TECHNICAL SHEET
WHAT’S NEW IN ADVANCE STEEL 2013 Advance Steel 2013 is fully part of the easy-to-use BIM GRAITEC Advance 2013 suite, and it dramatically increases general detailing and fabrication productivity in the shortest time. Advance Steel 2013 offers more power and flexibility to users while being easy to use.
release 2013
New features in Advance Steel 2013: • AutoCAD 2013 compliancy • Advance Steel Standalone 64-bit platform • New tool palette • Custom connections • Complete set of new cold rolled joints • Enhancements in existing joints • New option to create a polygonal cut from a polyline • New option to define specific holes for anchors • New anchor definition • Intelligent manual dimension improvements • New available tokens for title blocks within drawings • Possibility to define different types of node detail lines • Tool to draw intelligent welding lines in details • Ability to open workshop drawings with the context menu
New tool palette • • •
New ergonomic design Animated buttons to show the command in a short animation Switch buttons (icon changes according to the command status) & transparency
Model courtesy from XTEC AG (South Africa)
New 64-bit CAD platform • • •
AutoCAD 2013 & Windows 8 compliancy
Advance Steel 2013 can be used with or without AutoCAD® Faster drawing creation compared to previous Advance Steel releases Using the Project explorer to create, manage and display your model views is much faster with Advance Steel 2013
Advance Steel 2013 compliant with AutoCAD® 2013
Create a cut from a polyline •
New option to create a polygonal cut by selecting a polyline