VersaFrame 4 offers cutting-edge computational power at a very affordable price. The new sparse matrix solver found in Version 4 can reduce solutions times by a factor of 100 or more, without renumbering nodes or any other manipulation of the model. Additional new features in Version 4 include enhanced modeling tools such as “Insert Nodes at Intersections”, drawing target cues, Object Snaps on members, enhanced model integrity checking.

VersaFrame is meant for the 'average engineer', the engineer who designs 70% of our infrastructure. The program has all the features needed to 'get the job done' without becoming overly complex - keeping you in total control.

VersaFrame can be run ‘graphically’ or numerically via spreadsheets, yet the user need not choose one method or the other. In other words, you can build your model using state of the art graphic editing commands AND/OR by entering data directly into the program via spreadsheets. The two methods of input are NOT mutually exclusive. For example, you can enter your nodal coordinates into a spreadsheet and then draw the beams using the mouse. You do not need to switch “modes”, click on any hidden windows/toolbars or run any special commands, simply enter/edit the data any way you like, at any time.

If you’re looking for a program to design the new World Trade Center, then VersaFrame is probably not for you. However, if you design low & medium rise buildings, industrial structures, tanks, towers, trusses, mat foundations, shear walls, beams or just about anything else, then VersaFrame is for you. Like all Digital Canal programs, VersaFrame was written for the 'average engineer' to operate proficiently in a very short time span. It does not require painstaking and time consuming manual manipulation of an input file or the use of a complex “structural programming language”. The technical capabilities of the program encompass the needs of vast majority of projects you will ever encounter.