Webcast: Collaborate with Design and Construction using Advance Steel - Dec 9

 

Register for this webcast to learn how: 

• Revit steel design accuracy and libraries have been enhanced to help generate more accurate and reliable data exchanges with fabricators and contractors. This also includes discussing recommended modeling best practices for engineers when sharing models downstream. 
• Revit and Advance Steel work together to improve collaboration between design and detailing. The bidirectional integration makes it faster and more transparent to synchronize changes between Advance Steel and Revit. 
• Navisworks Simulate can help you as a steel contractor better estimate, coordinate and plan your steel project while also improve communication with the general contractor. 

Date: Wednesday, December 9th 

Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Information: sales@ideateinc.com or call 888.662.7238 

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About the Presenters:  

Julio Alfaro – has joined the Fabrication team as a Structural Steel Fabrication Specialist based in Los Angeles. With this role, Julio will be focused on driving adoption of Advance Steel into the Territory and Named Accounts for North America. 

Julio has over 12 years of experience in the structural steel detailing and fabrication industry. His previous roles and experience include designing and detailing observation decks, structural fabricated wall panels, electrical panels and most recently with sheet metal detailing in the sheet metal industry. He is a graduate of ITT Technical Institute with an emphasis in digital design and drafting and is well versed in Solidworks, Tekla, Inventor and of course Advance Steel. 

Julio currently lives in California with his 18 year old daughter Xena. Spare time is spent with family members, friends, food, music and dancing. 

Bill Johnson – Senior Application Specialist MEP/AEC Solutions 

Bill has over 25 years experience in applying MEP & AEC design solutions for large commercial companies, this has led to actively develop Autodesk® Revit® implementation strategies, techniques, and procedures for architectural and MEP companies. He has worked for TEECOM Design Group, GTE/GTEL, Greg LeDoux and Associates, and Scottish Power in England. Bill is an Autodesk MEP Implementation Certified Expert, and has been the Lead Designer for several multimillion dollar communication sites which have included structural, electrical, HVAC, conduit, cable plans and equipment layouts. He graduated from the Pasadena Institute of Technology and has a Sustainable Design Certification from the University of California at Berkeley.

Autodesk Advance Steel 2016 – Creating Custom Connections

Recently, here at Ideate, Inc., a technical inquiry came through asking about Autodesk Advance Steel and the ability to create a custom connection.

Custom or User Defined Connections were introduced to into the list of available Advance Steel features with later releases. This feature allows users to save Manually Created Connections, which have characteristics not available in the Connection Vault, to a library where they can be reused at similar connection points on any model.

To add a User Defined Connection the Custom Connections Library, the connection will first to be modeled in Advance Steel.  To assist with understanding this process I created a short video going through the process of creating a custom connection.

 

This “Manual” Connection type was built up of manually created and added objects such as Bolts, Plates, Columns and Beams. The Connection type can simultaneously be built up with objects from Intelligent Connections available in the Connection Vault.  Refer to Figures 1 through 3 below.



Figure 1 – Advance properties of manually created plate

Figure 2 – Advance properties of bolts

Figure 3 – Advance properties of Intelligent Custom Connection – Bolts on beam gauge line

 

To assist in modeling the template connection, Advance Steel contains a number of intelligent “Building Blocks” allowing the user to insert objects with simple intelligence. This intelligence, will also be saved to the Custom Connection library. Some of these intelligent fields will update the relevant object when this connection is used on sections of a different size, and allow users to quickly modify the connection once it has been reused.

 

Advanced Steel 2016

 

Thank you for reading. For more information on AutoCAD and other Autodesk products, and information on training and consulting for the various products Ideate services, visit our website at www.ideateinc.com.

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Bill Johnson

 

Senior Application Specialist MEP/AEC Solutions

Bill has over 25 years experience in applying MEP & AEC design solutions for large commercial companies, this has led to actively develop Autodesk® Revit® implementation strategies, techniques, and procedures for architectural and MEP companies. He has worked for TEECOM Design Group, GTE/GTEL, Greg LeDoux and Associates, and Scottish Power in England. Bill is an Autodesk MEP Implementation Certified Expert, and has been the Lead Designer for several multimillion dollar communication sites which have included structural, electrical, HVAC, conduit, cable plans and equipment layouts. He graduated from the Pasadena Institute of Technology and has a Sustainable Design Certification from the University of California at Berkeley. Bill has over 25 years experience in applying MEP & AEC design solutions for large commercial companies, this has led to actively develop Autodesk® Revit® implementation strategies, techniques, and procedures for architectural and MEP companies. He has worked for TEECOM Design Group, GTE/GTEL, Greg LeDoux and Associates, and Scottish Power in England. Bill is an Autodesk MEP Implementation Certified Expert, and has been the Lead Designer for several multimillion dollar communication sites which have included structural, electrical, HVAC, conduit, cable plans and equipment layouts. He graduated from the Pasadena Institute of Technology and has a Sustainable Design Certification from the University of California at Berkeley.