Autodesk Advanced Concrete

[Emerenciana Mcgreal]

SinceI've been using AS for the last 8 months, I have not seen any other type of wall options other than concrete,(under the Objects menu). I was wondering what others with more experience than me are doing when they cut a section through a wall that needs to be represented as, say for example: Gypsum, Brick or combination of such? Should I use Revit to create specific walls and import the file? Thanks for any thoughts on this...

Advance Steel is weak in this area. If you want to get more involved with creating multi layered walls you can use the wall command to create the layers (different thicknesses etc) and then create individual model roles that you can also assign standardized hatch representation to so that when you cut thru them you will see a variety of hatches that give your drawings a more professional look. You will need to have a fairly advanced understanding of drawing style object representation and how to manipulate it but with a little setup you can create a variety of scenarios to represent different wall conditions. This method has some limitations but can be useful in many repeated cases.

Overall the hatch capabilities in Advance Steel drawings are pretty limited as far as "automation" goes. You can get very detailed with manual hatch scenarios using the Standard Autocad hatch commands but you'll have to do that after the drawing is created by Advance Steel. Another thing that will help is to create blocks of typical details that you use over and over and then tweak the block once you import in into your drawing.... lets face it.... we don't want to get bogged down in these time consuming manual editing routines that have an adverse effect on our output as detailers.

On another note Tekla has an absolutely amazing utility called the "Wall Tool" It completely kicks butt and does everything you would ever want to do and more! including creating openings, multilayered walls etc, and all of this can be easily done on top of a imported plan view overlay. Unfortunately for us Tekla's misc metals capabilities are poor compared to Advance Steel so we only use Tekla for structural jobs. Just for kicks check out Tekla's "Wall Tool" on YouTube. It's really an amazingly well thought out and implemented tool.

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