Advance Steel 2012 packages

Available functionalities Standard Professional Premium
MODELING
• Create Structures over 10 tons.
• Structural elements, e.g. 3-hinged, portal frames and joists.
• 3- and 2-hinged frames
• Straight beams, curved beams, compound beams, welded beams.
• Plates, folded plates, gratings, folded beams.
• Assemblies (straight stairs, railings, spiral stairs, cage ladders).
• Shortening / Coping elements (shortening, cope, contour, miter cut ).
• Bolts, anchors, shear studs, holes.
• Advance modeling tools.
• Cladding.
• Concrete objects: beams, walls, slabs and footings.
• Timber objects: beams.
 
PREDEFINED JOINTS
• Connections between structural elements: base plate joints, column-beam connections,
beam-to-beam connections, purlin connections, bracing joints.
Steel connections checking according to forces: EC3, AISC-standards.
• Automatic joint creation.
• Quick-connections.
 
LIBRARIES
• Cold and hot rolled profiles, folded beams.
• Materials: steel, concrete, timber and other materials, etc.
• Bolts, nuts, washers.
• Shear studs.
• Anchors.
 
MODEL CHECKING
• Collision check between elements, bolts and elements and between bolts.
• Location check for connecting elements (welds or bolts).
• Construction tools access to check buildability.
• Consistency of elements numbering (fabrication, delivery and erection).
• Holes and bolts distance checking.
 
NUMBERING
• Numbering methods for parts and assemblies.
• User-defined numbering prefixes.
 
AUTOMATIC DETAILING
• 3D and 2D views (plan and elevations).
• Node details.
• Assemblies: details styles for columns, beams, bracings, plates.
• Parts: specific views, dimensions, labels.
 
LISTS
• Lists on drawings: part lists, assembly lists.
• External lists: BOMs, assembly lists, saw cut lists, folded plate lists.
 
NC FILES
• DSTV files.
• DXF files.
 
IMPORT / EXPORT
• SDNF, PSS, CIS/2, IFC, KISS, STAAD
BIM synchronization with Advance Design and Revit.
 
MULTI USER
• Possibility for several users to work together at the same time to create a model.
 

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