
Generation of Beams and Columns, through the usage of catalog or customized sections, is quite easy and not different form drawing a couple of lines.

Although there's a sort of workaround if we generate the corresponding family objects for future projects.Īdvance Steel in the other hand and by focusing on the design of Steel Structures, brings a lot of powerful tools for the seemingly automatic generation and detailing of connections. Detailing of connections is not precisely automatic, nor the generation (solving) of the connection itself. However by not being specific to one or another type of structure, it does require of some manual work.

Revit Structure for example handles a ample type of structures, bringing all the capabilities of BIM Design. That in essence is Advance Steel.But let get a little more into detail.

So what is the deal with Advance Steel? And how is it different from Revit Structure? Well let's begin by saying that for whatever process you can thing of, there's always a more efficient way to do it! We all have heard of Autodesk Revit Structure and its capabilities for the generation not only of analytical models but the actual detail of section, beams, columns and connections of all kind, from those between hot and cold-rolled profiles to the one of anchorages in the foundations of a full building structure.
