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New features in Advance Steel 2014:• AutoCAD 2014 compliancy• Tool palette customization options• CAD platform enhancements• Speed improvements when creating PDF fi les• New Render module• User interface enhancements.• New GUI for the Connection vault• More powerful features tools• Tapered beams & PEB market• Extension of existing connections to work on tapered beams• Connections & macros improvements• Automatic detailing enhancements• Cameras presentation with extended possibilities• BIM exchanges with other software• Creation of DStV XML fi le for welding robots

Advance Steel 2014 is fully part of the easy-to-use BIM GRAITEC Advance 2014 suite, and it dramatically increases general detailing and fabrication productivity in the shortest time. Advance Steel 2014 offers more power and fl exibility to users while being easy to use

Tool palette customization• Possibility to control the appearance (opacity & colors

can be adjusted, number of icons per column can be specifi ed, etc.)

• Available tools to create your own groups• Customized tool palette can be shared

AutoCAD 2014 & Windows 8 compliancyAdvance Steel 2014 compliant with AutoCAD® 2014

CAD platform enhancements• Advance Steel 2014 can be used with or without

AutoCAD®

• Speed improvements when creating PDF fi les• Enhanced Publish command• New Render module with Materials and Lighting

possibilities• Osnap & performances enhancements• XRefs improvements

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User interface enhancements• Collision check results (and steel checking results &

search fi lter) displayed in a new design • Double-click on a collision result zooms to the clash

Tapered beams & PEB market• New command for tapered beam creation• Can have up to 5 segments, variable fl ange & web

dimensions, including weld preparation• Automatic joints work on tapered beams• NC-DSTV fi le of an “I” shape tapered beam• Compound beam enhancements

Automatic detailing enhancements• Possibility to “Defi ne object detailing direction” (e.g.,

to detail railing & bracing)• Folded & twisted plates can be shown without folding

lines on General Arrangement drawings• Cameras presentation with extended possibilities• More osnap points recognized for smart dimensions

BIM exchanges with other software• Creation of DStV XML fi le for welding robots• Exporting a GTCX fi le can include weld info & drawings• Various enhancements for the IFC & 3D DWF export

More powerful features tools• Easier to fi nd using a unique “Features” group • Unifi cation of many features on beams & plates• Extension of commands like bevel cut, miter & corner

cut to make them work for beams & plates• New representation type showing beam corners• Weld preparation applicable on beams (included on

round & rectangular shapers)

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Automatic connections & macros• New “Lap purlin directly bolted” joint• New options in “Stairs”, “Railing”, “Truss” and “Bracing”

automatic macros• More options in different “Base plate” connections• Enhanced “Shear plate” connection• Special parts are supported in Custom connections

New GUI for the Connection vault • Enhanced joint group classifi cation• Possibility to place preferred joints in “Favorite” group• New “Building generator” tool palette to speed up the

modeling of industrial & commercial buildings

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Automatic drawing creation and fabrication fi les for steel constructions

Automatic formwork and reinforcement drawing creation

Finite elements structural analysis and Steel/Concrete design with automatic reports

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