How to create new section profile?
Hello Marceu Heinzmann,
You can use different methods depending on what you want / what you need.
1. If you want a general section (a shape that is not standard): you can create new profile section by "User section" functionality.
You create the section shape that you want in a drawing and then use the command to add it to database.
You can find detailed information about creating a "User section" in the Advance Steel User guide, that can be found in the link bellow (chapter "Special parts, Special sections" --> "User sections", pages 102-107 for English User guide)
2. If you want to add a new section to an existing profile (for example a new Flat section), you will add it directly in the profile database.
Follow the bellow steps to add it using Management Tools. You can use also a dedicated database software, like Microsoft Access.
- Open Management Tools (MT)
- Select "Table editor"
- Select "Open ODBC" button (top-left corner) to open current Advance Steel databases
- Select and expand "AstorProfiles" by double-click
- Look for and select "ProfileMasterTable"
- In the right side scroll to the column corresponding to your installation language (for example "English" for "UK English" installation)
- Look for the profile name that you see in Advance Steel (as example: "Flat EN 10058"). You can use CTRL+F option for quick search
- In the line where you find this name scroll to the left until the column "TableName" and note the name that appears here (example: "EXT_Flat"). This is the table where you will add your desired section.
- In the left side of MT dialog box search for the previous find table name and select it.
- Add new line(s) in the table for each new section, following the pattern and parameters from the existing sections. Each section type has its own geometric parameters. For example the Flat type has 2 parameters: h-width and b-thickness.
- It is recommended to use your Author for Owner column. You can add new Author in MT - Option page. This will help you during migration to new versions.
Best regards,
Emy
Emy Nestor
Hi,
You can let these columns not filled and AS will calculate some of them (it will not calculate for example Iz, Iy ...).
However, if you can it is recommended to fill these data, because it is possible to have differences between calculated values and catalog values.
Best regards,
Emy
Emy Nestor
In the new versions of Advance steel there are no country columns in the DB tables.
they changed to separated folders and installs for each country/group of countries
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you don't need the language column. This was only needed in the past, if you just fill the column which are there, it is working.
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Hi @rimutaka
Thank you for your question.
As mentioned above, the Language columns are not used anymore, starting with AS 2018 version.
Instead, you use directly the column "RunName". Please see attached image for reference.
Hope it helps 🙂
Emy
Emy Nestor
you need to create each section, and after this you could combine them:
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what do you mean? The note "not defined" means you don't use the numbering command of Advance Steel until now.
Just use the numebring dialog and the element will get a number
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