Advance Steel is built to automate and accelerate the structural steel detailing and fabrication process. Advance Steel 2016 requires the AutoCAD 2016 platform!

Structural steel modeling

• Intelligent features for modeling any type of metallic structure;
• Intuitively created structural elements;
• Extensive library of objects and powerful tools to help designers create structural elements: trusses, bracings, purlins, portal frames.

Miscellaneous steel modeling

• Quickly create special structures, such as straight and spiral stairs, straight and curved railings, and cage ladders.
• Automatically create documents necessary for assembling stairs.

Customizable documentation for more efficient fabrication

• Ready-to-use templates that aid the creation of high-quality shop drawings;
• Shop drawing templates are automatically labeled and dimensioned;
• Shop templates can be easily customized according to your needs;
• Easily created Bills of material (BOMs), where the quantities are defined by the parts used in the information-rich model.
• Automatically generated files for CNC machines.

Interoperable for maximum efficiency between processes

• Interoperability with Revit
• Interoperability with the GRAITEC® Advance Design™ or Autodesk® Robot™ Structural Analysis software
• Interoperability with Navisworks
• Interoperability with AutoCAD Plant 3D

Added benefits with GRAITEC PowerPack for Advance Steel

• Through the GRAITEC PowerPack extension, Autodesk Advance Steel users benefit from additional functionality and working tools, which help accelerate the whole detailing and fabrication process:
• New joint types
• New drawing styles and templates for BOMs
• Databases with profiles, bolts, gratings, etc.

Find out more about GRAITEC Powerpack