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This Week Feature: Glass Panels
Updated Glass Panels
• Insert multiple glass panels at once
• Use any profile shape or material
• Easily define single and multi-layered glass
• Create a reusable library for windows, railings and structural glass
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Video: Advance Steel Interoperability with Graitec Advance Workshop
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
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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
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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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PowerPack for Revit – Boost your productivity!
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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BIM Workflow – Autodesk® Advance Steel > Autodesk® A360 Drive
Jonathan Hand, Software Application Engineer at GRAITEC, speaks about exporting an Advance Steel model to A360…
Autodesk A360 enables design and engineering centric project teams to work efficiently together in one central workspace.
A360 online viewer allows you to combine and connect data to better create, view, analyze, share, and manage information on your structural projects By exporting a completed Advance Steel model to ACIS we can upload the project to A360.
Check out my screencast video showing whats possible with the new features in A360. With every model uploaded you will now have a 2D view and also use the section tools to cut the model in any required axis.
You can follow the link bellow to see the video:
https://screencast.autodesk.com/Embed/50579b5e-3826-47c8-819f-1d42c8bbc91b
GRAITEC BIM Connect for Revit now available on Autodesk Exchange App Store
GRAITEC is delighted to announce its file collaboration and interoperability app for Revit, BIM Connect 2016, is now available as a free download directly from the Autodesk Exchange App Store.
This powerful, free extension for Autodesk® Revit® from GRAITEC provides bi-directional, intelligent Structural Building Information Modeling (BIM) model sharing, including the transfer of FEM results data, between GRAITEC Advance BIM Suite (Advance Design, Arch, SuperSTRESS, …) and Autodesk® Revit® Architecture, Autodesk® Revit® MEP, Autodesk® Revit® Structure and Autodesk® Advance Steel products.
Sharing both the geometrical shapes, including dynamic concrete-section mapping to Revit Families, together with analytical FEM results, creates a new pathway of intelligence-driven BIM workflows which assures a more robust “platform” ready to utilize the high-level of automation promised by next-gen BIM technology.
GRAITEC BIM Connect also supports multi-discipline and multi-platform workflows, enabling import and export of recognized industry BIM and collaboration formats; IFC, CIS2, SDNF and PSS, to support interoperability across a wide spectrum of disciplines and at any level.
BIM technology is changing how buildings, infrastructure and utilities are planned, designed and built. It is now essential to have intelligent BIM workflows in place to retain the integrity of models and associated data. Using BIM Connect as part of an intelligent BIM workflow makes it easy to link Revit models with its counterpart analytical model from GRAITEC Advance Suite.
BIM Connect enables a BIM workflow between GRAITEC Advance Suite and Autodesk® Revit® and Autodesk® Advance Steel
The GRAITEC BIM Connect 2016 app is now available as a complimentary download from the Autodesk Exchange App Store, an extensive online market place for third-party add-ons and extensions to Autodesk products.
GRAITEC BIM Connect compatibility
- BIM Connect supports the transfer of building performance FEM results and is fully compliant with Autodesk® Revit® and Advance Steel 2016 versions.
- Import and export major industry formats – IFC, SDNF, CIS2, PSS – from a single interface.
- Bi-directional links between Advance Design and Autodesk® Revit® and Autodesk® Advance Steel.
- Transfer all materials, concrete sections, curved walls, foundations and beams.
Download the free BIM Connect 2016 app here.
Carl Spalding, GRAITEC Product Strategy Director comments: “The uptake of BIM is growing at an exceptional rate. But as companies adopt new technologies and skills they will also need to evolve their primitive, siloed workflows in order to realize the full potential of a truly intelligent BIM workflow. GRAITEC BIM Connect enables users to collaborate effectively with accurate BIM models but goes way beyond geometry to include building performance intelligence. Enabling access to constructability intelligence beyond the realm of the structural engineer office, promotes a process where design decisions can continue to be taken with confidence throughout the design phase. More importantly, this opens up new opportunities to take advantage of unrivaled automation offered by the next generation of BIM technology to come.“
Please Vote for Graitec as Channel Partner of the Year
GRAITEC are delighted to announce that we have been nominated for Channel Partner of the Year at the Construction Computing Awards.
The Construction Computer Awards has been running for ten years now and they ‘showcase and reward the technology, tools and solutions for the effective design, construction, maintenance and modification of commercial buildings, residential and social housing and civil engineering projects of all sizes.’
As well as the Channel Partner of the Year award there are a number of different categories in the competition such as BIM project 2015, product of the year 2015, hardware product 2015, Mobile Technology 2015 and much more. The awards ceremony taking place at the Hotel Russell, London on the 19th November is bound to be an event to remember.
Please help us win by voting GRAITEC as Channel Partner of the Year. Voting Closes on the 6th November 2015.
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Desktop Subscription (DTS) – Disruption or time for a reality check?
Carl Spalding, Group Product Strategy Director at GRAITEC, speaks about Autodesk Desktop Subscription:
“[…] Let me ask you…what makes your company stand out from the crowd? What makes your company better and more successful than your competitors? Not hard is it…the people. Better yet, you! Oh, not the new software then?!
Speaking of software, CAD eventually defeated the drawing board. In a fraction of the time, BIM too will defeat CAD. It’s an inescapable reality.
Anyone who knows what they are talking about, will tell you that truly successful BIM implementation requires a great deal of knowledge, covering an enormous variety of ever changing workflows, processes, software, technology and legislation.
Today, Autodesk offers the most extensive array of design, BIM, detailing data management and visualization software technology ever. Making this full range of software available via a Desktop Subscription model, at a fraction of the initial upfront cost, affords companies the opportunities to react faster, do more in less time and become infinitely more versatile.
But the real question is, how will companies actually be able to take full advantage of all this technology without the appropriate skill set to use it effectively? Surely it’s time to take a reality check? […]”
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GRAITEC acquires Total CAD Systems, Inc., US Autodesk Platinum Partner
GRAITEC, an international software developer of BIM, CAD and structural analysis solutions, and global Autodesk Reseller across AEC and MFG sectors, announced today that it acquired 100% shares of Total CAD Systems, Inc., Houston, Texas, USA on Wednesday September 30th for an undisclosed price.
The acquisition of Total CAD Systems, Inc., stands testament to the Group’s long term commitment to its customers and widely publicized rapid growth strategy. GRAITEC Group is now uniquely the only Autodesk Platinum Partner operating across United States and Europe.
Total CAD Systems, Inc. brings with them over 200 years of collective industry knowledge and has a proven track record of delivering first class quality service and high customer satisfaction. This outstanding customer service and their affiliations with the Texas Society of Architects, Structural Engineers Association of Texas and American Society of Civil Engineers remain a priority at GRAITEC and Total CAD Systems, Inc. Customers can be assured this will continue as the team remains unchanged and new staff are brought on board.
Now with the full support of a major international group, Total CAD Systems, Inc. will gain an extended capacity to deliver a new range of professional services around BIM and deliver more value to customers with an extended portfolio of unique complementary products. An increased investment capacity will, in time, enlarge the operational area and expand focus to include advanced simulation and fabrication management systems to better serve current and new customers.
Total CAD Systems, Inc. will continue to operate in the US under its own brand, maintaining its strong position as an Autodesk Platinum Partner (VAR) while GRAITEC continues to operate across the US and Northern America as an Autodesk ISV partner for Advance Steel.
Roger Padamada, owner of Total CAD Systems, Inc. comments: “The ambition of Total CAD Systems is to consistently offer a high level of technical expertise. Our dedicated staff is passionately committed to providing the highest quality customer service. We were impressed and immediately attracted by the vision and strategy of GRAITEC and are extremely happy to be part of a highly professional and customer focused company. We are confident the company and our customers are in very good hands.“
Francis Guillemard, GRAITEC CEO adds: “GRAITEC has a long standing history as an Autodesk partner and is currently one of the fastest growing international Autodesk VAR. Our expansion in the US market is testament to our continued growth strategy and reaction to the growing demand for our BIM technology and services in America. This acquisition is very exciting and reflects our strong motivation to become a major VAR player in the US and strengthens our global BIM technology and service offering.“
About Total CAD Systems, Inc.
Total CAD Systems, an Autodesk Platinum Partner, was founded over 18 years ago by experienced industry professionals. Driven by the founding principles of Integrity, Professionalism and Dependability, Total CAD offers a variety of Autodesk Solutions and services, including: consultation, implementation, training, and technical support. Since its inception, Total CAD Systems’ innovative approach has been to proactively focus on our clients’ dynamic needs with flexibility and resourcefulness. Total CAD Systems’ loyalty to our clients and our tenacious desire to become creatively involved in their success embodies our core business values and has established our reputable leadership in the industry For more information, please visit www.tcadsys.com
The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario Chooses Advance Design America
GRAITEC Inc, software and service provider to engineering, construction and architecture industries, is pleased to announce that its structural analysis and design software known as Advance Design America was selected by The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) to replace their current Canadian Bridge Analysis System (CANBAS). Therefore, a three-year agreement with a four-year renewable contract was signed.
The objective of the tender was to replace the Ministry’s CANBAS with a new system for the purpose of analysis and design of bridge structures. With fifteen years of knowledge and skills in bridge design and construction methods, GRAITEC Inc has demonstrated its expertise by winning this tender against major players in the industry.
The current CANBAS is a legacy application developed over 30 years ago on now outdated and non-standard Information and Information Technology architecture. GRAITEC Advance Design America solution has demonstrated the capability to create and analyse structural computer models for standard bridge structures(concrete slab on pre-stressed girders, concrete slab on steel plate girders or box girders, post-tensioned cast-in-place decks), concrete rigid frame and substructures in accordance with the requirements of the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code (CHBDC). Most importantly, Advance Design America has the design code checking capability against CHBDC so that the Ministry will have viable software to design the most common type of bridges.
GRAITEC’s North American team responsible for all Structural Analysis & Design solutions, comprised of experienced Canadian engineers, has convinced the Ministry with its professionalism, expertise and its superior technology for analysis and design for bridge building in accordance with Canadian codes.
About GRAITEC Inc
Visit website hereGRAITEC Inc, is a Canadian company specialized in software development for structural engineering and drafting and is also an Autodesk Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner in America. It offers a complete range of services to maximize clients’ use of its software: Training, Technical support, CAD/Design projects and Custom software development. GRAITEC’s complete structural analysis and design software Advance Design America (ADA) integrates all Canadian design codes for steel, concrete and prestressed concrete and composite structures, including CHBDC code for bridge design and evaluation.
GRAITEC Inc is part of GRAITEC Group, founded in 1986, which is a long standing global Autodesk Partner and independent developer of high performance BIM Solutions for the AEC industry. With over 330 employees, the group operates through 11 countries and 26 offices worldwide.
Over the years, GRAITEC’s North American team has served and supported the following clients: – Ministry of Transportation of Quebec
– Ministry of Transportation of Saskatchewan
– Stantec Engineering Consulting Firm (15 000 employees)
– CIMA+ Engineering Consulting Firm (2000 employees)
– SNC-Lavalin (40 000 employees)
– Roche Ltd (1800 employees)
– WSP (formerly Genivar) over 32 000 employees
About the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario
Visit website hereOntario’s highway network is geographically diverse, including urban and rural areas with a total of approximately 39,000 lane-kilometres of highway, over 2,800 bridges and approximately2,000 culverts over 3 meter span. It is the mission of the MTO’s Provincial Highways Management (PHM) Division to ensure necessary planning, engineering, construction and maintenance activities are conducted to provide a high–quality provincial highway network that is integrated with public transportation modes, supports Ontario’s economy and meets the needs of Ontarians for safe and efficient transportation. Each year, the Ministry invests over two billion dollars into capital construction, maintenance and operations of the highway infrastructure.
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