One steel solution across Autodesk platform
GRAITEC STEEL is a multi-platform solution for Autodesk users, built to extend steel design and engineering workflows beyond individual tools.
It connects CAD designers, steel detailers, fabricators, and product engineers through a flexible solution for integrated steel project execution. Whether teams work in Autodesk Advance Steel or Autodesk Inventor, GRAITEC STEEL brings dedicated automation, productivity tools, and steel-focused workflows into the Autodesk environment they already use.
For Autodesk Advance Steel users, this means practical automation for steel detailing, complex connections, structural modelling, stairs, railings, cage ladders, drawing management, batch plotting, model checking, data exchange, and fabrication-ready outputs.
Built for Advance Steel users who need faster detailing
Autodesk Advance Steel gives teams a strong environment for structural steel modelling and detailing. But many steel detailers and fabricators still spend too much time on repetitive modelling, manual connection edits, complex stair and railing details, drawing preparation, checking, and export workflows.
Without dedicated automation, these tasks can slow project delivery, introduce inconsistencies, and make it difficult to scale detailing standards across teams and projects.
GRAITEC STEEL helps Advance Steel users reduce these bottlenecks while keeping work inside the familiar Advance Steel environment.
| Challenge | How GRAITEC STEEL helps |
| Repetitive modelling | Reduce repeated manual steps when creating, modifying, and coordinating steel elements. |
| Manual connection edits | Avoid time-consuming connection adjustments across complex steel models. |
| Complex stairs and railings | Create access systems with parametric tools instead of modelling every tread, post, rail, cage, or connection manually. |
| Drawing production bottlenecks | Speed up drawing checks, batch plotting, drawing clean-up, and export preparation. |
| Fabrication data handover | Export solids, STEP, IGES, ACIS, GTCX, and other deliverables more consistently for downstream workflows. |
Why Advance Steel users choose GRAITEC STEEL
Benefit 1: Automate repetitive steel detailing tasks
Speed up everyday Advance Steel work with tools that reduce manual modelling, repeated edits, drawing preparation, and detailing clean-up.
Benefit 2: Detail complex steel connections faster
Use advanced connection macros and parametric tools to model specialized steel connection scenarios with more consistency and fewer manual workarounds.
Benefit 3: Create parametric stairs, railings, and cage ladders
Generate stairs, railings, and ladder systems using dedicated parametric tools instead of modelling every component manually.
Benefit 4: Generate steel structures with less manual modelling
Create complete parametric steel structures faster using structural generators instead of modeling repetitive frameworks manually.
Benefit 5: Produce fabrication-ready outputs faster
Move from model to deliverables more efficiently with tools for drawing checks, batch plotting, drawing editing, export, and data exchange.
Benefit 6: Keep steel workflows connected across teams
Support teams working across Autodesk Advance Steel and Autodesk Inventor with a broader steel workflow that connects design, detailing, fabrication preparation, and installation.
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Steel detailing productivity tools for Autodesk Advance Steel
Automate everyday Advance Steel detailing workflows with tools that reduce repetitive modelling and documentation setup. GRAITEC STEEL helps users work faster across beams, grids, cameras, model views, and repeated edits so teams can spend less time on manual commands and more time delivering coordinated steel models.
Beam Lengthen: Extend steel members precisely by a defined value or to match reference elements.
Beam repeated and Beam continuous: Create multiple beams in one modelling session instead of recalling commands repeatedly.
Joint Multi Edit: Modify parameters across multiple steel connections at once, even when connection configurations differ.
Multi Grid Level: Manage grid visibility, labels, sub-axis offsets, prefixes, and suffixes for clearer model control and drawings.
Camera Creator and Camera Browser: Create, manage, select, and edit model cameras to streamline drawing creation and improve view consistency.
Tech Tip: How can I automate repetitive steel detailing tasks in Autodesk Advance Steel?
Steel detailing becomes more efficient in GRAITEC STEEL through automation powered by a comprehensive suite of workflow-enhancing tools
Advanced steel connection automation
Create and manage complex steel connections with parametric tools designed for real detailing conditions. GRAITEC STEEL extends Advance Steel with specialized connection capabilities that help detailers reduce manual work, improve consistency, and respond faster to design changes.
Connection Vault: Access a wide range of connection macros for everyday and advanced detailing scenarios.
Asymmetric and standard patterns: Define irregular bolt patterns and staggered arrangements without complex manual modelling.
Platform and floor covers: Automatically create grating or plate covers based on selected supporting members, including options for open contours, splitting, edge bolts, and additional contours.
Lifting lugs: Add lifting features directly to the model to support safer handling, fabrication, and installation planning.
Turnbuckle bracing: Configure adjustable bracing systems with automated turnbuckle placement.
Threaded rods, grating borders, plates for multiple bracings, and connections at intersections: Handle specialist node and connection scenarios with greater speed and consistency.
Tech Tip: How can I automate complex steel connections in Autodesk Advance Steel?
Modeling complex connections is now seamless with GRAITEC STEEL’s advanced connection capabilities.
Structural generators for faster steel modelling
Move from manual framework modelling to configurable structural generation. GRAITEC STEEL includes structural generators that help Advance Steel users create complete parametric steel structures, explore design options, and standardize repeated structural layouts.
Structure Designer: Define building layouts, bays, default profiles, portals, purlins, bracings, side rails, platforms, openings, intermediate beams, and cladding options through an integrated workflow.
Transmission Towers Generator: Create detailed tower structures for telecommunications and power transmission projects, with configurable geometry, bracing systems, cross arms, and tower tops.
The result is faster model creation, fewer repetitive steps, and more consistent structural geometry across projects.
Tech Tip: What tool can generate parametric steel structures inside Autodesk Advance Steel?
With Structure Designer, part of GRAITEC STEEL, fully parametric steel structures can be generated and even saved for future use inside Advance Steel.
Parametric stair creation in Autodesk Advance Steel
Create editable stair systems using parameter-driven tools instead of manually modelling every tread, stringer, landing, and connection detail. GRAITEC STEEL helps detailers generate stair arrangements faster while maintaining control over geometry and fabrication details.
Straight stairs: Create one-flight, two-flight, and three-flight stair configurations, including L, U, and Z layouts.
Balanced stairs: Create smooth, ergonomically optimized stair designs with evenly distributed steps, even in constrained layouts.
Concrete stairs: Use schematic concrete stair arrangements as references for railing and stair design, including single and multiple flights, landings, and exit options.
Configurable treads, stringers, landings, connections, and alignments: Control key stair parameters without rebuilding geometry manually.
Reusable stair settings: Standardize repeated stair configurations across similar projects.
Tech Tip: How do I create fabrication-ready stairs in Advance Steel without manually modelling every tread, stringer, landing, and connection?
The Stairs module within GRAITEC STEEL offers comprehensive parameter control to design, adjust, and save a wide range of stair configurations, from overall layouts to detailed tread and landing setups.
Configurable railing systems for Advance Steel projects
Create common railing systems with configurable posts, rails, fittings, panels, infills, special parts, and connections. GRAITEC STEEL helps Advance Steel users create railings with detailed 3D control while reducing repetitive modelling effort.
Standard railings: Create general railing layouts with controlled posts, handrails, and connections.
Wall railings: Model wall-mounted railing systems for access and safety applications.
Ball post railings: Generate ball post railings with configurable placements and transitions.
Key clamp railings: Create key clamp railing systems using dedicated fittings and parameter-driven settings.
Double post and special post railings: Support project-specific railing requirements with more flexible configurations.
Special parts: Manage details such as clamps, balls, caps, panels, treads, and supplier-specific components where required.
Tech Tip: What software can create configurable steel railings directly inside Autodesk Advance Steel?
Part of the GRAITEC STEEL add-on the Railings module is specifically designed to extend Advance Steel with advanced automation and configurability for railings, making it ideal for fabrication-ready detailing.
Cage ladder automation for industrial access systems
Create vertical or inclined cage ladders with configurable cages, rungs, stiles, supports, and exit options. GRAITEC STEEL helps teams model industrial access systems faster and with greater consistency for fabrication and installation workflows.
- Vertical and inclined cage ladder creation
- Circular and rectangular cage configurations
- Multiple exit options
- Configurable rung, stile, support, and connection parameters
- Reusable workflow for industrial access projects
Tech Tip: What software can quickly create cage ladders with configurable cages, rungs, stiles, and exits in Advance Steel?
GRAITEC STEEL features a robust Cage Ladder module that enables flexible and accurate modeling of diverse configurations, compliant with industry standards.
Drawing management and fabrication-ready exports
Prepare drawings, models, and fabrication deliverables faster with tools that support checking, plotting, editing, export, and data exchange. GRAITEC STEEL helps Advance Steel users move from model to output with less manual effort and more consistent deliverables.
Check SP and MP drawings: Identify elements that are not detailed.
Check parts: Detect parts that do not need detailed drawings and can be ordered or fabricated from BOM information.
Batch plot: Generate large volumes of drawings with filtering, selection, output naming, and file management options.
Explode details and drawings: Convert automated drawings and details into editable elements for project-specific refinements.
Toggle labels and weld symbols: Clean up drawings by controlling visibility of unnecessary information.
Parts to Solids and Model to Solids: Export assemblies, single parts, or full models as 3D solids.
STEP, IGES, ACIS, DWG, GTCX, synchronization, and 3D PDF: Share data with external stakeholders, manufacturing workflows, and connected project environments.
Tech Tip: How can I export Advance Steel models to STEP, IGES, or ACIS for manufacturing workflows?
The “Part to Solids or Model to Solids” functionalities in GRAITEC STEEL is a dedicated tool designed to directly export Advance Steel models to STEP format without requiring any other intermediate step.
From Advance Steel model to fabrication-ready output
1. Model or open your Advance Steel project
Work inside your existing Autodesk Advance Steel environment.
2. Automate modelling and detailing tasks
Use productivity tools for beams, grids, cameras, repeated edits, and model organisation.
3. Generate connections, stairs, railings, and ladders
Use parametric macros and specialised tools to reduce manual modelling.
4. Check drawings and prepare deliverables
Use drawing checks, batch plotting, drawing clean-up, and documentation tools.
5. Export and share fabrication-ready data
Export models, parts, drawings, solids, GTCX, STEP, IGES, ACIS, and 3D PDF outputs for downstream teams.
Bring steel detailing automation into your Advance Steel workflow
Reduce manual detailing, automate complex steel components, improve drawing delivery, and prepare fabrication-ready outputs directly inside Autodesk Advance Steel.