SDS2 2025

PERFORMANCE
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SDS2 2025 is all about performance—both upfront and behind the scenes. With platform-wide enhancements that increase stability and efficiency, you’ll be able to tackle projects with greater speed and accuracy than ever before.

Enhanced navigation and improved modeling capabilities will save you time and simplify your everyday tasks while key connections and enhancements give you better flexibility and power to take on complex design challenges. Upgrade today and start powering up your performance. 

WHAT'S NEW IN SDS2 2025

Simplify your home screen workflows

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SDS2 2025 offers a refined home screen interface with easier access and control of common customization tools, settings, and other key home screen utilities that impact your everyday performance.

  • Filtering, bulk update options, and fewer limitations make it easier to find, update, and save various project settings, as well as copy them from project to project
  • A streamlined interface eliminates pop-up windows and provides easier access to the tools and options you need

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enhanced steel to concrete connections

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Make the connection between steel framing and concrete faster and easier than ever. SDS2 2025 significantly reduces the processing time for steel connections to concrete, saving you valuable detailing time. Plus, you’ll get additional detailing options to meet industry demands with greater design flexibility and control. 

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Additional Improvements

The updated forced connection feature allows you to retain connection geometry and materials in the model for beam, column, and joist connections, even when they don't pass code checks. This enables you to model custom connections and meet practical project requirements without losing valuable connection data.

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Demonstrate your expertise and empower your teams with informed decision-making by generating comprehensive design reports. Enhancements to the connection cube feature in SDS2 2025 make it easier to present valuable insights and visualizations of your project’s connection details, with new features like automatic hyperlinks and table of contents, a critical connection table, a design calculations glossary, multi-cube reporting, and more. 

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You can now save material operations for Cut on Plane, Fit Mitre, and Chamfer commands, allowing you to take on more complex design challenges with less stress and more efficiency. These modeling enhancements give you better control of individual operations and enable you to make modifications as needed without having to rework previous efforts.

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SDS2’s integration with Bimplus enhances collaboration by enabling direct model uploads and downloads, streamlining your workflows for clash detection, issue management, and more.

  • Direct Integration: Upload models from SDS2 to Bimplus for analysis, clash detection, and issue management, and download them back to SDS2. 
  • Enhanced Workflows: Utilize SDS2 API and Bimplus SDK to create projects and attachments, pulling relevant data to update fabrication models efficiently. 

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Meet project specifications for handrail grab bars, ends, and continuous connections at landings with a new modeling tool that minimizes the need for time-consuming manual modeling.

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Drawing improvements in SDS2 2025 will ensure weld symbols are correctly placed and detailed, enabling proper transfer of weld information from models to drawings, reducing clean-up time, and enhancing fabricator workflows. 

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SDS2 2025 introduces a more robust integration with structural analysis software supporting the Structural Analysis Format (SAF). This update includes both SAF export and import functionality, utilizing the SDS2 .NET API and SAF NuGet packages. The new SAF tool is available through the SDS2 Toolbox, enabling seamless data exchange with other software like ALLPLAN, RISA, Graphisoft, SCIA, and Frilo. This enhancement expands compatibility and opens up new opportunities for collaboration. 

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New tools and partner plugins for the SDS2 Toolbox have been developed for SDS2 2025. Check out the latest items here and subscribe to the SDS2 Toolbox list to get notifications whenever new tools and updates are available. 

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You can learn more about the SDS2 editions here.

 

"SDS2 2025 is a game-changer...The improved moment connections ensure that our fabrications are accurate and meet the highest standards of quality. The comprehensive reports provide clear and actionable information, making it easier to coordinate with detailers and engineers. SDS2 2025 will significantly streamline our workflow, reducing errors and increasing efficiency. I highly recommend it to any fabricator looking to enhance their operations and deliver top-notch results."

Scott Smyth
TSF Structures Inc.

 

"SDS2 2025 has made the user interface much easier to navigate and understand. We have detailers with other software and always come back to SDS2 because of its user-friendly navigation in 3D and the freedom in the drawing editor. SDS2 makes it easy to train and get production out of new employees."

Christopher Schlosser
Delta Zero Steel LLC

 

"I have been working in SDS2 for 19 years and I have gone through different stages of working in it. During this time...I have seen the ability of the [SDS2] team to adapt to new requirements in the construction field."

ADRIAN COJOCARU
Canam Group, Inc.