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AI-powered structural design tool. Just describe it.

Type the member, sketch it on the canvas, or photograph it — and get shear, moment, deflection, reinforcement and a report you can check line by line.

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  • Every result traced to a clause
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Sheet 01 — Beam B1Reading

Prompt:

M,max
V,max
Deflection
Bottom steel

The register

Trusted by civil engineering students and engineers around the world.

Movastruct is used in lecture halls and on live projects — from first-year mechanics coursework to beams that get built.

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Students and engineers registered
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Members analysed and designed

The workflow

From a sentence to a finished drawing.

  1. 01Prompt

    Design a 6 m simply supported beam carrying 25 kN/m.

    Describe your structure

    Type it the way you would say it to a colleague. No model tree, no load cases to wire up.

  2. 02Analysis

    Movastruct designs it

    It builds the model, runs the analysis and sizes the section against the code — showing its working.

  3. 03Output
    REPORT.PDF

    Review and download

    Check the diagrams and the calculations line by line, then take the report away as a PDF.

Ways in

However the structure is already in front of you.

A line in a brief, a sketch on a page, a photograph of someone else’s drawing. Movastruct takes it in any of those forms — you should not have to retype a structure you can already see.

  • 01Type it

    6 m simply supported beam, 25 kN/m, C25/30

    Say it in plain English

    Describe the span, the load and the material the way you would to a colleague. No model tree, no dialog boxes.

  • 02Sketch it
    6 m — 25 kN/m

    Draw it on the canvas

    Rough out the member, its supports and its loads on the drafting canvas. Movastruct reads the sketch and builds the model.

  • 03Photograph it

    Upload a picture of it

    Point a camera at a drawing, a whiteboard or a page of a brief. Upload the image and it becomes a structure you can solve.

Capabilities

Every member you were going to design by hand.

  • BBeam analysis & design

    Spans, loads and reinforcement — from a single simply supported beam to a continuous run.

  • SSlab design

    One-way and two-way slabs, with the reinforcement mesh sized and spaced for you.

  • CColumn design

    Axial load and moment, main bars and links, with slenderness checked.

  • FFoundation design

    Pad and strip footings sized against bearing capacity, punching shear and settlement.

  • P2D frame analysis

    Portal and multi-storey frames under gravity and lateral load, solved and diagrammed.

  • CALCULATIONS

    REngineering reports

    Every step of the working, with diagrams and code references, exported as a PDF.

Why engineers choose it

The calculation gets faster. The responsibility stays yours.

Movastruct is built to be checked. Nothing is hidden behind a black box, because you are the one who signs for it.

  • Describe it, don’t set it up

    Plain English

    No model tree, no load cases to wire, no boundary conditions to tick. Say what the member is and what it carries.

  • Answers while you’re still thinking

    Instant

    The analysis that used to take an afternoon comes back before you have moved on to the next member.

  • Worked against the code

    Code-compliant

    Results are checked to EN 1992-1-1, and the clause behind each one is there when you want to see it.

  • It shows its working

    Transparent

    Every step is laid out to be followed, questioned and verified — the way a lecturer or a checker would want it.

  • Something you can hand over

    Reports

    Diagrams, calculations and references, exported as a PDF that reads like it came out of a practice.

  • On whatever you have open

    Anywhere

    Runs in the browser, installs as a desktop app, and keeps up on a laptop at the back of a lecture hall.

What comes back

One sentence. Every output.

This is the same beam from the top of the page, carried all the way through. Step through what Movastruct hands back — the model it built, the diagrams it solved, the steel it sized, and the report you take away.

Sheet 01 — Beam B1
25 kN/m6000 mm

Simply supported, 6000 mm span, 25 kN/m

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