He has been teaching various CAD software for more than 18 years and has also authored the 'Up and Running with Autodesk Navisworks' series of books.

Help for designing the course curriculum.ĭeepak Maini (Sydney, Australia) is a qualified Mechanical Engineer with more than 19 years of experience in working in the design industry.

PowerPoint slides of every chapter in the textbook.

The following free teaching resources are available for faculty:

End of chapter skill evaluation to review the concepts learnt in the chapter.

Tips and Notes providing additional information about the topic in discussion.

'What I do' tips describing some real world challenges that Advance Steel users face and the author's approach in those situations.

Special chapter on BIM data interoperability with Autodesk Revit, including importing Steel Connections.

Covers the process of generating NC and DXF files for machining.

Explains the process of basic customization of prototypes and BOM templates.

Covers basic customization of drawing processes.

Covers in detail the process of generating the 2D drawings using drawing processes as well as drawing styles.

Detailed discussion of creating custom prefix configuration for numbering.

Detailed discussion of how to validate the structural model for modeling error and checking the clashes in the model.

336 pages of in-depth coverage of the tools to generate detail drawings of the 3D structural model.

Complimentary access to videos of all tutorials in the book.

The following are some of the salient features of this textbook:

There is a special chapter covering BIM data interoperability with Autodesk Revit. The author has also covered the process of validating the structure model and checking it for clashes. You will learn how to use drawing processes as well as drawing styles for generating the 2D documentation. This textbook covers in detail the tools that are used to generate 2D detail and fabrication drawings of the 3D structural model created in Volume 1 of this book.

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