Description

In this session, Radu Felecan from Costin și Vlad Birou de Proiectare presents a detailed, practice-based technical demonstration on parametric bridge automation, specifically focusing on integrating Grasshopper and MIDAS Civil NX via API. Transitioning from conceptual geometry to a fully functional structural analysis model is historically a disjointed process, and streamlining this gap requires a connected workflow that eliminates manual remodeling and removes traditional data silos.

Radu Felecan walks through an API-driven workflow for precast concrete bridges, demonstrating how complex parametric girder geometry built in Grasshopper can be transferred directly into the MIDAS Civil NX environment with its geometric complexity fully intact. The session covers real engineering automation challenges, highlighting the exact logic used to instantly generate hundreds to thousands of prestressing tendons in seconds and showing how the parametric model can communicate directly with the structural analysis model.

Attendees will gain direct insight into how experienced BIM managers and bridge engineers apply MIDAS APIs and parametric design tools to eliminate tedious data re-entry errors, save hours of manual drafting, and scale complex tendon layouts within a modern, highly automated bridge design framework.