Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) used Altair SimSolid to accelerate structural analysis for a high-rise tower in Mexico City featuring architecturally exposed braced steel frames. Traditional finite element workflows required extensive geometry simplification and meshing, creating schedule risk during repeated design changes. SimSolid enabled direct CAD analysis without meshing, producing results five times faster while maintaining correlation with conventional FEA. What previously took weeks was completed in days, allowing SOM to meet strict deadlines while ensuring seismic performance and structural safety. The approach improved workflow efficiency, supported validation requirements, and enabled engineers to deliver innovative designs under tight time constraints.

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