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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
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
Create and amend Castellated and Cellular Beams
• Increase beam depth and strength with no additional material
• Reduce weight and space without compromising strength
• Ultimate flexibility when creating castellated or cellular beams
• Create from catalogues, or user defined for full modification
• Add, adjust and control cellular beams
Get 35% off and Advance PowerPack for free, when you purchase a perpetual Autodesk Advance Steel License (or Advance Steel & AutoCAD) with a maintenance subscription.
Without a maintenance subscription, get 25% off and the extension for free.
Petrom City
Software used: Autodesk Advance Steel
Project location: Bucharest, Romania
Design Office: Profesional Construct Proiectare SRL
Project description:
Petrom City is a unique project in Romania due to the technical innovations used at constructing the building, the process of ecological rehabilitation of the land, as well as to its architecture and working environmental branding in line with the company values.
The construction is developed on 100,000sqm and is composed of several buildings: Oval Office, Headquarter, Parking Garage, Computer and Data Centers and technical buildings. The project was done in cooperation with an Austrian design company, and all detail drawings and statical calculations were done by Profesional Construct Proiectare company.
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From June 09 to 11, GRAITEC’s First North American Advance Steel User Group held in Salt Lake City was an impressive success.
This first edition gave GRAITEC the unique opportunity to gather the core group of its Advance Steel customer base and to develop strong relationship with them. Hugo Michaud, GRAITEC General Manager Americas welcomed all attendees and shared the main objective of this event which was to “offer the most advanced training with our high experienced AS specialists.” Indeed, 30 attendees from 25 companies based in 16 states across the US and Canada came to the User Group to learn more about Advance Steel features and GRAITEC team was ready to face this challenge.
“It has strengthened customer confidence in the company and Autodesk Advance Steel. All participants gave excellent feedback of the event, particularly the high level of GRAITEC experienced speakers and were very pleased to meet Autodesk representatives.” Hugo Michaud, General Manager Americas at GRAITEC
Hugo Michaud was pleased to welcome Autodesk’s team during this event. Michael Gustafson (Industry Strategy Manager, Structural Engineering) gave a presentation about Autodesk Vision and talked about the future of Autodesk Advance Steel in the industry. Then, he was followed by David Naylor (Advance Steel Technical Specialist) who held a complete training about Advance Steel 2016 new features and Stairs & Railings. Their presence and active participation strengthened GRAITEC’s customer confidence in the software.
During three days, Olivier Gervais (CAD Technical Supervisor) and Tommy Moussis (Technical Specialist) held advanced training on other topics: Management tools database, Custom connection, Plateworks etc… Question and Answer sessions also gave the attendees the opportunity to bring their drawing samples and discuss about their specific needs or issues.
“Very impressive event you all. It had a very personal touch to it. Great job.” Michael Gustafson, Strategy Manager, Structural Engineering at Autodesk
Many clients were eager to learn more about Drawing Style Customization. To meet their needs, GRAITEC specialists held advanced training on how to be more efficient with Drawing Styles. Creation of labelling strategies, views and object presentations, dimension strategies and association of dimension strategies & the drawing styles were all covered.
GRAITEC was excited to introduce its new Steel Fabrication Management Information System (MIS) – Advance Workshop 2016. Pascal Beauregard, GRAITEC Local Product Manager, held a presentation about this extremely versatile, well-rounded fabrication management solution. Then, attendees had the opportunity to learn more about the new features of GRAITEC Advance PowerPack, the powerful extension for Autodesk® Advance Steel.
“Thank you for organizing this successful conference, it was very nice meeting the whole GRAITEC team, and hope to see you next year!” Khaled Aboughanem, CAD Manager at JNE Consulting
This successful event clearly shows their enthusiasms toward the solution and GRAITEC professionalism. Mathieu Binette GRAITEC Regional Manager, Western America comments: “The user group objective was to offer an advanced training in order to meet all clients’ needs. Through this success, GRAITEC is now considered as the Advance Steel specialist partner in North America!“
All attendees gave excellent feedback of the event and they are waiting for the next year edition!
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
Miscellaneous steel modeling
Customizable documentation for more efficient fabrication
Interoperable for maximum efficiency between processes
Added benefits with GRAITEC PowerPack for Advance Steel
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From June 09 to 11, 2015, GRAITEC is organizing its first North American Autodesk® Advance Steel User Group in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Supported by Autodesk and local industry specialists, the User Group aims to provide an advanced training to all GRAITEC Advance Steel customers. They will assist to technical presentations and experience Autodesk® Advance Steel and GRAITEC solutions 2016 versions. It will help them go deeper in some of the major functions and tools, get a clear understanding of the software’s full potential and interact with other industry professionals.
From June 09 to 11, 2015, the User Group will address a wide range of topics including:
We look forward to seeing you there.
Software used: Advance Steel
Project location: Brno, Czech Republic
Design Office: OKF s.r.o.
Architecture Office: A PLUS BRNO a.s.
Contracting Authority: MU Brno + AIG/LINCOLN
Project description:
The footbridge serves as a connection between Masaryk University in Brno, University Campus Bohunice (UCB) and the BRNO CAMPUS SQUARE (BCS) shopping center. The main support beam consists of orthotropic steel deck plates with integrated drainage troughs. Four sloped beams made from welded tapered rectangular cross sections are fixed into the reinforced head of every pillar. The cladding of the footbridge is made from bended composite sheets called BOND, or from fiberglass in the part above the trolley wire.
The Steel Conference will take place in Nashville, Tennessee at the Music City Center on March 25-27, 2015.
Discover the NEW powerful extension GRAITEC Advance PowerPack for Autodesk® Advance Steel 2015.1, created to boost the user’s capability, productivity and efficiency whilst introducing a unique set of tools, templates and connections designed to enhance and speed up project delivery.
Visit us at booth 816!
We look forward to meeting you.
Better understand how you can boost your productivity and reduce errors & omissions.
Register for an Autodesk Advance Steel Test Drive today!
Autodesk Advance Steel provides structural steel detailers, fabricators, engineers and contractors with a comprehensive suite of tools for 2D and 3D detailing of structural elements, steel connectors and plates. Together with the Graitec PowerPack; which has enhanced tools and functionality for faster modelling, users can experience Autodesk Advance Steel and get a competitive advantage and improved project workflow.
Graitec is pleased to announce its upcoming series of FREE Advance Steel Test Drives, which will help you better understand the benefits of using the software compared to regular AutoCAD or 2D based solutions.
Learn direct from the Advance Steel Application Engineers
Register for a half-day event and see how purpose-built tools and customisable standards help streamline the design process.
Using intelligent structural objects with a built-in steel connection design engine, you will have hands-on software time to create a structural building, complete with connections, railings and stairs.
As design changes are made, drafting and construction documentation will update automatically; helping to boost productivity and reduce errors and omissions.
Advance Steel software uses building information modelling (BIM) to help structural engineers and designers evaluate more ‘what-if’ scenarios earlier in the design process. Automatic fabrication and general arrangement drawings ensure accuracy, along with integrated revision control ensuring full control over all documentation.
If you are using regular AutoCAD or similar software, this is a great opportunity to better understand how you could benefit from the new technologies offered by Advance Steel.
The Graitec ISV team will run each event from 9.30am-12.30pm, which will be held at each of our UK offices. Dates are:
⇒ Thursday 23rd April – Milton Keynes Office
Booking is easy! Register today!
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If you wish to discuss the test drives in greater detail or to discuss any other aspect of your CAD, BIM or IT requirements, feel free to contact us on (023) 8086 8947.
Places are FREE, but are extremely limited, so reserve your place now to avoid disappointment.
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Project location: Brno, Czech Republic
Software used: Advance Steel
Design office: OKF s.r.o.
Project description:
The biggest exhibition hall in Central Europe with a free standing area of over 20000 m2 (steel frameworks of 2400 tons) holds a modern exhibition hall and a new entrance to the exhibition center. The steel load-bearing skeleton is composed by trusses with frame installations on both of its ends. The west-facade, made of glass supported by the steel sub-structure, represents the window-case in contrast with the simple geometry of the latest generation sandwich-panel cladding.
The analysis model used for the structure design was continuously updated with Advance Steel. The Advance Steel model was used for creating the steel structure documentation and also for creating the fabrication drawings of the steel structure, which integrate a significant amount of cladding sub-structure parts.
One of the main benefits of using Advance Steel for this project is that the tube diagonals were manufactured directly from the 3D model exploded to ACIS solids.
Also, the documents created with Advance Steel dramatically contributed to the short creation time required for this project.
Technical information:
Weight of the steel structure: 2 400 tons
Bund-up area: 20 000 m2
Make the most of your Autodesk software and discover the revolutionary approaches targeted towards your business with our free informative webinars.
This Webinar demonstration will introduce the differences between traditional drawing and intelligent production of drawings. We will cover the fundamentals of creating Architecturally biased drawings, showing efficiency gains and the ability to extract additional information with minimal work.
Date: Wednesday 17th December 2014
Time: 11:00am to 12:00pm
Join us for this webinar to discover the pivotal manufacturing software, Autodesk Inventor and how it has aided an array of manufacturing companies to carry out or move into a digital prototyping workflow.
Date: Monday 22nd December 2014 & Friday 23rd January 2015
Time: 15:00 – 16:00pm
Autodesk Vault Professional and Autodesk Vault Workgroup are product data management software tools that can help you track all your design data, enhance your work process and securely share your data with the extended organisation. Learn the advanced functionality and features of this software and learn to improve your design and manufacturing process.
Date: Friday 22nd December 2014
Time: 10.00-11.00am
With Autodesk Vault Basic you can easily organise, manage and track data creation, manufacturing processes as well as engineering and construction teams.
If you are only just entering the world of Product Data Management then you will realise the potential of the software on your data whilst enjoying this webinar from the comfort of home/work place.
Date: Friday 23rd January 2015
Time: 10.00-11.00am
GRAITEC announces the User Meeting organized by its Czech subsidiary on December 11th, for the Advance users from Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. The meeting will take place at hotel VIVALDI, Jihlava, Czech Republic.
The purpose of this meeting is to present customers with the new functionalities and improvements of Advance Steel, Advance Concrete, Advance Design and other Graitec products. And most importantly, to demonstrate the concept of BIM data exchange between architecture, steel and concrete structures and MEP.
Throughout the meeting, customers will be able to consult with our experts regarding the future of all products, and even find out about our current special offers.
More than 500 Advance customers were invited to this event and an online version of the meeting will be available, for anyone that cannot attend.
Prior registration is not required.
The itinerary for the meeting will be as followed:
For more information contact Graitec CZ.
The Advance Steel detailing software is built on the AutoCAD platform. The intelligent 3D modeling tools help you accelerate the accurate design and detailing. Speed up time to fabrication and construction with tools that automatically generate shop drawings and deliverables. The interoperability with Revit and Advance Design Building Information Modeling (BIM) software supports a more connected workflow.
Enjoy Robobat’s open sessions online service – i.e. free interactive workshops, conducted by experts and the Training Service Department of Robobat Poland, to discuss specific issues / problems with the functioning of Advance Steel.
Date: December 16th, 2014, 10:00 (CET time)
Organizer: Robobat Poland
Location: online
Webinar language: Polish
Registration for individual sessions and participation rules are available on the Robobat Poland website: http://www.robobat.pl/szkolenia/sesje-on-line.html
Navisworks Freedom enables all construction professionals to review integrated models and data, in order to gain better control over project outcomes, using integration, analysis, and communication tools to help resolve conflicts, and plan projects before construction or renovation begins.
Advance Steel offers bidirectional interoperability with Navisworks and allows the integration of data for a whole-project review and also effective collaboration. Advance Steel models can be exported into Navisworks Freedom software for multidiscipline collaboration, construction simulation, and whole-project analysis, enabling specialists to work more closely and efficiently with other project stakeholders to help reduce the risk of unexpected issues at the job site.
Ultimately, Navisworks Freedom is a free QA tool that can assist in many areas.
To see the full demo, please follow this link
Steelway Building Systems is a leading company located in Canada, which manufactures steel building systems, building components and material handling equipment for the commercial, agricultural, recreational and institutional industries, across North America and around the world.
The company has participated in the discussions and checking of the enhanced features in Advance Steel 2014, the MBS2BIM specification, and now has decided to continue with Advance Steel 2015, for better linking, accurate models and fabrication of steel components.
The MBS2BIM link is a specification which provides a converter between the output of the MBS (Metal Building Software, a program that does the complete design, detailing, costing and drafting of steel framed metal buildings.) and Advance Steel product, and converts the MBS files into GTC files. Many of the functionalities of MBS2BIM include importing tapered frames, connecting plates and angles, holes, bolts, welds and marks.
For Dennis BAK, VP-Engineering at Steelway Building Systems (Canada): “The linking was key for us; it meant being able to have a company that could take what we are currently doing and take our 2D design software and enhance it into a BIM model. With Advance Steel we see a lot of advantages: being able to complete our links in the shop floor and enhance them.”
For the complete interview of Steelway Building Systems, please check this video.
Software used: Advance Steel
Project location: Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Design Office: MDF Stahl- und Metallbau Fischer
Contracting authority: ECE
Architect: Jourdan & Müller
Project description:
The Skyline Plaza is a shopping center. It is 290m long and 150m wide and has a total area of 38.000 square meters. The building consists of several levels with 170 shops, restaurants and a public roof terrace. The facade has a curved form and is illuminated in different colors in the night.
Mr. Mario Fischer, Managing Director and construction engineer at MDF Stahl- und Metallbau Fischer: “Advance Steel was the ideal software for this ambitious project. I especially appreciate the complete and easy modelling in 3D. I use Advance Steel for a long time. The Software increaed my productivity for 60%-100%.”
GRAITEC presents an in-depth look of Advance Steel, Autodesk’ complete BIM solution for structural steelwork, at SCAL (Singapore Contractors Association) and Autodesk’s joint 4 BIM seminar focusing on BIM for fabrication and pre-construction. Come and learn how BIM for offsite fabrication is helping the industry drive down costs and errors whilst optimizing materials and increasing performance. Click here to join Autodesk and GRAITEC at the Singapore Contractors Association Ltd on 28 August 2014 (Thursday), 2.00pm to 5.00pm.
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