Automate and customise ETABS reports

Tired of copy/pasting/screenshotting ETABS data to Word? Or find ETABS reports limiting?

You can now create custom reports on CalcTree and automatically populate the page with relevant data straight from ETABS via API.

While the standard ETABS report can be handy, many engineers often spend hours taking screenshots of model outputs, and manually positioning them in reports and presentations.

With CalcTree, you can now set up a report or presentation template, and then push as much ETABS data as you like into it. Allowing you to create ready to share reports from your models in minutes!

How it works

1. Duplicate and modify a ETABS report template in CalcTree
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   (The template comes with Python scripts that generate tables and models from your ETABS data)
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2. Open ETABS and launch the CalcTree plug-in
3. Enter your CalcTree workspace API key and page URL
4. Submit request and watch your page update automatically
5. Share your CalcTree page as a PDF or web link with team members or your client
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Building on the example above, here’s another version where we automatically extract column loads and calculate required footing areas. You can create this workflow for any required calculation off ETABS data.

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Normally this would require you to:

1. Extract ETABS data via CSV
2. Wrangle data between the CSV and your spreadsheet to perform calculations per column load
3. Copy/paste/screenshot results into a Word doc
4. Save as a PDF and share
   

Now it can be done in just a few clicks! Book a demo to learn more and to get started for free.

CalcTree also comes pre-installed with sectionproperties.

The sectionproperties library is a Python package that specialises in analyzing structural cross-sections through finite element analysis (FEA). It enables engineers to define complex geometries, compute sectional properties, and visualize the outcomes for accuracy in structural design.

Using this library, we can model a pad footing as a section under axial loads and flexural moments, rather than using simplified formulas. By applying these loads to the FEA model of the footing's geometry, which matches the size of the actual footing, the library computes the stress distributions, specifically the \(n_{11}\) stress, \( \sigma_{xx} \) across the footing surface.

Additionally, you can integrate results from ETABS, automating the data transfer to perform FEA on each joint in the reactions table. This integration ensures that analyses are accurate and accessible, with results available on-demand through the CalcTree platform.

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