BRIÈVRES, France, Nov 6, 2019 – GRAITEC, an international BIM, simulation, fabrication and data management software developer for the AEC industry, and Autodesk platinum partner across Europe is delighted to announce that the 2020.1 update of GRAITEC Advance Suite is now available for download.

The 2020.1 intermediate update delivers several features and enhancements to each of the different software solutions that make up the GRAITEC Advance suite:

• Advance Design
• BIM Designers Concrete & Steel series
• Powerpack for Advance Steel
• BIM Connect

What’s New in Advance Design 2020.1

Update 2020.1 of Advance Design comes with around 30 small improvements/corrections in different elements of the software to further improve the user experience by delivering continual product improvements.

• This includes several improvements to reduce calculation time in Advance Design especially when saving seismic results.
• Detailed calculation of the wind pressure coefficients, according to the CNC2M rules, on L shape structures and better management of wind loads cases naming.
• Improvements on results postprocessing: inability to select from the ribbon combinations for non-linear analysis, naming problem in the sheet windows for timber elements, increasing of the line thickness for a better display for the results on linear elements.
• Some fixes also in the reports generator such as a problem to generate a report including curves saved as BMP or PNG files, missing levels in the storey drift verification.
• Miscellaneous improvements for steel & timber design modules: improved definition and copying of end restraints parameters to other flanges on design templates for steel elements, problem with not using E0.05 and G0.05 timber characteristics from material database if a model was converted from the previous version, the generic joint feature can be defined for all localizations (including US & Canada), problem with an error message after creating tube connection with gusset plate-2 secondary bars.

What’s New in BIM Designers – Concrete Series 2020.1

The objective of update 2020.1 for the BIM Designers concrete series is to enhance the experience of users in different key areas including:

• New tools to improve access to the rebar data in the design modules: annotations on the reinforcement views, tooltips on the 3D rebar cage, new viewport reorganization.
• Possibility to change the user’s position of the viewports.
• Possibility to define and add level symbols on RC Beams drawings.
• Possibility to change the 2D elevation view generated in the footing reinforcement drawing: front or lateral elevation.
• New mapping dialog and process when using BIM Designers on Revit: the user gets an improved and easier dialog to manage the parameters mapping between BIM Designers and Revit families while also benefitting from automatic mapping for the other parameters.
• New matching of Revit rectangular columns with equal dimensions.
• Other improvements/corrections: texts and translations in reports, display at higher resolutions (2K and 4K), improved default settings.

What’s New in BIM Designers – Steel Connection 2020.1

Our Steel connection design module continues to evolve with various miscellaneous improvements in response to customer requests:

• On MEP connections, the possibility to define a column without upper stiffeners or a cap plate.
• New chamfer type for gusset plates.
• A set of small improvements to the user interface: new tooltips for selected options, updated descriptions on defining layouts of bolts, filtering of available parameters for holes depending on the type.

What’s New in Advance BIM Connect 2020.1

Continued enhancements to our BIM Connect component to improve BIM connected workflows between Autodesk and GRAITEC software solutions:

• Possibility to export a Revit model to Advance Design without defined load cases.
• Corrected synchronization of steel L profiles from Advance Design to Revit.
• Import into Revit of the theoretical reinforcement area for slabs during synchronization process.

What’s New in Powerpack for Advance Steel 2020.1

Their Powerpack for Advance Steel also benefits from the 2020.1 an update with some further improvements such as:

• New export function for .IGES and .STEP file formats.
• A set of small improvements and corrections to macros for connections.
• A set of small improvements and corrections to macros for cold rolled.
• Update the steel profiles databases (new sections, corrections).

For GRAITEC customers under maintenance, this update 2020.1 can be downloaded from here.

Joseph PAIS, Graitec product director comments: “The 2020.1 intermediate update of our software demonstrates our commitment to be as reactive as possible by considering daily requests from our users, that help make them more successful and effective on their projects.”

About GRAITEC

Founded in 1986, GRAITEC is an international group helping construction and manufacturing professionals achieve successfully their digital transformation by providing BIM and Industry 4.0 software and consultancy. Graitec is a developer of high-performance BIM applications as well as an Autodesk Platinum Partner in Europe and Gold Autodesk Partner in North America and Russia.

Operating through 47 offices across 13 countries worldwide, GRAITEC offers its clients an extensive range of established software solutions combined with the full portfolio of Autodesk products which help address the most demanding project needs and maximizing productivity, efficiency and performance. GRAITEC is an innovation focused company whose products are used by more than 100,000 construction professionals worldwide.

For more information, visit www.graitec.com.