GRAITEC Software Demos



For construction engineers and detailers seeking to improve their productivity and optimize their designs, GRAITEC offers a complete integrated CAD / Design solution for all reinforced concrete and steel construction projects. GRAITEC's solutions are unique in the Engineering and Construction industry.
Take a look to the following videos to see what we offer and ... contact your local GRAITEC representative!

Advance Steel


Get your cladding in place around your building
Get your cladding in place around your building
Advance Steel provides automatic tools to define the outside shape of your cladding area, the opening inside this area, and then with a single click you get the cladding profiles in place and precisely cut following your settings. A BOM can be then automatically created to get right quantities and lengths.

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Twisted box girder creation
Twisted box girder creation
Just create two construction circles, copy a few lines with a polar array copy command, and create some splines from lines to lines.
Then, with the easy-to-use Advance Steel functionality for twisted plate automatic creation, create the four sides of your box girder with a single click!

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A 9 minute glance at Advance Steel
A 9 minute glance at Advance Steel
This short presentation is an overview of the Advance Steel interface, tools and general workflow. In a few minutes you will have a general idea on how user friendly and comprehensive the package truly is. For more information or a live in-depth web demo please call toll free at 877-464-3366.

Multi-user mode to speed up projects
Multi-user mode to speed up projects

Advance Steel integrates the “Model Share” technology, a major extension to split big projects for several users.
See how easy it is to share a model between several users and how to create drawings.

Stairs and railings automatic creation
Stairs and railings automatic creation

Advance Steel has the most comprehensive automated visual macros for the creation of stairs and railings.
See how easy it is to create and modify stairs and railings including the drawing output.

Synchronization of an Advance Steel model with Advance Design
Synchronization of an Advance Steel model with Advance Design
An Advance Steel model can be synchronized with the GRAITEC Advance Design analysis software.
This gives users the ability to make as many changes as they want. They can then synchronize their model with the result of the analysis without losing any adjustments (e.g., add, modification, delete) that they made.
This is done with the unique Graitec Transfer Center (GTC), which prompts the user to accept (or reject) the new modifications made to their open model.

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Multi single part drawings for plates
Multi single part drawings for plates
Advance Steel has automatic tools to create multi drawings for single parts, in this example for plates.

Multi single part drawings for platesDownload WMV video file (31 MB)


Pressure vessels
Pressure vessels
See how easy Advance Steel creates pressure vessels.

Pressure vesselsDownload WMV video file (77 MB)


Create project lists
Create project lists
Advance Steel automatically creates all necessary project lists: Beam list, bolt list, material lists, etc. The default list layouts are easily modified to company requirements.

Drawing creation
Drawing creation
A short demo on the drawing creation process in Advance Steel.

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Free DWF Viewer
Free DWF Viewer
Export the Advance Steel model to 3DDWF for viewing and exchange.

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Create a 'Knee Joint'
Create a 'Knee Joint'
Advance Steel provides an automatic Knee Joint that connects a beam to a column with end plate and haunch. This demo highlights different connection possibilities for this particular joint.

Joint designed according to EC3 rules
Joint designed according to EC3 rules
Advance Steel can automatically design common joints according to EC3 (Eurocodes) rules. The joint is immediately checked to the given loads and a design report is created.

Use the AutoCAD Render benefits
Use the AutoCAD Render benefits
A new material in AutoCAD® can be assigned to Advance Steel objects to get a realistic render image.

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Create a complex folded plate within a few seconds
Create a complex folded plate within a few seconds
Advance Steel provides automatic tools for complex folded plate creation and modifications like holes, openings, etc. Workshop drawings are automatically created with the unfolded shape, dimensions and labels.

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Joints designed with Advance engine
Joints designed with Advance engine
Advance Steel can now automatically design common joints. Also, the new Quick Connect feature creates all common joints in a project and designs them according to North American and European norms.

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Advance Concrete


Dynamic Reinforcement Tutorial Lesson 1: Defining the sketch points
Dynamic Reinforcement Tutorial Lesson 1: Defining the sketch points
The dynamic reinforcement process starts in Advance Concrete by defining the required sketch points.
Advance Concrete creates sketch points, by default, on the object geometry. To complete it, create sketch points and modify their properties (e.g., distance, value, etc.). In this lesson create the sketch points for the reinforcement solution: the start and the end points of each distribution.


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Dynamic Reinforcement Tutorial Lesson 2: Adding the reinforcement elements
Dynamic Reinforcement Tutorial Lesson 2: Adding the reinforcement elements
This lesson shows how to create a rectangular frame and the corresponding frame distributions using the sketch points.


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Dynamic Reinforcement Tutorial Lesson 3: Completing the reinforcement solution
Dynamic Reinforcement Tutorial Lesson 3: Completing the reinforcement solution
This movie describes how to complete the creation of a reinforcement solution. You will learn step by step how to create a reinforcement category, how to add parameters to this category and how to add formulas to parameters.


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Dynamic Reinforcement Tutorial Lesson 4: Applying the reinforcement solution
Dynamic Reinforcement Tutorial Lesson 4: Applying the reinforcement solution
This video shows how to apply the reinforcement solution to a model containing a beam centered on two columns.


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Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 1: Creating a building grid
Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 1: Creating a building grid
This movie is a tutorial on creating a building grid. In a few minutes you will learn how to use Advance Concrete features for modifying the grid representation and numbering.


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Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 2: Setting the building properties
Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 2: Setting the building properties
In this tutorial you will select the working units. Also, you will learn how to set the building properties (e.g., name, default level height, etc.).

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Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 3: Creating columns
Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 3: Creating columns
This movie is a tutorial on column creation. You will create columns with various sections, from the Advance Concrete section library. Also, you will use AutoCAD tools to accelerate the modeling or to view the model in a realistic style.

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Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 4: Creating walls
Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 4: Creating walls
This movie is a tutorial on wall creation. You will create straight walls in the underground level of a building. The outer walls are made of concrete while the inner walls are made of bricks. You will learn how to modify the wall properties (e.g., material, thickness, etc.) and adjust the position.

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Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 5: Creating beams
Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 5: Creating beams
In this tutorial you will create straight beams with rectangular sections in the underground level of the building. You will learn how to modify a section from the section library.

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Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 6: Creating slabs
Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 6: Creating slabs
In this tutorial you will create slabs by automatic detection in the underground level of a building.

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Wlakthrough Tutorial, Lesson7: Creating ramps
Wlakthrough Tutorial, Lesson7: Creating ramps
This movie is a tutorial on ramp creation. Two roof surfaces are created starting from an AutoCAD® polyline and then they are used to create the ramps.

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Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 8: Creating openings
Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 8: Creating openings
In this tutorial you will create various openings: slab and wall openings, niches, door and window openings, etc.

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Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 9: Creating a foundation
Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 9: Creating a foundation
This movie illustrates the creation of a foundation with elevator pit. The foundation is created using the Advance slab tool.

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Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 10: Creating building levels
Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 10: Creating building levels
This movie illustrates the use of the "Copy level" tools. You will learn how to create new building levels by copying existing levels and how to copy elements from one level to another.

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Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 11: Creating drawings
Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 11: Creating drawings
Once the model is completed, learn how to create cuts, elevations, and isometrics.

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Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 12: Creating dimensions
Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 12: Creating dimensions
In this tutorial you will learn to create intersection dimensions, associative dimension and point-by-point dimensions.

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Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 13: Column reinforcement
Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 13: Column reinforcement
This movie describes how to reinforce a column with a rectangular section using Advance reinforcement tools. You will learn how to use rectangular frames and linear distributions.

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Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 14: Beam reinforcement
Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 14: Beam reinforcement
This movie describes how to reinforce a beam with a rectangular section using Advance reinforcement tools. You will learn how to create a custom reinforcement template drawing and how to add the reinforcement elements: straight bars, rectangular frames, and free distributions.

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Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 15: Creating a layout
Walkthrough Tutorial, Lesson 15: Creating a layout
This movie is a tutorial on drawing layouts. You will learn to create a drawing layout (with title block) and a new layout presentation style.

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Advance Design


Working with design roles
Working with design roles
This video tutorial helps you discover how to define design roles in Advance Design for a steel analysis. Once created, design roles are assigned to the corresponding elements. Thus, you can configure the desired design properties once, and then easily apply them, with one click of the mouse, to a selection of elements.

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Steel profiles calculation
Steel profiles calculation
This is a short demonstration of how to configure and run the steel analysis, using the specialized commands available in Advance Design: selecting the load combinations taken into account in the steel analysis, defining the global steel design hypotheses and running the steel calculation sequence.

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Displaying Steel analysis results
Displaying Steel analysis results
Discover the various functionalities dedicated to steel results post-processing available in Advance Design.
Once the steel calculation is done, the dedicated results post-processing tools are activated and ready to use. Thus, you'll be able to view the results distribution on steel profiles by colors, values, on selection, by filtered elements, etc.
You can also learn how to view the shape sheet for each calculated steel element, and how to create a report from it.

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Steel profiles optimization
Steel profiles optimization
This is an example of using the steel profiles optimization feature, available with the steel design module of Advance Design.

Steel profiles optimizationDownload WMV video file (61 MB)


Calculation reports and saved post-processings
Calculation reports and saved post-processings
This video sequence presents the different functionalities of Advance Design report generator. You will see how easy it is to configure and to create a detailed customized report. At the same time, you will learn how to store post-processings and how to include them in the calculation report.

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Synchronization of an Autodesk Revit Structure model with Advance Design
Synchronization of an Autodesk Revit Structure model with Advance Design
An Autodesk Revit Structure model can be exported to Advance Design, the finite elements analysis software of GRAITEC, using the new GTC format.
The initial model is synchronized with the analysis and optimization result, without losing any adjustments (e.g., add, modification, delete).
The user can select which modifications to apply to the initial model.

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Advance Design: Introduction
Advance Design: Introduction
This video offers a preview of the Advance Design user interface, from the modeling step to the generation of a design report.

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Advance Design: Modeling and meshing
Advance Design: Modeling and meshing
This video illustrates several Advance Design modeling and meshing functions while demonstrating the creation of a model.

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Advance Design: Post-processing of results
Advance Design: Post-processing of results
This video illustrates post-processing functions and the updated results.

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Synchronization of an Advance Steel model with Advance Design
Synchronization of an Advance Steel model with Advance Design
An Advance Steel model can be synchronized with the GRAITEC Advance Design analysis software.
This gives users the ability to make as many changes as they want. They can then synchronize their model with the result of the analysis without losing any adjustments (e.g., add, modification, delete) that they made.
This is done with the unique Graitec Transfer Center (GTC), which prompts the user to accept (or reject) the new modifications made to their open model.

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Meshing capabilities available in Advance Design
Meshing capabilities available in Advance Design
This demo illustrates the various meshing capabilities of Advance Design: two available meshing engines (Delaunay or Grid), ability to combine or to use exclusively "triangle" or "quadrangles" elements with 3, 4, 6 or 9 nodes. Once the mesh has been created, you'll discover the different ways to modify and refine it in no time (using lines and polylines, defining progressive mesh, etc.).

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