Significance of steel detailing and drafting for building professionals
- teslaoutsourcing
- Jun 23, 2015
- 2 min read
Both steel detailing and structural drafting services remain extremely important for building professionals (architects, structural engineers and general contractors) because they these services play a major role in the development of structural framework and ultimately in the accomplishment of the project. Both steel detailing and structural drafting services are executed for the production or development of detailed drawings which are optimized by design and construction professionals as well as fabricators for the effective construction of structure.
Various different kinds of drawings are developed by drafters and steel detailers for the representing structural design in papers so that it can be easily understood by entire structural design team and other building stakeholders such as architects, construction manager, and fabricators etc. Structural drawings which are developed by trained drafters with the support of high-end drafting software can be easily and promptly communicated among design and construction professionals whenever required.
AutoCAD, Revit and Tekla are some of the software solution which are used extensively by steel detailers and drafters for the development of working drawings, fabrication drawings (single part drawings and assembly drawings) and erection drawings etc. Among all these drawings fabrication drawings which include single part drawings and assembly drawings and erection drawings fall within the definition of steel detailing services. Steel detailers are the only authorized people who can develop fabrication drawings and erection drawing as they are well versed with all the technicalities of steel detailing process.
The information for the development of steel detailing drawings (fabrication drawings and erection drawings) is taken from structural drawings which are developed by drafters with the support of the specification provided by engineers. That means structural engineers provide detailed plans and drawings to the Architectural and Engineering Design firm which remains accountable for the development of comprehensive drawings that areultimately used by fabricators and steel erectors.
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