What Is ASDIP Structural Engineering Software?
ASDIP is a suite of structural engineering software for analyzing, designing, optimizing, and checking structural members. It is aimed at structural and civil engineers, architects, bridge designers, contractors, engineering students, and steel fabricators who need to work through concrete, foundation, retaining wall, steel, wood, and general structural analysis tasks. The site offers a free 15-day software trial and a set of free standalone calculators, so you can evaluate the tools before committing.
What the software covers
ASDIP is organized into product families, each bundling several design modules:
| Product | Modules included |
|---|---|
| ASDIP CONCRETE | Continuous beams, biaxial columns, one-way slabs, shear walls, two-way slabs, out-of-plane loaded concrete or masonry bearing walls |
| ASDIP FOUNDATION | Concrete spread footings, combined irregular footings, strap footings, wall footings, pile caps, non-linear pile foundation analysis & design |
| ASDIP RETAIN | Concrete/block cantilever retaining walls, restrained basement walls, sheet piling, counterfort retaining walls, gravity retaining walls |
| ASDIP STEEL | Base plates, anchor rods, shear lugs, biaxial columns, steel/composite beams, web openings, shear & moment connections |
| ASDIP WOOD | Wood continuous beams, wood biaxial columns, wood bearing walls, wood multistory shear walls |
| ASDIP ANALYSIS | Structural member analysis (e.g., beams) and load generation such as seismic, snow, and wind loads |
These are also available together as ASDIP SUITE.
Who it is for
The site lists its audience as structural and civil engineers, architects, bridge designers, contractors, engineering students, and steel fabricators. If your work involves sizing or checking individual members — a footing, a retaining wall, a base plate, a beam — rather than full-building BIM coordination, the module structure maps directly onto those tasks.
Key capabilities
- Analyze, design, optimize, and check structural members in one workflow.
- "What-if" analysis to compare design alternatives and converge on a more efficient solution.
- Code support for the latest codes in the USA and Canada.
- Integration with other tools (the site states it "easily integrates with" external software, though the specific integrations are not detailed on this page).
- Documented results, positioned as user-friendly and reliable.
Free tools and trial
Before buying, you can use the free calculators on the site:
- Beam Calculator
- Concrete Footing Calculator
- Base Plate Calculator
- Retaining Wall Calculator
There is also a free 15-day software trial for the full products. Existing cloud account holders can log in at the customer portal. Pricing itself is not published on this page — the site has a "How to Buy" page and a maintenance plan, so check those for current licensing options and cost.
How to decide if it fits
ASDIP is a reasonable candidate if you:
- Design individual concrete, foundation, retaining, steel, or wood members rather than whole structures.
- Work under US or Canadian codes.
- Want to run quick alternative comparisons ("what-if") during design.
- Prefer trying the free calculators and 15-day trial before purchasing.
It may be less suited if you need full-building modeling, BIM authoring, or multi-discipline coordination — those are outside the module list shown here.