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Category: Advance Steel

Video Blogs on Advance Steel,

We are slowly introducing advance steel as one of the tools we are proposing use in 2021 onwards. The introduction will be slow and careful since we are very comfortable with Tekla and not so much with advance steel.

However, we thing that it is time to have a look

  • Estimation / Take off Tools

    We’ve created many libraries that handle estimation. Here are some examples which you may view or use as the case may be.

    Apologies folks, this is documentation for our own staff. If you’re not on staff, I’m afraid your access will be limited. Videos are located in the documentation contained in the Drive Folders. Please carefully read the documentation and watch any videos if required.

    Advanced Steel Member Placement:

    Draw some lines in AutoCAD or Advanced Steel. Set up a CSV file that maps lines to Advanced Steel Beams. Run the command in Advanced Steel, and Advanced Steel beams are produced.

    Advance Steel – ConvertToBeams (CTB) Command from Tek1 on Vimeo.

    MemberPlacement tool (AutoCAD):

    Draw lines that come up as 3d lines with a Tekla like interface, which using interop delivers them straight to Tekla:

    Line Based Take-Offs

    • Draw lines and an Excel Spreadsheet is produced showing total lengths and counts for certain steel types. Dlls are located here.

    Take Off Tools

  • Advance Steel Macro – To place Members

    I’ve created a macro to help create Advanced Steel Members, given a particular spreadsheet file. You are welcome to download and use it – see here. Unfortunately, I don’t have a demo video for you so: Please read the documentation / manual.

  • Advanced Steel Tool – Convert AutoCAD lines to Advanced Steel Beams

    Why bother with this tool?

    Because drawing Advanced Steel Beams is very cumbersome. If you have a CSV file you can draw AutoCAD lines and conver them with a fairly simple macro. Everything is open sourced, so you can fork or submit a PR if you require.

    Here is a video demonstrating this:

    If you want to download it, please see check out this link.

    Source code is available here.

    I had written a more advanced user interface for AutoCAD. Perhaps I will incorpoate that into Advance Steel when I get the time. Porting it is a little tricky/complicated it.

  • 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