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Advance Steel MCP: steel models by asking

Ask, and it details. AI inside Autodesk Advance Steel with 12 steel actions on top of AutoCAD’s — beams, plates and materials, a bill of materials, and new beams, columns and plates checked against the catalogue. Everything runs on your machine.

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An Advance Steel frame with shop marks on its members, and the assistant's beam count and weight from the bill of materials

ADVANCE STEEL 2026

Pilot AI inside Advance Steel — in-app chat or over MCP.

Pilot AI for Advance Steel — Pilot AI inside Advance Steel — in-app chat or over MCP.

Read the model

Ask what's in the model — get numbers back.

  • Object counts by type
  • Every beam with its profile, length and weight
  • Every part with its material
  • A bill of materials in metres, square metres and kilograms
Bar chart of steel weight by profile from the bill of materials, 16,302 kg in total

Build and change steel

Create straight beams and columns between two points, and rectangular plates. Change a beam’s profile or a part’s material, and delete objects by handle.

Every profile is checked first

Advance Steel’s API silently draws a placeholder for a wrong profile name. The assistant checks every profile and material in the catalogue — S235, S355 and the rest — and suggests the closest match instead.

Advance Steel: a profile that is not in the catalogue is refused with the closest matches, next to the bill of materials

One install with AutoCAD and Civil 3D

Same host as AutoCAD: in the AEC Pilot™ All-in-One installer it comes with the AutoCAD, Civil 3D and Advance Steel box. Steel actions show only inside Advance Steel.

  • Advance Steel 2024 to 2027
  • Pilot Chat docked inside Advance Steel, or your own LLM over MCP
  • The AutoCAD actions work in Advance Steel as well

From your own LLM. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Antigravity over MCP — one click, nothing else to install. Local only, and it stops when you say so.

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What you can ask

  • “How many beams are in this model, and what do they weigh in total?”
  • “Give me a bill of materials for this model in kilograms.”
  • “Add an HEA 200 column from 0,0,0 to 0,0,3500.”
  • “Change every IPE 240 beam to IPE 270.”
  • “Which parts are in S235, and which in S355?”

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a separate installer for Advance Steel?

No — the AEC Pilot™ All-in-One installer sets it up together with AutoCAD and Civil 3D.

Which versions are supported?

Advance Steel 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027.

Does my model leave my machine?

No. Everything runs inside Advance Steel on your PC; your AI client sees only the results you ask for.

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Free for 14 days — every tool, no card required.

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Advance Steel, AutoCAD, Civil 3D and Revit are trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. AEC Pilot is not affiliated with Autodesk. Learn more at aecpilot.com.