"Considering the model complexity, we needed a program with a powerful calculation engine on one hand, and advanced modeling and post-processing functionalities on the other."
Diana Zagaican, Inginerie Structurala
Advance Steel
| 2010 Packages |
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| Available functionalities | Standard* | Professional | Premium |
| MODELLING | |||
| • Straight and curved axes. |  |
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| • 3- and 2-hinged frames | |
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| • Straight beams, curved beams, compound beams, welded beams, joists. | |
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| • Plates, folded plates, gratings, folded beams. | |
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| • Assemblies (stairs, railings, saddled stairs, spiral stairs, vertical ladders). | |
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| • Shortening / Coping elements (shortening, cope, boring out cope, miter cut ). | |
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| • Bolts, anchor bolts, stud shears, holes. | |
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| • Advance modelling tools. | |
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| • Cladding. | |
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| PREDEFINED JOINTS | |||
| • Connections between structural elements: base plate joints, column-beam connections, beam-to-beam connections, purlin connections, bracing joints. |
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| •Steel connections checking according to forces: EC3, CM66, AISC, CISC standards. | |
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| • Automatic creation of joints. | |
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| • Quick-connections. | |
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| LIBRARIES | |||
| • Cold and hot rolled profiles, folded beams. | |
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| • Materials: steel, other materials (concrete, wood, glass). | |
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| • Bolts, nuts, washers. | |
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| • Stud shears. | |
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| • Anchor bolts. | |
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| MODEL CHECKING | |||
| • Collision check between elements, bolts and elements and between bolts. | |
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| • Location check for connecting elements (welds or bolts). | |
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| • Construction tools access to a specific part | |
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| • Consistency of elements numbering (production, delivery and assembly). | |
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| • Holes and bolts distance checking. | |
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| NUMBERING | |||
| • Numbering methods for parts and assemblies. | |
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| • User-defined numbering prefixes. | |
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| AUTOMATIC DETAILING | |||
| • 3D and 2D views (plan and elevations). | |
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| • Node details. | |
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| • Assemblies: details styles for columns, beams, bracings, plates. | |
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| • Parts: specific views, dimensions, annotations. | |
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| LISTS | |||
| • Lists on drawings: part lists, assembly lists. | |
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| • External lists: BOMs, assembly lists, bolt lists, folded plate lists. | |
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| NC FILES | |||
| • DSTV files. | |
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| • DXF files. | |
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| IMPORT / EXPORT | |||
| • SDNF, PSS, CIS/2, IFC, KISS, STAAD | |
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| •BIM synchronisationwithAdvance DesignandRevit. | |
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| MULTI USER | |||
| • Possibility for several users to work together at the same time to create a model. | |
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| * Advance Steel 2010 Standard package is limited for a structure with a maximum weight of 10t. | |||