Reuse geometry you already modeled and keep the same data moving into production.
- Generate quantities and pricing from your analysis output
- Keep revisions tied to the model you already trust
- AutoCAD drawings deliverables for AutoCAD review
ETABS import / direct modeling → AutoCAD drawings → Quantities → Pricing
Turn your ETABS model into drawings, quantities, and budgets.
Import your ETABS (.e2k) model and get quantity takeoff, unit price analysis, and drawings for AutoCAD.
Built for structural engineers and drafting teams that need precision, speed, and control in every project.
You can explore the workspace before creating an account.
Two ways to start
Start from ETABS or model directly.
Use the same StructaCAD workspace whether you are importing analysis output or building the structural layout from scratch.
Build quick layouts without opening BIM or CAD tools, then continue with AutoCAD drawings, quantities, and pricing.
- Model directly inside StructaCAD
- Generate quantities, pricing, and Unit Price Analysis from the same model
- AutoCAD drawings outputs when the layout is ready
Process
One process, two starting points.
Choose ETABS import or direct modeling, then move through AutoCAD drawings, quantities, and unit price analysis in the same workspace.
Import from ETABS
Bring in the .e2k export when analysis work already lives in ETABS.
Model directly
Create grids, frames, slabs, walls, and foundations directly in StructaCAD.
Generate quantities
Produce structural quantities from the same model data or direct layout.
Build Unit Price Analysis
Turn quantities into itemized pricing with materials, labor, equipment, overhead, and profit.
Download AutoCAD drawings
Deliver drawing files that can continue straight into AutoCAD-based review and issue.
StructaCAD vs DCCAD3
A more modern way to go from ETABS to drawings.
DCCAD3 focuses on reinforced-concrete drawings from analysis geometry and demands. StructaCAD keeps that drafting goal, but adds a 100% online workflow, clearer menus, direct modeling, quantities, unit price analysis, and AutoCAD drawings in one workspace.
DCCAD3
DCCAD3 is presented as a tool that uses forces and geometry from structural analysis programs to generate reinforced-concrete construction plans for beams, columns, and walls, with 2D/3D work, bending schedules, and cloud plan access through Nimbus.
- Focused mainly on drawing generation and reinforcement documentation.
- Requires the user to follow a more specialized engineering-software workflow.
- Cloud features are presented around consulting plans, not as the whole model-to-AutoCAD-drawing experience.
StructaCAD
StructaCAD is 100% online and guides the user through a clearer process: import ETABS or model directly, review and assign reinforcement, generate quantities and APU, then prepare drawings for AutoCAD.
- A more modern interface with menus that are easier to understand.
- A more intuitive flow that requires less input from the user at each step.
- One workspace for ETABS import, direct layouts, reinforcement, quantities, pricing, and AutoCAD drawings.
- Better for teams that want less manual setup before getting useful outputs.
Pricing
Need detailed unit price analysis?
StructaCAD can turn structural quantities into itemized unit price analysis for concrete, rebar, formwork, slabs, walls, beams, columns, and foundations.
Built from your quantities
Keep the pricing breakdown tied to the same project data your team already trusts.
Typical scope
Concrete, rebar, formwork, slabs, walls, beams, columns, and foundations.
Concrete
Rebar
Formwork
Slabs
Walls
Beams
Columns
Foundations
Current path
APU from quantities
Keep the pricing breakdown tied to the project-wide quantities.
Open the APU moduleNew option
Unit price analysis by individual element
Open a tool that lets you pick one element, adjust its modeled steel, and review the full table without leaving the model.
- Select the element directly from the model
- Review the section and 3D view while you adjust steel
- Export the table or inspect it on screen
Generated output
Structural details generated by StructaCAD
From ETABS, Midas Gen or direct modeling, StructaCAD helps generate slab plan drawings, frame elevation details, column location plans, column elevation details, masonry wall details, and material quantity summaries that can continue into AutoCAD review.
Drawings & reports
Structural drawings and quantity summaries for AutoCAD.
Starting from your structural model, generate slab plans, frame details in both directions, masonry sections, column location plans, column elevations, and material summaries.
- Structural drawings for AutoCAD and DWG
- Reinforced concrete frame and column details
- Steel, concrete, slab, beam and column quantities
Slab plan drawing
Generate plan-view slab drawings with axes, columns, beams, slab labels, dimensions and reinforcement directions for review in AutoCAD.
Masonry wall details
Document masonry walls with longitudinal sections, tie beams, columns, wall tags, thickness notes and reinforcement callouts.
Frame details
Create reinforced concrete frame elevation sheets with beam reinforcement, stirrup spacing, levels, axes and section details.
Column location plan
Show column positions, grid lines, dimensions and identifiers in plan view before moving into individual column details.
Column elevation details
Produce column elevation details with story levels, heights, section dimensions, longitudinal steel and stirrup information.
Material and quantity summary
Review steel lengths, rebar weights and structural material properties by element so the same model can support drawings, quantities and estimating.
Who it is for
Built first for structural engineers and drafting teams.
We prioritize the people who turn structural models and layouts into documentation, not a generic CAD audience.
Move faster from analysis output to documentation without rebuilding the same geometry by hand.
Reduce repetitive plan production and keep revisions aligned across sheets and deliverables.
Standardize output, handoffs, and quantity review across multiple projects and reviewers.
Get quicker preliminary quantities and pricing from a model-driven source instead of separate spreadsheets.
Pain points
Still rebuilding structural layouts by hand in CAD?
When analysis, quantities, pricing, and drawing production live in separate places, every revision costs more than it should.
StructaCAD connects model data and direct layouts to documentation.
What slows teams down
- Manual redrawing wastes hours
- Quantity takeoff is repetitive
- Pricing lives in separate spreadsheets
- Drawing revisions create rework
- Drafting standards are hard to keep consistent
Search intent routes
StructaCAD now covers the real ways teams search for structural drawing automation.
The Spanish content covers ETABS and MIDAS Gen workflows for structural drawings, rebar detailing, beam reinforcement, frame elevations, slab plans and AutoCAD deliverables.
Main Spanish route for automatic structural drawings from ETABS, Midas Gen or direct modeling.
Use MIDAS Gen model data to prepare structural plans, frames, details and quantities for an AutoCAD and DWG workflow.
Specific long-tail intent for rebar detailing and AutoCAD DXF.
Category page for structural detailing software searches.
FAQ
Common questions before a team starts.
Who is it useful for?
It is useful for structural engineers and drafting teams that need to move from ETABS .e2k exports or direct structural layouts to AutoCAD drawings, quantity takeoff, and unit price analysis.
Does StructaCAD replace ETABS?
No. ETABS still handles structural analysis. StructaCAD can start from an ETABS .e2k export or a direct structural layout and turn that data into AutoCAD drawings, quantities, and pricing support.
Does StructaCAD replace Revit?
No. StructaCAD focuses on structural documentation and AutoCAD drawings, not general BIM authoring.
Can I model directly in StructaCAD?
Yes. You can create structural layouts directly in StructaCAD and move from the model into AutoCAD drawings, quantities, and pricing from the same workspace.
Can I export to AutoCAD?
Yes. StructaCAD produces drawings compatible with AutoCAD, ready to review and prepare for DWG delivery.
Can I customize templates?
You can choose sheets and set export defaults for recurring deliverables, but full template editing is not the main focus yet.
Is it for final drawings?
It can support production-ready deliverables, but your team should still review and approve the output before issue.
Final CTA
See the process in context.
If your team starts from ETABS or builds directly in StructaCAD, we can help you move from review to AutoCAD drawings, quantities, and pricing without rebuilding the same work in multiple tools.