Click and Connect! If you spend a month in modeling, most of the month is spent simply entering data in the dialog boxes of macros. The actual clicking and using of macros on the other hand is almost instantaneous. It’s the filling of the dialog boxes which takes up most of the time. The more data you must fill, the more time you will spend modeling. What if you didn’t have to fill the dialog boxes before using the macros? What if you could just Click and Connect?

IntelliConnect : Don’t just Connect – Intelli-Connect

Follow the advantage created by AUTO ADJUST with IntelliConnect. This unique feature of COMOSYS will help hat many simple connections and some advanced ones like floor beams with horizontal bracing spanning into them are handled easily leaving the modeler with only the complicated areas to deal with. IntelliConnect will connect your girts and purlins, most of your trusses, and floor beams with and without horizontal bracing, and even put the batten plates in all your twin profiles automatically with a single click. Simple vertical bracing connections too will be handled. The intelligence of this feature has been made customizable to a large extent. Try it and save time. Whenever it will work it will save you precious man-hours.

IntelliClone – Years Ahead!

Intelliclone is another revolutionary advanced command which is one step beyond Intelliconnect. Intelliconnect and Intellliclone are like sister commands, and they work together hand in hand. Intelliconnect is working in the cases where the pre-programmed template-based Intelligence inside COMOSYS. Wherever the connections made by Intelliconnect need to be shifted to some other parent frames or some other locations in the model with similar situations, there we can use the more revolutionary Intelliclone command. It offers a very similar solution to Intelliconnect, but this time the user is the one who directs the modeling. If the user models only one joint, Intelliclone allows the user to truly propagate and clone that joint without any clashes to wherever location needed in the model.

Clash Checking is fully integrated with the basic work environment of COMOSYS. Find out about possible clashes before the person at the site gives you a call to tell you about it. This will not only save valuable design man-hours but also reduce the problems for the construction team. COMOSYS will not only provide you with clash reports within a discipline but also give inter-disciplinary clash reports. These reports also allow the user to zoom in on the objects which are clashing and manage the clashes. Many times you get a model from somewhere that you need to incorporate into your own to see any possible clashes. But to your horror, you find that the model which has been sent to you has its own internal clashes as well which clutter up your clash reports. COMOSYS allows you to overlook these clashes and focus entirely on where the other discipline is clashing with yours.

Companies will be able to save a considerable amount of time & money using this unique feature of COMOSYS. Typically during the analysis stage, the engineer is not concerned about the exact placement of members according to detailed requirements. In particular, trusses aren’t modeled according to the center of gravity of the profiles, horizontal bracings aren’t located at their correct elevations and with the right orientations and the girts and purlins aren’t modeled in their actual positions. Splice Positions are not really a consideration and similarly other such factors which don’t affect the analysis are left for the detailer to worry about. However, this also means that the model prepared by the Engineer is not directly usable and needs a lot of remodeling. The unique AUTO ADJUST technology present in COMOSYS provides practical and useful solutions to many of these problems and with a press of a single button the ugly analysis model is converted into a model re ready for detailing!

This is the feature which makes you save thousands of man-hours in large projects. Once the model is ready hundreds of shop drawings can be produced within minutes. General Arrangement drawings, steel shop drawings, single part drawings and a host of lists used for procurement are produced automatically by COMOSYS. In particular complicated assemblies like trusses are dimensioned a lot better than most conventional software which saves a lot of time. A separate environment for creating and editing drawings is provided inside COMOSYS which removes the need to use any other CAD program. Many a times a designer is required to just produce the General Arrangement drawings and provide connection details to another party which will do the full modeling of the structure and produce the shop drawings. COMOSYS has a unique feature which allows the user to produce “CONNECTION DRAWINGS” which can then be used by other detailers.

Perhaps one of the most time consuming tasks is the preparation of Connection Design reports. For all major connections in the model the designer is expected to produce complicated design check reports based on international standards. Our competitors don’t even have the design loads since they either don’t have analysis capabilities, or they only have links to other analysis packages which complicate the situation.
With COMOSYS the situation is different because it is an All In One solution. The same model which the engineer has developed is refined and finalized by either the engineer himself or a draftsman, to prepare the shop drawings.

As the user clicks away to create the connections, COMOSYS is automatically creating design check reports of each connection on the fly. With intuitive color coding, the user can immediately see if any code check has failed and immediately attend to the problem before proceeding further. What’s amazing is that because of the powerful internal design algorithms present in the connection macros, almost all the time COMOSYS will suggest a connection which will satisfy all code requirements. If however any particular requirement is not met the element which is failing turns red and the user can quickly rectify the situation by taking a quick look into the design report and modifying whatever needs to be modified within minutes.
At the moment we provide design checks for all the major connections typically required in projects. These include simple floor beam connections, simple beam to column connections, fixed beam to column connections, bolted and welded truss connections, horizontal bracing connections, vertical bracing connections, base plates and splices.

All the individual design check reports can be consolidated into a single report file to be submitted to the client for approval.

Ancillary Steelwork One of biggest headaches for a steel detailer is the ancillary steelwork which takes hundreds and sometimes thousands of man-hours to complete. Such work is a part of the job and needs to be done even if it involves losses. Another problem with such ancillary steel detailing is that very few companies are willing to accept it.COMOSYS provides extremely intelligent tools for the modeling of stairs, ladders, grating and checquered plate flooring, handrails etc. These tools make the painstakingly laborious modeling a piece of cake and the drawings too are automatically created.