SAP2000 offers a single unified user interface for modeling, analysis and design.

• Autocad-like snap tools for fast and easy model creation
• Zoom controls
• Standard views XY, XZ, YZ, 3D
• Live multiple graphical windows that make for easy navigation of complex models
• Active planar view is automatically highlighted in the 3D view window
• Developed elevation option to define custom views, including "unwrapping" cylindrical and irregular geometry
• Define working planes for creating and editing complex geometries
• Coordinate Systems/Grids
  • Cartesian
  • Cylindrical
  • Generalized Grid Sytems - allows for a system comprised of arbitrarily defined grid lines.
  • Models can have multiple coordinate systems/grids which can be rotated in any direction.