Add Structural Elements in Advance Steel

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DEEPAK MAINI: Our objective in this part of the course

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is to add structural steel elements.

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We are going to start with adding vertical bracings.

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Next, we are going to add joists.

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Let's get straight into Advance Steel now.

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In AutoCAD, there are a number of different object snap

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options, but in Advance Steel we only leave

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node, intersection, extension, and grid

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intersection points turned on.

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Any other object snap that we need,

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we can activate them temporarily by doing a shift-right click.

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Also make sure your object snap tracking is turned on

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and so is the polar tracking.

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The polar tracking should be set to 90, 180, 270 degrees.

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I'm now ready to start modeling my bracing.

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For that, I'll first turn off the visibility

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of the concrete elements.

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I'll pick one of the slabs, one of the walls,

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and then I can right-click anywhere in the blank area

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and use this option called Select Similar.

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Once all the concrete elements are selected,

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I'm now going to go into the Quick Views

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category of the Advance Steel tool palette

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and click this button here that lets me turn off

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all the selected elements.

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Before I place vertical bracing, I

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want to mention that in Advance Steel

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there are certain commands that are dependent on the UCS

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orientation.

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In our case if you need to place vertical bracings,

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we need to modify our UCS and we need

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to align it with the location or the phase,

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where we want to place the vertical bracings.

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I'm going to do that by going to the UCS category,

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and then I'll use this tool here that says UCS three points.

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The first point which is the origin point of the UCS,

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I'm going to use the grid intersection

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point here or the node point of this section.

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The x-direction is going here and I'm

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using my polar tracking, and the y-direction

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is going vertically up.

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With this, I'm ready to place the vertical bracing.

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To place the bracing, the tool is available on the Home ribbon

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tab under the Extended Modeling ribbon panel.

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When I move this tool, it's prompting

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me to specify the first point.

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I'm going to use the midpoint of this column.

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I'll hold down the shift key and the right mouse button,

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and then it shows me the temporary object snaps.

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For the second point I'm going to orbit the model,

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and I'm going to use this midpoint here.

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And with this, the vertical bracing is placed.

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I'm going to speed up the process here,

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but all the values that you need to create vertical bracings

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are available in the handout of the exercise section.

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And that's the vertical bracing created.

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Next, I'm going to place the joists.

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But before I do that, I'm going to change the display

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type of all these structural steel sections, by going

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to the Selection Filters category

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and selecting this option called Beam.

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Once I've selected all of these sections,

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I'll right-click and select this option

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called Advance Properties.

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I'll go to the Display Type tab and change it to symbol.

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Let's now place the joist.

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The tool to place the joist is also

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available on the Home ribbon tab under the Extended Modeling

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panel.

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I'm going to use a combination of object

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snaps and object snap tracking to place this joist.

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And again, I'm going to speed up the process here.

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All the parameters that you need to create this joist

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are available in the handout section of the exercise.

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I'm going to place another joist here.

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You will notice that there are these boxes around joist

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and the bracings.

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These boxes are called connection boxes.

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Advance Steel treats elements such as floor joist

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and bracing as connections, that's

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because there are multiple sections placed together.

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Next, I'm going to use the AutoCAD copy command to copy

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both of these joists.

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And that's our model created.

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As you could see, really smart tools available in Advance

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Steel to create these complex elements.

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I now need to restore the original display style

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for the structural sections.

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I'm going to select all the steel beams,

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and then I'm going to go into the Quick Views category

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and select this option called Standard Presentation.

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Make sure you save this model.