Advance Steel Premium version
2016 was released during April this year. A large amount of development has
gone into this new version with a host of new features and functionality.
Overall summary:
- AutoCAD 2016 compliancy
- Countryfication for US & AUS/NZ
- User interface
- Modelling improvements
- Scalability & Performance
- Welds
- Numbering
- Detailing improvements
- Exchange formats
Local content (Australia / New
Zealand - English AUS):
- Updated global defaults
- New flat sections and mapping
- Drawing styles regrouped by categories
New ready-to-use templates for:
- Shop drawings
- General arrangement drawings
- New connection library defaults
Local content (United States -
English US):
- Updated defaults
- New AISC & CISC sections
- Improved & new BOM templates
- Drawing styles regrouped by categories
- New general arrangement drawing presentations
- Better dimensions & labels
Enhanced User Interface:
- New icon standard
- Corresponding to Autodesk standard
- User Interface & tool palette
- Connection vault
- Ready-to-use templates
- Looks like tool palette
- Split in three categories
- Drawing styles
- Drawing process
- BOM templates
- Magnetism to connect palettes
- Double click to open & close palettes
Scalability & Performance:
- New work area concept
- Display selected elements
- User-defined work area
- Outside objects displayed with lower LOD
- Default for small elements
Model views display enhanced
performances:
- New modelling tools
- Continuous beam creation
- Beam creation continuous command
- Column creation continuous command
- Multi-edit modification once Esc
- New continuous beam command
- Start point of second segment equals end point from previous
segment
Model review workflow:
- New Approval status
- New object property for assemblies
- Also available for automatic connections
- Status associated to colours
- Customizable approval status
New modelling tools:
- Galvanizing information
- Three new drop down lists
- Available on assembly level
Fabrication data:
- New fabrication information
- Information available for drawings
- Extended to exchange through the API
New modelling tools:
- New model check dialog
- Audit & technical checking results in a notification
dialog
- Fix all or selected issues option
- Search for checking results
- Better detection of issues on plates and folded plates
Enhanced modelling tools:
- Search filter improvements
- Assign colour to search result
- Multiple selection for drop down lists
- New object properties are available
- Enhanced model view at grid line
- Customizable custom connection library path
- Multi-edit modification for shear studs
- Hole settings (automatic connections) can be accessed
Enhanced steel connections:
- Moment connection new options:
- Stiffener gap
- Stiffener weld preparation
- Stiffener chamfer contour
- Web doubler weld preparation
Versatile Numbering &
CNC data enhancements:
- New numbering options
- Flexible format definition
- Additional tokens available
- Preliminary number token
- Available for NC-file name
- Can be used for scribing
Enhanced weld symbols:
- Additional weld properties
- Configurable in a DWG file
- Colour definition from file
- Line & text styles from file
- Flexible combinations
New detailing functionality:
- Labels in dimension lines
- Definition per dimension line
- Different placing options
- Huge set of available tokens
- Manual editing possible
- Overwrite dimension
- Dimension prefix or suffix
Enhanced dimension
functionality:
- Single dimension line command
- Vertical and horizontal in one command
- Works like the AutoCAD dimension line command
New detailing functionality:
- BOM on general arrangement drawings
- Can be included in prototype
- Can be added manually afterwards
- Based on new filtering mechanism
BOM per detail:
- Get a BOM per detail on a drawing
- New detailing functionality
- New BOM filters
- Based on search filter
- Saved filters can be reused
- Multiple selection on drop down lists e.g. model roles
Drawings review workflow:
- New Approval status
- Available in the Document Manager for:
- Shop drawings
- General arrangement drawings
- Status associated to colours
- Customizable approval status
Enhanced detailing
functionality:
- Use Document Manager to rename drawings
- Get tick removed from running dimensions
- Better automatic slope triangle placement
- Display AutoCAD® entities in camera views
- Treat standalone plates and beams differently in processes
- Anchors can be labelled manually
- Grid dimensioning enhancements:
- Dimensions placed between the grid line extensions
- Reference dimension to grid lines is split per grid line
Improved exchange formats:
- Advance Steel 2016 Extension for Autodesk Revit
- File extension renamed
- F1 – Help available
- Compliant only with Revit 2016
- Revit 2016 interoperability
Column transfer enhancements:
- Correct orientation
- Improved slanted column transfer
- New mapping system (sections & materials)
- Plate import/export and synchronization
- Synchronization dialog enhancements:
- Position & offsets changes now
- Beam & column rotations
See the
link below for videos of the new features and functionality
