VisualFoundation will help you design complex mat footings, pile caps, grade beam systems, and combined footings. It automates much of the work involved in finite element modeling within a more complex and flexible tool like VisualAnalysis.
VisualFoundation will take care of FEA details, while you specify the locations, sizes and configuration of your structure. The software will analyze your footing slab to determine moments, shears, displacements and bearing pressures. VisualFoundation will then help you check to make sure the footing demand/capacity ratios (unity checks) pass, and it will tell you about the steel requirements for the slab. It will also help with the design of grade beams, column-piers, and piles.