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Modeling & Detailing
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REAL Steel® employs embedded tools enabling creation of 3D parametric model of a designed structure. International standard libraries of steel tables, joints, assemblies and materials are at your fingertips. Libraries from Europe, America, Great Britain and Russia are available. Moreover, a user can create and store elements of arbitrary shape and parametric section including those curved.
REAL Steel® has powerful and flexible tools for generation of element arrays, construction of joints and nodes. The modelling engine has features for setting rules on connection of structural elements and assigning priorities. These innovations allow precise and smooth allocation and necessary manipulation of structural elements: setting relations, aligning, joining and cutting.
REAL Steel® contains standard node prototype libraries, easily expandable by new customized solutions. All structural elements are linked associatively to databases, so that cross-section parameters and materials constitute integral attributes of their model. Model history is consistently written in the Project tree, which stores all information about model structures, elements and details, as well as relations and attributes. The information is easily accessible and may be updated or modified simply from the model tree.
Principal feature of REAL Steel® is parameter driven architecture achieved by automatic saving of element connection rules. In REAL Steel®, some elements may be designed as basic ones, e.g., grid axes, working planes, arrays of nodes and elements, while others are placed in the context of the existing ones and are parametrically connected with them. Thus when the model or its part is modified, the effects of modification of structural elements and connections are propagated from one object to another in accordance with the set parameters. This allows modifying models quickly and effectively in any design phase.
Powerful and Flexible parametric 3D modelling engine with comprehensive connection routines includes -
- Physical model tree;
- Parametric modelling engine;
- Parametric grid axes engine;
- Parametric work plane engine;
- Generation of nodes arrays, work planes and structural elements;
- Parametric interrelation control;
- Setting up of structural element connecting rules and priorities;
- Solid and ARX-based structural members and plates;
- Database of standard structural steel cross sections from international steel tables;
- Parametric and user-defined member sections;
- Curved and tapered member sections;
- Materials databases;
- Expended libraries of joints and connections;
- Structural elements parts and assemblies;
- Automatic element naming;
- Structural elements representation styles;
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