Advance Steel is specifically developed for industry professionals that require a comprehensive and completely integrated package in AutoCAD®. Advance Steel is an affordable user friendly software that automates the entire structural CAD process (fabrication, erection drawings, various reports) and creates NC fabrication data in AutoCAD®.

Perfectly embedded in AutoCAD®, Advance Steel is a modeling package that accelerates the creation of general arrangement drawings, fabrication drawings, list of materials and NC files: complete library of structural elements, parametric and customisable connections, wizards for miscellaneous steel (stairs, railing…), materials library, sections, bolts… From the model, Advance Steel creates all fabrication drawings and offers a large selection of tools for automatic detail creation, dimensions, annotations, symbols and drag and drop printing layouts.	Click above for 7 minute streaming video on Advance Steel

	All the tools are provided for fast and efficient modeling. Creating a precise model is important since Advance Steel will subsequently create all project documents (drawings, lists, NC files). In the first step, Advance Steel provides the user with a large library of structural elements and design functions like:    Common Industry Frames, Bracings…    Common Profiles    Common Roofs    Steelwork (stairs, railings, ladders...including joints)    Welded, tapered and curved beams    Plates management tools
Advance Steel works in 2D or 3D according to the user's habits and the type of structure being designed. Advance Steel supports all basic AutoCAD® concepts and functions (snap points, grip points, copy...)

In the second step, Advance Steel has libraries of customizable automatic joints (more than 300 joints) and offers the possibility to create specific joints using a wide range of tools:

   Polygonal cuts on plate and beam (cope, along centerline, polygonal, on the       UCS, with an angle...)
   Placement of bolts, holes and shear studs
   Welded connections

Advance Steel assigns automatic part marks. Through dialog boxes, the user can define the numbering prefix, method, starting number and increment. Advance Steel will then proceed to final checking: element collisions, tool access (buildability), and consistency of element marks (fabrication, delivery and assembly)...

Knowledge Engineering: Advance Steel integrates a new adaptive technology that dramatically automates and accelerates joint creation. When creating a joint, Advance Steel analyses its environment and recognizes if a similar situation has occurred in the past, the software then suggests the optimal joint in the desired category while taking into account its structural integrity. (*Only available for certain types of joints and standards.)

Joint Design thanks to OMNITECH Partnership Thanks to the partnership OMNITECH / GRAITEC, Advance Steel can now automatically design common joints. Create your joint in Advance Steel, just indicate the efforts (kip) and Advance Steel will use the Descon engine to design the joint. The right number of bolts, plate thickness, etc. are automatically set in Advance Steel and a calculation report is available!

Joint designed with OMNITECH Descon. Click on the picture to see the video

	Once the design is finished, Advance Steel offers a wide range of automatic functions to create all the fabrication and general arrangement drawings. The user can choose from a large range of formats (e.g. A4 to A0) and different page layout templates. Each detailed drawing is created as an individual DWG file. The details are automatically labeled and dimensioned. The user can customize the drawing layout according to special requirements with the Drawing Style Manager.

General Arrangement drawings    Automatic creation of an isometric view from the project, with many different label       possibilities.    2D drawings, such as elevation, anchor or roof plans are automatically labeled and       dimensioned.    Function for automatic view creation on the drawing for special situations, like a complex detail       or a base point with the foundation.    Flexibility in the choice of the presentation rules for the details.

Fabrication drawings   Creation of individual fabrication drawings for single and assembly parts   Automatic drawing creation by processes   All parts are automatically dimensioned and labeled with the required information   Dimension lines can be presented as Relative, Running or Ordinate   Function for part unfolding and tube templates   Required cuts from the main view will be created automatically The Final Touch   Automatic creation of a view when adding a cut line or other detail   Possibility to change scale, clipping and presentation of the details within the drawing   Additional dimension lines (e.g. Arc, Angle….) can be created and modified   Quick additional label insertion by selecting the desired information directly from the model

Once the drawings are completed, bills of material (BOM), lists and NC files can be created. The user can choose among different predefined or custom formats: content definition, insertion of logos, customizable sorting...

Advance Steel Document Manager is a user friendly centralized time saving tool to check drawings, sort out details and print bills of materials.

Graitec is an active member of the DSTV standard association and our software creates NC code that is 100% compatible to most North American (and worldwide) machinery manufacturers. The following manufacturers have confirmed their full compliance to the DSTV standard and are cooperating with us to further streamline the design to fabrication process.

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100% AutoCAD® ! Advance Steel uses ObjectARX to it's fullest. This advanced Autodesk technology provides users with professional objects such as beams, columns, bars perfectly integrated to AutoCAD® on which most standard functions can be applied (copy, paste, extend, trim, stretch...). The native file format of Advance suites is a 100% Autodesk compliant DWG file that any AutoCAD® station can interact with. GRAITEC is ADN (Autodesk Application Developer) since 1997 and UAR (Unique Application Reseller) since 2001.

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