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# FEM Design

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> The nature of FEM-Design makes it ideal for all types of construction tasks from single element design to global stability analysis.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **2.5/5** by 2 users. Top-rated for **Features**.

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## Overview

### Who Uses FEM Design?

\- Structural Analysis
- Civil Engineering 
- Design 
- Precast Industry
- Concrete Design 
- Steel Design
- Timber Design

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **2.5/5** | 2 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 2.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support |  | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money |  | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 3.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 30% | (3/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: StruSoft
- **Founded**: 2002

## Commercial Context

- **Pricing model**: Per Feature (Free Trial)
- **Target Audience**: 51–200
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (Desktop)
- **Available Countries**: Sweden

## Features

- Collaboration Tools
- Data Import/Export

## Category

- [3D CAD Software](https://www.capterra.ie/directory/31236/3d-cad/software)

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## Reviews

### "Good integration, bad user experience" — 3.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *16 December 2022* | Higher Education | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10
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> **Pros**: Covers a range of materials and construction types including each country's legislation. Good integration with BIM and API support
> 
> **Cons**: Difficult to use and non-intuitive design commands. Bad snap tools design makes the design process time consuming.

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### "The software that kills you from the inside" — 2.0/5

> **Dren** | *8 September 2020* | Civil Engineering | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The only thing I liked which is not a big deal anyway, were published sheets and results in general.
> 
> **Cons**: This software is the worst I have used so far, considering the amount of all other software I have tried during my work as a  Structural Engineer. The User Experience is below zero, there are no words to describe how bad it is. Its like they have never thought about the user, but only about the results and the capacity of the software.  In bullet points

- The software contains unusal commands that start with the combination of the Alt key instead of Ctrl like most software do

- The geometry and massing capabilities are quite bad, it seems like you can never get something at the right place, and you can never get a model without errors. Very bad snap tools, very poor on the responsive side of things.
> 
> This software made me punch my computer many times, due to errors after errors even though I kept on zooming in 1000x trying to get all points right. I would never suggest this software to anyone, unless "Strusoft" (the developers) do some massive changes on their User Experience which is catastrophic at this stage. I have to suffer more with this software because my firm uses it, otherwise I would never pick this one instead of a CSI software, RSA or Tekla STD which are obviously 100x better.

Nonetheless, Strusoft has some other nice software on the other side, but with this one, in my opinion, they failed big time\!

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