

With the release of Autodesk Building Design Suite 2016 back in June Autodesk announced that AutoCAD Structural Detailing was to be discontinued from the suite but would still be made available to clients that had subscription. It is very easy to track changes and understand items that have been added, modified or deleted.Ī very interesting workflow for consultants and fabricators who are able\willing to share models. These changes can then be synchronised back into the Revit model if required.ĭata synchronised and exported back into Revit. The Revit structural connections are based on the same macro’s as Advance Steel and are completely transferable both in Import and export operations.īelow you can see the same model in Advance Steel.Īdditional cold rolled and secondary steels can then be added to the advanced steel model as well as edits and tweaks made to existing connections, notches and cuts from Revit. In order to transfer the models from Revit and Advance Steel you will require the Advance Steel 2017 Extension which can be found on the Autodesk App Store. It is equally useful for structural consultants that would like to convey typical connections in 3D to architects which could potentially cause clashes such as haunches and apexes etc. This functionality will greatly enhance the workflows between structural consultants and fabricators that are using Advance Steel for manufacture and delivery of steelwork to site.

For the last few releases of Advance Steel and Revit it has been possible to transfer and synchronise steelwork models from both packages but Revit 2017 now offers the ability to also transfer steel connections.
