Since those early days, steel detailing software followed two paths, integrating itself fully with AutoCAD or running stand-alone.

Back then, AutoLISP was not yet added to AutoCAD, and so BASIC was pretty much the only game in town. This allowed steel members to be cut to size, copped, and beveled as needed. A handful of visionary entrepreneurs developed software for the steel industry by piggybacking it on AutoCAD, and so were able to produce complete sets of steel detailing drawings and then upload code to NC machines. AutoCAD had launched just a couple years earlier and it was rather quickly becoming the CAD software for the masses. I first saw steel detailing software in action in the mid 1980s at the AISC Steel Conference. sat file.Įxploding the model can be done in one step - selecting all AS 3D objects and using 'Explode to ACIS' command, but to be able to perform a full select you will need to manually remove a set of internal objects, that don't offer the explode to ACIS option.A two week test of GRAITEC’s Advance Steel shows its power and proves its capability for structural steel detailing. If you need to export the Advance Steel objects in solids, you will need to perform a full explode to ACIS before, and then either open the drawing as it is, or export it to. The 2015.1 Object Enabler is able to open any Advance Steel 3D model coming from 20.1 versions, and can be downloaded from. Starting with Advance Steel 2015.1 release, there is also avaliable a free Object Enabler application that can be installed over AutoCAD, and allow AutoCAD to open an Advance Steel model for visualization (with all object properties beeing avaliable, and objects offering snaps for any AutoCAD command used with them as reference).

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