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Add Aluminum and Stainless Steel Material Libraries

Add Aluminum and Stainless Steel Material Libraries

Having an Aluminum and Stainless Steel material library is necessary for fabrication shops. I know you can add general libraries, but those do not add the properties needed in the model to show correct connections and weights. We need structural shapes like beams, channels, and angles. 

 

Also, The KISS file standards need to be updated. Advanced Steel currently only produces a "D" line in a kiss file. It needs to produce all of the lines, so drawings do not have to be manually entered into Fabtrol MRP. 

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2 Comments
robert9PGH9
Observer

Full Stainless and Aluminum Databases should be offered at no extra cost to the user. AS has been around long enough that this should be standard. There are many shops that fabricate more than carbon steel using AS. 

 

While AS is at it they can correct the profile shapes already in the database to match AISC 15th edition sizes.

There are many W or I shapes that the web, Flange and depth are incorrect from 1/16" up to 1/4"

mddcliffcole87
Explorer

Please add the aluminum and stainless structural shapes as soon as possible. While AS allows us to add our own, we cannot afford to do this time-wise. I appreciate the fact that AS has databases for about every country in the world, but this really does us no good here in the US. If I'm not mistaken, AS is now owned by an American company, Autodesk. As such, it would be nice to help us out with a full offering of shapes, including aluminum and stainless. Thank you!

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