ProtaStructure Suite — Lifetime License
1. Standard Edition
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License Type: Lifetime (One-time purchase)
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Description:
Designed for small engineering firms and individual professionals. Includes essential tools for structural modeling, analysis, and basic design. -
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3D structural modeling
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Linear static and dynamic analysis
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Basic reinforced concrete design
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Drawing and report generation
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2. Professional Edition
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License Type: Lifetime (One-time purchase)
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Description:
Tailored for growing engineering teams and consultancy firms, offering advanced analysis features and integrated design tools. -
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Everything in Standard Edition, plus:
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Nonlinear and pushover analysis
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Steel and composite design
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Advanced foundation design
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BIM integration support
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Automated load combination generation
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3. Enterprise Edition
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License Type: Lifetime (One-time purchase)
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Description:
The complete solution for large enterprises and infrastructure projects requiring full-scale modeling, collaboration, and high-end performance. -
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Everything in Professional Edition, plus:
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Performance-based seismic design
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Multi-user project collaboration
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API & customization options
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Advanced design optimization
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Priority technical support and training
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ProtaStructure Suite – Standard Edition
Description:
The Standard Edition is the entry-level package of ProtaStructure Suite. It provides powerful 3D modeling, analysis, and design tools, making it ideal for small firms, consultants, and engineers starting with reinforced concrete and basic steel projects.
Included Modules:
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ProtaStructure – Core 3D modeling, structural analysis, and design for concrete and steel members, including foundations and load generation.
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ProtaDetails (Basic) – Automated reinforcement detailing for beams, slabs, and columns, with standard drawing outputs.
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ProtaSteel – ❌ Not included
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ProtaBIM – ❌ Not included
Best For:
Individual engineers and small firms focusing on essential building projects that require reliable design and detailing.
🟡 ProtaStructure Suite – Professional Edition
Description:
The Professional Edition builds on the Standard package, adding advanced analysis, detailing, and interoperability features. It is designed for firms handling mid to large-scale projects with higher complexity and collaboration needs.
Included Modules:
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ProtaStructure – Full analysis suite, including linear, non-linear, dynamic, and seismic design.
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ProtaDetails (Advanced) – Comprehensive detailing for reinforced concrete structures, including customizable drawings and schedules.
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ProtaSteel (Basic) – Limited steel connection design and member detailing.
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ProtaBIM – Integration with Revit, Tekla Structures, and IFC formats for BIM workflows.
Best For:
Engineering offices and multidisciplinary teams needing advanced design automation and seamless BIM integration.
🔵 ProtaStructure Suite – Enterprise Edition
Description:
The Enterprise Edition is the flagship package, offering the full power of ProtaStructure Suite. With advanced steel detailing, high-level BIM collaboration, and enterprise-grade automation, it is the ultimate solution for large firms and organizations delivering high-volume, complex projects.
Included Modules:
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ProtaStructure – Complete modeling, analysis, and design for large and complex structures.
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ProtaDetails (Full Suite) – End-to-end automated detailing and customizable reinforcement drawings with professional presentation.
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ProtaSteel (Full Suite) – Complete steel detailing, fabrication drawings, connection design, and shop drawing automation.
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ProtaBIM (Advanced) – Extended BIM integration with round-trip interoperability, coordination tools, and large project optimization.
Best For:
Large enterprises, government institutions, and multinational firms handling large-scale projects that demand maximum scalability, automation, and collaboration.
PROTA Structure
Best Structural Engineering Software
Designed By Engineers for Engineers
Coordinate & Share Project Model
Structural Engineering and Design Software
Our global project experience and industry partnerships ensure deep structural design understanding. ProtaStructure’s advanced design engine optimizes buildings, performing detailed checks to international design and seismic codes.
Fast Project Delivery
Fast project delivery with fully integrated Concrete, Steel and Composite Slab design from one central structural BIM model.
Easy & Effortless Modeling
Simplify and accelerate your design process with user-friendly physical modeling, enhanced by versatile model views and dynamic input for efficient review and modification.
Advanced 3D Finite Element Analysis
Utilize frame and shell finite elements, rigid zones, detailed diaphragm modeling, staged construction, and diverse analysis approaches for simple and complex projects.
Building Information Modeling
ProtaStructure’s structural BIM core ensures smooth collaboration with Revit, Tekla, ArchiCAD, AllPlan, SAP2000 and ETABS, with tailored plugins and IFC, DXF and SAF formats.
True Structural BIM Modeling
Use dynamic input to rapidly create Concrete beam, columns, slabs, foundations and shearwalls and custom shaped core walls and columns. Define openings, drops and physical set out to exactly define your project.
Use real structural Steel and Composite elements including truss, purlin, brace, girt, sag rods with flexible parametric macros. Specify your splice locations on steel columns, beams and trusses.
Build one model! ProtaStructure enables you to model complex or straightforward concrete and steel buildings quickly and easily.
Leading Structural BIM Collaboration
Developed with BIM in mind, seamlessly communicate and refine models with other leading BIM systems, including Autodesk Revit, TeklaStructures, ArchiCAD, AllPlan, IdeaStatica and latest data formats, including IFC, 2D/3D DXF, and SAF.
ProtaStructure effortlessly breaks down the vertical loads for various floor systems using advanced methods like Yield Lines and Finite Element Decomposition, with support for diverse geometry and loading scenarios, featuring color-coded visual checks for load assessments, finishes, and structural dimensions.
ProtaStructure automates Seismic, Wind and Notional Load calculations in compliance with major international codes such as EN 1991-4, EN 1998-1, ASCE07, BS6399-2, and more, alongside snow load assessments per EN1991-1-3 and TS498.
These powerful load automations, coupled with fully automated load combination generation saves you hours of valuable project time.
Powerful Interactive Load Editor
ProtaStructure streamlines structural design with its automated and precise load analysis, enhancing efficiency and accuracy.
In addition to automatically calculated loads, our interactive load editor allows you to visualize and apply any additional loads of your choice including soil pressure, point, line and area loads in any orientation.You can even import point loads from Excel for comprehensive batch case management.
ProtaStructure greatly simplifies the calculation and application of environmental loads such as snow, rain, and roof live loads.
Offers tools for evaluating soil thrust against structures, considering water table and soil profiles for both static and dynamic analysis.
Seismic Analysis and Design
ProtaStructure provides structural engineers with comprehensive tools to structural design and structural detail buildings quickly and economically to meet rigorous earthquake standards.
Global Seismic Code Support
ProtaStructure supports an extensive array of seismic codes, including IBC, UBC, EC8, and more, ensuring designs meet international standards.
Advanced Seismic Analysis Tools
ProtaStructure has smart features for seismic modeling and analysis including EQS and RSA analyses, rigid and flexible diaphragm modeling, cracked sections, storey meshing, basement two-stage analysis and more.
Global Seismic Checks
ProtaStructure performs a series of post-analysis checks including irregularities, strong column-weak beam, joint shear, non-structural member forces, wall-frame interactions, diaphragm checks and more.
Ductile Design and Detailing
ProtaStructure automates the design of structural members to meet ductility requirements, such as confinement of critical sections, automatic layout of wall end zones, capacity shear design, ductile rebar curtailment and much more.
ProtaStructure is an innovative BIM solution for structural engineers to
model, analyze and design buildings quickly and accurately.
Automatically create high-quality drawings and design documents.
PROTA Details
Automated RC Detail Drawings Sheet Management, Manual Drafting, DWG Support & Macro Library
ProtaDetails is a revolutionary structural detailing and CAD software for automatically creating and organizing all your structural concrete detail drawings only with a single click.
Structural Detailing Software
Save hours of drafting time by seamlessly extracting structural design, draft, and draw details from ProtaStructure and automatically arrange them onto your company drawing sheets.
ProtaDetails Boosts Efficiency
Enhance Efficiency with Automated RC Drawings, Advanced Sheet Management, & Comprehensive Engineering Tools
Automate Concrete Detailing
ProtaDetails streamlines drafting by auto-extracting details from ProtaStructure, saving thousands of man-hours.
Drawing Management
Automate layout in drawing blocks with features like autocropping, column grouping, and flexible scaling for professional, high-quality designs.
Growing Library of Intelligent Macros
Design of RC Stairs, Pile Caps, Corbels, Steel Scaffold Systems, Swimming Pools, Cantilever Retaining Walls and more including all details, quantities and calculation reports.
Unique Automation for RC Detail Drawings
ProtaDetails redefines productivity with automated RC detail drawings, sheet management, manual drafting, DWG support, and expanding engineering macro library.
ProtaDetails automatically extracts and details all designed elements from the central ProtaStructure model, saving potentially thousands of man hours on drafting of your building structures.
Automatically layout details into your drawing title blocks and take advantage of features including autocropping of beam elevations, column detail grouping and flexible scaling to produce professional, high quality drawings to convey your design.
Value Engineering and Instant Updates to Quantity Take-Off
With ProtaDetails you can stay on top of project costs and variations with full reinforcement bar quantity take-off.
Generate dynamic quantity tables with full bar bending
schedules, which are updated instantly when changes occur.
Make use of smart rebar library, intelligent detailing items
and tools to perform semi-automatic structural drafting for
the cases where a full automation is not possible.
Smart rebars are dynamically linked to quantity tables. You can even convert primitive CAD rebars to smart rebars and quantify them instantly.
Comprehensive Engineering Library
ProtaDetails supports a comprehensive engineering library of intelligent macros to design and detail independent structural components in your projects.
Design of RC Stairs, Pile Caps, Corbels, Steel Scaffold Systems, Swimming Pools, Cantilever Retaining Walls and more are supported including all details, quantities and calculation reports.
Use our flexible setting management to define how you want your details to look or use Prota’s range of country based templates especially developed to suit local drafting practices.
Automated Seismic & Ductile Detailing
Handle complex detailing required to satisfy design and constructability standards including specific seismic provisions. Lap splices, link confinement, section containment, prohibited zone detailing are automatically considered.
Making use of in-built drafting capabilities, coupled with intelligent objects like rebar, makes any additional detailing or drawing refinement easy and fast.
Automatically update design detail changes from ProtaStructure as they occur.
Check out Prota Help Center to see our design guides related to seismic provisions.
A Fully Fledged CAD Software in Its Core
ProtaDetails is a fully-fledged CAD platform supporting standard CAD functionalities such as Command line, Layers, Dimensions, Styles, Paper Space, primitive CAD object insertion and manipulation, plotting, scaling, pen styles and more.
CAD functionalities in ProtaDetails is tailored towards structural engineering and structural drafting and can be used on top of automation features for further customization and refinement with no extra software needed.
You can plot directly from ProtaDetails or publish your details in DWG or DXF formats to other CAD platforms including AutoCAD, Microstation and Bricscsad.
Expert Support
We strive to provide our users with great experience throughout their journey with all-in-one structural analysis and design software, ProtaStructure Suite.
From our extensive online Prota Help Center to our in-product learning tutorials and documents about the most popular topics such as structural detailing, steel connection design, structural design, building information modeling, reinforced concrete detail drawings, rebar detailing and drafting, and automated RC detail drawings.
We aim to enrich your knowledge and provide practical, user friendly support. Our professional support engineers love engaging with our clients, whether its answering technical queries or providing hands-on training, we are here to help.
ProtaSteel
ProtaSteel for Optimized Connection Design, Constructability, and Efficiency!
ProtaSteel is the all-in-one steel detailing and steel connection design software solution for engineers, fabricators and drafting professionals to perform automated steel connection design and produce high quality steel detail drawings.
Extensive Library of Connection Macros
With ProtaSteel, an extensive library of connections is at your disposal for your structural steel projects. ProtaSteel extends this library further by introducing new connection macros such as Angle Cleat Connection, Bolted End Plate Splice Connection, Base Plate for Hollow Sections, Haunch Connection for Continuous Beams.
Steel Connection Design and Detailed Reports
ProtaSteel supports connection design with comprehensive check reports to EC3, AISC (LRFD and ASD) and BS5950 with full code clause referencing including; bracing and truss connections, splice connections, and more.
Macros that Boost Modeling Productivity
In addition to connection macros, ProtaSteel offers a vast range of macros that will boost your productivity during modeling. Notch, Cut, Fit, Adjust, Weld, Bolt, Stiffeners, Batten Plates, Web Openings with Stiffeners, Automated Stair Treads, Chequered Plate, Gratings, Castellated Beams, Wind Column Connections, Beam to Beam Fixed Connections are among the powerful tools.
Revolutionary IntelliConnect for fully Automating Connection Design
Revolutionary IntelliConnect for fully automated steel connection design with a single click. IntelliConnect automatically assesses joints to your preferences, then batch creates and designs all your steel connections.
Discover IntelliConnect for speed, accuracy, and efficiency in your steel structures!
User-Defined Steel Connections
Easily create your own user-defined connections using general detailing tools such as plates, bolts, welds, cuts, fillet and chamfers. Save these connections as a macro in the library to reuse them at similar joints, adding flexibility and efficiency to your designs.
Automate and Refine Your Steel Detailing
Open ProtaStructure models directly in ProtaSteel to start your detailing process. Easily navigate the entire model in 3D or work with model components of your choice.
Choose and automatically design to your chosen code a broad range of bolted and welded connections.
Adjust elements, add ancillary steel work and create unique connections using intuitive commands to suit your project requirements.
Clear and Concise Steel Detail Drawings
ProtaSteel will perform automated clash checks, model audit, part & assembly numbering seamlessly and flexibly.
You can then create your general arrangement and part & assembly drawings using the central 3D model, including elevations, plans, sections and connections. You can use flexible annotations and title blocks to suit your drawing preferences.
Save hundreds of hours by automatically producing shop details and producing CNC data for all steelwork fabrication.
Save Time, Automate Details, Enhance Communication
Plot directly from ProtaSteel or publish DWG drawing output directly to ProtaDetails or your preferred CAD system including AutoCAD, Microstation and Bricscad. Seamlessly communicate the entire model with other leading BIM systems including Revit and Tekla Structures.
PROTA BIM
Coordinate & Share Project Model
ProtaStructure is an innovative BIM solution for structural engineers to
model, analyze and design buildings quickly and accurately.
Automatically create high-quality drawings and design documents.
Building Information Modeling
What is BIM?
BIM, or Building Information Modeling, revolutionizes construction by uniting architects, engineers, and contractors in a collaborative 3D model process. It enhances planning, design, and construction, offering benefits across civil engineering and construction through advanced BIM software and certifications.
Leading Structural BIM Collaboration
ProtaStructure is natively designed with structural BIM in mind. We use intelligent physical objects to drive modeling, design, coordination and documentation.
Support For Industry BIM Standards
ProtaStructure facilitates model sharing with BIM platforms like Autodesk Revit, ArchiCAD, and AllPlan by supporting import and export of IFC, 2D/3D DXF, and SAF files.
Autodesk Revit Family Mapping
Prota Software has developed bespoke integration with Autodesk Revit to facilitate direct, seamless model coordination, providing tools to roundtrip and synchronize changes as they occur.
Analysis Model Collaboration
ProtaStructure enhances analysis accuracy by seamlessly integrating with leading platforms like OpenSees, ETABS™, and SAP2000™ through intelligent model links, ensuring reliable validation and interoperability.
ProtaStructure: The Pinnacle of Structural BIM Integration
ProtaStructure is engineered to be the essence of structural BIM, utilizing intelligent physical objects for comprehensive modeling, design, coordination, and documentation, ensuring a seamless BIM workflow.
Comprehensive BIM Standard Support
It offers unparalleled support for industry standards, enabling the exchange of models through IFC, 2D/3D DXF, and SAF files with leading platforms like Autodesk Revit, ArchiCAD, and AllPlan, promoting collaborative work environments.
Advanced Integration with Autodesk Revit
ProtaStructure introduces a bespoke, bi-directional integration with Autodesk Revit, enhancing model coordination with tools for real-time synchronization, revision visualization, and customized family mapping to streamline your BIM processes.
Versatile Analysis Model Collaboration
Acknowledging the diverse analysis tools used in engineering, ProtaStructure simplifies the validation and cross-comparison of results across platforms with intelligent links to OpenSees, ETABS™, SAP2000™, LUSAS™, and more, ensuring your projects meet industry benchmarks.
Import from 2D DXF Files – External Reference Drawing
ProtaHUB allows you to take full advantage of any existing 2D drawing information, like structural and architectural key plans, to rapidly setup and co-ordinate your models.
Efficient Model Creation and Output Reporting
Modelling processes can even start with our DXF import where we can convert and extrude drawings into Physical ProtaStructure models.
Efficient Model Creation and Output Reporting
Starting from 2D or 3D inputs, ProtaStructure can transform drawings into detailed 3D models, aligning structural and architectural elements perfectly. It supports the creation of customizable, visually compelling reports and drawings in standard formats like Microsoft Office, PDF, DXF, and DWG. With adherence to best drafting practices, it offers flexibility in layer, style, and scaling, along with the option for bespoke template creation, facilitating a tailored approach to project documentation and presentation.
International Codes & Standards
International Design Codes & Standards
ProtaStructure is equipped to accommodate a wide variety of International Design Codes, such as those from the US and Europe, as well as localized standards tailored to meet the specific design and detailing preferences of users worldwide. For a comprehensive overview of the codes and standards supported by ProtaStructure, please refer to the detailed documentation provided.
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