This video shows how to quickly and accurately round trip fabrication information between Autodesk Advance Steel and Graitec Advance Workshop software. You will see:
– what information is exchanged between the two products
– how Advance Workshop utilizes this information in fabrication management
– how changes are synchronized and visualized using colorization of the 3D model in Advance Steel
Month: November 2015
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This Week Feature: Curved Element Cut
- Greater control and curved element cut options
- Cut a straight tube, plate or folded beam by a curved tube
- Fully control the cut contour
- Easy to set and amend:
- Number of points
- Weld type and thickness
- Cut offset
- Contour shape
The GRAITEC PowerPack is a powerful extension to Autodesk® Advance Steel, designed to boost the user’s capability, productivity and efficiency. This PowerPack builds on the strength of the marketing leading Autodesk® Advance Steel by introducing a set of unique tools, templates and connections intentionally designed to enhance and speed up project delivery.
Vernet Behringer choose Advance Workshop to promote their new range of CNC Machines for SME Fabricators
Vernet Behringer are holding open tech-days at their Dijon offices on 26th and 27th November to showcase their new HD-S compact marking-drilling and milling machine specifically targeted at lighter jobs by small to medium steel fabricators.
The compact size of the HD-S alone makes this machine an attractive proposition for any SME steel fabricator looking to progress their business and take advantage of more automated processes. But the real power of the HD-S comes with its versatility. With a capacity of 400×300 mm and capable of milling, marking, drilling and scribing of H-beams, channels, flats, angles and hollow sections the HD-S delivers real value in all areas.
It was this versatility that Vernet Behringer’s Export Sales Manager Yannick BEAUCHAMP wanted to demonstrate when he invited GRAITEC along, with its steel fabrication management software – Advance Workshop, to connect with the HD-S machine and put it through its paces.
Mr Beachamp stated: “Our Tech-days enable us to meet with interested parties from all over the world and show case our machines. The new HD-S is designed for smaller steel fabricators and we wanted to highlight its full range of possibilities; to show how such a compact machine could deliver high performance in a real-world scenario. We choose to invite GRAITEC, a leader in the structural market, to use Advance Workshop software to drive the HD-S so that visitors could explore its full range of capabilities in a live working environment.”
With other machines on display including the FG Evo for drilling, milling, marking and deburring plates and gussets, the new RD-X plasma cutting robot arm and the HD-X Evo multispindle drilling-milling machine, Vernet Behringer open days are very well supported and more dates are planned next year to meet demand.
GRAITEC staff will be on hand to discuss Advance Workshop during the event.
- Follow the link to find out more about attending Vernet Behringer Tech days.
- To learn more about GRAITEC Advance Workshop visit: http://www.graitec.com/en/aw.asp
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This Week Feature: Corrugated Beams
Create corrugated beams with this new feature
• Easily create a beam with an undulated web
• Use either a beam from the catalogue or user defined
• Control all dimensions that define the beam
More tools in the new release of GRAITEC Advance PowerPack for Autodesk® Advance Steel 2016
GRAITEC, international BIM and CAD software developer for AEC and all round structural industry specialist, is delighted to deliver even more tools in the latest version of the Advance PowerPack for Autodesk® Advance Steel 2016.
The new version of GRAITEC’s Advance PowerPack for Autodesk® Advance Steel includes a wealth of functionality and productivity tools to ensure customers achieve a true competitive advantage when using Autodesk® Advance Steel 2016.
The latest version, which is in addition to all previous tools, introduces several new connections, tools for setting out complex helical stair stringers, links with cloud services and a suite of commands for transforming Advance Steel drawings into AutoCAD compatible versions, whilst retaining intelligent scaled and editable dimensions.
Summary of new tools include:
- Cloud Link
- Corrugated Beam
- Intelligent Explode for details/models/parts
- Floor Cover
- Gratings Plate Border
- Helical Spiral
- Plates on Profile
- Purlin with Folded Plate
- Stiffeners on profile
- Support Plate
GRAITEC customers receive the PowerPack for Advance Steel as a complimentary addition to their Autodesk® Advance Steel subscription and service contract, or it is available to purchase separately from GRAITEC or one of our global partners.
Download a free five day trial from the GRAITEC website.
Carl Spalding, GRAITEC Product Strategy Director comments: “Initially the PowerPack was a way for us to deliver additional tools and unique value to customers. The rapid adoption by users around the world and the incredibly positive response has been very impressive. Each version introduces more tools, more automation, and more functionality enabling customers to boost their output and improve quality. It is encouraging to see how the tools we provide can make such a massive difference and it is no wonder the PowerPack is quickly becoming the must-have tool of a busy and competitive design office.“
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2015 – Success story
Customer Project: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2015 – Mazda
Software used: Advance Design
Project location: Goodwood House, Chichester, UK
Artist: Gerry Judah
Architects and Engineering: CAPITA P & I
Client: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2015
Project description:
Each year, the centrepiece lawn in front of the main Goodwood House showcases a breath-taking sculpture for the annual Goodwood car show, designed by Gerry Judah, Architecture and Engineering by CAPITA P&I and Fabrication by Littlehampton Welding Ltd.
Hooman Baghi, Principal Structure Engineer: “Using Advance Design enabled us to import the model geometry using BIM swiftly and smoothly. Loads and combinations were assessed making easy dynamic analysis of this complex model. “
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This Week Feature: Beam Commands
Improved Beam Commands for faster, smarter working
• Draw continuous beams the same way as a poly line
• Add and adjust rotation angles
• Adjust all beams at once
• Simple selection and fine tuning of parameters
• Add continuous beam sections in a single session
• Easily define and adjust all sections from the dialog box
GRAITEC will deliver Design-Driven classes and exhibit at Autodesk University 2015
GRAITEC is proud to deliver technical classes and exhibit at Autodesk University, the world’s largest conference for Autodesk software users, bringing together thousands of design and engineering professionals from around the world.
Get the most out of your event by attending GRAITEC classes which will focus on a variety of subjects: from digital prototyping, 3D detailing, design driven rebar and reinforcement creation, to exploring BIM ready fabrication and the visualizing real-time steel production data from the field.
CLASSES
Here is the list of GRAITEC classes that will be delivered at the MEP & Structural Fabricators Forum and the Autodesk University:
- Visualize Real-Time Steel Production Status in Advance Steel Model and in Autodesk A360
- Lessons Learned Implementing Advance Steel Workflows by Steelway Building Systems (GRAITEC’s client)
- Design-Driven 3D Rebar in Revit Structure with Automated Drawings and Schedules
- Design-Driven 3D Reinforcement Generation in Revit
- Building Workflows from Estimating to Fabrication by Steelway Building Systems (GRAITEC’s client)
- BIM-Ready Fabrication for 3D Rebar Cages
- AutoCAD Tool Palettes Master Class (Planning and Preparation, Not Perspiration)
- Should We Move from 2D Detailing to 3D Detailing for Reinforcement Detailing?
- Complex Topology and Class-A Surface Modeling with Inventor
- Retaining Walls in AutoCAD Civil 3D – Made Easy
Register here
EXHIBIT HALL
Join us at booth 817 to learn how Autodesk® Advance Steel 3D modeling software and its powerful extension Advance PowerPack will enable faster steel detailing and fabrication. We are looking forward to showing you Advance Workshop, our new MIS tailor-made solution which aims to control, manage and optimize your steel fabrication.
For 30 years, GRAITEC has evolved from a BIM, CAD, CAE software author to one of the largest Autodesk® Partners and Value Added Resellers in the world. GRAITEC deliver to AEC, Manufacturing and Infrastructure industries, an extensive portfolio of BIM solutions and sells and supports Autodesk® Advance Steel and Advance Concrete worldwide under its ISV partnership with Autodesk® ensuring a leading expert status in the structural industry.
As an independent software author, GRAITEC creates powerful applications for Autodesk® Revit® and Autodesk® Advance Steel. Combining its own product range with Autodesk® suites enables the company to deliver first class BIM services.
AUTODESK UNIVERSITY
Las Vegas, NV
December 01-03, 2015
Booth 817
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This Week Feature: Family Manager
Work faster and smarter
• Speed up loading of families in Revit® projects
• Choose families and types to be loaded
• Includes new GRAITEC library of families
• Just a few clicks to download and view family libraries
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