Tag: steel CAD
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Usable Flat Width on Rolled Steel Flanges: Fillets, Tapers, and Connection Fit
Learn why flange width is not the same as usable flat width, and how fillets, tapered surfaces, washers, plates, and CAD geometry affect steel connection fit.
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Calculating Steel Section Properties with Holes and Openings: A Practical CAD Workflow
Learn how holes and openings affect steel area, centroid, moment of inertia, and section modulus, with a practical CAD-based calculation workflow.
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Principal Axes of Structural Steel Sections: Rotation, Ixy, and CAD Orientation
Learn how principal axes relate to centroidal axes, product of inertia, unsymmetric bending, steel shape tables, and CAD section orientation.
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How to Verify Structural Steel Shape Data Before Using It in CAD or Calculations
A practical workflow for checking steel shape designations, dimensions, units, section properties, CAD geometry, and source consistency before use.
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Steel Column Cap Plates: Load Path, Bearing, Datums, and Detailing Coordination
A practical guide to steel column cap plate detailing, including load paths, bearing geometry, elevations, weld access, holes, and shop drawing checks.
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Flush vs. Extended End-Plate Steel Connections: Geometry, Bolt Layout, and Detailing Coordination
Compare flush and extended end-plate steel connections, including plate geometry, bolt zones, member ends, welding, erection access, and drawing checks.
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Skewed Structural Steel Connections: Plan Angles, Work Lines, and True Connection Geometry
Learn how to detail skewed structural steel connections using clear work lines, plan angles, connection planes, setbacks, and true-size CAD views.
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Structural Steel Drawing Scale: Model Space, Sheet Views, and Reliable Dimension Checks
Learn how drawing scale affects structural steel plans, sections, details, CAD files, PDFs, dimensions, linework, and fabrication checks.
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Weld Access Holes in Structural Steel: Purpose, Geometry, and Detailing Coordination
Learn how structural steel weld access holes differ from copes, what controls their geometry, and how to detail them clearly in shop drawings and CAD models.
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Handed Structural Steel Assemblies: Left-Hand, Right-Hand, and Mirror-Image Detailing
Learn how to identify, model, mark, and check left-hand, right-hand, and mirror-image structural steel assemblies without creating fabrication errors.
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Estimating Structural Steel Surface Area for Paint and Coating Takeoffs
Learn how to estimate structural steel surface area using exposed perimeter, member length, end faces, plates, HSS interiors, and CAD geometry.
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First Moment of Area Q in Steel Sections: Shear Stress, Shear Flow, and CAD Calculation
Learn how first moment of area Q is defined, where to measure it in steel sections, and how it is used for shear stress and shear flow calculations.
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