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Designing Steel Decks in Advance Design

The classic Tree-View navigation control, used to group and display a hierarchical list of items, has been enhanced with additional options.

As an example, a group of two walls, each subjected to in-plane and gravitational linear loads, is represented. The resultant forces on groups of walls and

Structure Designer can now be configured to use records from AstorRules database

Users can change the hatch pattern in their drawing but they can also load new .pat files into it.

Users can change the Hatch Properties. In this FAQ we will explain how attributes can be changed to fully customize your hatch area.

Users can select areas or objects by choosing either “Select Area” or “Select Objects”, to be filled with a pattern; this FAQ explains how to quickly fill

As an example, a two way curved plate is built using CAD tools and shell planar elements in Advance Design.

Find out how the diagram display of the reaction forces on a linear support is constructed

Users can cut progressively with the ‘Section Box’ tool by holding <CTRL> key and using the mouse scroll; this FAQ explains how to use every option related

Appropriately name the objects of a study in order to select the climatic forces applied on windwalls

Advance Design can consider the geometrical and material imperfections in steel structures design according to Eurocode 3.

Structure Designer is a template generator embedded in Advance Design or in Advance Steel.

Find out how to add new fittings in the databases by using BIM Designers Stairs & Railings in Advance Steel.

Find out how to view the post-processing results of steel members by using Advance Stability (Second Order Analysis) in Advance Design. Search Words: Adv

Find out how you can define Bracings that will carry the lateral loads of the structure in Advance Design using ‘bar’-type elements.

Check out how to use the Explode commands in PP4AS and obtain ACAD dimensions. Learn about existing limitations in order to use the tool more efficiently.

Find out how you can impose the position of the loads in relation to the cross section when performing second order analysis on steel members with the new

The envelope of a structure may have certain openings that affect the automatically generated wind loads on windwalls, in accord with EC1.

Check out how to define imperfections conditions which are taken into account when performing second order analysis on steel members with the new Advance S