Generate a project-specific ETABS modelling and safety-verification checklist. Enter your building’s storeys, grid, structural system, materials, loads and seismic/wind criteria, and the tool builds a 12-phase checklist in the order ETABS itself needs — from units and grid setup through to design output and documentation — with calculated acceptance targets (period, drift limit, base shear, modal mass participation and more) worked out for your specific building, not quoted generically.
Items flagged hold are the ones where a mistake won’t show up as an obvious warning later — stop and verify each before moving on. Items flagged conditional appear only because of something you entered (a flat-slab system, a high seismic zone, a basement, pile foundations, and so on), so the checklist stays specific to your building instead of generic.
What the checklist covers
- Environment and units
- Grid and storey definition
- Material definitions
- Sections and stiffness modifiers
- Geometry and assignments
- Supports and diaphragms
- Load patterns and load application
- Mass source and load combinations
- Analysis settings
- Post-analysis sanity checks
- Structural safety verification — drift, torsional and soft-storey irregularity, P-Delta, overturning, punching shear and more
- Design run and documentation
Supports IS 456 / IS 1893 / IS 875, ACI 318 / ASCE 7, Eurocode 2 / Eurocode 8, and BNBC. Track progress with checkboxes (saved in your browser), filter to hold points or outstanding items only, and print or save the finished checklist as a PDF.
Notes and limitations
The calculated targets (empirical period, drift limit, seismic coefficient, indicative base shear) are empirical, code-based sanity bounds meant to check your ETABS output against — they are not a substitute for the design calculation itself, and the indicative seismic weight is an order-of-magnitude estimate only. Final acceptance of the model and the design rests with the responsible engineer.