Autodesk® Advance Steel 2024 Release
Notes
This file contains important
information about Autodesk Advance Steel® 2024 that may not be included in Help.
Before
you install Advance Steel 2024:
·
Make sure you have
Administrator rights.
·
Close all active Windows
applications.
·
Disable any antivirus
software.
Install
Recommended:
Install all Windows Updates before installing the product.
Please refer to the Autodesk Advance Steel® 2024
online product help for more information regarding installing and using the
software and what is new in this release.
The first task you need to
complete is to make sure that your computer meets the system requirements. If
your system does not meet these requirements, problems can occur, both within
Advance Steel and at the operating system level.
Advance Steel supports
only the 64-bit version of Windows operating system.
Refer to the hardware and
software requirements.
·
Modified the German General Arrangement Drawing Styles to
include both cold rolled and hot rolled purlins in details.
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Upgraded the SQLLocalDB version used
by Advance Steel for its content databases to SQLLocalDB2019.
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Fixed an issue where holes were placed incorrectly in the
Ayrshire CAM output.
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Removed some obsolete icons from the Advance Steel ribbon.
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Fixed an issue where additional holes were created on a folded
plate when the folded plate relation was deleted.
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Improved the documentation with changes required for Visual
Studio 2022.
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Fixed untranslated strings in the German BOM Templates.
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Fixed an issue where marked arrows were invisible when using the
Fast Shaded mode.
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Fixed an issue where the page frame disappeared when the
prototype was changed from the detail.
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Fixed an issue where tapered beams, poly beams, and grids were
not selected in a camera object selection when the system variable STARTUP was
set to 0.
·
Fixed an issue where the Convert Databases tool from Management
Tools failed to convert an .mdb file to an .mdf file.
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When a database saved with SQLLocalDB
2014 (the SQL version used by previous Advance Steel releases) is opened using
the Table Editor in Management Tools, a copy is created in the same location as
the original and then the original is converted to SQLLocalDB
2019. The copy is named the same as the database plus the suffix
"_backup" and can still be opened with SQLLocalDB
2014.
·
Fixed the display of preferred weld preparation values in the
weld properties window.
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Changed the 3D wireframe visual representation for the German
model template to display hidden lines during Orbit.
·
Fixed an issue where the value of the gap width of a contour
processing was automatically taken from the previously created contour
processing.
·
Fixed an issue where the arrowhead was left behind when removing
one of the leaders of a multi-leader weld symbol, if using arrow
head types other than "Closed filled".
·
Improved the precision of the angle value for polar array
copying when using the Advance Copy tool.
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Fixed the resizing behavior of 2 windows from the Drawing Styles
interface: the Dimension points selection dialog and the View selection dialog.
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Fixed the shear studs ability to preserve the values assigned to
Model roles upon creation as default values.
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Fixed an issue where Shear Studs did not have access to the
shear-studs specific model roles.
·
Fixed a crash that happened when doing various actions at the
same time with Autosave.
·
Fixed an issue where the memory and time consumption were very
high when using the "show only selected assemblies" command.
·
Improved the description for Main Part Total Amount token in BOM
lists.
·
Fixed an issue where Advance Steel crashed after expanding the
Details node from Document Manager.
·
Fixed a crash when editing the object list in the rollover
tooltip customization menu.
·
Fixed an issue where the program froze when selecting a deleted
element from the clash check panel.
·
Fixed an issue where the Advance Steel Object Enabler sometimes
caused Navisworks to crash when loading Advance Steel files.
To
uninstall Advance Steel 2024 from the Control Panel
1.
On
the Windows Start menu, click Control Panel à Programs à Uninstall a Program.
2.
Select
Autodesk Advance Steel 2024 the list, right-click to Uninstall/Change. If the
User Account Control dialog box is displayed, click Continue.
3.
In
the installation wizard, Maintenance Mode page, click Uninstall.
4.
On
the Uninstall Advance Steel page, click Uninstall.
5.
Click
Finish.
To
uninstall Advance Steel 2024 from Windows 11
1.
Click the Windows icon in the task bar to access the Start menu.
2.
At the top of the Start menu, you will see a list of pinned apps. If
Advance Steel 2024 is in this list, right-click it and then click Uninstall
from the context menu.
3.
If Advance Steel 2024 is not in the list of pinned apps, click All
Apps to the right of the pinned apps group.
4.
A complete list of apps will appear on the next screen. Locate
Advance Steel 2024, right-click it, and then click Uninstall from the context
menu.