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The Stair macros available with PowerPack for Advance Steel are powerful tools for anyone who wants to create stairs, but they are not magic. To get the best from these macros it’s important to understand the philosophy of how it’s working. This philosophy is based on 4 aspects that you must have in mind before using the macro.Let’s start with the first one. A. The 2D setting out points definedTo ...

The concept of effective length is widely used by practising engineers and represents an important step in the design process of members under compressive forces, therefore a state of art method has been established. One of these practical procedures to define the buckling length factor is the alignment chart method. Most engineers use this method in lieu of an actual stability analysis in the int...

QuestionWhen creating a flat Bar, the Standard name on the Section size is prefixed by FL. Is there a way to change the FL to FB?Answer.The changes are made from the Advance Steel Management Tools, Table Editor. Open installed Databases.Expand the AstorProfiles flyout arrow adjacent to the text. Scroll to the EXT_AISC_Flat. Use the Find and Replace toolset.When completed Load Settings in Advance. ...

ISSUEWhile creating an external BOM you want to insert and save a Company image logo, however, when you are prompted to save by selecting yes. You get a warning that you cannot save the file size because it's size exceeds the storage capacity. FIXFor example, the dimension of the image below is 1000x1000 at a size of 3.67 MBIf I try and insert this in the External BOM, I will most likely receive a...

ISSUE:The Assembly drawing of A604 was in the file path folder Details of the reflective project. However, it is not visible in the Document manager of the structure. RESOLUTION:Delete the.UPD file of A604 assembly drawing from the server location. Now that the link is broken you will have to cancel the document from the drawing and register it back. I went back to the model structure and “Cancell...

Your company or client has a specific need for custom stair pan tread? With Advance Steel, you can easily create a Custom user pan tread.User sections are created in two steps:1. First, create the section within the frame and add the text for the section class and then the section name in a new drawing template, making sure each element is drawn on the appropriate layer.        ...

1. Open the Advance Steel Management Tools and select the Anchor category. 2. Select the Anchor heading and expand the flyout arrow adjacent to the text.         3. Scroll to the HILTI HY 150 HAS Super, make a copy by right clicking and selecting Duplicate. 4. From the Parameters tab, rename it to HILTY HY 200 HAS Super then hit the Apply button.5. Hit the Apply in the lower ri...

Before downloading Advance Steel Extention for Revit 2021, you must first download and install Revit 2021 on your computer. Download it from your Autodesk account. You can then download the Advance Steel Extension for Revit, as it is not included in the out of box install. Download Advance Steel Extension for Revit installer You can download the Advance Steel Extension for Revit installe...

You can assign a specific part mark to an element that numbering will not overwrite. Easily create specific part marks to elements in the same family that has different sizes! 1. Open the model and copy the element from the project into a new DWG file. For this example, we will copy the shear plate. The UCS orientation should correspond in each .dwg file.2. In the new drawing file, double cli...

You Can Add Gauges to plate thickness in the Advance Steel Databases. Follow the steps below to add an 11ga! Open your Advance Steel Management toolsSelect the Defaults category then put a check in the Use filter box and type mapping.Select the Plate category and then the GeneralChange the values for the plates priorities and rule for the plates as shown in the figure below. Mapping plates, priori...