Autodesk Advanced Steel is an all powerful and trouble-free BIM 3D modeling solutions suite developed by GRAITEC which runs on AutoCAD for structural steel engineering, architectural designing, mechanical engineering, fabrication, different engineering projects and detailing, to increase the accuracy of deliverables. GRAITEC’s This Autodesk Advance Steel by GRAITEC can be used either as a standalone/independent application or as an tool perform the software from within AutoCAD.
This novel software comes up with tools allowing the users to procure interoperability flexibility and to be more combative in the world market of structural steel. It provides familiar interface that accelerates customization, application and performance which is very cost effective too.
Important Features of Autodesk Advanced Steel:
- Supports all basic AutoCAD tasks and ideas.
- Supports 3D modeling and 2D drawing
- Provides Design Export, Design Analysis and Document Management
- Has Mechatronics and Presentation Tools
- Can import and export GTC, PSS, CIS/2, KISS (‘Keep it Simple, Steel), DWG, DXF, SDNF, DSTV, IFC 2×3 file formats.
- Has sheet metal and plate work
- Can create automatically bill / lists of materials and NC files.
- Provides multi-user technology
- Can automatically label and measure dimensions of the drawings
- Can exchange data easily with Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Navisworks, Autodesk RobotTM Structural Analysis, and Autodesk BIM 360TM
- Helps to boost up designing and detailing that consumes less time.
Autodesk Advanced Steel Benefits:
- It is fast, takes less time to accomplish the task and does skilled modeling.
- It can work well both on 2D drawing and 3D modeling, according to the users’ choice.
- It also provides hole making facility.
- It is very friendly and easy to use, even for a beginner.
- The Autodesk Advanced Steel provides detailed description and guidelines for different truss. Even the user can attach them to beams and columns.
- Here one can easily export and import files.
- Here, it is easier to transmit model from one software to another through ‘model share’ technology.
- It allows the users to procure interoperability flexibility.
- Its automated drawing creation module is noteworthy as allows users to generate general arrangements and fabrication drawings easily and within very short time duration.
- The interaction between model and lay out can be done at ease.
- After the completion of the design or drawing one can easily create lists, bill of materials (BOM), and NC files.
- A long list of formats that includes customizable sorting, insertion of logos, content definition, and so on, is already given there. Users can simply chose from those predefined formats.
Autodesk Advance Steel Drawbacks:
- It does not have cycles and toolpath simulation.
- It cannot process 2 1 / 2-Axis Milling, 3-Axis Milling, 4-Axis Milling and 5-Axis Milling.
- For the large structures AS sometimes become unstable.
- Sometimes, the Commands suddenly collapse.
- Database connectivity and user defined cycles are absent here.
