Structural engineering anchor design software with codes and approvals, Component Based Finite Element Method calculations and a variety of fastening methods
- Codes and approvals: Supports many country-specific design methods, and can generate detailed design reports to easily verify compliance.
- Training and support: No matter if you are a newcomer or an expert, we offer technical training and demonstrations (face-to-face and online) to guarantee you can exploit the full potential of the software.
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Features
- Complete solution for designing structural connections
- Stay up-to-date with the latest international codes and approvals automatically
- Free version available for everyday structural connections
- Import from structural analysis software and export to BIM and CAD
- Improve productivity with advanced anchor and baseplate design features
Applications
- Easily design, calculate and analyse multiple connection types, including anchoring to concrete, masonry, post-installed reinforcing bar, concrete overlay and handrail designs
- Save hours of research time as the software automatically updates to the latest versions of international codes and approvals, including: ACI, CSA, Eurocode, Australian Standards and many others
- PROFIS Engineering Standard gives you free access to all the application modules and allows you to generate detailed, step-by-step calculation and design reports (including baseplate rigidity cheque) for post-installed or cast-in-place anchors
- With PROFIS Engineering Premium, import loads from Excel or directly from other structural analysis software programmes (e.g. RISAConnection, RAM Structural System, STAAD.Pro, SAP2000, ETABS, Robot, Revit and Dlubal RFEM and RSTAB) and export your final designs in 2D and 3D to integrate them into your standard BIM and CAD programmes
- With PROFIS Engineering Premium, use CBFEM (Component-based Finite Element Method) to design your full baseplate connection, including calculations for anchors, stiffeners, welds, profiles and concrete
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PROFIS Engineering Suite
All-in-one software for structural connection and fastening design
PROFIS Engineering Suite makes designing and analyzing structural connections faster and easier than ever.
PROFIS is part of our SPEC2SITE solutions for structural connections. From structural connection engineering and design to installation on the jobsite, our SPEC2SITE solutions aim to make your projects faster, simpler, safer and more sustainable.
New to PROFIS? Try the premium version for free for 30 days. After the trial, you can access the free version. Or choose premium for the full range of advanced design features and third party integrations.
Introduce value engineering into your design
What is value engineering and why you should care?
If you can lower your material costs and workflow costs, the result is Value for Money and an improved Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). For structural connections, Hilti’s PROFIS Engineering software is the key tool we offer to make Value Engineering and better specifications easy.
If you want more information on Value Engineering with Hilti, please refer to the Hilti Academy Value Engineering Training for Baseplate, which provides additional guidance on how you can lower Total Cost of Ownership by partnering with Hilti and using our PROFIS Engineering Suite.
HOW CAN PROFIS ENGINEERING IMPROVE YOUR DESIGN PROCESSES?
All-in-one solution
Design and calculate fixings including steel to concrete, concrete to concrete, steel to masonry, handrail, post-installed and cast-in façade fastenings, anchor channels, and more, while seamlessly integrating your workflow with multiple structural and BIM/CAD software programs.
Peace of mind
Stay up to date with codes and approvals automatically. As a leading manufacturer of anchors, we leverage our expertise to help ensure your designs comply with the latest regulations.
Time and material savings
Extract the maximum capacity from your anchors with Smart Design. When anchoring to concrete, you get rapid analysis of key inputs to help make baseplate design faster, simpler, and more cost efficient.
Learning and support
Technical training including e-learnings, enabling you to create fast, compliant designs. Plus you get easy in-software access to Engineering Center, Hilti's hub for engineers. Ask questions, watch webinars, download technical documents, and more.
Our Spec2Site Solutions Help Make Your Specifications Better
Solutions for higher performing design specifications
We provide you with a portfolio of chemical and mechanical anchoring solutions that have been approved across a wide range of loading and jobsite conditions.
Value-engineered specs enabled by state-of-the-art software
Our user-friendly design software, PROFIS Engineering Suite, helps you adapt your baseplate parameters to create code-compliant designs with lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
More peace of mind for baseplate installations
Our SPEC2site solutions include design methods and software to help you design for safety. In addition, our installation systems help make jobsite practices faster, simpler, safer and more sustainable. These systems combine with our onsite support and knowledge sharing to help you get what you spec.
Projects with more sustainable baseplates
Optimize your baseplate designs to reduce anchor diameters, embedment depths and baseplate dimensions, which can lead to quantifiable reductions in CO2.
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Anchoring to Concrete
Design complex and day-to-day structural baseplate connections
Use preset templates to design concrete fixings including post-installed and cast-in-place anchors, baseplates, welds and stiffeners quickly and accurately. With just a click you can analyze baseplates using CBFEM and perform rigidity checks to determine whether to adapt the design or the loads. Optimize fixture points and perform stress and strain checks – PROFIS considers applied loads such as seismic and fatigue and can find economical solutions for avoiding breakout using supplementary reinforcement. Smart baseplate design further simplifies your design process.
Generate a customized report complete with code references, calculations, product information and images.
Smart design for anchoring to concrete
Swap trial and error for automated, optimized anchor calculations
- Streamline selection of optimal anchor design for steel-to-concrete connections: PROFIS Smart Design feature rapidly analyzes factors such as loads, profile geometry, base material strength and geometry, and last anchor type to help give you the best, most efficient solution by reducing baseplate area or embedment depth
- Advanced inputs option for your utilization goal (for example, >90%) or project conditions. See all compliant designs in descending baseplate size with one click and streamline final selection with sorting and post- filtering options.
Checkbot plug-in for improved workflows
Simplify processes, improve data mapping and boost collaboration
PROFIS Engineering is integrated with the IDEA Statica Checkbot structural design hub. This gives you simpler, faster and more transparent design and calculation workflows in three steps:
- Export thousands of connections at at time from your finite element analysis (FEA) or BIM software to Checkbot.
- Use Checkbot for functions such as status checks of imported connections, 3D visualization of imported members and loads, and management of load combinations.
- Export your data to PROFIS Engineering to design your steel-to-concrete connections.
Concrete to Concrete: PIR
Everything you need to design post-installed rebar applications
Add or extend concrete elements whether you're working with existing rebar or missing starter bars. Solve concrete structural joints and splices, and then verify the shear resistance at the interface between the old and new concrete.
Need to adapt the layout or geometry of your PIR design? PROFIS lets you easily customize the diameter, embedment depth and spacing parameters for existing concrete as well as post-installed.
Concrete to concrete: Overlay
Design for concrete overlay and post-installed shear dowels
With PROFIS you can dimension post-installed shear connectors and verify the interface between the concrete cast at different times. Establish whether your design has edges or is symmetric, and then define different areas of acting shear. You'll know your designs are sound thanks to intuitive 3D graphics that show how stresses vary throughout the connection.
Ready for installation? PROFIS has already saved you time by optimizing the layout.
Anchoring to masonry
Design masonry fixings more productively and accurately
PROFIS Engineering Suite can help you design accurate baseplate connections using masonry-approved anchors. Save time with intuitive built-in templates that combine your on-site data with factors such as allowable tension and shear loads while considering load reductions and geometry requirements.
Select from multiple sizes and types of brick or concrete masonry units, adjust their layout and define whether grout is present. You can even create your own templates to reduce design time on similar projects.
Handrail Fixings
Design complete connections for platforms, balconies and staircases
PROFIS doesn't consider just codes and regulations when designing handrail connections – it determines the loads acting on the handrail depending on how it's being used, wind conditions and more. It then performs a stability check.
Within minutes you'll create complete designs for welds based on thickness, weld type and material. And to reduce steel costs, PROFIS can suggest where to incorporate plastic into the design to allow for thinner rail and post profiles that still satisfy regulations.
Façade and anchor channel design
Simpler, faster design of certified products in line with the latest codes
Design cast-in and post-installed fastenings for façades with certified products according to the latest regulations (including ACI, Eurocode). Switch between the two fastening technologies simply in a few clicks. Find the controlling design more quickly with automatic calculation of tolerances, slotted holes and multiple load combinations.
Designing anchor channels for other applications such as elevators, data centers or tunnels? Achieve faster calculation of anchor channel systems for multiple design regulations including ICC-ES AC232, ACI318-11, ACI318-14, ACI318-19, CSA A23.3-14, CSA A23.3-19, EN1992-4, AS5216:2021, CEN TR17080.
Need help with a challenging design issue? Get experct advice from our engineers.
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Access on-demand PROFIS training materials, webinars and testimonials. Learn how to navigate modules, create and modify templates, optimize designs and much more.
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