Month: January 2021

  • Tek1 RFI System

    Here is a preview on what is cooking in our kitchen. This is one of the feature which have built into the system to save a huge amount of time trying to avoid duplicate file downloads. The principle is simple and the execution beautiful. Saves us a huge amount of time. The entire RFI system is free our our clients to use for the projects they allocate to us.

    As of now there is no public domain taken for this app. It still in the kitchen. But nearly ready for the shelves.

  • Numbering in Advance Steel

    Here is a tutorial which covers Numbering in advance steel. It however does not cover what how to manage once drawings are issued. May be there is another video for that

    Numbering basics in Advance Steel
  • Numbering Quiz Advance Steel Tutorial

    Here is a numbering Quiz for advance steel learners

  • Exporting Anchor bolts to Total Station

    Here is a video on how to export Anchor bolt positions to Total station. This option is available in Tekla as well. But it is surprising that no one has yet asked us for this export.

    We have so far only provided CAD layout of anchor bolt position. May be we must provide the point export from advance steel as well as Tekla

    Here is the video of how to export from Advance steel

  • 10.2 Create Beams

    This tutorial is about creating beams. The main take away here is

    1. Manage UCS.

    2.Manage Layers

    3.Manage View Cube and Work Area

    4.Manage Rotation and insertion point of Beam Section so that later on Advance copy can be used effectively

    5. Us Construction Lines.

  • 08-01-Create Work Area

    Create work area in Advance Steel

    visit https://www.tek1.com.au for full list of Advance Steel and Tekla Tutorials

    Points to note

    Work area can be used to reduce clutter in the model

    Visibility of elements outside the work area can be set to desire level by controlling the level of details

    Only one work area is active at any time.

    Create work area on the XY plane after setting the UCS to the desired value.

    https://youtu.be/f8hkKEmDtUg
  • 07-02-Quick View Tools

    Advance steel Quick View Tool bar tools to show and hide elements. Also, deals with 2d snap which is very much like Tekla Workplane Viewplane switch.

    https://youtu.be/I9p812z_vQA