Graitec STEEL: One Solution for Every Steel Detailing Workflow

What It Does

Productivity and automation. Graitec STEEL turns the repetitive work that consumes detailing hours into automated, repeatable workflows. Structure generators build complete parametric frameworks — frames, bracings, portals, purlins — in seconds rather than hours, while batch tools handle the drawing and output work that used to be done one item at a time. The result is consistency across projects and time given back to the work that actually requires engineering judgment.

Stairs and railings. The hardest, most differentiating corner of steel detailing — and the one the standard platforms handle least gracefully. Graitec STEEL models multi-flight stairs, landings, and complex balustrade systems through guided workflows, giving detailers control over geometry that would otherwise demand hours of manual modelling.

Modelling and connections. A deep library of intelligent, parametric connections lets detailers apply and adjust joints with confidence, keeping models accurate and constructible as designs evolve.

Fabrication-ready output. This is where detailing becomes building. Graitec STEEL produces the outputs the shop floor actually needs — NC and CNC files, accurate bills of materials, drawings, and clean data exports, so the model carries directly into fabrication without rework.

The impact is clear on complex, high-profile projects. In Milan Olympics Village, Graitec’s solutions were used to streamline the modeling, detailing and fabrication of the steel structures across a demanding and tight schedule. By automating repetitive tasks and ensuring data flowed cleanly from design to fabrication, the results translated into measurable gains. Faster modeling and shop drawing production, and a more efficient delivery process throughout the project’s lifecycle.

Graitec’s AI vision

Graitec believes AI belongs inside the steel detailer’s workflow not as a replacement for their engineering judgment, but as an assistant that removes friction and gives time back. Our vision is straightforward: the detailer stays in control of the engineering, and the AI takes on the searching, the filtering, and the repetitive generation that surrounds it.

That vision is already live in the Graitec Assistant, built around three things detailers do constantly: Ask. Filter. Generate. Ask it product and modelling questions in natural language and get instant, contextual answers without leaving the model or digging through documentation. Filter complex Advance Steel models with plain-language queries to isolate exactly the elements you need. And generate fabrication-ready bills of materials on request, shaped to the project rather than locked to a fixed template. The Assistant is currently available in Advance Steel under a Named User license, with expansion to Inventor planned on the roadmap.

Who it’s for

By role. Graitec STEEL is built for the people who move steel from design to fabrication. Principal directors and owners gain a faster, more predictable path from win to delivery. CAD and detailing managers get consistency and standards that hold across every project and every detailer. Steel detailers get the automation and the stairs-and-railings depth that take the grind out of the day. And production managers get fabrication-ready output that reaches the shop floor clean.

By segment. The solution serves structural steel fabricators and detailing firms, specialty contractors working in stairs, railings, and architectural metalwork, and engineering firms delivering complex structures — from commercial and industrial buildings to infrastructure projects like transmission towers and beyond.

Why Graitec

For more than three decades, Graitec has built the software that steel professionals rely on to work faster and deliver with confidence. We’ve grown alongside the Autodesk ecosystem, deepened our expertise in the workflows that matter most to detailers and fabricators, and earned the trust of teams delivering some of the most demanding steel projects in the world. Graitec STEEL brings that experience together into one solution — the productivity, automation, and now the intelligence that the next era of steel detailing demands.