General description of the program

Autodesk AutoCAD Structural Detailing 2015 is used to prepare detailed drawings of designed steel structures. After completing the stage of architectonic structure design and generating a structure calculation model (this stage comprises calculations and verification of structure elements), the stage of preparing project technical documentation with required final drawings takes place.

Autodesk AutoCAD Structural Detailing - Steel is a program which allows generation of complete detailing documentation of steel structures (drawings + tables of materials). The process of creating drawings in Autodesk AutoCAD Structural Detailing - Steel is automatic. Drawings are generated based on a 3D structure model using the options available in Autodesk AutoCAD Structural Detailing - Steel with the possibility to apply options available in the AutoCAD^® program. In case a structure model is modified, it is possible to update automatically the created documentation.

Autodesk AutoCAD Structural Detailing - Steel is a program enabling generation of detailing drawings; it is divided into a few parts which are responsible for:

1. link with the calculation program (Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis): data exchange, structure recalculation, if needed
2. edition of a drawing or part of a drawing (projections, cuts, etc.) - including additional drawing elements, correction of existing structure elements, adding structure element dimensions
3. generation of final drawings
4. printout management.

Autodesk AutoCAD Structural Detailing combined with Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis allows the user to make a complete structure project:

• generation of a structure model and structure calculations
• structure design
• generation of final drawings allowing edition of prepared drawings.

Basic tasks that are performed in Autodesk AutoCAD Structural Detailing - Steel after reading in a structure model from the calculation program, include:

• possibility to define connections of structure elements
• posibility of elements - machining (fitting to a line or object, chamfering)
• possibility to single out assemblies and groups in a structure model - according to the actual procedure of structure assembly
• possibility to define user descriptions of parts
• possibility to obtain a drawing of a whole structure as well as to prepare the overall bill of materials
• generation of detailed drawings.

The following objects have been distinguished in the program:

Structure model, structure model elements - real (3D) structure elements; for them final drawings are created

Position - an object concerned with organization of structure model elements; a (letter - digit) designation of identical parts or assemblies in a structure

Document - a set of views of a position in determined projections and views (any number of documents may be generated for each position); a document consists of views.

Note: A document may be edited only in the edition layout; a document may be printed only after it is inserted to the printout layout.

(Document) template - a predefined set of views composing a logical whole (e.g. 3 projections of a given object); each document is created based on a template determining which drawings (projections, sections) should be included in the document

View - a single drawing; it is always a document component - if it has been added to a printout, it is simultaneously a printout element.

Note: only a view (drawing) contained in a printout may be printed

Printout - ready-to-use printout composed of views; its equivalent in the AutoCAD^® program is a layout together with AutoCAD^® views provided on it; for each printout there is exactly one layout corresponding to it.

The elements listed concern the stages of work on a project.