3D modeling software for steel detailing
Advance Steel 2-Year Subscription detailing software helps accelerate design, steel detailing, steel fabrication, and steel construction-built on the familiar AutoCAD
platform.
Getting Started With Advance Steel
Features
- Steel modeling
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- Parametric steel connections - Extensive parametric connections library.
- Built-in steel connection design engine - Check connection design in real time.
- Stairs, railings, and cage ladders - Help speed the modeling of miscellaneous steel work.
- Sheet metal and folded plate work - Quickly create folded elements of any shape.
- 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 - Model more quickly with an object library and wizards.
- Detailing & documentation
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- Create a callout 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 BOM (Bills of Materials) - Automatically generate BOMs based on design data.
- Document Manager - Control your documentation.
- Interoperability
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- 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 or XML.
- BIM 360 interoperability - Collaborate more efficiently across the design team.
- 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 2x3 file.
- View native drawings in AutoCAD - Object enabler lets you view Advance Steel drawings.
- Navisworks compatibility - Integrate data for whole-project review.
- Work-sharing - Collaborate several simultaneous users.
- Model-based approval workflow - Color-code objects based on approval status.
Installation Requirements
In order to work properly, your copy of Advance Steel — 2-Year Subscription requires :
