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
Create work area in Advance Steel
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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.
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.
Advance Steel tutorial on Quick View
Advance Steel Copes and cuts. Similar operations are for beams and plates. Hence only beams are demonstrated
Advance Steel Tutorials for Tekla Users
In this video we are going to look at trim/extend tool. I could not make the extend tool work. Could not find any documentation
There are 2 methods of creating Mitre from standard tool bars. One adds a center plate Here is the video
I have to suspect that advance steel is starting to gain traction in the market. Job posts in Job Portals show the following data
An year before Advance steel jobs were much lower.
There could be couple of reasons why Advance Steel is gaining traction. At this point of time Tekla is still a better software for detailing steel
Another important thing especially with countries like India where piracy is rampant could be that it could be increasingly difficult to pirate with later versions of Tekla software forcing detailers to switch to cheaper alternatives.
This tutorial explains how to trim or extend grid lines in advanced steel.
The is the last tutorial on basic grid lines. There are other advanced options like curved grid lines. But for the time being in a beginner course this is enough.
If you can do this much confidently and correctly you will handle majority of the cases
