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What's New in the Graitec PowerPack for Advance Steel 2021

The Graitec Powerpack 2021 for Advance Steel has now been released, the Powerpack is Graitec’s extension to Advance Steel which gives users more modelling tools, connections, templates, sections and data, this blog will run through what’s new in the ...

Common Challenges Faced With Complying to Employer Information Requirements (EIR)

The Employer Information Requirements (EIR) is designed to be included in the tender documents for the procurement of both a design team and the constructor. It is an important element to a BIM project, as they are used to set out clearly to the bidd...

What’s New in Autodesk Revit 2021

Revit 2021 is here, so what's new in Revit 2021, Autodesk have listened to its users and introduced enhanced tools and features to improve the Revit offering with improved tools from global Platform changes to specific tool across the industry sector...

Export Advance Steel to Inventor STEP or IGES File Format

by Dave Talbot

Friday, 13 December 2019

Advance Steel

Workflows between different Autodesk solutions can sometimes be a bit convoluted but most people will come up with a sensible work around that ultimately gives them a solution but may be somewhat cumb...

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Autodesk Advance Steel Autodesk Advance Steel Tips

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An Overview of Shared Views in Autodesk Inventor

by Nick Johns

Thursday, 12 December 2019

Mechanical

The ability to share a 3D model with almost anyone on practically any device makes “Shared Views” a really powerful function in Autodesk Inventor. A shared view is an online visual representation of t...

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FOMT Inventor Tips Digital Prototyping

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Is 5G Going to Revolutionise the Manufacturing Industry?

by Nick Johns

Monday, 09 December 2019

Mechanical

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“Smart robots assembling products from a plethora of manufacturing lines by physically reconfiguring themselves on the factory floor” “Security drones handling monotonous tasks ranging from monitoring...

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FOMT Digital Prototyping

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How To Spot Changes Easily With DWG Compare In Advance Steel

by Aleck Giles

Friday, 06 December 2019

General Advance Steel

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Changes to our Advance Steel models are a constant factor in life. However, it is not always easy to keep track of all the differences. Perhaps your architect has sent you a new layout to work from af...

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Autodesk Advance Steel Tips

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An Overview of the Autodesk Inventor Frame Generator Tool

by Nick Johns

Tuesday, 03 December 2019

Mechanical

Inventor is full of incredibly useful design tools which are aimed at increasing productivity in common manufacturing situations, one of these is the “Frame Generator”. By default, in Inventor, you wi...

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Inventor Tips

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Advance Design: How to Compute the Elastic Critical Load Ratio on a Steel Framework?

by Sara Santana Herrera

Thursday, 28 November 2019

Structural Design

Challenge When analysing the stability of a steel framework, it is important to make the difference between sway and non-sway frames. A frame may be classified as non-sway if its response to in-plane ...

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Structural Design BIM

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How to Manage Connection Groups using Load Envelopes in Advance Design

by Nicholas Sanders

Wednesday, 27 November 2019

Structural Design

When designing a steel structure, we want to group together steel connections which are likely to be of the same fabrication layout. Once grouped we can design for the ‘worst-case’ scenario – ultimate...

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Structural Design BIM

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How to use the Unwrap Command in Autodesk Inventor

by Nick Johns

Monday, 25 November 2019

Mechanical

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The Unwrap command in Inventor allows you to unwrap most shapes that cannot be flattened by the unfold command and saved or exported in different formats. Unwrap can be used to create a flat surface p...

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Inventor Tips

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Modelling Existing Steel In Advance Steel

by Rob Merriman

Thursday, 24 October 2019

General Advance Steel

Not all jobs are brand-new portal frames sitting on a slab, sometimes we need to detail steelwork that connects into existing steelwork. We still want to take advantage of the checking tools inside of...

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Autodesk Advance Steel Tips

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What's New In Revit 2020.1

by Simon Dickinson

Friday, 18 October 2019

General BIM

Autodesk have recently released Revit 2020.1 with some great new features, and in this blog I will look at some of the best ones under the headings of Connect, Create and Optimise. Connect Sketc...

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Revit tips

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What's New in the Graitec PowerPack for Advance Steel 2021

Common Challenges Faced With Complying to Employer Information Requirements (EIR)

What’s New in Autodesk Revit 2021

Export Advance Steel to Inventor STEP or IGES File Format

An Overview of Shared Views in Autodesk Inventor

Is 5G Going to Revolutionise the Manufacturing Industry?

How To Spot Changes Easily With DWG Compare In Advance Steel

An Overview of the Autodesk Inventor Frame Generator Tool

Advance Design: How to Compute the Elastic Critical Load Ratio on a Steel Framework?

How to Manage Connection Groups using Load Envelopes in Advance Design

How to use the Unwrap Command in Autodesk Inventor

Modelling Existing Steel In Advance Steel

What's New In Revit 2020.1

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