composite, waffle, flat, and pre- and post-tensioned and joist floor slabs)
- Parametric staircases and ramps
- Walls (load-bearing, shear wall, masonry, plane stress, and concrete brick walls)
- Corbels
- Advanced shear wall design and cross reinforcement design of coupling beams
- Non-structural elements in seismic design
- Automatically generating 2D and 3D reinforcements for every concrete element
- Advanced analysis capabilities for: Seismic, wind, fire, and punching shear verifications
- BIM integration:
- Seamless Revit link (geometry + reinforcement data)
- Fully coordinated Open BIM workflows
- ETABS integration for shear wall design
- Supports import and export IFC format
Portal Frame Generator is for the automatic creation and design of steel portal-frame structures, and its key features are:
- Automatic generation of portal-frame geometry (spans, heights, slopes, bays, roof configuration, etc.).
- Application of self-weight, wind, and snow loads in accordance with different international standards.
- Automatic generation of load combinations.
- Option to include roof and wall cladding to account for additional loads.
- Parametric control for fast modifications and regeneration of the structure.
- Full integration with the Open BIM workflow for multidisciplinary coordination.
- Export of the model to CYPE 3D or CYPECAD for detailed structural analysis and design.
CYPE 3D is a general-purpose structural analysis and design software for concrete, steel, timber, and/or aluminum structures, and its key features are:
- High-performance analysis powered by OpenSees‘ advanced finite element engine
- Analysis includes material and geometric nonlinear behavior, wind loading, dynamic loading, seismic loading, fire design, and optimization
- Seamless integration with CYPE Connect for designing and optimizing simple to complex connection designs
- Analysis and design of structures with complex geometries, such as industrial structures, bridges, plants, and complex frames
- Supports both physical and analytical modelling of members
- Automated design of sub- and super-structure elements
- Advanced fire resistance check with automated thickness optimization of protective coating
- It has brought a new way of modal and global buckling analysis
- Foundations (with soil–structure interaction, uplift checks, st
ability/negative friction for piles) - Supports an extensive library of soil types and soil layers definitions for designing foundations
- Comprises extensive built-up sections, including sections with haunches, PEB (tapered) sections, composite sections, double-welded box w/wo batten plates, sections with lateral plates, and castellated members with hexagonal, octagonal, and circular openings.
- Automatically generating GA drawings and 2D/3D reinforcements for every concrete element
- Supports import and export IFC format
CYPE Connect is for the design of simple to complex connections, and its key features are:
- Powerful non-linear analysis using the OpenSees engine to perform finite element, rotational stiffness, buckling, and capacity analyses
- Connection design for steel, timber, and concrete structures
- Supports Australian Standards and other international codes
- User-friendly interface
- Parametric modelling
- Seamless Open BIM collaboration with major manufacturers (RAWLPLUG, Hilti, Würth, Fischer, Spit, Index)
- Automated professional drawings regardless of the complexity of connections
StruBIM Steel is for modeling and detailing steel structures, and its key features are:
- Automated precise part and assembly drawings
- Ideal for complex steel projects requiring precision and coordination
- Integrated with the CYPE Connect engine
- Supports industry formats: DSTV, STEP, and IFC
- Enhances accuracy, reduces errors, and accelerates construction workflows
StruBIM Embedded Walls is a specialized tool for the analysis and design of embedded retaining walls, and its key features are:
- Supports multiple wall types such as reinforced concrete, in-situ concrete piles, steel sheet piles, and mini pile screens
- Enables modelling of construction stages, soil–structure interaction, groundwater effects, and support systems (anchors, struts)
- Supports slope stability checks
- Supports an extensive library of soil types and soil layers definitions
- Automated drawings
StruBIM Cantilever Walls is a specialized tool for analysis and design of reinforced concrete cantilever walls, and its key features are:
- Support slope stability checks
- Includes design of the corresponding foundation: Footings and Pile caps with piles
- Supports an extensive library of soil types and soil layers definitions
- Automated drawings
- Designed for soil retention applications
- Supports multiple wall geometries such as Rectangular, stepped, and tapered walls
- Enables modelling of construction stages, soil–structure interaction, and groundwater effects
Open BIM Quantities is a specialized tool for extracting quantities and generating bills of quantities from IFC-based BIM models, and its key features are:
- Generates bills directly from IFC-based BIM models
- Compatible with Revit, ArchiCAD, TEKLA Structures, CYPE tools, and hybrid formats like DWG, DXF, PDF
- Links to cost databases for dynamic pricing and breakdowns
- Rule-based engine for precise quantity filtering and formula definition
- Dual-tab interface for 3D model interaction and bill editing
- Tracks certifications with automated quantity and percentage calculations
- Generates detailed reports and exports in DOCX, PDF, HTML, TXT, and BC3
- Fully integrated with BIMservice.Center for collaborative workflows
