Intuitive User Interface with Individual Customization Options
Intuitive User Interface
A great strength of the Dlubal programs is their intuitive, easy-to-learn operation. RFEM 6 is no exception. Create your structure in a user interface usual for CAD or via tables. By right-clicking the graphical or navigator objects, a shortcut menu appears, which facilitates you creating or editing the objects. Due to the intuitive user interface, you can create structural and loading objects in a very short time.
Go to Explanatory VideoMultilingual Program Operation
The Dlubal programs have a customer base that spans the globe. Therefore, the program can be operated in the following languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Chinese, and Dutch.
Go to Explanatory VideoPhotorealistic Rendering
Always keep an eye on your model. Due to the photorealistic rendering (optionally with textures), you always have immediate control of your input. You can freely adjust the display colors and save them separately for screen and printout.
Go to Explanatory VideoRFEM 6 | Display properties
It is possible to assign different colors to various objects of a structure in order to make the rendering display of the structure more clearly arranged.
A distinction is made between the various object properties of nodes, lines, members, member sets, surfaces, and solids. Moreover, the model can be displayed in photorealistic rendering.
Go to Explanatory VideoDisplaying and Hiding Objects
Work more efficiently by freely adjusting the display of your model. You can selectively display or hide various objects, such as nodes, members, supports, and others. Dimension your model using lines, arcs, inclinations, or height elevations. Freely created guidelines, sections, and comments facilitate you the input and evaluation. You can also display or hide the guide objects individually.
Go to Explanatory VideoGlobal Unit Settings
You can keep track of things with just a few clicks. A global dialog box manages the units for input data, loads, and results in RFEM or RSTAB, as well as in all add-ons.
You can save the settings and import them again later. In this way, it is possible for you to use different sections in steel and reinforced concrete structures, for example.
Go to Explanatory VideoCalculate Your Price

The price is valid for United States.





If you activate the "Link to Nearby Objects…" option for nodes, RFEM or RSTAB automatically searches for neighboring objects. A link in the form of a rigid member is then created for these members, nodes, or surfaces.
You can specify various settings for searching for nearby objects. Including search area, object types to be searched for, and objects to be excluded. Furthermore, you can specify member hinges for the created connecting member.

The "Cable on Pulleys" member type allows you to simulate a cable system deflected by pulleys.
This member type only absorbs tensile forces and can only be displaced in the longitudinal direction. It is suitable for flexible tension elements whose longitudinal forces are transferred through the model via deflection points (e.g. pulley).

The gRPC-based Dlubal API gives you access to almost all modeling and calculation functions, allowing you to create, modify, and analyze models programmatically. The ability to extract results is not yet implemented, but will be added in a future update.
The API is based on Python and is the technological successor to the previous Webservice with Python. While most modeling functions are already available, work is ongoing to complete the implementation.
Further information can be found on the following website:

It is now possible to keep the results of the steel, steel joint, aluminum, and timber design despite changing the design properties and settings (see the setting in the image). The results are thus not deleted, but marked as invalid.
When restarting the design, only the invalid design results are updated. If objects are subsequently added to the design, they are additionally designed when restarting the design, while the previously calculated results remain valid.
Can I optimize parametric cross-sections?
How can I define RSECTION cross-sections in Grasshopper?
How can I fix the error warning “10060 - The structure is unstable” for modal analysis instability?
Is it always necessary to consider tension member nonlinearities in response spectrum analysis?