Assign Materials

Learn how to assign materials to Advance Steel elements using the Dynamo extension.

To assign materials to elements in Dynamo:

In the tree menu on the left, expand the AdvanceSteel tab Tag Material and select SetMaterial. The Material.SetMaterial node appears in the workspace.

In order to set the material, you need to have two inputs as in the image below:

• One input goes into the element and comes from either a beam or a plate output.
• The second is a string representing the material name. For the material, you need to use the value from the Key column in the Material table of the Advance Steel AstorBase database.
  Note: You can access the AstorBase database by clicking (Management Tools) in the Advance Steel Home tab Settings panel. In the Management Tools application, access the Table Editor, click the button in the top right corner (Open ODBC) to load the Advance Steel databases and use the filter in the bottom right to search for "material". Access the Material table under AstorBase to see the material keys: