ICDAS Advance Steel Connection

Manual 2016.0

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ICDAS 2015-06-01

2014-06-01

2013-06-01

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Dear user

Welcome to Advance Steel for automatic creation of steel connections.

This manual outlines an overview of Advance Steel connections. The manual highlights more

than 300 connection types between different steel elements like beams, columns, bracings

and tubes cross in steel bridges or structural buildings. These connections are otherwise

stored/hidden in the software small dialog boxes.

Further on there are outlined five examples helping you to create step-by-step a

connections between beams and diagonals. With this, you can similarly create your own

connections among hundreds of configurations stored in Advance Steel. The connection

itself is automatically created in Advance Steel software for the selected elements and the

corresponding parameters in the dialog boxes. The manual will guide you to select thickness

of gusset plate, number of bolts, distances and so on.

In addition, the manual outlines the workflow between Revit, Advance Steel (AutoCAD) and

LUSAS (FEM). Meaning you can synchronize Revit and Advance Steel models. Once a

connection has been created in Revit, it can be exported to LUSAS (selected elements, DXF

format) for FEM analyse where it is needed. An example for that can be found at the end of

the manual.

ICDAS staff.

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Contents

Advance Steel Template file for 2016 version .......................... 5 Template .............................................................................................................. 5 Background colour ................................................................................................. 5 Ribbon background colour ....................................................................................... 9

Advance Steel 2016 Online Manual .......................................10 YouTube tutorials ................................................................................................. 10

Revit export *.smlx to Advance Steel AutoCAD.......................11

Element Properties & Favourites ...........................................13 Change element properties.................................................................................... 13 Interface of Favourites.......................................................................................... 14 Add options to Favourites...................................................................................... 15

Bent plate connection (Clip angle) ........................................17 Step by step example ........................................................................................... 17

Tube connection > Tube Angle Splice Single (Diagonal

connection) .......................................................................21 Step by step example ........................................................................................... 21

Platform beams connection > Fin plate (Longitudinal to

transversal beams).............................................................28 Step by step example ........................................................................................... 28

200 Figures of Advance Steel Connections .............................38 Plates at beam..................................................................................................... 38 Column - beam (19 connections) ........................................................................... 43 Beam end to end (8 connections)........................................................................... 53 Platform beams (16 connections) ........................................................................... 57 General bracing (23 connections) ........................................................................... 65 Tube connections (29 connections)......................................................................... 77 Rod bracing joints (9 connections).......................................................................... 92 Purlins Cold rolled (20 connections)........................................................................ 97 Miscellaneous (20 connections).............................................................................108 Fabricator specific macros (32 connections)............................................................118 Old - Not updated anymore (17 connections)..........................................................134

Steel Frame Bridges Example............................................. 143 Revit beams & diagonal tubes connection in Advance Steel 1 ....................................144 Revit beams & diagonal tubes connection in Advance Steel 2 ....................................151