Advance Steel

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Advance Steel

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Architecture office: Atelier d’architectureChaix & Morel et associés, Paris

Design office (metallic roof): ETI, Grenoble© Jacques Mossot

Dedicated to Steelwork Construction, Advance Steel is THE indispensable 3D structural modeling, detailing and fabrication (creates NC Code) solution. Advance Steel is a major AutoCAD® extension that transforms the generic platform into an unsurpassed professional structural steel creation environment.

Advance Steel dramatically increases general project throughput by extensive use of drag and drop intelligent objects (profiles, joints, etc.), wizards, single click functions and visual management tools.

Correspondingly, Advance Steel has a small learning curve, hence novice users can create, manage, modify complex intelligent 3D models and all associated drawings faster and with less effort than static 2D drawings.

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Many new macros enable quick modeling of miscellaneous steel such as: handrails, stairs, cage ladders, spiral staircases, etc.

Users can even use their own proprietary shape profiles and specifications within the macro: the stringer type, stair pan, railing, elbows at the end, mid rails / vertical pickets and the various types of connections to the stringer among other things can be user defined.

The stair model carries full parametric technology, hence any modification (length, width, angle, etc.) also modifies the handrails. Once a stair “type” has been saved in the library it can be recalled in any other project.

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CREATE THE FRAMING WITHIN MINUTES 1

Advance Steel ensures precise, efficient, fast modeling and its unique technology automatically creates your general arrangement drawings, detail drawings, material lists and NC files.

Start modeling your columns, floor beams, bracings, purlins and miscellaneous steelwork (stairs, railings, etc.) with easy to use Advance objects and assemblies that snap in place. Visual dialog boxes immediately pop-up to customise preferences and dimensions.

Advance Steel provides an extensive library that includes hundreds of connections that intelligently snap in place and instantly adapt to ongoing model changes with visual feedback.

The powerful “Quick connect” function automatically creates and designs all standard connections in the project according to user preferences.

Advance Steel then performs a final check: element collision detection, construction tool accessibility and object numbering correction.

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platform that reduces running costs and risks: large established user base, shorter learning curve, quick integration into production, smooth file exchange between project partners (DWG), etc.

From a technical point of view, Advance Steel uses the latest and most powerful 100% AutoCAD® compliant development technology: Object ARX. This ensures the current and future AutoCAD® compatibility of objects that support most basic functions (stretch, shorten, copy, move, etc.). The Advance Steel native format is the DWG file.

CREATE ALL DRAWINGS AUTOMATICALLY 2

Now that your model is finished with members, connections and correctly numbered you can use the automatic drawing creation for:

• General arrangement drawings (isometric views,elevations, floor plans, etc.)

• Sections and close ups

• Fabrication drawings (assembly drawings, singlepart drawings, etc.)

Dimensions and labels are automatically placed and easily modified using a visual wizard tool (welds, level symbols, etc.). And if that’s not enough… You can use standard drawing functions to obtain the highest level of detail!

A major time saver: Advance Steel automatic drawing consistency check! When the model is modified all the relevant drawings are updated automatically upon your approval!

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Out of the box Advance Steel creates high quality drawings with a generic “Look and Feel”. Users can adapt the “Look and Feel” to their own requirements with the user-friendly “Drawing Style Manager”.

The Drawing Style Manager is a high-end tool that customises the automatic drawing creation process (part visibility, content and placement of labels according to the object type, dimension positioning, etc.) to obtain drawings that require little or no cleanup.

PRINT YOUR LISTS AND BILLS OF MATERIAL 3

Now that your drawings are ready, Advance Steel cancreate all material lists in addition to NC files. AdvanceSteel includes many predefined report formats (beamlists, plate lists, etc.) and supports custom templates:content definition, customisable sorting, logos andpictures, etc.

The Advance Steel “Document Manager” offersa centralised, time saving visual tracking andmanagement system (drawings, lists, NC files, etc.).You can check your drawings at a glance, sort out the drawings or print the material lists! CONTROL YOUR MODEL

STABILITY WITH ADVANCE DESIGN

4 Advance steel is part of the GRAITEC Advance CAD / Design software series. This modular end-to-end solution offers the advantage of seamless workflow from the initial structural concept to final design and production output. Our software integration saves considerable time by virtually eliminating double entries and repetitive work!

GRAITEC Advance increases your productivityand improves drawing quality

GRAITEC Advance processes the entire 3D model data, accelerates all document creation and ensures all-around drawing consistency.

YOUR PROJECT AT A GLANCE Create your columns, floor-beams, bracings, purlins with the same approach as drawing AutoCAD® lines and then call on the automatic connections library!

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drawings, material lists, NC files… and links to Engineering software packages!

Finite element analysis with Advance Design

A CAD / DESIGN SOFTWARE SUITE FOR CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONALS

Better tools, improved workflow, more productivity… • 100% dedicated to Structural Design, Engineering and Detailing • Three high-end 3D modelling packages: Structural Design, Steel Detailing and

Concrete Detailing • Eliminates data re-entry with unique bi-directional synchronisation technology • Automatically creates and updates construction and fabrication drawings • Integrated drawing management • Detailing packages are major AutoCAD ® extensions • Provides dramatically increased general project productivity

Advance Steel Advance Steel is a major extension of AutoCAD® that accelerates structural steel modeling and automatically creates the general arrangement drawings, fabrication drawings, material lists and NC files. Advance Steel is specially developed for the steel industry to increase design productivity and production quality.

Advance Design Advance Design conducts static and dynamic analysis of 2D and 3D structures based on the finite element calculation method. Advance Design is your in-house steel/concrete construction expert that features a 3D Climatic generator, non-linear calculation, support for large displacement phenomenon, structural optimisation, etc.

Advance Concrete Advance Concrete is a major AutoCAD® extension that accelerates modeling and drawing creation for concrete reinforcement and formwork drawings. Advance Concrete dramatically increases productivity while maintaining or improving drawing quality.

THE Software Suite that optimises structural design and detailing… Are you ready for GRAITEC Advance?

For more than 20 years, GRAITEC has been committed to developing high performance CAD and analysis software for the construction industry.

Over 6,000 customers now rely on GRAITEC’s complete suite of fully compatible and integrated products covering design and detailing for the reinforced concrete and steel construction industries.

GRAITEC is a true software, engineering and R&D organisation involved in the complete structural solution lifecycle: New technology R&D, CAD and design software development, quality assurance, training, support, specific solution/project consulting and outsourcing.

GRAITEC provides consistently improving cutting edge products matched by comprehensive support services to fulfil the highest production and quality requirements.

GRAITEC is a unique source for complete construction software expertise!

Headquartered in France, GRAITEC has subsidiaries in the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic and Romania, and works closely with resellers worldwide.

HEADQUARTERS GRAITEC SA 10 bis Burospace 91572 Bièvres France Tel.: +33 (0)1 69 85 56 22

GRAITEC is ADN (Autodesk Developer Network) ADRIS Ltd. Riverside House

GRAITEC is ISV (Independent Software Vendor) Brunel Road, Totton Southampton

Minimum recommended configuration: SO40 3WX Pentium IV with min. 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM and 128 MB graphic card. Tel: +44 (0)23 8086 8947 Windows Vista or Windows XP Professional. AutoCAD® 2004 or higher. Fax: +44 (0)23 8086 1618 This configuration may change depending on the evolution of operating systems and AutoCAD®. Email: info@adris.co.uk Non contractual document. - © March 2008 Graitec, SA Web: www.adris.co.uk Advance is a trademark of GRAITEC . Autodesk logo and AutoCAD ar e registered trademarks of Autodesk Inc. - Products supporting this logo ar e not necessarily Autodesk products and therefore Autodesk does not guarantee them. All other trademarks belong to their respective owner. -