Be Connected with Steel Connections

PHILIPPE BONNEAU: Welcome everyone. Good afternoon. Welcome to this class, Be Connected With Steel Connections. My name is Philippe Bonneau. I am a Technical or Marketing Manager for Structural Fabrication. I joined Autodesk here three years ago, and I'm based out of Paris in France.

So today, I would like to talk about our steel structures, but not only about steel members but also about steel connections. And I would like to walk through the way to exchange the model containing this street structure from the structural engineer to the steel detailer thanks to great tools that we have now in the 2017 release of Revit and 2017 release of Advance Steel.

So at the end of this class, you should understand and be able to insert steel automatic connections in your Revit model in the Revit environment. You should be able to export this Revit model to Advance Steel and vice versa and even synchronize the differences between the two models, between the two software.

Then you should be able to use Advance Steel for creating the documentation, everything which is about shop drawings, [INAUDIBLE] drawings, but also [? beautiful tiles ?] and NC files. And you should be able to communicate your designs-- your 3D models containing steel members and steel connections with your source.

So I'm going to start with how you can insert steel connections in your Revit model. So the first thing is ability to insert generic connection in your Revit model. We have some tools to insert such a connection to give it some information to assign it some documentation. It can be a PDF file. You can assign it or so a picture, which shows a [INAUDIBLE] of the connection. And this information can be shared from the structural engineer to the steel detailer within the Revit environment.

The good thing also is that you can see the symbols being displayed on Revit sheets. So they appear on the drawing so it's easier for you to communicate this information out of the 3D Revit model. So let me show you. So today I'm going to use this PowerPoint and to make some live presentations.

So let's go to Revit. I am going to open this project. OK. This is a medium size structure made of columns and beams. I'm going to display it in 3D. So you see I have structural columns, which are already in place. I have already some structural beams. I can access their properties if I check them like that. And this is, for example, a W8x10, and I can use the central structural column for sure. I have access to all this information.

And what I want to show you as generic connection is a possibility to select, for example, two members like that. And if you go to the ribbon, to structure ribbon, you will find this connection icon. So just press this icon, and automatically it's going to insert a symbol which is a symbol of this generic connection within the Revit model. So you may see it here. And this symbol has two circles.

You see, you have a circle which is there, and you have another one, which is here. And it's easy to switch between them. And the filled circle represents the main member of the connection. So I may say in this case that the main member of my connection will be the column, and the secondary member will be this beam.

Now if you go here on the left, you can enter some information. So you can enter some information about the [INAUDIBLE]. You can attach also an image. So just go there and, for example, browse. You can add a picture. I go, for example, to my documents. I don't know where I placed my pictures. Maybe libraries picture. I can take, for example, this one.

And this is, for example, a [INAUDIBLE] of the connection. So this is what the structural engineer would like to deliver as information attached to this generic connection. So just press OK. Now this image is attached to the generic connection. You may enter some comments or so. Maybe the structural engineer would like to use a clip angle connection. So you can enter a comment here. You can have marks or so. So there is different information you can enter here.

You see, if I don't have the symbol being displayed, it's not that easy to make it display again like that. So what you have to do, you have to go to the dialog box where you can control what you want to display in this view. And if you scroll down here in this visibility graphic dialog box, you will find a specific branch which is structural connections. And inside you may ask for, for example, reference and symbol, Apply, OK. And it gets displayed again, and you can select it, modify it. You can even delete it. OK?

Something which is quite new is Revit 2017, is a certified family. We have certified families, which are delivered out of the box, different families for different countries. We have sections for the US. We have both imperial and metric sections. But we have also sections for Canada and for some countries in Europe such as Germany, Italy, India-- yes, please.

AUDIENCE: Have you made some [INAUDIBLE]

PHILIPPE BONNEAU: The [INAUDIBLE] connection? Yeah.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

PHILIPPE BONNEAU: You can get it as a target. Yeah, you can get it as a target in the sheet here. So here you see on the right, you have the list of the certified families. And what is important here is that it brings-- so of course, they are calling to the standard, to the local standards. And they contain a specific parameter in the Revit properties. And this parameter is a section named Key. So as an example here, you see for this section from the US, you have the section named Key Parameter, which appears here.

So let me show how is it works. So first of all, if you click on one of the sections, if you go to its properties with the Edit type button, you have access to all its properties like the weight, the [INAUDIBLE], the French thickness and so on. And if you scroll down, this is where you find this new parameter, the section named K. So it has this information, the same information as the section M. And because the parameter is there with this information, it means it's a certified family. Certified family will be used for inserting steel connection. So this is why I wanted to mention the certified families here in Revit 2017.

If you want to have access to the complete list of certified families, you may go to the Revit Help, and if you enter, for example, certified families here, you will find this article where you have-- so, again, the list of families. You have the exact location as well.

You have, for example, from the US section, it is in the subfolder named AISC14.1 because it is, again, these latest standards. And you will find different folders if you want to insert structural columns or structural framing. OK. So you have a long list of families. You have the explanation about the parameter. And if you scroll down a little bit, countries by countries, you have the exact Revit family which are certified families.

So as an example, for the US market, you have M shelves, you have WT shelves, you have C shelves, and so on. And you have the same for Canada and for the next countries. So you can easily access this online help article and have more information about certified families.

Now, I would like to show you how you can access the Steel Connections in the Revit 2017 environments. So out of the box, when you install Revit 2017, you don't have access to Steel Connections. This is something new, and this is something you need to download and install from your Autodesk account.

Once it will be installed, you will have access with this small arrow here on the bottom right to a library of automatic and parametric steel connections. So we have 22 of them, which are available. Some of them are for baseplates. Some of the ones are for connections specific between column and beams, for example.

So there are some ways to filter them, and you can select the one you would like to use in your Revit environment with this tool switch here on the dialog box, and they are everywhere in this project. And it gives a possibility to the Revit user to insert the steel connections and to model them with a higher level of detail. So you have access to a lot of options. You can modify them. You can really configure them as you want. I will explain that later.

The good thing also is that with these steel connections, you can check them against AISC for the US market and against EC3, Eurocode for the European markets. So you get a report which is generated automatically, and it's going to tell you if the joint failed or passed. So let me show you how to access that.

So once you have downloaded and installed the Steel Connections for Revit, if you go here to this small arrow, you have access to this dialog box where you find the connections. So you see you have many of them which are here. You can use some tools here to filter them if you would like to see only the beam end-to-end connection, if you would like to see only connections that you can apply between a beam and a column, or you can go to the bracing connection. So you see, you have a long list of connections.

And what you can do, you can select them. You can say I would like to have in my project here somethings to create baseplate but also I note clip angle, shear plates. And you can pick any one you would like to add to your project. So I'm going to close this dialog box. Press OK. And these steel connections are now available in my project.

So to insert the steel connections, this is really easy. You just need to select the members you would like to connect together. And in the dropdown list, you just pick the connection you would like to apply. And it's automatically applied between the selected members. So you get connections like that, clip angle connection. It may be haunch connection. It may be baseplate connection. And you have access to a lot of options to modify them.

So let me show how to insert a steel connection. So you know I have two possibilities. Because I have already a [? German ?] connection, I can convert it to an automatic connection. And there's a possibility it will be to delete it and insert an automatic connection in place of this one.

So what I'm going to do is to select it, an arrow in the list you see. I have access now to specific connection for connecting two members. OK. I don't have access, for example, to the base plates because the baseplate is not useful in this situation. So I can choose between a clip angle connection or shear plate, for example. And let's go for clip angle, and the clip angle connection is going to be inserted automatically.

So it does not appear, because I need to go to my graphic dialog. I need to go to my structural connections branch, and I need to ask for the display of, for example, bolts, we're in a concourse. So you can select everything and all these elements are going to become available now and visible in my Revit environment.

So now you see I have my connection. Clip angle has been created. I have some bolts also, and this beam has been shortened with a specific value. So this is really easy to insert a steel connection. What I want to show you also is that if you go to its Properties dialog box, you can press this button, Modify Parameters, and you can change anything.

You can say I would like, for example, a clip angle on one side or I would like the clip angle on the other side or I want to have both of them. And you see, you just select the right option. There is no need to press an Apply button or Modify button. It's done immediately.

What I would like to show you is the code checking. Right now, it's not calculated, you see? And I have two possibilities. I can check it against Eurocode or I can check it against AISC. If you press this button, you have access to additional settings. You may want to use [INAUDIBLE] design code or the ASD1. You may want to have the report in [? HTML ?] format or HTML5 format. So you have access to additional settings here.

Now I would like to check it. So either I'm going to use automatic values, which are coming from the properties of the steel members, but I can also enter values myself. I can enter some values myself. For example, I'm going to enter a small value, and now I have two possibilities. Either I check it, I want to verify that this connection failed or passed according to the AIC or I can pre-size it and Steel Connections for Revit is going to optimize the steel connection. So I'm going to choose the first one, check, and automatically I get a result, you see, which is not what I was expecting.

The checking failed. I have some issues, maybe some issues with the bolt or maybe some issues with some other member. So what I can do, I can say I want to pre-size. And the steel connection is going to pre-size automatically the connection. So I see that I have a few issues. I may, for example, change some of the values like that, you see, and check it again. So it's up to you to check pre-size as many times as you would like to do it.

And you get a report. So if I press this report returns, this is what I get automatically. So you get some description of the connection. You get all the elements which are connected together. You get the values, and you see here what is the reason what is failed. And it seems this is a minimum [? bolt ?] edge distance, which looks like-- which seems to be too small-- too short. But for each verification, you have the formulas, you have the values from the connection, and you can see if it's OK or if it failed. So you have a long report which is like that. So you can save it. You can print it. It's done automatically.

So what we can do is see maybe the distance here is too small, so I shall go to clip angle, and maybe I should use some bigger clip angle, something like that. And maybe I should go code check and check it again. Oh, it still failed. I'm sorry. I'm missing something. Anyway, let's keep it like that. And this is a result of my steel connection.

What I can do as well, I can go back here to this small arrow, and here I can go to parameters. And you have the possibility to add appropriate statuses. So we can press a button Add, and it can be, for example, something like comment. On You want to add some comments. You can also add, and it may be, for example, approved. You can add another thing and say it has been, for example, revised. And when you press OK, if you select the connection here, and if you go here, you can see that these parameters, these upper [INAUDIBLE] are available here

So you may ask for something like a comment. You have a comment because of the checking failed or you may approve it or you may revise it. It's up to you to assign it an appropriate status. Just remember that we have this upper [INAUDIBLE], which is available here for the steel connection. And when I will transfer it to Advance Steel, it will be available as well.

So let me show you quickly another connection. I would like to insert between this column and this beam another type of connection. So I go back to Structure, to Connection, and here I would like to add something like a shear plate connection. And this is created automatically between the columns. So you see the beam has been extended, and the clip-- the shear plate has been added. And I have bolts also.

So the connections themselves are parametric, and you can modify them as much as you want. But now if I want to change the size of this column, for example, I would like to change from a 1033 to a 12 by 40, look at the model. Everything is readjusted automatically. So we really have some parametric steel connections. Everything adjusts automatically in case you make modifications. So let's go back to the 10 by 33, and let's keep it like that.

What I wanted to show you also concerning the display, you have the possibility, for example, to create some filters. Here I may ask a filter containing my structural connections. So let's give it a name. I can here choose some categories. I may choose, for example, structural connections and just display that, Apply, OK. And I may add this here as a filter. And you have the possibility also to assign some specific colors.

So for example, for my steel connections, I would like to have something which is orange, something like that. I may want to have something with solid fill. OK. And press Apply, OK. And you get something like that. You can do the same also for structural columns. You can do the same for structural framing. Just go here. Say you want to add a new criteria, for example, structural framing. Press OK.

You may select it here from the categories, structural framing, which is there. Press Apply, OK. OK. Make it available, and you may change, for example, or the color. Choose something like a blue color, something like that. Ask also for solid fill, and you get something which is maybe a little bit nicer.

So as I said, if you want to modify a steel connection, you just pick one of the connection components and either you press Modify Parameters, which is there, either Edit Parameters, which is in the Properties panel.

Now I would like to copy these connections. And in the Revit environment, we have the copy tools. So it's easy to use the copy tools and copy these connections anywhere. So I'm going to show you how it works. So I would like to, for example, I'm going to display a top view. I'm going to display, for example, the top of the columns like that.

And you see, by the way, I don't see my beams, and I don't see my connections. And there is another way also to control the display. This is the detail level. So if you go there, right now this is Coarse. But you may ask for Medium and you see the beams. I'm going to make it zoom so that you better see.

But if you ask for Fine, you-- did I ask for Fine? Yes? Oh, you have to go to the branch, and you may ask also in this view, because you can have different settings depending on the views. You may ask also for the display of this element [INAUDIBLE] of this object. And now you get the clip angle, which is there. And you get also the shear plate, which is here.

So now what I can do, I'm going to, for example, to select the clip angle and to select the shear plates, and I want to copy them. So maybe I want to copy them on the other side. So I'm going to use this tool [INAUDIBLE] draw axis. And I just need to draw an axis. OK, something like that. And automatically Revit is going to copy the clip angle here on this side and the shear plate as well on the other side. So just use the copy, choose from Revit to copy connections from a location to another one. I will show you later that you can also use copy and the multiple option if you want to make multiple copies.

So let's display that again. Just wanted to highlight the fact that the display of the steel connection is up to you. So two possibilities, either-- find two possibilities you have to control. With the detail level, you have to choose Fine to have everything which is available in your model. And you have to go to this dialog box to change the display of all components from the structural connections.

Let me add some more examples-- some more connections. For example, here I would like to insert a baseplate. So I just need to pick the column, go to Structural Connection, and from the dropdown list I can choose something like a baseplate. And automatically I get a baseplate which is inserted. So I may go to its properties and change anything. For example, I would like to change the angles. I can change from [? normal ?] angles to [INAUDIBLE] angles, for example. Or you may not see it well.

So I'm going to display in wire frame, and now you see better I think. And again, you can go back to the properties, and if you want to change anything from inside the dialog box, you can say instead of [INAUDIBLE], I would like to use something like that, you see. You can define the length also. You can choose something which is again different, like [? hooked ?] angles, something like that. Different possibilities of [INAUDIBLE] cross, which are available within the baseplate connection. If you adjust to have all, just select All and [INAUDIBLE] cross gets removed and your just keep the baseplate with some holes.

So now we would like to have this baseplate connection everywhere at the bottom of the baseplates. So what I can do, I can go to this view. And, again, you see I don't see elements, so I need to change that to Fine. I need to go to the graphical representation dialog box in this branch, select what I want to see, and I will have the angles, the plate, and the symbol which are displayed now in my 3D model.

So if I want to copy, again, just pick one of the components from the connection, use a Copy tool, and what I can do here in my example, I can select the Multiple option. I want to copy this baseplate to different locations. So I want to copy it from there to here, here, and here. So as you can see, the baseplate has been copied to a different location and because the column is rotated of 90 degrees, the baseplate has been as well rotated of 90 degrees. So that takes automatically the column on rotation.

Now what I want to do, I want to select all these baseplate connections. So just pick them like that. And I would like to copy them to the top. So we use again the Copy tool. We can keep multiple options being selected. And I can say I want to copy them from here to here. So you see they get copied automatically to here. And I get a warning message. Why? Because elements here have not been copied, because I don't have a column here. And I can copy them also to this axis and, again, baseplates get copied everywhere.

So if I look at the 3D view, you see I get baseplates, which are everywhere in my model. So there is no real link between them. I mean, you can modify only one of them. If you want to access this one and modify parameters, you like to change a bit the dimensions for the endplates, for the baseplates, just go here in the dialog and, for example, I can enter one like that. And you see just a little bit bigger. I can change only one of them.

I would like just to show you an additional connection here. For example, I have the column I would like to insert a gusset plate between the column as a bracing. So I can select the column. I can select the bracing. I can go here and press Connection, and in the dropdown list, I can choose among different possibilities. And I don't have the gusset bracing. You see, I forgot to add it here. So anyway, just go back here with the small arrow. You go back to the Library of Connection. You may pick this one and make it everybody in your project.

So now if I select the column and the bracing and says that I would like to insert a connection-- oh, it seems I inserted different connection at the same location. Sorry. So I'm going to delete this one. OK. So I take the column and the bracing, press the button, which is there. And now I should have the gusset plate as one diagonal connection which is available.

So you see, it's going to create a gusset plate and some bolts between the column and the bracing. And I may adjust again this connection by going into the dialog box. If you want to change the bolt quantity to three, for example, as you can see, automatically the gusset gets bigger. If you want to change as well the shape of the gusset plate, you may want to have only one chamfer, but you have also possibilities to ask for two chamfers. And you may get something like that, which is modified automatically.

So let's stop here for the in-session of steel connections. I think you understand how it works. So what I would like now-- yes, please.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] for everything to work fine, you have to keep [INAUDIBLE] in your [INAUDIBLE].

PHILIPPE BONNEAU: No. Because the connection is going to external shot on the beam. So even if beams are not touching each other, if the analytical model is not so much accurate, you can insert steel connections.

So now for the second part, I would like to show you how you can export this model-- this Revit model-- to Advance Steel, how you can make a few modifications if needed in Advance Steel, and how you can synchronize back changes to the Revit environment.

So you need to have the Advance Steel extension for Revit being installed on your computer. It's not installed by default. So you need to go to the Autodesk App Store. You need to look after the Advance Steel extension. You need to download and install it.

And as a result, you will find it available here in your ribbon-- Add-Ins ribbon. It's available there, and it offers different possibilities. You will have the possibility to export the Revit model. You will have the possibility to import an Advance Steel model. And you have the possibility to synchronize models between the two software.

Just to show you how to find it, so right now it's installed on my laptop, so this is available here under Add-Ins Advance Steel extension. But if it's not the case on your side, just go here to the Autodesk App Store. OK. You may answer here Advance Steel extension. It's going to provide the list of Advance Steel extensions for the previous release, but this is the 2017 release we would like to have a look at, and this is the page.

So you have some explanations. You have also a video explaining how you can install it and use it. You have some screenshots. You have some reviews as well. And you just need to press this Download button, download and install it. And once it is installed, you will get it here available under Add-Ins ribbon. Oop, sorry.

So different options which are available with Advance Steel extension, we can import, export, and synchronize. We have access also to a Settings dialog box, which offers different options. So different options, which help you decide which elements you would like to exchange between the software. There is an option, for example, for importing plates. In case you create some plates, some [? polygonal ?] plates in Advance Steel, you may want to import them in Revit.

We have also a few new options, which are new with the 2017 release, like this one. You can export your Revit model based on the current view settings. We have also options to export the grid. You can now export the ready grid to the Advance Steel model. And you have access also to an online help. If you want to know more about the Advance Steel extension, just move the cursor onto top of one of the icons, press F1, and you have access to the online app.

So let's go here. If you go-- with this small arrow, you have access to export, import, synchronization, settings. So this is here where you will find the options. So it's easy. You can select them or not. On my site, I select not to add. I recommend not to select the export beam shortenings, because if you don't have shortening here, they will be created by connections in the Advance Steel Environment. So I think it's best not to export them. So you can choose among different options. You just press OK, and these settings are going to be saved. So let's press OK. And it should be saved.

What you can do as well, as I said, you can press F1. For example, just move the cursor on the top of one of the buttons, press F1, and you see you have a direct access to the online app. So if you want to know more about this Advance Steel extension, for example, you would like to know more about options in the Settings dialog, you have a corporate app which is available.

So now I would like to show you how you can explore the Revit model to Advance Steel. So basically, you need to go to the Advanced Steel extension, press the Explore button. And it's going to create automatically an SMLX file containing the model and, not only the steel members but steel connections and grid as well.

So let's have a look how it works. So first of all, I may save my file-- my Revit file-- somewhere. So I'm going to use a name, for example, AU2016, Save. It's always good to save. And if you go there, you can press this button, Export button. You have different options, but you can keep the current one. Press OK. And on the desktop, it's going to generate an SMLX file with the same name as the name of Revit model. You can change the file name if you want, but you can just say Save, and it's going to create the SMLX file automatically.

So the next step is to import the Revit model in Advance Steel. So in the Advance Steel environment, you have some choose to import, export, and synchronize the model between Advance Steel and Revit. So in my case, right now I'm going to import the SMLX file. And we have a mapping. We have a mapping which is done automatically for certified families. There is no need to map individually and choose say, for example, the W 8 by 10 correspond to the W 8 by 10 in Advance Steel. It's done automatically.

It's the same for materials. If you are using some materials from the AEC Materials Library in Revit, it's done automatically. You may have some key areas where you need to do a manual mapping. If you are using a section which is not mapped automatically between the two software, you will have a dialog where you have to map and say these section names correspond to these section names in the other software. And then it will be saved. And next time you import the same section, the mapping will be done automatically.

Also I want to mention that there are some parts we don't transfer as [INAUDIBLE] object between Revit and Advance Steel. I am going to transfer those to the software. But if you try to transfer some equipment or a door or window or a light, for example, they are going to be inserted-- they are going to be imported as special parts in Advance Steel. So I get them, the downloads, structural members, obviously.

So let's import the file in Advance Steel. So this is Advance Steel. This is working on the top of AutoCAD. For people who don't know it, you have a ribbon. You have different tools which are available. We have the possibility to display also tool palettes to have access to additional commands. I will explain you a little bit later on, right after.

So right now, what I want to do is to import. So just go to Export and Import ribbon and press this button, Import. And now I'm going to select the SMLX file that I created from my Revit model, which is this one. And I'm going to open it. It's going to take a few seconds. Just two seconds. But you see. So I get the grid, because in my Revit model I had the grid, and I did not pay attention to that anyway. And I have my model, you see?

So I have all the navigation tools which are available in Advance Steel. Because it's based on AutoCAD, I can use also the AutoCAD visual styles. I may want to display in [INAUDIBLE] mode. Maybe it's a little bit darker. So I'm going to change-- you see, members are placed automatically on layers. Beams are placed on beams layer. Bolts are placed on bolts layer. And by the way, with the Tool Tip, I can have access to all the information about each element. You can customize your Tool Tips, and you can ask specific information in these Tool Tips.

So if I want to change a layer, just go to the Layer Manager. Just tap Layer. So you see we have a full list of layers which are originally available in the template. And where Advance Steel is assigning the right objects to the right layer. And I may want to change here the color for the beams. So maybe I'm going to display something which is a little bit lighter, something like that, just for the beam layers. And now it should be a little bit lighter. You see, you can control all of that.

So as a result, if I double-click on the beam, you see I get a W8x10, which was exactly the same in Revit. If I double-click on the column, I get, you remember, A W10x33, which was the case in Revit. So object, steel members, steel columns, and steel framings get automatically transferred as [INAUDIBLE] object in Advance Steel environment.

What about the connections? If I take this connection, and if I make a right-click and go to Advanced Drawing Properties, I get access to the dialog box, which looks very, very similar to the one we have in the Revit environment. And by the way, you remember how your signs are [INAUDIBLE] status approved in my Revit environment, this information is available here also. So the [INAUDIBLE] status and information get transferred between Revit and Advance Steel.

Now, if I go in the dialog, you see it looks similar. It looks the same as in Revit. You can make modification if you want again to have only one on the right, only one the left, they still remain [INAUDIBLE] parametric steel connections in the Advance Steel environment.

So now I just would like to show you a little bit of modifications. I may want to copy this connection, for example. I may want to display the Advance Steel tool palettes. And for example, I would like to copy this connection. So no need to select all the components. You can select just the cube [? reader ?] which is a sample of the connection, and copy it in different locations.

So if you go there, you have access to different tools. You may want to create it in different location. For example, between the column and between this beam, between this column and between this beam. So you see, this is easy to assign the same connection in different locations.

What you may do as well is to insert some additional steel members. So I can take, for example, this beam and with a right-click make a copy of it. So I'm going to copy with a value of three, maybe six, why not nine. So I have three-- I see I have two at same location now. No. That was good Anyway, let's keep it like that. No. Let's copy one more. I have two beams like that.

You have also some choose, where if you want to apply the same clip angle at different locations, there is a tool a insert the steel connection in a multiple way. So just press this icon, and you say on these two beams, I want to connect this one and this one. And Advance Steel is going to insert automatically the right connection at the right location.

What's good is that you can modify the member and you can move it as well. So if you want to move it, for example, you would like to move it in this direction for two, you see, the member gets moved, but the connections also are moved. And also the beam as well, for sure. So you can make modifications like that.

Another thing is, for example here, if I go back to this gusset, I would like to change, for example, some of the bolts. Instead of three, just for safety reasons, I would like to insert another one. So you can make a modification to this one. I may want also to delete some elements. I may not have to create the stairs, so I may have to delete here the platform, maybe this beam, maybe this one. So I'm just deleting, adding, modify-- oh, my beam is there. I'm going to delete it.

So I may add-- what I did, as a summary, I added some elements, I added some connections, I deleted some elements, I modified some elements, I modified some steel connections. Let's save the file. Let's save the file as a name. I'm going to save on my Desktop. This is my Advance Steel model, for example. And I'm going to save it.

So just to review what we did. We imported the Revit model in Advance Steel. We did a few modifications, and now I want to synchronize what I did with the Revit model. So in Advance Steel I'm going to export this Advance Steel model to an SMLX file, and in Revit I'm going to use the Synchronization button.

As you know, I will get a dialog box like that, where I can see the differences between the two models, with different colors. You can see in green what has been added, what's new. You can see in blue what has been modified. And you can see in red what has been deleted. And you have a full control on that. You can even use some filter tools, and you can apply these modifications to your Revit model. So let's do it together.

Let's go back to the Revit model. Let's use the Advanced Steel extension, and I'm going to Synchronization. So I get this dialog box, which is empty, and I need to load. So I'm going to load the file which was-- where did I save it? Sorry, I don't remember where I saved. Maybe I did not export it. I forgot to export it, I think. So let's export it first. It will be better.

I'm back to the Advance Steel model. I'm going to export it. I can save it here on my Desktop. I can give it the same name or I can change the name if I want. Let's save as an SMLX file. It tells me I have two saves of model. Yeah. And the SMLX file is done. So if I go back to Revit, now-- yes, now the SMLX file is there.

So I can open it. Now it's going to fill the dialog box automatically. Or maybe I did not pay attention to material anyway, so I have different lines, you, see, with different colors. So you see explanation for the [? clause ?] here. And you can use a filter. So you may want to display, for example, to clear all, and you may want to display everything about connections, connections which have been added, modified, or deleted.

Apply the filter, and you see everything which is about connections. So you can apply them. You can also select all, and you may not want to apply, for example, columns. So many apply. OK. So you remember, I deleted some elements as well. So they appear in red color.

So what you can do from now, you can select the lines you would like to apply to the model. But even better, you can select everything. So just select this column, and now I'm going to move it a little bit so that you can see what happens. Apply all of this to the Revit model.

And you see it's updating the Revit model. You see some additional steel members on the right. You see also some additional steel connections. You see also-- what did I do? I think I did this gusset, so you see all of these things. I just want to check if I did everything. Yeah.

So you can close this dialog box. And as a result, you see, I have the connection. I have the bracing sets. And the good thing is that everything is still an automatic connection. If I select the clip angle and go to Modify Parameters, it's still an automatic connection. So this is really very useful.

So I may do again a few modifications just to show you how I can synchronize back in the other way. Maybe I'm going to insert here quickly a connection like a gusset plate, something like that. I can change again the size, [INAUDIBLE] the quantity. I can change also the gusset size or something like that to make them identical.

AUDIENCE: Can you mirror that connection? Mirror that--

PHILIPPE BONNEAU: Yes. Yeah, yeah. You can select it, and you can use some tools like Mirror-- like I did at the beginning for the clip angle. You can mirror connections here. Yeah, sure. So this is something that I did, and [INAUDIBLE] I see I'm going to stop here. So let's save the Revit model.

And let's see where we are in the PowerPoints. So I did a few modifications in Revit, and now I'm going to create a another SMLX file. I'm going to synchronize it in Advance Steel, and you will see that we get again a synchronization dialog box with different colors. And you can use filters also here to filter what you want to display or what you want to apply to your Advance Steel model. So let's do it together.

Let's go to the Advance Steel extension. I'm going to export the model. Press OK. Give it a name. So it can the same name, but it can be another name. So maybe this is version 2. Version 2 of my SMLX file. Save. And I'm going to save it. OK. It should be done.

So now let's go to Advance Steel, and what I want to do in my Advance Steel model is synchronizing. So I go here to Synchronize. I'm going to load. So you see the synchronization dialog between Revit and Advance Steel is the same. So it's easy to use and easy to understand.

Let's select this file, and I should have some differences. Again, the material for the [INAUDIBLE]. So let's say that I'm going to select this connection, and I want to apply it. It's going to update my Revit model-- my Advance Steel model, sorry. And now if I have a look here on the top corner, you see I have the gusset plates which have been inserted in my Advance Steel model. And again, if I go back to the Drawing Properties, I can see that it remains an automatic and parametric connection. So if you want to change anything like changing again as a bolt quantity from four to three or vice versa, it's up to you.