ProtaSteel 2021 - Quick Start Guide 26
25. Intelliconnect For Fully Automated Steel Connection Design
IntelliConnect automatically assesses joints to your preferences, batch creates and designs steel
connections. It covers a wide range of simple, moment, splice and weld connections. It considers
constructability by intelligently arranging and configuring all the components of the connections without
user intervention. This results in huge improvement in productivity as it minimizes time required to
manually create & correct these connections.
Why use IntelliConnect?
Advanced steel detailing software typically create connections automatically between two elements by
applying certain rules, i.e. “Rule based joints”. These rules normally include items such as names of the
profiles, the existence of moment releases or lack thereof, the loads in the elements and approach
conditions (whether the secondary is approaching the main from the flange side or the web side) etc.
Figure 1 Figure 2
While this feature of “Rule based joints” is beneficial in simple cases where the main and the secondary
(incoming profile) are the only two profiles present at a joint (see Figure 1 above), it fails to deliver for
complex joints when more than two elements meet at the same joint (see Figure 2) :
❖ For complex joints, applying a blind “Rule based joint” would create a huge number of clashes,
resulting in wasted & unproductive time in manual amendments.
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