Learn about enhancements and new features in Advance Steel 2016 Revit Extension.
- Extension is able to import plates back to Advance Steel: Advance Steel plates are transferred to Revit into plate families. In previous versions these plates were imported back to Advance Steel as special parts. Starting with Advance Steel extension for Revit 2016 the plates are imported back in Advance Steel as plate objects. See Plates.
- Extension is able to synchronize plates in Revit: The Import only structural elements option, from the
Settings
menu, is overwritten when plates are imported through the
Synchronization
dialog. This means that plates are imported in the Revit project when they are applied from the Synchronization dialog even if the Import only structural elements option is checked. See Synchronize plates in Revit.
- Extension uses a new mapping system: Advance Steel 2016 Revit Extension uses a new mapping system. This new mechanism uses a 1 to 1 mapping between the Revit family and the Advance Steel table, as well as between the Revit profile Type and the Advance Steel SectionName. See Revit family based section mapping.
- Revit materials are mapped in Advance Steel: Common structural materials from the Revit Metal and Concrete categories have been mapped. These materials can be found in the AEC Material library in Revit. See Material mapping.
- Inverted start and end points in Advance Steel - Revit export / import: In previous versions the plug-in would invert the start and end points of beams when a model was transferred between Advance Steel and Revit. In order to be consistent with Revit, the code was rewritten and now the start and end points are no longer inverted when transferring beams through SMLX. See Advance Steel - Revit file transfer.
- Beam and Column rotations are spotted and applied by the Synchronization dialog in Revit: See Advance Steel - Revit Synchronization.
- Improved slanted column transfer: In the previous version there was an issue that caused slanted columns from Advance Steel to be transferred to Revit and then back in Advance Steel with their sections mirrored and the start and endpoint positions presented slight differences. This issue was solved when the transfer of the position and rotation improvements were made. See Advance Steel - Revit file transfer.
- The Synchronization dialog displays both Position and Offset changes in a single modification line: You are prompted with the coordinate points of the start and end points of the system axis. This applies to all linear elements, including curved beams. See Position and Offset display in Synchronisation dialog.
- Main tick boxes work with applied filters: In the Synchronization dialog the Main tick boxes work with applied filters. If objects are selected using the filters and a main tick box is activated, only those lines will have the individual tick box selected. See Main tick boxes with applied filters.
- F1 Help button for extension: If you keep the mouse cursor over Advance Steel Extension ribbon (Add-Ins tab) and then press the F1 key, a web page containing the extension's help will open. This page is located along with all the other plug-ins help documentation, within the Revit Help.
- Replaced GTC file extension with SMLX file extension: The GTC /GTCX file extensions were replaced with the SMLX (Steel Markup Language) file extension. The Export and Import dialogs in Revit contain only the new file format.