PowerPack for Advance Steel is now part of GRAITEC STEEL
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PowerPack for Advance Steel has evolved into GRAITEC STEEL a unified solution that brings together trusted Advance Steel productivity tools, stairs and railings workflows, connection automation, grid management, fabrication exports, and broader steel detailing capabilities.
Is PowerPack for Advance Steel still available?
PowerPack for Advance Steel is now part of GRAITEC STEEL Existing users can continue to access all familiar productivity tools, including modelling commands, stairs and railings, connection macros, grid management, drawing utilities, and fabrication export workflows, while new customers should explore GRAITEC STEEL as the current unified steel detailing offer.
What remains available?
Existing Advance Steel plugin productivity tools
Users can continue to benefit from PowerPack’s tools that accelerate common Advance Steel tasks, including beam creation, castellated and cellular beams, folded plates, grid tools, camera tools, drawing checks, batch plotting, and export workflows.
Stairs, railings, and cage ladders
PowerPack’s specialised stairs and railings capabilities remain a key part of the offer. These tools are important for users who need to create and adjust straight stairs, balanced stairs, railings, concrete stairs, cage ladders, and related steel detailing elements.
Parametric connections
The PowerPack Connection Vault remains relevant for users who need to automate and standardise common steel connections inside Advance Steel.
Fabrication and BIM exchange workflows
PowerPack workflows include STEP/IGES export, GTCX import/export, synchronisation, parts-to-solids, model-to-solids, batch plotting, and other tools that support fabrication preparation and model coordination.
Why the change matters
GRAITEC STEEL gives steel teams a clearer path from modelling to detailing, documentation, and fabrication-ready outputs. Instead of evaluating separate legacy tools, customers can now understand the full GRAITEC STEEL workflow in one place.
- A more unified steel workflow
Steel detailing teams often need to move between modelling, connections, stairs, railings, drawing preparation, and fabrication outputs. GRAITEC STEEL brings these workflows together under one product direction. - Advance Steel and Inventor coverage
The new GRAITEC STEEL positioning supports users working across Autodesk Advance Steel and Inventor workflows, helping teams extend their existing Autodesk environments with specialist steel productivity tools. - Stairs, railings, connections, and fabrication workflows in one offer
The former PowerPack capabilities remain valuable because they solve practical detailing problems: repetitive modelling, stair and railing configuration, connection automation, grid and level control, drawing preparation, and manufacturing data exchange.
See what our customers say about PowerPack for Advance Steel
PowerPack for Advance Steel has helped users reduce repetitive detailing work, especially in areas such as stairs, railings, and Advance Steel productivity. These proven workflows now support the broader GRAITEC STEEL offer.
Using the PowerPack for Advance Steel plugin has enabled our design team to streamline certain aspects of the design process that are not available with the stand-alone version of Advance Steel
Ryan Green, Project Manager, Walker Engineering NW ltd
The PowerPack for Advance Steel is the only way to detail stairs and railings quickly and efficiently. Detailing of stairs and railings generally is much more time consuming in comparison to structural steel, especially when alterations are required. The PowerPack greatly reduces time spent detailing, updating, and making alterations.
Simon Clackett, Partner/Detailer, Stour Engineering LLP
PowerPack for Advance Steel productivity features included in GRAITEC STEEL
Modeling Tools
Leverage a large number of modeling tools designed to enhance productivity and accuracy.
Meet specific project needs for Stairs and Railings
Easily create and customize stairs, railings, and cage ladders with user-friendly dedicated tools.
Connection Vault
Get access to a variety of parametric and intelligent advanced connections: Threaded Rod Connection, Tube to Tube Connection, Purlin Connection, Plates on Profile, Plate for Multiple Bracings, Curved End Plate – Plate & Grating Stiffeners.
Effortlessly integrate BIM models
Seamlessly sync models without data loss to streamline the BIM workflow, enhance project coordination, save time, reduce errors in steel fabrication, and boost overall productivity.
Optimize your batch plotting process
Streamline your batch plotting with preselection, file naming control, and easy file management, enhancing AutoCAD functionality.
Enhance steel fabrication productivity
Export in IGES and STEP formats to enhance productivity and streamline mold design and part pricing.
More Advance Steel workflow tools included in GRAITEC STEEL
- MODELING TOOLS
- MISCELLANEOUS STEEL
- GRID MANAGEMENT
Transmission Towers
Confidently design and create detailed tower structures with this reliable, efficient solution for the telecommunications and power transmission industries. A user-friendly interface, combined with a variety of options for geometry and bracing systems, enables custom towers. With options for cross arms, tower tops, geometry, and bracing systems, this comprehensive solution is an essential tool for engineers and designers.
Platform Cover Creator
Platform Cover Creator is one of the stars of the PowerPack thanks to its versatility. The joint helps to automatically create grating or plate cover based on selected members, and gives the user many possibilities: Create covers even if the contours are not closed, Split covers directly from the joint by beams or by points, Add bolts on edges, Add additional contours
Camera Browser
Manage multiple camera instances in the model space with the Camera Browser tool, now with advanced selection and marking options for both manual and query-based object selection.
Stairs and Railings
Stairs and Railings can be easily customised within the PowerPack for Advance Steel dialogue box. The interface elements offer a consistent structure, which makes it fast and efficient. Users can choose from numerous features and options for stairs & railings configuration, with editable parameters (dimensions, steps, treads, strides, connection types, etc.) to get the required structure.
Cage Ladder
Create cage ladders with multiple exit options and cage types by combining the ability to design them vertically or sloped for ultimate versatility and safety.
Concrete Stairs
Enhance your drawings with stunning stair arrangements that make your railings stand out. Elevate your stair designs with schematic concrete stairs that can easily be used as elements for railings. Your designs will have flexibility using single and multiple flight options, top and bottom landings, exit options, and concrete objects that interact with railings via point and line methods.
Lap Joint for Handrails
Enable the seamless creation of lap elements joining two railing (flat) segments, with customizable properties for each lap plate.
Railing – Additional hole types for post connection
Make fine adjustments to hole type arrangements in every connection element and supporting beam. These can vary for each beam and connector plate within each segment.
Railing – Loop End Mitre Corners
You now have more options for loop end selection, with the flexibility for mitre styles to configure corner elements.
Stairs – Welded Special Part Tread
Streamline your management of different tread types. Create bespoke tread profiles tailored for welding in the steel fabrication and construction of staircase assemblies. Save and retrieve customized profiles in a reference library, along with the original bolt selections.
Multi Grid Level Tool
Get control over layers utilized and transferred to your drawing output. Activate or deactivate your grids using layers.
Multi Grid Line – Manual Label Content
Enhance your workflow with the upgraded Multi Grid level tool, now allowing users to add custom manual labels to each grid line’s text field.
Multi Grid Line – Sub Axis Option
Benefit from more flexibility with the enhanced Multi Grid level tool, featuring a new Sub Axis that allows customizable distance offsets, prefixes and suffixes for each side of the main grid.
Ready to learn more about GRAITEC STEEL?
Explore how GRAITEC STEEL brings together trusted Advance Steel productivity tools with a broader steel detailing workflow for modelling, stairs and railings, connections, documentation, and fabrication preparation.
Customer FAQs
PowerPack for Advance Steel is now part of GRAITEC STEEL. Existing users should contact GRAITEC to confirm the right package, license access, and support route for their account.
Yes. The familiar PowerPack workflows remain important inside the GRAITEC STEEL offer, including modelling tools, stairs and railings, connection macros, grid tools, fabrication exports, and documentation workflows.
All active licenses remain valid. License access depends on your current contract and package. Contact GRAITEC or your reseller to confirm how you’re existing PowerPack license maps to GRAITEC STEEL
Existing customers should use the GRAITEC Advantage Platform to access available downloads, updates, documentation, and support resources.
Yes. Existing customers can continue to access GRAITEC support channels according to their support agreement and license package.
Yes. GRAITEC STEEL includes workflows designed to extend Advance Steel productivity, including modelling automation, stairs and railings, connection tools, grid management, and fabrication-oriented outputs.
Yes. The new GRAITEC STEEL positioning is broader than the former Advance Steel-only PowerPack and should link users to the relevant GRAITEC STEEL for Inventor or Inventor add-on page where applicable.
No. Autodesk Advance Steel is the core detailing platform. GRAITEC Steel extends steel workflows with additional productivity tools, automation, and specialist capabilities.
Yes, GRAITEC STEEL workflows include export capabilities such as STEP and IGES for fabrication and manufacturing collaboration. The GRAITEC STEEL help identifies IGES/STEP export as a key collaboration function with manufacturers.
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