Features

Advance Steel structural steel design toolset

Advance Steel detailing software gives structural engineers and detailers a large library of intelligent parametric structural elements, steel connections, and plates.

Steel modeling

• Parametric steel connections – Ready-to-use Connection Vault can help save time.
• Built-in connection design engine – Check steel-connection design in real time.
• Stairs, railings, and cage ladders– Model miscellaneous steel work more quickly.
• Sheet metal and folded plate work– Create folded elements of any shape more quickly.
• Fabrication data information – Access and transfer fabrication data and properties.
• Dynamo Extension for Advance Steel– Create parametric complex structures with a visual programming tool.
• Select and view parts of a model – Isolate and display selected elements.
• Intelligent structural objects – Object library and wizards enable quicker modeling.

Detailing & documentation

• NEW | Create a call-out directly on drawing – From a selected area in an existing drawing, create a call-out and assign it a specific scale.
• General arrangement drawings – Produce clearer drawings for erection at site.
• Steel shop drawings – Generate more accurate drawings for fabrication.
• NC data – Generate data for CNC workshop machines.
• Create more accurate BOMs – Automatically generate BOMs based on design data.
• Document Manager – Control and track your documentation.

Interoperability

• Bidirectional link with Revit – Faster time to fabrication with model synchronization.
• AutoCAD Plant 3D interoperability – Integrate real-time workflow.
• Robot Structural Analysis interoperability – Optimize your structure with bidirectional links.
• MIS software interoperability – Export data via KISS, XML, or IFC with MIS software.
• NEW | BIM 360 Team interoperability – Collaborate more efficiently across the design team.
• NEW | Custom settings import – Import your custom settings when moving to new versions.
• Open and flexible API – Extend and enhance the use of Advance Steel.
• IFC Capabilities – Import or export a 3D model to an IFC 2×3 file.
• View native drawings in AutoCAD – Object enabler lets you view Advance Steel drawings.
• Navisworks interoperability – Integrate data for quantification, simulation, and review.
• Work-sharing – Several users can work on the same project at once.
• Model-based approval workflow – Colour-code objects based on approval status.

Advance Steel Training

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