We are proud to introduce the all-new GEN NX – a remarkable achievement born from unwavering effort, creativity, and the steadfast commitment of our brilliant team at MIDAS IT.
This milestone represents more than just a product launch; it is the result of a shared aspiration to reshape the future of structural engineering software. Over countless hours of collaboration, our engineers, designers, and developers have dedicated their expertise and passion to creating a truly transformative experience for our users. From concept to completion, every idea, interface, and features has been refined with precision to ensure that GEN NX embodies the spirit of engineering innovation at its finest.
Throughout the process, our team has faced challenges head-on, continuously expanding the limits of what’s achievable in structural design technology. The outcome is not merely an enhancement of what came before, but a bold statement of how technology can empower engineers to think, design, and build beyond boundaries.
We invite you to join us in celebrating GEN NX – a symbol of ingenuity, persistence, and excellence from the team that made it possible.
Your trust and partnership inspire us to keep advancing, and together, we look forward to shaping the next era of structural engineering.
Designed for You: Unpacking UI/UX Enhancements
High-Resolution Interface: Crystal-Clear Icons for Every Display
In response to user feedback regarding the challenges faced on high-resolution monitors, we're thrilled to introduce a game-changing upgrade—our new high-resolution interface. No more squinting at small icons! Each icon has now transitioned to a vector-based format, ensuring a crisp and clear display on any high-resolution monitor. Say goodbye to pixelation and hello to an interface that scales seamlessly to meet the demands of modern displays.
Streamlined Interaction: Introducing 360 View Cube, Custom Toolbar, and Quick Toolbar Features
In GEN NX, we've enriched your user experience with three powerful features: the 360 View Cube, Quick Toolbar, and Custom Toolbar. The 360 View Cube provides users with the freedom to effortlessly move and rotate the model in various directions, enhancing spatial awareness and navigation. The Quick Toolbar is your shortcut to efficiency, offering a swift menu for frequently used functions, ensuring that essential tools are always within reach.
Furthermore, the Custom Toolbar empowers users to tailor their workspace by placing regularly used functions or features directly under the toolbar. This intuitive customization not only accelerates workflow but also minimizes the search for commonly used functions, allowing users to focus on what matters most—design and innovation. With these enhancements, GEN NX transforms the user interface into a dynamic and personalized workspace, making every interaction seamless and efficient.
Enhanced Graphics: Transparency and Tendon Detailing
We have enhanced graphic clarity by introducing the transparency feature.
Now, users can quickly and easily adjust model transparency without the need to manipulate complex display settings.
This upgrade allows to review the overall geometry of the model through adjustable transparency visualization, while also enabling to efficiently prepare the necessary materials for reports.
Font and Label Scale Slider: Customizable Text and Label Size for Improved Readability
Understanding the importance of readability, especially in large-scale models, we've introduced the Font and Label Scale Slider. No more straining to decipher node/element numbers, loads, or analysis results. Users can now tailor the size of text elements to their preference, ensuring that critical numerical information is displayed clearly and legibly, even in expansive models.
Redesigned Analysis Monitor: Transparency in the Analytical Process
The newly designed Analysis Progress Bar provides an intuitive visualization of the entire analysis process, allowing users to grasp the overall flow at a glance.
This window displays the type of analysis, current progress, and remaining steps in real time, enabling users to clearly monitor the process even in complex analyses.
Through this feature, engineers can quickly identify and address any interruptions or delays during analysis, while also managing computational resources more efficiently for parallel or large-scale model analyses.
This upgrade goes beyond a simple progress indicator — it enhances users’ understanding of the analytical process, offering a more transparent and flexible environment tailored to each project’s needs.
Visual Precision Unveiled: Zoom-In on Design Details with High-Resolution Dialog Box Images
In GEN NX, we've elevated the clarity of images and formulas by introducing a powerful upgrade. Now, users can view images within dialog boxes with higher clarity and detail. By simply clicking on an image, users can seamlessly zoom in to reveal a larger, more detailed view.
Designing the Future: Introducing Exciting New Feature
In-App Search Feature: Navigating Knowledge at Your Fingertips
Embark on a seamless journey of discovery within GEN NX with our newly introduced In-App Search feature. This powerful tool transforms the way engineers access vital information, including product features, tutorials, manuals, and FAQs— all available without leaving the application. Effortless navigation through this comprehensive knowledge hub not only streamlines workflows but also saves valuable time. Now, engineers can swiftly locate essential support, ensuring they have the right information at their fingertips whenever they need it.
Tree Menu Search Feature: Searching Made Simple
In our previous software midas Gen, we understood the challenges of handling large models with diverse components. Navigating through numerous elements in the tree menu, such as tendons, could be time-consuming. That's why we're excited to introduce the Tree Menu Search feature. Tailored for large models, this enhancement enables users to effortlessly locate specific components, such as tendons, without the need for tedious scrolling. Now, finding the desired element in the tree menu is a quick and seamless process, empowering users with efficient navigation and enhancing the overall user experience.
Structural Group Coloring: Elevate Your Model Visualization
In GEN NX, we are happy to introduce a very visual upgrade —Structural Group Coloring. This enhancement empowers users to assign custom colors to elements and organize them into groups, providing an intuitive and visually impactful way to manage models. Users can now apply colors based on construction stages or structural types, allowing for quick and effortless visualization. This addition not only enhances the aesthetic appeal of the model but also streamlines the confirmation process, offering a dynamic and user-friendly approach to understanding complex structural designs. With Structural Group Coloring, navigating and comprehending models becomes a vivid and seamless experience, marking a significant stride in the software.
Capture the Moment: Visual Precision at Your Fingertips
In GEN NX's latest upgrade, we unveil the Capture feature—an invaluable addition to your toolkit. Now, users can effortlessly take screenshots of their models, customizing the image size through the Capture Options feature. Choose from a range of file extensions, including jpg, bmp, dxf, and dwg, for maximum flexibility. What sets this feature apart is its ability to not only capture the model but also post-processing images like deformations and beam diagrams. Elevate your design reports and client presentations with the convenience of Capture, making visual communication a seamless and impactful experience.
Tracing Model: A Modeling Environment That Starts Directly on Drawings
In the newly enhanced GEN NX, users can now begin modeling directly using the geometry of base drawings.
By utilizing the Tracing technique, the software recognizes data from drawings, and with the Snap function, users can generate nodes and elements directly on lines, vertices, and intersections.
This intuitive and convenient feature allows users to model quickly and accurately without manually calculating structural coordinates — simply by working from the original drawing itself.
Furthermore, by layering different drawing data for each floor, users can easily create vertical structural members across floor heights with just a few clicks, offering an innovative and efficient modeling experience.
Enhancements in GSD: Expansion of design capabilities to Tendon and Retrofitting
midas GSD now supports the verification of prestressed concrete sections through P-M interaction curves, Moment-Curvature curves, and Ultimate Limit State (ULS) verification, ensuring comprehensive design validation. midasGSD now allows the definition of multiple materials to support the rehabilitation of cross-sections, providing enhanced flexibility and functionality for structural design and analysis.
Your Design, Your Rules: API and Plugins Paving the Way for Customization
Design Automation: Elevating Efficiency with Seamless Integration
In GEN NX, our commitment to efficiency takes center stage with the introduction of Design Automation. We understand the pivotal role Excel plays for structural engineers, and through the power of API, we've seamlessly integrated GEN NX with Excel. This integration not only ensures a familiar environment for engineers but also facilitates the effortless exchange of pre/post-processing data, enabling robust design automation. Now, engineers can harness the combined strengths of GEN NX and Excel, streamlining workflows, enhancing productivity, and ushering in a new era of seamless structural design.
Excel Add-In: Revolutionizing Design Automation and Workflow Customization
In a transformative leap, GEN NX introduces the Excel Add-In—a user-friendly solution revolutionizing design automation. Without coding, users effortlessly create Excel templates, seamlessly integrating them with our software with a single click. This not only simplifies the connection between GEN NX and Excel but also empowers users to build their design automation systems tailored to their specific needs. The Excel Add-In goes beyond simplicity, offering stacks and flows for streamlined task automation and a JSON format API command for advanced customization. It's a dynamic toolset that puts users in control, allowing them to optimize workflows and create a design environment that adapts to their unique requirements.
Plug-Ins: Tailoring Efficiency and Unlocking Potential
Experience a paradigm shift in customization and efficiency with the introduction of Plug-Ins in GEN NX. Beyond the curated MIDAS-provided plugins, this feature opens the door to a collaborative ecosystem, where users can access plugins developed by their peers or third-party users. This breakthrough not only revolutionizes work efficiency but also unlocks the potential for dynamic enhancements to the product. The versatility of these plugins is unparalleled—they enable the execution of frequently needed functions, handle complex design calculations, and even facilitate in-house tool developments. Customization is key, as users can adapt these plugins to meet the specific needs of their projects.
Essential Plugins, including Result Image Capture, Automatic Floor Loads Assignment, Easy Load Combination and Response Spectrum Generator are readily available for immediate use. Opening a plugin in the product is all it takes to access these powerful tools. Delve into the Plugin Marketplace, where users can explore a wide range of plugins tailored to their specific needs. The freedom doesn't end there—introducing the Private Plugin Feature, allows users to customize and create plugins specific to their projects. GEN NX empowers users to work efficiently and effortlessly, offering a diverse array of plugins that seamlessly align with their unique workflows.
MIDAS GH: The Perfect Bridge Between Parametric Design and Structural Analysis
MIDAS GH, the official Grasshopper Plugin from MIDAS, delivers a seamless integration between parametric modeling and high-performance structural analysis.
This innovative link redefines collaboration between architects and structural engineers, enabling real-time interaction between geometry and analysis.
With MIDAS GH, the boundaries between design creativity and analytical precision disappear — allowing ideas to come to life faster, smarter, and with greater flexibility than ever before.
A New Era of Intelligent Workflow
MIDAS GH ushers in a new era of data-driven design.
Within Grasshopper’s intuitive visual scripting environment, users can flexibly control every element of their model/geometry, loads, boundary conditions, and material properties.
Even complex design changes can be synchronized with MIDAS in an instant, dramatically reducing repetitive tasks and human error.
Through this dynamic workflow, users can effortlessly perform:
Optimization of structural systems
Customized workflows tailored to unique project demands
Parametric input control, enabling intuitive manipulation of design parameters within a single environment
This creates a continuous feedback loop between geometry and analysis, delivering a truly intelligent design process.
Experience the Power of Integration
From complex façades and free-form architectural structures to expansive roof systems
MIDAS GH brings structural intelligence directly into the Grasshopper design environment.
With the plugin, users can experience:
Real-time model generation and updates in MIDAS GEN NX
Automated analysis and result extraction from parametric geometry
Customized workflows adapted to project-specific requirements
Seamless collaboration between architects and engineers
MIDAS GH is more than just a tool
it is a platform for innovation, empowering engineers and designers to work smarter, faster, and more creatively than ever before.