Autodesk Advance Steel

Educational goals

The aim of the training is to improve skills and automate the processes of creating steel structure documentation in Autodesk Advance Steel, including the customization and edition of tool templates enabling work automation. The ability to quickly prepare project documentation and adapt it to the requirements of the ordering party allows us to obtain new orders and meet the increasing requirements of projects.

Attendee can: 

• create a parametric 3D model
• insert and modify construction elements
• create and modify steel connections
• validates the model
• automate the process of numbering steel elements
• automate the generation of technical documentation (drawing sheets and lists)

Course schedule – Autodesk Advance Steel

Introduction to working in the program:

• Overview of the application’s capabilities
• Interface
• Tool palette, etc.

Getting started:

• Template file
• Design options settings,
• Advance Steel specific commands,
• Coordinate systems
• AutoCAD objects and Advance Steel objects
• Visualization styles

3D modeling:

• Setting the building grid,
• Inserting sections (beams, sheet columns),
• Methods of sheet metal modeling,
• Editing items,
• Tools for introducing treatments,
• Modification of flashings, bent sheets,
• Ways of presenting model elements

Parametric connection:

• Parametric link libraries
• Inserting and editing connections
• Connection properties
• Tools for copying and grouping connections
• Saving connections in the library

Nonparametric connection:

• Creation and modification of bolted connections
• Assortment of fasteners
• Creation of a welded joint
• Creating a user connection database

Model management:

• Selection and marking of elements
• Using selection filters
• Properties of 3D objects
• Quick views
• Model browser
• Project Explorer,
• File structure
• Management Tools – Customize the default program settings

Model validation:

• Searching for collisions in the model
• Validating the technical conditions of the steel structure
• Checking the center of gravity and total weight of the structure
• Checking the load capacity of connections

Modeling of complex elements:

• Constructing stairs and railings
• Inserting concrete and wooden elements
• Special Elements

Numbering – advanced settings:

• Setting and changing of prefixes
• Object functions
• Numbering options
• Create a dummy shipping item
• Numbering control
• Change management in numbering

Tools supporting model management:

• Project Explorer
• Model browser
• Configuring the default settings of the program
• Customize Advance Steel tool palettes

Drawing prototypes:

• Structure of drawing sheet templates,
• Creating and editing a drawing sheet template (frame, table, descriptions)
• Setting and editing of attributes
• Arrangement of details on the sheet

Drawing styles manager:

• Drawing style content
• Presentation of objects in drawings
• Setting labels, dimensions, etc.
• Modification of standard settings
• Create your own Styles

Drawing Process Manager:

• Modification of standard settings
• Generating drawing documentation
• Automatic generation of drawing sheets from the model

Material lists:

• Editing external statement templates
• Modification of BOMs in drawings

NC files:

• Generating CNC files (for machines),
• Edit settings
• Connection tags

Exchange of data

• Interoperability with other software