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Autodesk Previews Enhancements for Advance Steel and Steel Connections for Revit at NASCC 2017
Autodesk Revit and Advance Steel better connect structural design and fabrication Since acquiring Advance Steel in 2013, Autodesk continues to work towards better support for BIM-centric workflows for structural steel design and detailing. For instance, we have been working to strengthen the…
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Tips and Tricks for using Autodesk Advance Steel from AU2016 (Part III)
This is my last post summarizing some of the Advance Steel tips & tricks that I described in my class during the Autodesk University MEP & Structural Fabricators Forum 2016. I hope these posts have helped you better understand the efficient practices…
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Dynamo to Generate Wind Loads in Revit
High winds can be very destructive because they generate pressure against the surface of a structure. In structural engineering we call the intensity of this pressure the wind load. The effect of the wind is dependent upon the size and shape of…
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Coastal Library ‘Rides the BIM Wave’ with Revit and Advance Steel workflows
For a library project in a California beach town, 3D modeling using Revit and Advance Steel workflows helped a design-build project team deliver a challenging but symbolic design on an accelerated timeline. When architects delivered renderings for a 14,380-square-foot library facility in…
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Precast Column with Corbels in Revit
The use of linear precast elements generally means placing the connecting faces at the beam-column junctions. The beams can be seated on corbels at the columns, for ease of construction and to aid the shear transfer from the beam to the column.…
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Tips and Tricks for using Autodesk Advance Steel from AU2016 (Part II)
In my last post I summarized some of the Advance Steel tips for modeling that I covered during my class at Autodesk University last fall. This post picks up where that one left off and describes the software features Advance Steel has…
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