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!

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NEW - Advance Steel 2013 - Custom connections
Discover how Advance Steel 2013 lets you define your own custom connections (from simple to complex ones) and how you can easily reuse them by inserting them in any of your projects.
Custom connections get even more intelligent if you are using the new bricks which make the modifications much more automatic than ever!

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NEW - Advance Steel 2013 - Intelligent user dimensions on workshop drawings
With its new "Preferred for manual dimensions" osnap point, the user can choose with precision what to dimension (such as holes, features on the beam, chamfers on the plate, etc.) on workshop drawings (applicable both on single part and assembly drawings) and have automatic updates (with automatic revision clouds if specified) according to the modifications in the 3D model.

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NEW - Advance Steel 2013 - New purlin hip joints
Advance Steel 2013 provides new automatic connections for connecting purlins to hip and valley rafters.
In the properties dialog box, the user can modify any value such as the center plate or the wing plates and the result is immediately visible in the 3D model.
Thanks to Advance Steel 2013, it is now fast and easy to create such complex connections!

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10 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.

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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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Create your building in minutes with Advance Steel
Advance Steel is a complete 3D BIM steel detailing software providing automatic and user-friendly tools for creating the 3D model of your building in the best time.
From the creation of the portal frames to the generation of all cladding profiles, Advance Steel comes with numerous easy-to-use tools for purlins, side rails, automatic connections, stairs, railings and much more!

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Discover how you can easily create a gutter formed from a folded plate with Advance Steel!
This movie shows how you can easily create rectangular & polygonal plates for the all the different sides of a gutter and then use an automatic tool to get a gutter formed from a folded plate. As a result, this gutter can be automatically displayed unfolded in the modeling as a preview but also within NC files and workshop drawings for fabrication.

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Discover how easy mechanical parts (and other 3rd party models) are fully integrated within your 3D AS model
This movie shows how easy it is to insert a mechanical part and 3rd party models (as special parts with various user properties, such as weight, etc.) in the 3D model, and why Advance Steel is powerful enough to create high-quality workshop drawings and general arrangement drawings showing these mechanical parts. This movie is based on a real project done by our customer Ets J-C Fassler (France).

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ARTEC discovers Advance Steel 2012!
Patrice REMACLE, managing director of the engineering office ARTEC (France), explains how he uses Advance Steel daily to study the design of steel construction projects from the initial conception stage using the 3D model to the automatic creation of all related documents.
Mr. REMACLE also explains why he wanted to be associated with the validation of the new 2012 release of Advance Steel by being a beta tester. This gave him access to a pre-released version of Advance Steel 2012 in December 2011 allowing him to get familiar with the new features, and to provide suggestions and comments directly with the product management of the software.

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Transfer a 3D BIM model from REVIT Structure 2012 to GRAITEC Advance Steel
This movie shows the successful link between Autodesk REVIT Structure 2012 and Advance Steel, using the GRAITEC free plug-in (available at http://www.graitec.com/en/revit.asp)

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Advance Steel 2012 - CAD platform freedom
Advance Steel 2012 includes its own CAD graphics engine and provides the option to use Advance Steel with or without AutoCAD. This movie shows how easy it is to work on either platforms(model courtesy of Stahlbau Ziemann GmbH, Germany).

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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.

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Spiral stairs macro
Advance Steel 2012 provides new options in the powerful macro which helps users to easily create spiral stairs (with twisted stringers and railings, central column, treads etc.)

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Advance Steel 2012 - New turnbuckle joints
New turnbuckle joints with a complete product range of tension rod and compression strut systems - including DIN turnbuckles and AISC turnbuckles - are available with Advance Steel 2012.

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Advance Steel 2012 - New joints for purlins
Advance Steel 2012 provides a set of complete new joints for hot rolled and cold rolled purlins.
These joints can be applied on supporting beams and plates (e.g. cap plate on the top of a column) and offers many options like the creation of stays.

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Advance Steel 2012 - Navigation through a 3D model
See how user-friendly and powerful Advance Steel 2012 is to navigate through a complex pedestrian bridge (model courtesy of PKD, Czech Republic).

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Advance Steel 2012 - Joint naming & grouping
This movie shows the new option in Advance Steel 2012 to create joint groups that automatically update according changes to the master joint.

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3D curved tubular truss modeling and unwrap drawing presentation
Convert lines and arcs to Advance Steel tubes in one click to speed up the modeling, use automatic joints between curved beams, easily cut and weld all the circular tubes together, and then use a specific drawing style to get the unwrap tube presentation ready for an accurate fabrication.

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Modeling of steel bracing connections
See how fast and easy it is to create bracing connections with Advance Steel

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Create sheet metal and get it unfolded
Watch how easy it is to create your sheet metal part in 3D with Advance Steel, and get it automatically unfolded and dimensioned on a workshop drawing.

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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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Advance Steel Demo Tour
Advance Steel Demo Tour

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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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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.

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

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Pressure vessels
See how easy Advance Steel creates pressure vessels.

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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.

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

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

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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
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
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
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
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

Multiplication factor
It is possible to use several multiplication factors with a distribution with Advance Concrete 2012.
And there is a specific setting to apply a predefined symbol to evaluate the multiplication factor.

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Cut distributions
Add/remove bar to/from cut distribution with two new buttons on the Smartbar.
It is also possible to add fictive bars or fabrics to a cut distribution with Advance Concrete 2012

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List - highlight and export
There is a new checkbox on the Smartbar for a rebar list to highlight all the bars and fabrics in a specific highlight color.
We also improved the Excel export of rebar lists with new template files for a better format of the exported result.

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Advance Concrete Demo Tour
Advance Concrete Demo Tour

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Once the model is completed, learn how to create cuts, elevations, and isometrics.

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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
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
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
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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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
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
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
This video shows how to apply the reinforcement solution to a model containing a beam centered on two columns.

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Advance Design

Advance Design 2012 - Discover in few minutes the EC2 implementation
This video demonstrates the EC2 design capabilities in Advance Design: real reinforcement definition on beams-columns and plates and cracking detailed analysis. See also how you can get a detailed report with all intermediate values and formulas.

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Advance Design 2012 - Discover in few minutes the EC5 implementation
This video demonstrates the EC5 design capabilities in Advance Design: complete set of properties on timber elements, timber materials database, detailed stability check and sections optimization including the fire effects.

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

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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
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
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
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
This video illustrates post-processing functions and the updated results.

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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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