Autodesk advance steel free download

Advance Steel is a comprehensive, easy-to-use software for structural steel detailing. Built on the familiar AutoCAD platform, Advance Steel’s 3D modeling tools help you accelerate design and speed time to fabrication by automatically generating general arrangement and shop drawings, bills of material and DSTV CNC files.

Advance Steel also features interoperability with other Autodesk design and construction software, including a bidirectional integration and model synchronization with Autodesk Revit. This allows you to import 3D design models from the structural engineer as the starting point for your detailing effort.

A model-based steel detailing approach not only allows you to reduce the risk of potential errors when design changes occur, but all affected deliverables are also updated automatically, from shop drawings to NC data. This helps project teams streamline design-to-detailing workflows to increase the accuracy and predictability of fabrication and field installation.

Features:

• Sheet metal and folded plate work
  Create folded elements of any shape more quickly.
• Stairs, railings, and cage ladders
  Model miscellaneous steelwork more quickly.
• Code Checking for Steel Connections
  Validate steel connections by checking compliance with the 14th Edition of the AISC standards.
• Dynamo extension for Advance Steel
  Create parametric complex structures with a visual programming tool.
• Generate NC and DXF files
  The automatic creation of BOMs, such as a Material list summary, avoids material waste, due to possible human errors, because the content is calculated directly from the data within the 3D model.
• Parametric steel connections
  Save and customize values saved in library for automatic steel connections.
• Steel shop drawings
  Create more accurate shop drawings for better fabrication efficiency.
• AutoCAD Plant 3D interoperability
  AutoCAD Plant 3D and Advance Steel software can work together to provide a seamless workflow from design to fabrication for process plant facilities.
• Bidirectional link with Revit
  Revit and Advance Steel can work together to provide a more seamless BIM workflow from design to fabrication.
• Robot Structural Analysis interoperability
  Optimize your structure with bidirectional links.
• BIM Coordination
  Export steel members from a Revit model to Advance Steel, and XREF the rest of the project as a Coordination model through Navisworks.

For a full list of features please visit https://www.autodesk.com/products/advance-steel/features.

What’s new in version 2021:

General Application

• New dedicated SQL localdb instance for Advance Steel
  Advance Steel is now creating and using a new, dedicated SQL localdb instance instead of the default one.
• All SQL Server Editions are now supported by Advance Steel
  This allows custom access privileges to shared databases made by the SQL server, allowing either full read and write capabilities or restricting the Advance Steel functionalities on read-only rights.

Create and Manage Drawings

• New Element Properties Detail Sorting Tokens for Drawing Processes
  Arrange details created by drawing processes based on the properties of the detailed elements.
• New Commands for Adding or Removing Weld Symbol Leader Lines
  Learn how to add or remove leader lines from automatic and manual, simple or combined weld symbols.
• New Management Tools Default to Automatically Combine Weld Symbols
  Automatically combine weld symbols corresponding to welds connecting elements with the same single part numbers.

3D Modeling

• New Panelized Monowills Connection
  Use the new panelized monowills connection to create monowills railings with a max panel size, easier to fabricate and ship on site.
• New Switch Connection Object Pattern Commands
  Easily transform a connection object type pattern into a different one, using contextual menu options.
• New Messaging Framework for User Section Creation
  Changed the display of results and corresponding error messages for generating user sections. This information is now handled in the Data Panel, similarly to the results of part numbering and clash check analysis.
• Grip Point Extension for Beam Elements
  You can now modify the length of beam elements by using the end grip points, without inadvertently changing the direction of the element. Using the Lengthen command or the Extension object snap, you can easily do this, regardless of the orientation of the element or the coordinate system.
• New Filter Options for Detailed Parts
  You can now use the Search Filter to find the model elements detailed as single part and/or main part.

Numbering

• Use Holes for Numbering
  You can now choose to ignore the holes on elements during numbering – this gives you the possibility to have the same part mark for similar elements which only have different hole pattern characteristics. The Use hole for numbering checkbox is available in the properties dialog for holes, bolts and anchors and in the properties dialog of the elements, such as beams and plates, on which the holes, bolts and anchors are applied.

For more information and a full list of improvements please visit New in Advance Steel 2021.

About Autodesk

Autodesk is a pioneer in 3D design, engineering and digital entertainment software. Though best known for its flagship product, AutoCAD, it has developed a vast range of software for the design, engineering and entertainment industries.

Autodesk was founded in 1982 by John Walker and 12 other like-minded individuals. The company launched their first original product AutoCAD that same year. Autodesk has since expanded upon a number of non AutoCAD-based products as well, including parametric BIM application Revit and 3D CAD modelling software Inventor. In recent years, Autodesk has made the move towards mobile and cloud-based applications including Fusion 360 and AutoCAD 360. Autodesk has expanded its presence in the maker community with acquisitions like Instructables and Pixlr.

Autodesk is more than just its products or its acquisitions. It had an impact on everything from education to the job sector and even on business sustainability and will undoubtedly continue to do so in the future.

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Advance Steel Screenshot


Advance Steel Screenshot


Advance Steel 2021: Stretch a Beam along its System Line


Advance Steel 2021: Switch Connection Pattern Object


Advance Steel 2021: New Messaging Framework for User Sections


Advance Steel 2021: Create Monowills Panelized Handrail Systems


Advance Steel 2021: Ignore Holes on Objects for Numbering


Advance Steel 2021: Show/Hide Detailed Parts/Assemblies


Advance Steel 2021: New Detail Sorting Tokens for Drawing Processes


Advance Steel 2021: Multi-leader Line Weld Symbol