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Advance Steel 2010

What is new in

Advance Steel 2010


Advance Steel 2010

AutoCAD® 2010

Compliancy


Advance Steel 2010 – AutoCAD 2010

Advance Steel 2010 is compliant with the latest version of AutoCAD®:

AutoCAD 2010


Advance Steel 2010

Improved user

interface


Advance Steel 2010 – Ribbon

Easy to navigate

User friendly

Use the Advance Steel ribbon for increased productivity

Well organized


Advance Steel 2010 – Property dialog boxes

Go faster through the element properties

The properties are better grouped in the left of the dialog boxes

for easier access to the different properties.


Advance Steel 2010

Performance


Advance Steel 2010 – Performance 1/2

Get your drawings much faster

AS2010 vs AS2009

It is 30% faster to get all workshop drawings having a

BOM within the drawing

25 Tons

530 Tons



AS2010 vs AS8.1






Advance Steel 2010 – Performance 2/2

General arrangement drawings:

much faster creation and changing of a view property (e.g.

scale) in a drawing

Performance improvements for …

Modeling: displaying in shade mode is the same speed as

displaying in wireframe mode

General arrangement drawings:

possible to create from much bigger models using the

“slice by slice” creation

Modeling: models with more than double the size can be

handled faster compared to the previous version


Advance Steel 2010

Modeling


Advance Steel 2010 – Better shade mode

No need to go back to wire frame display, you can see (and

modify) all features and cuts even in shade mode!

See all features and cuts also in shade mode


Advance Steel 2010 – Model views

– Simplification of the different existing possibilities

– Can also be created from the grid or from a joint box

Work easily in 2D

– Can be modified (e.g. renamed) afterwards

– Depth clipping of the objects, only the object part visible

in the view box is displayed


Advance Steel 2010 – “Quick” views

– Quick view on an object

– Quick view on an assembly

Create “quick” views on objects

– Quick view on a joint

Selecting one of the

displayed arrow will create a

2D view along this arrow,

and the user can define the

depth and the size of this

view.


Advance Steel 2010 – View selected object

These different options are available with an icon:

– View selected object(s)

– Hide selected object(s)

– View selected assembly(s)

– Hide selected assembly(s)

Display only what you require


Advance Steel 2010 – Beam clearance

Simply select the beams, enter the gap value

(e.g. 20) and the beam is moved to get the desired

clearance… very useful tool for the design of trusses!

Enter the desired gap and beams will be automatically offset


Advance Steel 2010 – Improved hole check

More accurate checking of holes/bolts placement

The Steel checking tool enables:

Search (and display) a result like it does for a collision

Find and display a bolt or a weld which connects nothing

Detect that the distance is not respected between different bolt groups

Use a new default for maximum distance between holes (or bolts)

Consider slotted holes


Advance Steel 2010 – Extended copy tools

– All copy options are available from the same dialog box

More options with the Advance Steel copy

– This gives the option to also copy connections with the

mirror copy


Advance Steel 2010 – Other modeling tools

Select a joint, select several beams, the joint is created

between the different selected beams!

Multiple joint copy: faster copy of a joint

Trim/extend a beam to an AutoCAD line or 2 points

Select a straight or a curved beam and trim it (or extend it) to

the selected line or points!


Advance Steel 2010 – New libraries

– Updated Ayshire profiles

– Updated Lindap profiles

Extended libraries for profiles and bolts

– Updated Polish bolts

– Updated SADEF profiles

– Updated Polish anchors


Advance Steel 2010 – Enhanced multi-user

A user-friendly dialog box can be used to see which user

has currently checked out elements.

Better visualize who is connected

to the 3D model


Advance Steel 2010

Joints


Advance Steel 2010 – Connection vault

New user-friendly connection vault

– All connections in one place

– Sample previews to give an idea of the possibilities

– Select a joint and use it directly from the connection vault!


Advance Steel 2010 – Cage ladder macro

Complete new cage ladder macro

– Ladder with or without cage

– Different cage types

– Different cage exit types


Advance Steel 2010 – Truss macro

Complete new truss macro

Different truss types: “Warren”, “Pratt”, “Half-Pratt”

Can be created from tubes, angles with single or double sections

Beam clearance can be set from the dialog box

Chords can be straight or curved


Advance Steel 2010 – Stairs and railings

Railing: slotted contour on posts

Railing: new “loop return” option

Stairs with real grate treads

Stairs: rear bending angle

Spiral stairs: middle rail as flat

Several new options


Advance Steel 2010 – Purlin/Side rail macro

Complete new purlin/side rail macro

Offset value can be set individually for each purlin

Gap between purlins can be specified

Beam clearance can be set from the dialog box

Purlins overlap each other by setting a negative gap

Model role can be set within the properties dialog box

Purlin sections can be stored in a library for later reuse


Advance Steel 2010 – Bracing macro

Complete new bracing macro

Different bracing types: “Crossed”, “Single”, “Inserted”

Different member types: “Simple”, “Double mirrored”, “Double flipped”

Number of fields definable

Offset can be set individually for bracing members

Values can be stored in a library


Advance Steel 2010 – New Joints 1/10

New plate haunch to column web joint

Different flange types

Several options for stiffeners

Galvanizing holes available



New plate haunch to column flange joint

Different flange types

Several options for stiffeners

Galvanizing holes available



Tube bracing for 1 diagonal

Tube brace – gusset

Tube brace – angle

Tube brace – gusset & kidney hole

Tube brace – angle & kidney hole



Tube bracing for 2 diagonals







Tube bracing for 3 diagonals







New base plate Joint

Options for sloped and/or vertical stiffeners

Column can be cut or coped

Can be applied to welded I beams



New tube end to end Joint



New joist stabilizer plate joint

New flat bracing for 2 diagonals



New double beam to post joint

New stair anchor with angle

New stair anchor with base plate



New binding plates joint

Bolts on gauge line with 2 secondary beams


Advance Steel 2010 – Joint Design 1/2

Bracing joints include Joint Design according to AISC

Joint Design available for “Gusset plate for 2 diagonals” joint

Joint Design available for “Gusset plate for 3 diagonals” joint

Can be “Checked” and/or “Pre-sized”

Report automatically created


Advance Steel 2010 – Joint Design 2/2

Joint Design reports can be created in MS Word format

New available “AISC/EC3 joint design report format” default

Reports can be obtained in RTF format or in HTML format


Advance Steel 2010

Drawings


Advance Steel 2010 – Curved beam unfolding

– A curved beam can be displayed unfolded on drawings

– Its elongation calculation can be configured with a default

Automatic unfolding of curved beams on workshop drawings


Advance Steel 2010 – Polybeam unfolding

Automatic unfolding of polybeams on workshop drawings

– A polybeam can be displayed unfolded on drawings

– Its elongation calculation can be configured with a default


Advance Steel 2010 – Improved file names

Changing the prototype file used by a drawing

automatically modifies its file name.

Drawing file name automatically updated

if drawing format changed


Advance Steel 2010 – Document manager

Changing the prototype file can be done for more than

one drawing with the “Change prototype” button.

Change the prototype file from the Document Manager


Advance Steel 2010 – Cut symbol for end plate

– New “Display a cut symbol for end plate views” default

A cut symbol can be displayed for end plate views on assembly drawings


Advance Steel 2010 – Dimension styles

A drawing created with Advance Steel can be obtained using

more accurate settings for each different dimension:

Dimension style for linear dimensions

Dimension style for angle dimensions

Dimension style for angular dimensions

Dimension style for radial dimensions

Dimension style for slope triangle dimensions

More accuracy in used dimension styles


Advance Steel 2010 – Better outputs 1/2

An angle dimension is automatically better placed

(in order to avoid overlapping on the object)

Better automatic angle dimension placement


Advance Steel 2010 – Better outputs 2/2

Whatever shape the slope triangle has, the texts stay

horizontal in order to be easily readable on drawings

Better slope triangle presentation


Advance Steel 2010

BOMs


Advance Steel – New BOMs on drawings

Get your BOMs efficiently on workshop drawings

Major improvements for BOMs on drawings

Easier to configure, very user-friendly to define

BOM template in DWG file format

AutoCAD®-based configuration

Much faster workshop drawings creation


Advance Steel – Improved saw cut list

Get a saw cut list with cut dimensions

Saw cut list for beams having a double cut

A saw cut list can show cut dimensions in addition

to saw cut angle values.

A new default allows the displaying of beams having

a double cut within a saw cut list with pictures


Advance Steel 2010

NC-DSTV files


Advance Steel – Curved beam NC files

Automatic creation of NC files for curved beams

NC-DStV file created automatically

Header filled with the correct information for fabrication

Can be updated from the Document Manager


Advance Steel – Polybeam NC files

Automatic creation of NC files for polybeams

NC-DStV file created automatically

Header filled with the correct information for fabrication

Can be updated from the Document Manager


Advance Steel 2010

BIM - GTC


Advance Steel – Compound beams

Compound beams transferred

between Advance Steel and Advance Design


Advance Steel 2010

New Flexlm protection


Advance Steel – Better protection

More flexibility with latest used technology

Latest used Flexlm technology (Acresso):

Speeds up license deliveries to end-users

Can borrow a license from a network license server

Easily move the license from one computer to another


Advance Steel 2010

“About” dialog box


Advance Steel – “About” dialog box

More information in the “About” dialog box

– Installation type displayed (e.g. German installation)

– Advance Steel package displayed (e.g. Premium package)


Advance Steel 2010

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