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The Graitec PowerPack 2022 for Advance Steel has now been released, the PowerPack is Graitec’s extension to Advance Steel which gives users additional modelling tools, connections, templates, sections...

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What's New in Autodesk Vault 2022

by Adam Butcher

Friday, 21 May 2021

Mechanical

Autodesk Vault helps you manage your design and engineering data and improves the way teams collaborate on product development. Let us look at what is new in the Vault 2022 release. Accessibility In t...

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What's New in Autodesk Inventor 2022

by Adam Butcher

Wednesday, 19 May 2021

Mechanical

This year Autodesk focused on new ways of managing various parts and assemblies that are similar to each other using model states. They also worked hard on continued development for the interoperabili...

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Revit 2022 Family Content Packs

by Greg Benson-Shettle

Thursday, 22 April 2021

BIM

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Installed Revit 2022 recently and wondered where your family content packs are or how to get them? When using Revit of any era, the Families we use are the lifeblood of our models, they determine the ...

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What's New in Advance Steel 2022

by Rob Merriman

Wednesday, 07 April 2021

Advance Steel 2022 has now been released! You can download the version from your Autodesk account at manage.autodesk.com or from your Autodesk desktop app. This blog will run through what’s new in Adv...

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Advance Steel – Managing Lots / Phases in NC Files

by Aleck Giles

Wednesday, 31 March 2021

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When people divide their structures into Lots or Phases they often wish to issue the NC files for manufacture in corresponding lots and phases. However, how can you tell which lot or phase each NC fil...

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PowerPack for Advance Steel Stair Macros - Understanding the Philosophy

by Adriana Gherlan

Monday, 15 February 2021

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 unders...

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Autodesk Advance Steel – Captive Nuts

by Aleck Giles

Tuesday, 12 January 2021

Certain industries and structure types seem to use a lot of Captive Nuts in their structures. Whether these are inside RHS or on the back of thin sheet metal or in other hard to reach areas they all n...

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Creating a Snowman in Autodesk Advance Steel

by Rob Merriman

Thursday, 03 December 2020

For this year’s Christmas blog, I have decided to create a snowman using the tools available in Advance Steel and once complete transfer the model to Revit. For the snowman the body and head were crea...

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Level Symbols in Autodesk Advance Steel

by Aleck Giles

Tuesday, 01 December 2020

It is often desirable to put a Level Symbol in a General Arrangement drawing to indicate the height of a point above sea level or similar. This can be useful for planning purposes and such like. Howev...

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