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Autodesk Advance Steel is a 3D modeling software for steel detailing, fabrication, and construction. Use Advance Steel to connect design and fabrication when working in BIM to improve communication between steel engineers, designers, and detailers.
The software helps advance projects effectively from design to fabrication, with clearer design intent and less rework. Use Advance Steel with the AEC Collection to run structural analyses, automate design processes, create and solve for complex geometry, and detect and mitigate clashes in preconstruction.
Structural engineers, steel detailers, and fabricators use Advance Steel to design, detail, fabricate, and install steel structural systems. AEC professionals choose Advance Steel to automatically generate fabrication shop drawings and bills of material with ready-to-use templates, and to produce numerical control files to direct and automate CNC machines for fabrication.
Autodesk Advance Steel is a 3D modeling software for steel detailing, fabrication, and construction. Use Advance Steel to connect design and fabrication when working in BIM to improve communication between steel engineers, designers, and detailers.\n
\nThe software helps advance projects effectively from design to fabrication, with clearer design intent and less rework. Use Advance Steel with the AEC Collection to run structural analyses, automate design processes, create and solve for complex geometry, and detect and mitigate clashes in preconstruction.\n"}]},"@type":"Question","name":"Who uses Advance Steel?","acceptedAnswer":["@type":"Answer","text":"Structural engineers, steel detailers, and fabricators use Advance Steel to design, detail, fabricate, and install steel structural systems. AEC professionals choose Advance Steel to automatically generate fabrication shop drawings and bills of material with ready-to-use templates, and to produce numerical control files to direct and automate CNC machines for fabrication.\n"],"@type":"Question","name":"Which versions of Advance Steel can I use if I subscribe to the current version?","acceptedAnswer":["@type":"Answer","text":"Your Advance Steel subscription gives you access to install and use the 3 previous versions. Available downloads are listed in your Autodesk Account after subscribing. See also\u202fprevious releases available for subscribers.\n"],"@type":"Question","name":"Can I install Advance Steel on multiple computers?","acceptedAnswer":["@type":"Answer","text":"With a subscription to Advance Steel software, you can install it on up to 3 computers or other devices. However, only the named user can sign in and use that software on a single computer at any given time. Please refer to the\u202f Software License Agreement for more information.\n"],"@type":"Question","name":"How do I convert my Advance Steel free trial to a paid subscription?","acceptedAnswer":["@type":"Answer","text":"Launch your trial software and click Subscribe Now on the trial screen or buy Advance Steel here. When buying your subscription, enter the same email address and password combination you used to sign in to your trial. Learn more about\u202fconverting a trial to a paid subscription.\n"],"@type":"Question","name":"How much does an Advance Steel subscription cost?","acceptedAnswer":["@type":"Answer","text":"The price of an annual Advance Steel subscription is\u202f, and the price of a 3-year Advance Steel subscription is\u202f. If you have infrequent users and are interested in a pay-as-you-go option, please visit www.autodesk.com/flex to learn more.\n"]],"@type":"FAQPage","@context":" "} Experience Advance Steel with the AEC Collection Better together for seamless integration
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So you should be able to find in the Advance steel prototype folder a series of files that are using paperspaces that are to ANSI sizes, These prototypes are set to use metric measurements and dimensions, typically they are prefixed with 'MM' to differentiate them from the inches ones.
The following is a rant not from the perspective of an advance steel user, but instead from someone who receive final product (dwg drawings) made with advance steel. I have some knowledge of advance steel because I used it in the past, but I got so mad with it I abandoned and went back to use autocad instead; I've hoped that with time things would have improved, but doesn't seems like it...
So my current affliction is that I am receiving some dwg drawings made with advance steel from an external firm for approval. These dwg files are not 3D contain all the geometry, but the 2D output drawings layouts.
And here comes the worse offender of them all: pass the fact I cannot take a direct measure because the geometry is scaled to whatever, usually I can always use the dimension line used at the same scale of the detail that will correctly display the correct measure, BUT, oh no, advance steel doesn't do that: the dimension line are not native autocad dimension line, which would be dynamic, but are instead static geometry, lines and text, that just gives the illusion of being dimension lines.
For example the "incident" that sparked my post is about a steel stairs: I simply needed to check for the width, depth and height of the step, the starting and ending level, and so on. That's why I prefer a real unit model instead of scaled geometry.
In 5-10 years will these 2D GAs be needed, probably not, but if the current requirement from a main contractor to the steel supplier is to upload a 3D model for Navisworks co-ordintation or similar as well as 2D GA's in PDF & DWG format, with the GA views in model space at 1:1 then it is worth looking at for the short term while the online sharing and sharing of 3D model technology continues to develop and be adopted.
I am a freelance designer of industrial buildings, designing structural steelwork,. cladding, facades, decking & stairs. My workflow uses the exploded DWG files as an x-ref into AutoCAD for 2D drafting of layouts & details.
When the steel model is updated, I run the update on the AS drawing and then re-explode it. I then use a basic macro to take this exploded dwg file from paper space and paste it into model space as a block at 1:1. When I update the x-refs in my 2D drawing these updates are then pushed through to my 2D layouts.
If AS could produce these DWG files for me straight from the software without the exploding & scaling it would be a great timesaver for me. What AS really needs is some sort of super camera. I would like a camera with a base point, and with the ability to produce a standard DWG file that could then be natively x-refed into 2D AutoCAD. In an ideal world I would also like the ability to draw on these camera created DWG files and turn them off and on in the Advance steel model space.
Advance Steel is a steelwork-detailing software package. It features dedicated macros for creating common connections and other structural elements, such as stairs, railings, ladders, bracing and portal frames. In addition, it automatically generates fully-dimensioned fabrication drawings, material lists and NC data for CNC workshop machines
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I have never used Advance Steel before and I am the only engineer/detailer at my new company - so I do not have anyone to bounce questions off of. So, my apologies, in advance, for all of the elementary questions that I will be asking....
Someone also contacted me via private message discussing one-on-one training (sorry, I would have to go back and look to see who it was). I truly do appreciate that, but I would like to get my feet wet first before I go that route. I feel that i would get more benefit out of advanced training vs. start-up training. just trying to spend the company money wisely.
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