Hi all,
Anyone had experience with Midas Civil?
I’m applying for internship at a project office, and they mentioned buying Midas Civil in near future during the interview.
Too bad my Sofistik skills from Master studies are not going to be put on test. 
Does anyone knows some pros or cons for this Midas Civil?
Pro: Midas Civil is easy to get started. You can use it to handle most bridge structures.
Con: but it lacks the direct parametric modeling feature.
In my personal opinion MIDAS Civil is not bad for small/medium bridges without no so complicated geometry & construction stages. For greater bridges this program is like a trap - MIDAS has a problem with graphic (you cannot see the results as graphic & you wait long time for results in tables), the results in MIDAS are more beautiful like in Sofistik - but this is rather not important. It is caused by the MIDAS solver for loadcombinations results - MIDAS do it every time in meanwhile from new (there is no database with results).
Second thing which is make the calc in MIDAS not efficient is dimensioning of concrete/steel composite cross sections at ULS & SLS - the results at SLS are not correct in my opinion and it is difficult to make it “globally” like in Sofistik.
Third thing - you want to model your slab in MIDAS as quad element with stiffness only in one direction - better forget about it.
One thing is better make in MIDAS - torsional stiffness for Composite Cross Sections is calculated correctly in compare to Sofistik. The other is working with volume elements - modelling is more simple like in Sofistik.
Maybe Sofistik is not perfect but better than MIDAS.
Here is an interesting example showing comparison between Sofistik and Midas