Ram Caddsys to distribute AFES – Automatic Foundation Design System
1st June 2006, Chennai, India: Ram Caddsys Pvt Ltd has partnered with GS Engineering & Construction Corp., Korea  to sell and support their Best-In-Class software system AFES – Automatic Foundation design System.  The goal of GS E&C is to be the global leader in foundation and engineering solutions.

Ram Caddsys is pleased to introduce AFES (Automatic Foundation Engineering System) –One stop solution for foundation design.  AFES is one stop solution for all your foundation engineering and design needs. Due to AFES’s capability to make reports, drawings, BOM and 3D CAD data, it is very powerful solution for design of equipment and steel structure foundations.

AFES can be extensively used in the following areas

• Energy Plants
• Petrochemical Plants
• Refinery and Gas Plants
• Water Supply, Treatment and Recycling Plants
• Commercial & Residential Buildings for Spread, Combined, Raft & Pile foundation.

Various foundation modules available

Regular shaped foundations like Heater, strip, column, Tank, Ball tank, Exchanger, MAT and irregular MAT foundations.

Major functionalities includes

• Creates footing geometry, load case and combination data through manual input or import from structural analysis programs.
• Supports soil and pile foundation with any unsymmetrical pile pattern.
• Conventional and finite element foundations
• International concrete design codes such as ACI 318, BS8110, KCI, and GB 50007 ( Indian code is under implementation and will be provided free of charge once it is ready )
• Automatic load calculation of wind and seismic factors for heat exchanger, column and tank. 
• Generates foundation construction drawings in DXF and DWG formats including bar schedule, Interfaces with Auto CAD, Microstation and smart sketch.
• Generates foundation modeling data in PDS and PDMS with ASCII and Macro files

Key Features:

• Powerful foundation analysis and design
• User friendly interactive 3D graphical design functions
• Significant decrease in design leads time
• Increase design productivity and accuracy

For more information about AFES software, please visit www.gsafes.com for demo and product details please write to
 
Ram Caddsys Pvt Ltd.
A-13, Trinity Complex
110, 4th Avenue, Ashok Nagar
Chennai - 600 083, India.
 
Ph: 0091 44 24898532
Fax: 0091 44 24896097
Email: ramcadd@vsnl.com
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Website: www.ramcadds.com