Advance Steel 2016 released.

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

Advance Steel Premium 2016 New Features

Please Contact nmichel@chempute.com for additional information or details.