Autodesk® Advance Steel 2024 Release Notes

This file contains important information about Autodesk Advance Steel® 2024 that may not be included in Help.

Installation and Configuration

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.

Product Help

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.

System Requirements

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.

Release Notes

·        Modified the German General Arrangement Drawing Styles to include both cold rolled and hot rolled purlins in details.

·        Upgraded the SQLLocalDB version used by Advance Steel for its content databases to SQLLocalDB2019.

·        Fixed an issue where holes were placed incorrectly in the Ayrshire CAM output.

·        Removed some obsolete icons from the Advance Steel ribbon.

·        Fixed an issue where additional holes were created on a folded plate when the folded plate relation was deleted.

·        Improved the documentation with changes required for Visual Studio 2022.

·        Fixed untranslated strings in the German BOM Templates.

·        Fixed an issue where marked arrows were invisible when using the Fast Shaded mode.

·        Fixed an issue where the page frame disappeared when the prototype was changed from the detail.

·        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.

·        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.

·        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.

·        Fixed the resizing behavior of 2 windows from the Drawing Styles interface: the Dimension points selection dialog and the View selection dialog.

·        Fixed the shear studs ability to preserve the values assigned to Model roles upon creation as default values.

·        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.

Product Removal

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.