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Created by Dumitru Berteanu, Mihai Sandu and Cristina Jianu

Advance Steel A software dedicated to create steel structure models and generate fabrication documents: detail drawings, CNC data, BoM lists.

Revit Steel and Concrete Extension Allow users to transfer models between Revit and Advance Steel / Concrete, or other software. Using the GTC format when transferring between Revit and Advance Steel has the advantage that section profiles are mapped to native Revit beam families.

Files transferred - .gtc is the main format used by the plug-in - Other supported formats are: IFC, CIS/2, PSS, SDNF

Introduction

Advance Steel and Advance Concrete Revit plug-in 2015


Transferred Elements (.gtc) Advance Steel Revit

Class Object Type Revit Advance Steel Advance Steel Revit

General Level

Grid

Steel beams

Beam

Column

Compound beam

Welded beam

Tapered beam

Curved beam

Poly beam

Folded beam

Aluminum beam

Plates

Rectangular plate

Polygonal plate

Circular plate

Folded plate

Twisted folded plate

Conical folded plate

Wood Timber beam




Concrete elements

Wall

Polygonal wall

Slab

Polygonal slab

Concrete beam

Concrete curved beam

Concrete column

Isolated footing

Continuous footing

Grating

Standard grating

Bar grating

Variable grating, rectangular

Variable grating, polygonal

Connection elements

Bolts

Anchors

Shear Studs

Welds

Holes (only on plates)




Beam features

Shorten

Contour

Cope

Weld preparation

Corner cut

Cope (from Revit) (only shorten)

Plate features

Shorten

Contour (only polygonal)

Weld preparation

Corner cut

Structural analysis results

Torsor (N,V,M)

Legend: - is present in the source application, is imported in the target application (limitation) - is present in the source application, is NOT imported in the target application - is NOT Available in the source application


Transferred Elements (.gtc)

Advance Concrete Revit

Object Type Revit Advance Concrete Advance Concrete Revit

Grid

Wall

Column

Slab

Beam

Isolated footing

Continuous footing

Piles

Doors

Windows

Slab holes

Wall Openings

Connections


Advance Steel Revit

Clip angle

Shear plate

Connections


Advance Steel Revit

Moment end plate

Apex haunch

Settings


Settings dialog is accessible from the Revit plug-in ribbon command

It offers the following options: • Path configuration for Revit library –

Steel section definitions

• Turns on/off the section mapping

functionality

• Allows manual mapping definitions to

get saved in the database

• Allows the import of Plate objects in

Revit

• Disable the automatic Revit joint for

steel beams during import

Exports shortening to Advance Steel for beams joined automatically by Revit

Turns on/off the import/export of only structural elements (beams, columns, etc.)

Level import/export

• Levels are transferred between Revit and Advance Steel

• In Advance Steel the levels are handled by the Project Explorer.

• When importing in Revit, the level is created and objects are attached to it accordingly


• Levels that don’t have objects attached to them are not transferred

• In Advance Steel, objects are associated to levels, but not attached to them.

Synchronization

• Synchronization option allows the user to update the modifications done without having to re-import the whole structure.

• Its done by comparing an exported GTC file from the modified model with the current model

• All modifications will appear in a list

• List content can be filtered

• The user can apply the modifications partially or totally through a series of options


Section mapping

• Why do we need a mapping database while transferring via .gtc? – Section name different between software.

– For example the Advance Steel section HEA400 is named as HE400A in Revit. Mapping database will associate the two names and realize the import with the proper section

• What is the mapping process used during transfer


Section mapping

• Mapping database is GTCMapping2015.mdb

It can be found in C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\Advance\Data

• It supports mapping definition for profiles, profile rotation , bolts and materials


• Mapping can exist as : - 1 to 1 mapping, where each section size is mapped individually - Rule based mapping, where a certain rule using tokens will allow the mapping of an entire class in one definition line • Current version of the Advance Steel and Concrete Revit extension contains mapping

for the most used sections from U.S. and U.K. Revit libraries • All manual mappings requested by Advance Steel or Revit during import are saved in


• the database for further use as one to one mapping.

• Mapping configuration can be made country dependent, which allows specific country mapping selectable during import/export

Section mapping

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