Category: Advance Steel
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Typical purlin girt fixing heights
What is the maximum height to which plate cleats can be used when dealing with purlins and girts. If you are using 8 mm plate cleat, you can go upto 150 mm max Beyond that use an EA cleat 75×6 EA is good. Increasing plate thickness may not be a good option because of PB30…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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
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Numbering Quiz Advance Steel Tutorial
Here is a numbering Quiz for advance steel learners Loading…
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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…
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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.
