Default Beam Materials for Individual Sections

[Anonymous]

Hello,

Is it possible to apply a default steel grade to angles, channels, "s" shapes and plates to one type of grade, and have a separate default grade for hot rolled sections?

I know we can currently change the material when the beams are in the model but id like to have the program set so that if i draw a "S" beam its automatically set to 300W and a HSS would be set to 350W.

Thanks

[robertwmerriman2]

As you state the Mangement tools you can only control the grade of Beam and Plates seperatly.

I would advise that you set up some search filters in your model (if you do them on every job you could copy the template and set up the searches in a template) you can set up your search filters for a particualr beam type, then before you run any numbering / lists etc exicute the search and this will show only those beams so you can globally select them and change the material grade.

[DumitruBerteanu · Accepted solution]

You can assign a default material per section class (e.g. AISC 14.1 Angle identical, AISC 14.1 HSS rectangular etc.) through the Material table column, from AstorProfiles / ProfileMasterTable table. 

So you'll need to make this change to all section classes that belong to lets say Angle - you can't assign to all angle profiles in one place.

More information about this can be found in the following article: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/advance-steel/learn-explore/caas/simplecontent/content/advanc...

Note that this article was created using the old .mdb databases / Access editor. If you are using Advance Steel 2018 or newer, those modifications will be done in similar places but in .mdf tables, which aren't editable by Microsoft Access. You can make those modifications using the Management Tools Table editor without any limitation.