Robot-AdvanceSteel Link enables data exchange between Autodesk® Advance Steel® and Robot, through a complete set of functionalities like import, export, or synchronize.
After installing Robot, you can download and install the application from the Autodesk App Store website.
With Robot-AdvanceSteel Link, you can export a Robot structural model using the smlx format. You can then import the smlx file in Advance Steel in order to detail steel connections and automatically generate fabrication documents. From Robot, you can also export values of internal forces with the model to the smlx file. After importing the file to Advance Steel, you can use these values to perform code checking of connections.
Conversely, you can export a model from Advance Steel in order to perform structural analysis and code checking in Robot.
You can also track changes in the same model in both applications using the synchronization feature. Additionally, in Robot, you can track differences using a background that displays geometry of the Advance Steel model.
For more information, see Robot-Advance Steel Link.