Structural Steel News & Events

Release Notes: December 2022

Qnect updated the in-model review capability in button 3; 1- add option to search or filter based on comments and status and 2- add option to select parts in the model based on selected rows in the report.

There is a new pop up window that appears when a user copies the job preferences. Crucial preference settings are listed for review; once reviewed the preferences can be updated as seen fit.

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Press Release: Gustafson Joins Qnect

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. October 5, 2022
Michael Gustafson joins the team at Qnect LLC of Hadley MA. as Vice President of Strategy and Business Development

“It’s all about engineering efficiency in the digital age,” says Michael Gustafson. As Product Manager at Trimble and Industry Strategy Manager at Autodesk, Michael has been identifying and directing new technologies for 17 years. “I felt that I needed to take on a senior leadership role with a team that can make a bigger impact in construction, and for the planet. The software solution that Qnect has built has me energized to execute a vision that optimizes for both savings and carbon footprint of new buildings. What they have achieved has opened my eyes to a massive market imperative.”

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Release Notes: August 2022

Sep 8, 2022 2:06:02 PM

We are currently working hard to have End Plates available by the end of September (yay!).

Here are the month's highlights:

New weekly digest email - This gives each customer the ability to receive a summary email describing the number of connections that were completed that week.
Shear Plate Beam to Column Flange eccentricity preference - these two preferences were added within the Min Job Preferences page.

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Release Notes: June 2022

Jul 1, 2022 11:00:00 AM

Here is a list of items that we completed in June 2022.

Update Q-BM-FORCES templates - This allows customers to generate many types of Maps within the Map tool in button 3. You can use the selection criteria to limit what will show on the map like just doublers or just joints where the force is missing
List of prefs that should have a picture associated with them - We have added many pictures to preferences to clearly define what the tricky preferences mean. Just click on the ?.

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Release Notes: April 2022

May 1, 2022 2:46:00 PM

Coming soon:

Utility ratio preference to offer a percentage gap between the required force and the designed capacity.
Total control of designed angles and plates to match inventory and mandated requirements.
Advanced washer control to use preferences to meet engineering requirements.

On its way

Ability for Qnect to use connections designed in earlier sessions when designing groups of joints.
End plate connections - AISC
Single Angle Bracing connections - AISC
Double Angles - CISC
Advanced MAPS capability to filter what you want to show on a MAP.

Available now...

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Release Notes: March 2022

Apr 1, 2022 2:48:00 PM

In addition to working on AISC 15th edition, CISC double angle and single angles connections, Single Angle Vertical Brace and End plate connections, we implemented the following new features.

Added new preference to control eccentricity

For conventional shear plate connections with vertical bolt spacing > 3”, should Qnect always use full eccentricity = “a” instead of reduced eccentricity = “a/2”?

Default to “no”.

ENGINEERING:
IF the answer to the question above is “yes”, AND the shear plate design is “conventional” AND with vertical bolt spacing > 3”, THEN force the use of e=a instead of allowing e = a/2.

New Qnect Model Review Tool

This tool is for EORs to quickly and easily review and approve the model within Tekla.

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Release Notes: August 2021

Sep 6, 2021 10:00:00 AM

Overall working on CISC with engineering using metric (imperial sizes). To be safe this will be 2 more weeks (may be earlier). We are in QA with AISC-15 which we are targeting end of September. Also working on Single Angle bracing and End plate connections. They still need a bunch of time. In the meantime we are working on customer requests.

Short span UDL table issue - On the Forces web page there was an issue where one entry was required. Now it can be saved with zero entries.
Follow up to QNT-6879

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Release Notes: July 2021

Aug 12, 2021 9:01:00 AM

This month has been spent mostly on finalizing CISC and delivering customer requests. The full list is below of what we did but this is a good customer facing summary.

Duplicates: Review and fix issues.

When running Qnect, we first check to see if the joint was already designed in the same model with the same preferences to ensure we keep the number of unique connections to a minimum. We enhanced the system to capture a bunch of corner cases that were.missed previously.

Update weld clearance from thin doublers and angles. -

When we have fillet welds around thin beam web doublers and angles, we should not subtract 1/16 (2 mm) from edge of doubler/angle to weld.
Imperial: angles/plates < 0.25", clear = 0, else clear = 1/16
Metric: angles/plates = 5mm or 6 mm, clear = 0, else clear = 2mm

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Release Notes: June 2021

Jul 8, 2021 1:00:00 PM

We have been focused on delivering the Canadian Building Code. There is one feature left that was just finalized yesterday from the engineering perspective. We are now developing that. It should be completed early next week.

We have also been working on getting AISC-15th edition developed as well.

Current UNDO/REDO improvement. Qnect designed a full work around to alleviate the performance issue with working with large model and the UNDO/REDO process in the model. This issue has now been resolved.
Update custom coping preferences override. We added one more choice for cope depth of kdet beam + 1/8".

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Release Notes: May 2021

Jun 5, 2021 10:00:00 AM

This year, the development team has done a lot of work into preparing to launch the Canadian building code CSA-S16-14. This will go live in June 2021.

In addition, we have been preparing to launch the AISC 15th edition which will launch in July 2021.

We have also been working on increasing our Vertical Brace capabilities with the launch of HSS brace to column flange last month. We are now working on Single Angle bracing for launch in Summer 2021.

Below is a list of customer enhancement requests, bug fixes and Tekla desktop work that we have been working on this year...

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Qnect Featured in The Fabricator

“If I only knew then what I know now.” How often do you wish you could peer into the future just a bit? With Qnect, you kinda can. The speed and accuracy of Qnect means that you can test a number of different connections extremely quickly. This is like looking into the future because you can make revisions, decisions that previous to Qnect would take days if not weeks to make.

The Fabricator magazine interviewed Qnect's Henry Lederman for this interesting and insightful article.

Customer Story Makes History

Qnect, with world-class engineers at WSP and world-class steel fabricators at Banker Steel, helps make 66 Hudson Boulevard, aka “The Spiral,” one of the most efficiently designed towers in the world.

"We’re able to make connection revisions quickly and with confidence using Qnect, which would have taken us weeks longer without them.”

~ Chuck Hongell, VP at WSP

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Vertical Bracing Connection - AVAILABLE!

Qnect, LLC, the leader in smart, optimized connections, today introduced vertical bracing as the latest addition to their connection library. Vertical bracing completes Qnect’s full spectrum of optimized connections from gravity connections to moment connections and the lateral bracing system.

What makes Qnect’s vertical bracing so efficient is the extensive use of their patented, iterative process for optimizing all of the engineering variables.

Steel Industry Impressed by Qnect at NASCC 2019

Steel just got smarter and attendees at NASCC 2019 witnessed it first hand at the Qnect booth and in the sessions. Once again we can say, “Qnect had a successful week at NASCC: The Steel Conference.”

We also arranged a panel of 4 top engineering firms who used Qnect on 4 high profile projects: KPFF on Seatac Airport, WSP on a 60 story tower at Hudson Yards, Meyer Borgman and Johnson on Vassar Hospital and Walter P. Moore on Sparkman Wharf.

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MSC Writes About Qnect

Scott Melnick, Editor of Modern Steel Connection (MSC), had some great observations about Qnect in the December issue. “The Qnect connection software promises substantial cost savings when used to optimize connection design. But the real advantage is the time it slashes from a project. What might take a fabricator and detailer weeks to develop can now be completed in hours.”

We share more in the recent Blog Post as well as other highlights from 2018. Take 3 minutes to read our Year in Review.

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DowCo to Integrate Qnect into Detailing Process

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Qnect + Exact Make Steel Smarter

Qnect Featured in The Fabricator

Qnect Wins Hot Product

Customer Story Makes History

Vertical Bracing Connection - AVAILABLE!

Qnect's e-book Available Now!

Steel Industry Impressed by Qnect at NASCC 2019

MSC Writes About Qnect

ENR Writes About Qnect Adding More

Moment Connection Announcement

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