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Graitec Advance Steel
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Advance Steel was specifically developed for industry professionals who require a comprehensive, completely integrated AutoCAD package. Advance Steel is affordable, user-friendly steel detailing software that automates the entire structural CAD process (fabrication, erection drawings, various reports) and creates NC fabrication data in AutoCAD. Download Graitec Advance Steel Brochure |
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| 100% Dedication to Steel Construction |
Perfectly embedded in AutoCAD, Advance Steel is a modelling package that accelerates the creation of general arrangement drawings, fabrication drawings, lists of materials and NC files: using a complete library of structural elements, parametric and customisable connections, wizards for miscellaneous steel (stairs, railings, etc), materials library.
From the model Advance Steel can create all fabrication drawings and offers a large selection of tools for automated detail creation, dimensions, annotations, symbols and drag and drop printing layouts.
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| Stairs and Railings |
With its advanced set of features, Advance Steel supports the design of complex structures such as straight stairs, spiral stairs and railings, etc. Advance Steel creates all necessary documents (including NC files) for the fabrication of stairs using a user selected template.
Stairs - quick and easy
Once the user has selected 2 points, the stair with stringers and treads (including connections to the stringers) is instantly created. The tread distances are calculated using a standard formula for determining the ergonomic height and length of each step. The stair can be modified using:
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| Structural Modelling |
All these tools provide fast and efficient modelling. Creating a precise model is important since Advance Steel will subsequently create all project documents (drawings, lists, NC files) from this model.
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| Automated Drawing Creation |
Once the design is completed, Advance Steel offers a wide range of automated functions to create all the fabrication and general arrangement drawings. A large range of formats (e.g A4 to A0) and different page layout templates are available. Each detailed drawing is created as an individual DWG file. The details are automatically labelled and dimensioned. The drawing layout may be customised to specific requirements using drawing style manager.
In addition to the creation of construction drawings, Advance Steel also provides complete structural estimation: volume of concrete, surface of formwork, etc.
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| Document Management |
Once the drawings are completed, bills of material (BOM), lists and NC files can be created. The user can select from different predefined or custom formats: content definition, insertion of logos, customisable sorting, etc.
Advance Steel Document Management is a user-friendly centralised time saving tool to check drawings, sort out details and print bills of materials.
| BIM technology : GRAITEC software interoperability and integration |
All Graitec programs can now easily communicate with the new BIM format that allows the exchange of models between applications and also the model's synchronisation, with no data loss and no need to re-input data!
Discover how Advance Steel is compatible with Autodesk Revit Structure.
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