Category: Steel Detailing Blog
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Design Guide for Galvanizers for Design Guide for Hot Dip Galvanizing – best practice venting and draining.
This document outlines the design guide for detailers to provide venting and draining holes for galvanizing.
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Difference Between TEKLA “Export IFC” and IFC4
When we export models from TEKLA Structures, we mainly see two options: Both formats serve the same purpose—model interoperability—but they work differently, support different levels of data, and offer different quality of geometry. In this blog, we explore the key differences, benefits, and when to use each format. 1. What is “Export IFC” (IFC2x3)? This…
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Always Check Beam Stock Lengths Before Detailing
When detailing steel, one important factor that’s often overlooked is the stock length of the beams. Confirming this early can prevent major rework later in the project. Recently, we worked on a façade support steel project that involved several CHS beams. Normally, CHS sections are available up to 12 meters in length. However, in this…
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TEK1’s Steel Detailing for Sydney Metro – Resolving Design Challenges – 6
In this blog, I’d like to share an issue we faced related to hanger locations. In this job, the floor steel was supported from the slab soffit. Initially, we placed the hangers as per the design drawings. However, during coordination with the concrete model, we discovered a slab void exactly at one of the hanger…
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IRON_ARENA_SPORTS_CENTRE
Our detailing team worked closely with architects to ensure tolerances and offsets were met without compromising design intent With a limited fabrication and erection window, our detailing team adopted a fast-track workflow using Tekla Structures for 3D modeling. We are proud to be a part of the team in IRON_ARENA_SPORTS_CENTER project. This allowed us to provide early…
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Steel Detailing Tips – How to fix “path” too long errors
In the construction business – you will often find yourself zipping / unzipping large sets of documents, and copying them from A to B etc. Often when dealing with deeply nested folder structures, you will get an error – regarding long path names. Like this: This is especially annoying if you are copying large sets…
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TEK1’s Steel Detailing for Sydney Metro – Resolving Design Challenges – 5
We hope you found our previous blogs on the Sydney Metro project insightful. If you missed them, check them out. In this blog, I’d like to share an important lesson about concrete encasement for conduits that every steel detailer should keep in mind.Normally, conduit encasement falls under electrical scope, so detailers don’t focus much on…
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QR Code on Drawings
We are now placing smart QR codes on drawings. Why? What benefit is accrued by doing so? Instructions on how to make it work Rules – To prevent obsolete data from being used or shown Updating the Drawings: Setting up the template
