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Catalogue blocks represent a powerful tool that allows the user to define the "whole" structure in a single step. The word "whole" has been put into the quotation marks as the structure created here may either (i) really form the whole structure that should be analysed, or (ii) be just a part of a larger, complex model.
The catalogue block is a smaller, or we can say standard or template, structure the geometry of which has been defined in advance by the developer of SCIA Engineer. The user has to specify only the dimensions and properties of his/her particular application. The whole geometry-definition process is confined to a simple filling in of a short table.
SCIA Engineer offers a wide range of catalogue blocks (standard template structures) such as 2D and 3D lattice girders, towers (masts), 2D and 3D frames and much more. The procedure for their definition has been unified and, therefore, once the user becomes accustomed to the definition of one of the catalogue block types, he/she is capable of inserting all other types.