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January 2021 #13258 Page #124
Specifying Simpson Strong-Tie® Products in Your Designs Just Got Easier
By Russ Anderson
Specifying products into building designs is a daily process for engineers, architects and drafters. Simpson Strong-Tie understands that the specification process can be daunting and complex. And when it comes to the multiple steps involved in importing CAD content into your designs, we want to do everything we can to remove those challenges.
Simpson Strong-Tie recognizes how important CAD content is to our customers. Over the past year, we‘ve worked diligently on improving our scale, insertion points, layers and Revit content. We’ve also created content in multiple file formats to further assist our customers in their design projects. Our new file formats offer content in PDF, IFC (non-native building information modeling (BIM) file format), SAT (non-native 3D file format) and STL (non-native 3D file format), along with our previous DWG, DXF and RFA (Revit) file formats. While we were creating new content in our Revit families, we also added clash detection cylinders for our mechanical anchors. We’ve also added tools to aid in searching, finding and importing CAD content.
Our new version of Drawing Finder makes it easy for specifiers to search our extensive and continually growing library of over 30,000 drawings. Using the search feature within the application, it’s now quick and easy to find the product you need by typing in the model, description, or a comma separated list. Below the search box are filters for Category, File Format, Image Type and Image View. These selections make it easy to reduce the result possibilities to the one you’re looking for. Our new thumbnail previews help you see what you’re downloading — and if you need further product information to help determine your selection, we now have links to the individual product pages on www.strongtie.com.
We also have you covered with multiple AutoCAD® plugins that take advantage of the powerful features mentioned above.
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