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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.

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Oh wait sorry. If it asks you to select sizes then it is working. It is a daunting process and takes some time. I found that if I export smaller files then the next file imported doesn't ask as much because it remembers from your last input. It is better than selecting the grade for the same beam 304 times. It doesn't seem to remember until the import is complete for one IFC. It sucks pretty bad.

Thanks for your input on this issue. I tried to import an ifc file into advance steel and instead of hitting ignore for some shapes I assigned the wrong profile. Now a bunch of shapes that are supposed to be channels, angles or wide flanges show up as the default HEA DIN 100 profile. Advance Steel has seemed to remember these choices and now whenever I try to import it those shapes keep showing up as the wrong member. Do you know of a way to reset the profile links?

Hit the go to last button and start scrolling up and you can find the cutoff point between defaults that were already there and the lines that were inserted during an import. Notice drastic change in the Key column. Just right click on the blue box at far left of row and click delete line. As for the db1 file, I don't know why it would be sent to you as the IFC should contain all the info you need. What software exported the files? I found that not all software export IFC the same.

The Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center (ASPPRC) is dedicated to excellence in the study of steel. The Center was initially established with support from the National Science Foundation as one of over fifty Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers, and is now self-sufficient with support from the global industry and a variety of federal agencies.

The way i am currently doing my cladding design is keeping all my structural steel projects in advanced steel and then exploding all my drawings to Autocad to do my sheeting layout and then do all my cladding detail section through's all manually without the aid of AS, all material quantities such as flashing/fixings are worked out manually.

-i could make user profiles for flashing i use often and folded beam tool for flashings i don't use often. (keep track of quantities+split mark numbers where the same flashing is needed at different lengths)

Obviously it is a lot more manual modelling placing fixings in the right spot and making sure flashing are positioned correctly but if someone else out there is doing it and has a few tips that would be great.

The cladding macro has an option to call up x fixings per sheet. this quantity is only shown on the specific Cladding list in the Uk build. I don't know about others. If you need to show exact positions of fixings then you will need to add your own to the bolts database but that only need doing once and will save time and improve accuracy on future jobs compared to 2D. There are plenty of articles on Autodesk to show how to add your own bolts.

Aleck Giles, Structures Consultant, Graitec

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Hi Aleck, glad to hear that what i'm thinking of is possible. The only thing i'm still questioning is how good will the section through drawings be for my cladding detail, i know AS likes to show cladding sheets with lots of lines for all the ridges and crowns which is too many lines for me (not sure, obviously in my model all the flashing will be flush with steelworks but in the cladding details ideally need a void or space between steels to show space for seals and fixings for example.

I think the easiest way to get around this is to mess with the drawings style for section through's and create a simpler custom 'cladding version' and then explode them in advanced steel to create the 'void' i need and clean up and edit as i need. (unless one already exists)

When you define your custom cladding profiles make sure you define an OuterContour that is basically just a rectangle and then an ExactOuterSection that is the proper shape. Then in your drawing styles you can use the Standard presentation of the cladding to get a simple rectangle for each sheet in Front or Top view but the Exact presentation when in Side (end) view. The only problem with this is that you will have clashes if the panels are supposed to overlap lengthways.

In real life the exact profiles would not clash just overlap. You do not want to add cuts or features as they will be shown as cuts on the exact sections too on the part drawings. Mind you even complex profiles with exact shapes still overlap so I think you should get away with it. You will need to test. Maybe in the model set the sheets to show Exact.