Integraph

Getting started with Integraph

Create an account, set up your first project, and add a design tool -- the steps every Integraph workflow begins with.

What you will learn

This guide covers the platform-level steps that every tool-specific workflow assumes. By the end you will have:

  1. An Integraph account
  2. A project that holds your design work
  3. A tool instance ready for design input

Once you have completed these steps, follow the getting-started guide for whichever tool you need (for example, Getting started with ACS; an LGS guide is coming soon).

Step 1: Create an account

Visit integraph.com.au and sign up. Every password and secret field on the sign-up, login, and password-reset pages includes a show/hide toggle (eye icon) so you can verify what you typed before submitting. After you submit the sign-up form, Coriolis sends a confirmation code to the address you entered.

Check your junk or spam folder if the email does not arrive within a minute or two — look for an email from Coriolis. Microsoft 365 and Outlook accounts in particular may route the first message from a new sender there.

The confirmation page is at an addressable URL (/signup/confirm?email=…) and can be bookmarked or reloaded without losing your place. If the code expires or never arrived, use the Resend code button on that page; a client-side cooldown prevents accidental repeated sends. Once the code is accepted, your account is confirmed and you are signed in automatically.

If you close the browser before confirming and then try to sign in, Coriolis detects the unconfirmed state and returns you to the confirmation step automatically — you will not be able to log in until the code is verified.

When you create an account you also accept the current terms of service. Integraph version-stamps each acceptance — if updated terms are published, you will be prompted to review and accept them the next time you sign in. Your previous acceptance is preserved; you are asked once per version change, not on every sign-in.

Your account automatically belongs to a personal organisation. Personal organisations hold your individual work; team organisations (created later) let you share projects and pool billing across multiple people.

Step 2: Create a project

A project is the container for everything you do for one real-world engineering job. From the Projects Dashboard:

  1. Click New project
  2. Enter a descriptive name (e.g., “Office Tower — Level 2 Beams”)
  3. Optionally add a description and select a design jurisdiction (Australian, European, or US standards)
  4. Click Create

The jurisdiction sets the default design code for any tools you add to this project. You can override it per tool instance later.

Step 3: Add a tool to your project

Open the project you just created. The tool grid shows every tool available for your subscription.

  1. Click Add tool
  2. Select the tool that matches your task — for example, Advanced Concrete Section for a reinforced concrete element, or Light Gauge Steel for a cold-formed steel member
  3. Give the tool instance a name that identifies what it represents (e.g., “Beam B1 — Level 2”, “Purlin P3”)
  4. Click Create

The tool instance appears in your project’s grid. Click it to open the tool’s editor.

Step 4: Follow the tool-specific guide

Each tool has its own getting-started guide that picks up from here. Refer to:

  • Getting started with ACS — for reinforced or prestressed concrete sections
  • Getting started with LGS (coming soon) — for light gauge / cold-formed steel members

Concepts to keep in mind

As you work, two cross-tool concepts shape how Integraph behaves:

  • Inputs are persisted; outputs are recomputed. Anything you enter (geometry, materials, loads) is auto-saved to the backend. Results (capacities, stress distributions, utilisation ratios) are recomputed deterministically from those inputs every time you open the page — never stored.
  • Design options let you compare alternatives. Within a single tool instance, you can branch off a new design option from an existing one and tweak it independently. Use this to evaluate “what if I increased the depth?” without losing the original design.
  • Your login session persists across app updates. You do not need to sign in again each time Integraph deploys a new version — sessions are stored durably on the server and stay active for up to 30 days of use (or 8 hours of inactivity, whichever comes first).

For the engineering vocabulary used across tools (warping constant, moment-curvature, distortional buckling, and so on), see the glossary.

:::note[Project picker is server-searched — September 2026 (#5407)] The project picker in the New Design dialog is now server-searched. Previously the list was bounded to projects already loaded in the local cache, which meant large workspaces could silently omit projects the engineer had not recently opened. The picker now searches the server directly, so every project in the organisation is always reachable from the dialog. :::

:::note[Canvas undo history resets on design-option switch — September 2026 (#5392)] When you open a different design option, the canvas undo history is now cleared. Previously the undo stack from the previous design option could carry over, so pressing Ctrl+Z in the newly opened design might undo an action from a section you were no longer looking at. The reset applies on every design-option hydration; actions you made before switching are unaffected. :::