Revit and Advance Steel are both excellent tools but they do not do exactly the same thing. The software you use will depend on the Level of Development you need at that time. You cannot do the miscellaneous steel elements such as ladders and railings to the same level. In Advance Steel the Connection Vault macros edit cutbacks and coping and such that you would need to do individually in Revit. It can also be more cumbersome to add the connectors. While this gets you much further along it is still not the full level of development you need for fabrication. This allows you to add actual connectors rather than default connection element. To produce even more detail within the Revit model you can load Steel Connections for Autodesk Revit. Stairs, Ladders, and Railings do not translate between the two products. You can also synchronize the models using this add-in. You can then export the Revit model to the Steel Markup Language (SMLX) and import it into Advance Steel. If you want to be able to share models between Revit and Advance Steel install the Advance Steel Extension for Revit.
Steel Detailers and Connection Engineers work in Autodesk Advance Steel to create the fabrication model, shop drawings, and CNC output. It is important to use Revit so you can work with the architectural model and other disciplines.
It may also help to see who uses each software in a typical workflow:Įngineers/Designers produce the design models and construction documents in Autodesk Revit. As you can see from the graphic below Revit is not quite as detailed as Advance Steel. Conceptual design starts at LOD 100 and full fabrication drawings come in at LOD 400. LOD is a standard that states how much information is stored in a BIM Model at different points in the process. Which software you should use depends on the Level of Development (LOD) to which you are designing. How different is the functionality in Advance Steel vs.
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