ETABS to Excel and back. In 47 seconds. Without errors.
The most painful manual workflow in Indian structural design: copy ETABS analysis results into Excel deflection sheets, revise the sections, push the changes back. Engineers do this for hours, every project. CivilAI automates the whole round-trip — drifts, DCRs, mass schedules, load combos, member forces — out and back.
Built for Indian civil engineering firms.
Each item below is shipped to at least one paying customer today.
Versions v19 to v22
Native support for ETABS v19, v20, v21 and v22 via .EDB and .E2K file integration.
Bidirectional round-trip
Export results to Excel. Engineer tweaks sections in Excel. CivilAI pushes the revised model back into ETABS.
Your firm's templates
Trained on your deflection check sheets, load combo matrices, mass schedule formats. We adapt — you do not.
Auto DCR flagging
Columns over demand-capacity ratio limit auto-flagged before re-import. Engineer reviews flagged-only.
IS-code aware
Story drift limits per IS 1893. Deflection limits per IS 456 cl 23.2. All checks built in.
Audit log
Every input, output, revision, and engineer approval logged. Liability-ready paper trail.
Real automations our customers run daily.
Story drift extraction
Pull drifts across all load combinations from ETABS. Auto-compare against IS 1893 limits. Flag exceedances by story and direction.
DCR export and revise
Pull design ratios from ETABS for all columns and beams. Engineer tweaks sections in Excel for over-utilised members. Push revised assignments back.
Mass schedule export
Auto-extract floor masses, member self-weight, superimposed loads to your firm's mass schedule template. IS 875 load category checks inline.
Foundation reaction handoff
Pull column base reactions and footing forces from ETABS. Drop directly into foundation design template (CivilAI can also do STAAD if your foundations are designed there).
ETABS automation is the most common Starter tier workflow (₹50,000, one-time, 2-week deploy). Many firms add Pipeline tier (₹2,00,000) which couples ETABS round-trip with AutoCAD drawing sync and a design report writer.
What is ETABS automation?
ETABS automation is software that performs the manual data-entry work between ETABS and other tools — exporting story drifts, mass schedules, DCRs and load combinations to Excel; reading revised section sizes back from Excel into the ETABS model. CivilAI does this round-trip in 47 seconds versus ~3 hours of manual copy-paste.
Which ETABS versions are supported?
ETABS v19, v20, v21 and v22. We read .EDB and .E2K files directly. Older versions can be supported on request — most engineers are on v20+ today.
Does ETABS automation replace structural analysis?
No. ETABS still runs the analysis. CivilAI handles the data-entry around the analysis — exporting outputs to your Excel templates, importing revised sections back, generating reports. The structural engineer remains in the loop.
Can it work with my firm's deflection-check Excel template?
Yes. CivilAI is trained on your firm's templates during onboarding. We do not impose our format. Your existing Excel sheets — deflection check, load combo matrix, mass schedule — keep working as-is, only filled in automatically.
How long does ETABS automation take to deploy?
Starter tier (one workflow, e.g. ETABS-to-Excel deflection round-trip) deploys in 2 weeks. Pipeline (ETABS round-trip plus report writer plus AutoCAD sync) in 4 weeks. Both include onboarding sessions with your team.
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