ProtaStructure Suite 2025 Basic Tutorials

ProtaStructure 2025 Basic Tutorials

ProtaStructure Suite is an all-in-one structural engineering software providing structural engineers a wide range of tools accelerating their modeling, analysis, design and detailing processes. Additionally, it generates design reports, analysis reports, and fabrication drawings automatically. It may sound complicated but it is so easy to explore all the capabilities of this advanced software and utilize it to maximize your productivity. This playlist provides you with a number of tutorials describing essential processes step-by-step. 

In this basic tutorials playlist, you will learn how to model structural elements including columns, beams, walls and slabs, how to perform building analysis, how to define seismic parameters and obtain seismic spectrum, how to design structural members. We advise you to follow the videos in this playlist together with Basic Training Guides and try to apply the described processes on your software. 

📌 List of videos you'll find in this playlist:
  1. ProtaStructure Data File Structure
  2. How to Start A New Project, Introduction to User Interface & Settings Center
  3. How to Create Axes and Manage Axis Properties
  4. Introduction to Orthogonal Axis Generator
  5. How to Utilize An External Reference Drawing & How to Import A DXF File
  6. Selection Method & How to Create Columns
  7. How to Model Shearwalls and Manage Their Properties
  8. How to Model Slabs and Create Slab Openings
  9. How to Manage Load Cases
  10. Introduction to the Load Editor
  11. How to Manage Loads on Beams and Partition Walls
  12. How to Manage Slab Loads and Storey Operations
  13. Visual Interrogation, Review and Display Functions
  14. How to Manage Pre-Analysis Settings
  15. Wind and Storey Loads
  16. Building Analysis Model Options
  17. Building Analysis & Axial Load Comparison Report
  18. Post-Analysis Processes & Introduction to the Analytical Model
  19. Analysis Results Report & Introduction to the Report Manager
  20. RC Column and Wall Design
  21. RC Beam Design
  22. Slab Analysis and Design with the Analytical Method
  23. Pad Footing Analysis and Design
  24. Pile Cap Analysis and Design
  25. Slab Analysis and Design with the Finite Elements Method

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