Hi ASEC,
I think ETABS is a wonderful program, I have never used Midas Gen, I have only read the specs.
In my experience, I have analized building until 35 floor, when for the slab I use Shell elements the computation time is a lot, and you have to correct the mesh of finite elements, takes a lot of time to do that. Sometimes it took me around 3hours the analysis.
I don't know how Midas Gen does that, but I believe it more efficient than ETABS.
I can't imagine to analyze a 200 floors or 1000m of tall in ETABS, it could take over a day.
This is a disadvantage of ETABS in my opinion.
The other you mention, you're right CSI SAFE is not powerful than Midas GTS.
I think ETABS is a wonderful program, I have never used Midas Gen, I have only read the specs.
In my experience, I have analized building until 35 floor, when for the slab I use Shell elements the computation time is a lot, and you have to correct the mesh of finite elements, takes a lot of time to do that. Sometimes it took me around 3hours the analysis.
I don't know how Midas Gen does that, but I believe it more efficient than ETABS.
I can't imagine to analyze a 200 floors or 1000m of tall in ETABS, it could take over a day.
This is a disadvantage of ETABS in my opinion.
The other you mention, you're right CSI SAFE is not powerful than Midas GTS.