
These dedicated wizards save time by assisting engineering teams to quickly generate straight and spiral stairs, straight and curved railings, and cage ladders. Advance Steel contains an extensive library of objects and powerful tools to help designers create structural elements including trusses, bracings, purlins, and portal frames.Īs an example, Advance Steel allows the creation of more accurate stairs and railings with the use of special wizards. The structural modelling process is greatly simplified in the latest releases of Advance Steel through the use of several intelligent features. Steelwork design members and connections can be checked and validated against industry standards at any time with a report generated containing relevant formulas and standards for reference. This connection design engine checks compliance against both EC3 (EuroCode 3) and AISC (American Institute of Steel Construction) standards to validate structural design models.

These connections are parametrically driven meaning that as structural members change during the design process, the connections are automatically updated. In-built to Advance Steel is a connection design engine, giving access to simple and complex structural connections. Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a process-based workflow that helps businesses work more efficiently and helps teams complete projects on time and on budget.Īdvance Steel helps steelwork designers, structural detailers and fabricators model with intelligence and helps designers and engineers extend their BIM workflows through to detailed modelling.Īdvance Steel Steelwork Connection Design Engine To aid in the 3D design and production of 2D detailed manufacture drawings Nova have invested in dedicated CAD packages designed for specific industries.įor the structural steel industry we have selected Advance Steel from Autodesk as a structural design, automated detailing and scheduling package.Īutodesk Advance Steel structural design and detailing software is built to help structural design engineers and steelwork detailers easily create information rich building models/ these 3D CAD models are then used to assist in the fabrication of structural steelwork components. Previous engineering design projects have included staircases, platform design and detailing through to access ways and bridge detailing for road and rail access.

Over the last 27 years of trading, Nova have successfully undertaken the site survey, layout, structural design and structural detailing for many structural steelwork design projects.
