IMO It's very depressing..... 2020 is rebadged.... with just a few new features.... just like the last service pack
The Document manager is still extremely LAME.....the same ol' limited tool. (The Achilles Heel of Advanced Steel) … hey that rhymes 😉
We need a way to freeze issued drawings without having to resort to the lame workaround of exploding or deregistering the drawing because guess what....? The drawing no longer appears in the doc manager which defeats the purpose of having a doc manager don't ya think?
We also need to be able to create folders in the doc manager, to organize our drawings ....and yes I've come up with some clever ways to do this with processes but the drawing list is about a mile long on a large project.
Let's not forget about one of my favorites... that relic from the past.... the great Unknown Folder.
The catch all where many drawings wind up if you chose not to update a released drawing etc......
You could of shut off the automatic check attribute for the doc manager but then guess where the drawings wind up?? The great Unknow Folder! Whoever set this up was definitely into Chinese Water Torture.....
Anyway.... I still press on because Advance Steel is a cad jockey's dream and if you enjoy getting lost in the rabbit hole (drawing style manager) and love to tinker until your legs loose circulation from sitting too long then you've come to the right place. "It's gonna take a while"... that's what I told the coworkers that I'm training to use the program....
The Camera/Model view symbols in drawings are non standard, extremely limited as far as automatic positioning/alignment and token availabilty.
Managing the cameras/model view cameras is a real time eater when setting up a midsize to large roof plan based on the many cameras that a good AST detailer would preposition in the model for an automated process or suite.
Let's face it folks...… most of the manual work for an entire structural project is in the erection drawings on mid size and larger struc jobs.
We have such a great camera/model view system in Advance steel but Autodesk crew just can't seem to find the resources to put this workflow over the goal line...… Tekla even tried to copy it somewhat with their half baked "detail manager" With Advance Steel EVERY THING IS THERE AND IN PLACE! The Devs just need to connect the dots and finish the job with some focused resources and coding to tie it all together.
Autodesk management...… please focus on these issues.
A world class automated workflow will be the end result!!
Rant over
Regards
Craig