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Structures Office L.L.C. is an up-and-coming software company that offers a brilliant structural analysis toolset at an extremely reasonable cost. This software is designed to integrate seamlessly with common engineering tools such as Excel and Matlab to make analysis as smooth and efficient as possible. With Release 1.2, Structures Office offers some exciting new features. One of these is the ability to support the construction of arbitrary compact cross-sections efficiently, including the computation of area, elastic and plastic section properties.

This software also allows for the conducting of elastic and plastic bending analysis, with plastic analysis performed through the numerical method or Cozzone’s method. Additionally, IGES Import/Export functionality furthers the program's capabilities. Structures Office can be used both in a stand-alone environment, or within Excel, where it can be driven with VBA to extend spreadsheet analysis. It can also be deployed alongside any other application that can communicate via COM, including MATHCAD, Active Perl, and ActivePython.

Geometry is defined with Non-Uniform Rational B-splines (NURBS), enabling high-level design modeling. Written entirely in C++, the software offers outstanding performance and works seamlessly with advanced graphics cards. Training is made even easier as Structures Office provides customers access to a range of detailed, online tutorial videos. Finally, cross-sections may be conveniently exchanged through IGES. Overall, Structures Office is an excellent addition to any engineering firm looking for cost-effective, high-quality structural analysis tools.