Advance Steel Tips & Tricks
Make shop drawings in Advance Steel with Drawing Processes or Drawing Styles: camera GAs, single parts and assemblies, where files are saved, and fixes.
Advance Steel Tips & Tricks
Create UCS and node cameras in Advance Steel, set the camera type and clipping, and generate drawings from them. Plus why a camera makes no drawing.
Advance Steel Tips & Tricks
Cope beams in Advance Steel with Cope, Parametric, Cope and Cope, Skewed from the Tool Palette Features tab, plus Shorten for angled end cuts.
Advance Steel Tips & Tricks
Find the total weight and center of gravity of a whole Advance Steel model, one part or one assembly with one tool, and know what the number includes.
Advance Steel Tips & Tricks
Change the Advance Steel background to a solid color, gradient or image, and fix a background that stays black (including in wireframe).
Advance Steel Tips & Tricks
Make a custom title block in Advance Steel: open Edit Prototypes, edit the blocks, keep the attributes working, add your logo and use the new prototype.
Advance Steel Tips & Tricks
Split the Advance Steel workspace into two, three or four viewports, set a different view in each, resize them, save the layout and go back to one view.
Advance Steel Tips & Tricks
Add rectangular and circular bolt patterns in Advance Steel, switch to holes or anchors, split bolt groups, read assembly names and fix missing bolts.
Advance Steel Tips & Tricks
Model a wall handrail in Advance Steel with the Wallrails tool: draw the path, set the rail, rods, wall plates and offsets, and check code clearances.
Advance Steel Tips & Tricks
Model a spiral stair in Advance Steel: pick center, height and radius, then set direction, angle, center post and stringers. Plus code checks.
Advance Steel Tips & Tricks
Make cage and simple ladders in Advance Steel: rotate the UCS first, then set rungs, wall brackets, exit and cage, and check the OSHA fixed ladder rules.
Advance Steel Tips & Tricks
Model a Monowills handrail in Advance Steel: where the tool is, how to place it, what each setting does and how construction type changes the BOM.
