General Info

• Non-Modal Dialog Boxes
  This translates into simplicity for you the user. Interfacing with the program is easy and every entered value within a dialog box is immediately visible at the design part. You can also view the model from a variety of different views without having to cancel the command.

• Open Database Structures
  All shape, plate, and bolt parameters used by ProSteel 3D are posted in databases that can be freely edited and expanded by the user. This makes it easy to add any desired intermediate size or even entire shape catalogues (e.g., non-European standards) to the existing shape databases.
  It is even possible to assign any individual shape series to several different databases, e.g., defining different selection tables for each shape type in case of splice joints.

• Easy Input Concept
  The fact that ProSteel 3D is one of the user-friendliest 3D steel construction applications is due to the structure of the interface. All commands such as plate connections, ribs, web angles, notches, borings, etc. always function according to the same principle. All you have to do is select the building components that are to be connected with one another. ProSteel 3D either shortens or lengthens the corresponding shapes, generates the desired joint, and screws all components together. Any necessary changes are already visible during the definition phase.

• UCS Independence
  Contrary to other applications ProSteel 3D processes are for the most part carried out independently from the current coordinate system. For example, users do not have to consider the current user defined coordinate system position and location when attaching a rib. Only the shape and the insertion point have to be specified.

• Teamwork without Limits
  Several persons working together on one project is a task specially supported by ProSteel 3D. It is thus possible, for example, to position and components as well as generate parts lists via several drawings.

• ACIS Support
  The use of special technologies makes it possible to consider 3D bodies from other applications (ACIS volume bodies) such as Mechanical-Desktop within ProSteel 3D. Moreover, it is also possible to convert any element of ProSteel 3D to ACIS bodies.
  
  This might be practical when developing an edge component with a corresponding sheet metal application.

• Editable Standards
  "I would like the Italian salad but without onions and blue cheese dressing instead of the vinaigrette." This real-life example illustrates the ProSteel 3D motto: "Standards yes, but editable standards." A selection list (DAST standard) organized in table form is available for every type of joint such as rigid plates, base plates, frontal plates, web angles, notches, etc. It is also possible, however, to modify existing parameters or to redefine the joint completely new. This makes it easy, for example, to insert a rigid plate according to DAST (IH3E) and then to modify this plate's dimensions or position. Standard values are thus always at your fingertips and you can react individually to any constructions task.

• International
  Due to its global distribution, ProSteel 3D is now available in approx. 15 countries (summer '99) and several languages. In addition to German, English, and Dutch it will soon be ready in French and Italian as well.

• Installation + Training
  The use of the latest software technologies reduces the installation effort to just a few mouse clicks.
  The training time required to learn ProSteel 3D depends on the amount of previous knowledge a user has and amounts to approx. 2 to 4 days, thanks to the completely redesigned manual featuring an autodidactic structure.

• All Inclusive
  All functions and modules described in this brochure, except for the programming and NC interface, are already included in the basic ProSteel 3D software package.