It is all about getting the deliverables out in the fastest time possible - GA and fabrication drawings, Bill of Materials (BOMs) and Numerical Control (NC) data.ĪEC Magazine last looked at Advance Steel in the summer of 2012. While other vendors like Tekla are looking to extend their BIM tools to cover the entire building process from conceptual design to fabrication, erection and construction management, Advance Steel is still very much focused on the essence of steel fabrication. Graitec describes Advance Steel as a structural Building Information Modelling (BIM) solution, but this is very much in the traditional sense of the ubiquitous three-letter acronym.

Parametric macros are used to accelerate the connection design, automatically adding nuts, bolts, welds and plates to the model, and checking against Euro codes. It features a vast library of intelligent, object-based steel elements. The software is all about ease of modelling and efficiency, with experienced users able to knock up a basic fabrication model in a matter of minutes. Custom connections allow users to create fully parametric ‘intelligent’ connections

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