 System Description |
| Computing
Requirements |
BEAMS
and COLUMNS and PLANS and ELEVATIONS and the STAIRS programs work within
AutoCAD release 2000 or greater. No other hardware is required other
then that which is used for AutoCAD. |
| Training |
Extensive
training in AutoCAD in not required. All icons (small
pictures on the toolbars with tool tips) are easily recognized by experienced
detailers. |
| Rapid
User Acceptance |
In
order to make the system easily adapted by steel and miscellaneous metal
detailers without extensive computer experience, the detailing procedure
follows the same sequence of events that are used when manual methods
are employed.
A unique dimensional
input system reduces keystrokes and reduces the opportunity for errors.
Dimensions only require the use of digits without foot marks, dashes or
other separators. Dimensions can be entered with the keyboard or with
our unique on screen dialog boxes with a single key stroke.
The system uses the same
logical steps that a detailer uses when detailing manually. This makes
the learning process quite logical and very fast. Like manual drafting,
you can see your results as you go along. If you change your mind you
can change the detail at that point. If you have to add unusual or
special fittings they can be created and added when the beam is
detailed. You don't have to go back to manually add special fittings by
drawing lines.
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| Project
Management |
The
drawing management system automatically keeps all drawings and material lists
in project directories. Drawings can be recalled at any time for
further work or revisions. Project
fittings and Bill of Material items are accumulated automatically as drawings
are created within
SteelLOGIC®. |
| Fitting
Marks |
Fitting
marks can be carried from sheet to sheet and fitting descriptions
entered in the bill of material without the user reentering them. A
Fitting Translation Table will automatically use the correct mark for
different clients. |
| Sloping
Beams and Fittings |
Sloping
beams with square or beveled ends and skewed or sloping fittings can be
created and dimensioned automatically. Column splice plates are y
created and installed at the touch of a button. Base plates and cap
plates are automatically created and fully dimensioned and remembered.
They will be drawn by the system on subsequent columns by entering the
mark.
Projected views of
sloping cap plates are drawn by the system without user intervention.
Column shear connections, are completely detailed by the system
including the extension dimensions and the projected view on the
adjacent column face.
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| Fittings |
Angles,
Plates, Pipe and Tubes can be drawn at any size, in any direction by a
few clicks of a button. |
| Drawing
Management |
Reference
information about floor elevations for detailing columns only has to be
entered once for a project. Information such as sheet size, hole
size, edge distance, standard spacing and location of the members on the
sheet, can be placed in a start up file so that it need not be reentered
every time a new sheet is started.
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| Material
Management |
Bills of material are
automatically created and can be printed, with a variety of styles
without leaving the drawing editor. A comprehensive cutting list for all
material can be printed at any time.
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| Object
Library |
The
system includes a variety of detailing symbols, notes, holes, bolts,
slots, and anchors to put all the necessary tools at the fingertips of
the detailer. |
| User
Extendable |
A full
function feet and inches calculator is available which includes bevels,
slopes and rises. All details are created at a scale of 1" = 1'-0'.
Profiles of rolled shapes and special details can be created at any
scale. User created routines can be added. |
| Enlarged
Details |
Enlarged
scale details can be created without concern about scaling factors or
text sizes. |
| Automation |
All
members are drawn automatically, including end views and top views. All
dimensions are entered automatically with a variety of options. |
| Shape
Database |
Rolled
shapes are selected from a menu that has access to a standard data base.
This information which includes all the physical dimensions can be
printed on the drawing, for reference, so that the checker does not have
to look it up again. The AISC database is included with SteelLOGIC.
The user may extend the data table with additional shapes and sizes. |
| Comprehensive |
The SteelLOGIC
system allows you to complete the entire detail no matter how complex.
It is not necessary to complete complicated or unusual details by hand
or by drawing with a CAD system. |
| How it
Works |
Beams
are detailed by selecting the primary member and the supporting members,
from the data base, through the use of a pull-down menu. Upon command,
and after responding to a few questions, the beam will be drawn, all
blocks or copes, overall and cut length dimensions and reference
dimensions will be added and the beam will then automatically be placed
in the bill of material, with user control over where it goes. Framing
angles, end holes in the flange or web can then automatically be added
to the beam with all detail and extension other accouterments can be
added to the beam and to the bill of material, through use of the
system.
Fittings for standard
seats, stiffened seats, shear plates, base plates, cap plates, shear
angles, knife connections, through plates and splice plates are
automatically created and dimensioned by the system. Extension
dimensions to all fittings and hole groups from the bottom of the column
or the left end of the beam are automatically inserted by the system.
All calculations for bracing are done within the system and gusset
plates are created, dimensioned and billed without the necessity of
layouts or calculations. Any structural element can be created by the
system without resorting to 'drawing'.
You are invited to contact us so we can give you a live demonstration over the Internet.
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| General
System Features |
- Lisp routines for
parametric detailing
- A calculator for
slopes, rises and bevels.
- Simplified input for
feet and inches, without using spaces, dashes or quote marks.
- An adding machine for
feet and inches,
- Complete data base
for all rolled shapes with instant access using the AutoCAD ADS
system. Dimensional information about any member can be added to the
drawing automatically.
- Profile views of all
shapes, to any scale, can be inserted into the drawing.
- Drawing manager by
client or project.
- Details with or
without a bill of material on the sheet.
- User created bill of
material format.
- Material data base,
assembled from the detail sheets.
- A stand alone
Material Management system that can be integrated with the detail
sheets to create a shop cutting list. This program can be used for
Advance Bills of Material, Cutting Lists and inventory control.
Weights, Costs and Surface area can be calculated. Material can be
sorted in variety of ways.
- Field bolts can be
entered on detail sheets.
- All standard
dimensions and spacings have defaults, that can be changed.
- Different size sheets
can be set up.
- Standard setup and
dimensions can be placed in a parameter file.
- Profile views can be
drawn to exact scale or with exaggerated thickness.
- Angles, Channels,
Tubes or Pipe of any size can be drawn in any position.
- Lines can be drawn to
any bevel, in addition to any angle.
- The drawing axis can
be rotated to match any item, by pointing to the item.
- Standard symbols for
oversize and slotted holes, with automatic insertion of dimensions.
- All fittings, bolts,
masonry anchors and other items can be inserted into the Bill of
Material.
- Weights of all items
is automatically calculated and placed in the Bill of Material.
- Job or company
standards can be used without the necessity to reenter or re-bill
them.
- All fittings, clips
and plates are parametrically drawn and dimensioned.
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