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A Guide To Advance Steel Dimensions

Aleck Giles

Friday, 06 April 2018

General Advance Steel

The parametric dimensioning tools in Advance Steel are incredibly effective, handling different scales and clipped (shortened) views without the user even thinking about it. Unfortunately, the trade off for this functionality seems to be that certain dimension commands are a bit more fiddly to use than the plain AutoCAD equivalents. This seems to particularly affect the Arc Length, Angle and Radiu...

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Why Advance Steel Users Should Be Using Copy With Adjustment

Rob Merriman

Monday, 19 February 2018

General Advance Steel

Why Advance Steel Users Should Be Using Copy With Adjustment

A lot of the models we create in Advance Steel have objects that are replicated throughout, but the positioning or angles may be different. For example, a model containing a stair with 20 flights might have 10 different flight angles, and it can be time consuming and frustrating to set out the bolts, welds or features for all these items individually. The Copy with Adjustment tool will solve all o...

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How to find the start point of a created beam in Advance Steel 2018

Janet Black

Tuesday, 02 January 2018

General Advance Steel

How to find the start point of a created beam in Advance Steel 2018

Whilst searching the forum, I found an intriguing Autodesk Advance Steel question and I thought I would create a short video to address the issue. Here is the dilemma: you are working on many projects simultaneously, and while jumping from one project to another, you notice that in some of the drawings, your beam orientation is not as you expected. It would be great if, in the steel structure, you...

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A Christmassy use for Advance Steel Plate Commands and Functions

Rob Merriman

Wednesday, 20 December 2017

General Advance Steel

A Christmassy use for Advance Steel Plate Commands and Functions

With Christmas just around the corner, what better way to kick off the festivities and get everyone in the festive spirit than by showing how the Autodesk Advance Steel plate commands can be used to create our very own Graitec Christmas Tree. You can now watch our Graitec screencast, showing how we created the tree and the steps we went through. The plate commands that were used are the following...

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How to centre the text in the grid bubble using Advance Steel 2018

Janet Black

Wednesday, 20 December 2017

General Advance Steel

How to centre the text in the grid bubble using Advance Steel 2018

Recently I had a client who was concerned about the placement of the text in the grid bubble. He noticed that the text was not centred as he would have liked. Fortunately, you are able to customize and adjust the text in Advance Steel 2018. The grid line text bubble can be modified from the Advance Steel Management tools “Default” category. Simply select the “Use filter” box and type ball in the f...

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