Steel Detailing | Precast Detailing | Estimation

Category: Tekla Tutorials

  • Specifying Ferrule Bolts

    Ferrule bolts do need nuts to be ordered.

    If your bolt report has ferrule bolts, then you have to specify what is the Bolt Dia and Length of the Bolt dia. Also you must specify no nut required.

    The other thing to note is that, You cannot give extra length. Your bolt length should be a bit less than the Thread in the ferrule + the washer + the material to be bolted.

    If we nomintate extra length, then the Bolt will bottom out on the ferrule.

    Problems with Incorrect specifications.

    • Any thing like FEB in bolt report does not make any sense to our clients.
    • Unless we annotate nuts are not required, large number of nuts will be purchased
    • If we give extra length, the bolt cannot be used. Costing significant delays at site.

  • Tekla Training and Accreditation

    Free and Paid Training

    How it will work

    Free Training

    Watch this space for announcements when training will commence

    How this is going to work

    Join our training course by self registering at www.training.tek1.com.au

    You will be presented with our online training material with excercises and questionaire which you can complete at your own pace.

    Self Accreditation – Free

    Self Accreditation is free. Once you complete all the training courses and answer all the questions correctly, You will be issued a certificate for whatever it is worth. The certificate will be a comptuer generated certificate your potential employer can view at training.tek1.com.au.

    If you go through all the materials dilegently and answer all questions, complete the excercises properly, you will learn something which will be valuable for potential emplyer.

    However, you can game the system.

    Paid Accreditation from Tek1

    For this certificate, you basically do the free course. But our competent staff will interview you, test you, make sure you are worthy of a Tek1 Accreditation

    There will be charges, which you will have to pay.

    Paying the charges does not gaurantee accrediation.

    What are you paying for.

    • For our expert staff interviewing you and testing your knowledge of Tekla Software and steel detailing basics
    • To publish you details on training.tek1.com.au about your certificate.
    • To allow potential employers to verify the certificate. Employer might have to pay to access this information.
    • Payment does not gaurantee that you will pass. Payment is to interview you once. If you fail, another payment may be required to re test. Hence make sure you know things before you register for paid accrediation.

    Tutor Assisted Paid Training – With Gaurantee of Employment for Candidates who have met our internal criterion

    This again based on the material presented on the Free training, but a tutor will assist you once a week with taking you through the course, demonstrating how to do things. There will be a fee to be paid.

    There is not gaurantee of employment. The fee you are paying is for getting tutor assistance.

    However, if you do well, we will employ you depending upon available postions

    As of 14/01/2025 we have a minimum of 10 openings.

  • Create customised short cut to start TeklaStructures

    Steel Detailing | Tekla Structures | Tips

    Steel Detailing companies will benefit by watching this video on tekla Tips and Tricks.

    Tek1 posts regularly on Tekla Structures tips and tricks

    If you need any API development, we can help there as well

  • Create Radius with Polygon Cut

    Create Radius with Polygon Cut

    Important points.

    Do not pick points along the Arch to do a polygon cut.

    Select Extreme end of the Arc and Create tangent to circle at those points.

    Use the intersection of the tangents as one polygon cut node.

    Other nodes should be outside the Arc.

    No node of the Polygon should be on the Arc.

    2 Nodes on the tangent outside the arc.

    1 Node on the Tangent intersction

    4th Node to close the polygon as needs to be.

    The video says any point on the arc. Any point will not do- extreme points of the arc is necessary

  • Tek1 – Tekla Tools

    Dimension Bolts

    Set up Instructions

    • Source code (sorry folks it’s a private repository).
    • Download program here.
    • Only works for: Tekla version: 19.1i
    • Run Installer.
    • SmartScreen may warn you about this program – by pass SmartScreen.

    Instructions:

    • Only dimensions horizontally and vertically. This means if you use some crazy views / angles it won’t work – and it will give the wrong dimensions.
    • You must select a window from within the view, or else it will crash.

    Trouble shooting: it doesn’t work!

    • Please check that “Toggle crossing selection” is on.
    • Allow “Select points”.

  • The Beauty of Status Updates

    The Beauty of Status Updates

    At scale, efficient systems of communication and coordination are required in order to efficiently prosecute projects. These systems will likely be of immense value to yourself, and your clients. Consider the following example:

    Our critical path sits within the ABCD building, I have run a target date commencing 29/6/22.

    Is this possible for the ABCD given the attached review?

    What further do you need from us to mitigate any time frames lost?

    Can we get ahead on the procurement of the Steel while we look to focus on getting the SD’s to IFC this week with Tek1?

    Email received for the ABCD Building.

    The critical question: what are the hold-ups for the project?

    Likely our client, has no idea, let alone the builder/developer (a large one). Projects are held up in the weeds. The folks at the top of the supply chain need to make resource allocation decisions. Right now, they’re doing so, effectively blind. Or they have to send out emails like this one.

    Would anyone remember, what the specific hold up for the project was a few months ago? It’s very hard to remember. And it’s hard to dig it out of the 100s of emails you would have received over that time period. But if you have built up a timeline, it is relatively easy to see what’s happened. All I had to do was to check out our status reports:

    Status reports for this project. Details redacted.

    As you can see: the project has been in limbo since the 20th of April. It’s self evident. If you didn’t have a timeline, you’d have to bury your head in 100s of emails to retrace your footsteps. We’ve been waiting for this review for three weeks. That’s roughly three weeks ago.

    As usual, the reviewers are holding up the show. Except now, given everything is tracked, it’s very hard for them to conceal their inefficacy. Then there were the delays due to: (i) asking RFIs, and (ii) waiting on those answers. (The RFIs are usually asked in the first place, due to the poor quality drawings that are received). The price of inefficient designers (architects / engineers) is monumental. Add poor coordination into the mix, as well as ballooning material / labour costs, and that spells a perfect storm for builders.

    Building up a simple status timeline massively improves transparency, improves communication with your client – and all this for very little cost.

  • Steel Detailing Primers and Processes

    The following codifies our processes. It is made for the following reasons:

    (i) to educate our own staff, about what they need to know and secondly,

    (ii) to make transparent to our clients, how we operate. We are essentially inviting you into our kitchen, so you can see for yourselves how we cook, and to then decide, whether you would like to dine with us.

    1. Mistakes are expensive. (Why this is the case?)
    2. Understanding risk and liability.
      1. Understanding risk: liquidated damages, contractual obligations, insurance. Understanding the legal system in Australia, USA, UK.
      2. e.g. to NEVER issue drawings for construction without consultant approvals.
    3. Confirm important details in writing. (Why is this the case?)
    4. Understanding: the importance of accurate estimation(s) of deliveries (Why is this the case?)
    5. What do clients value?
      1. To make things as easy as possible for the client, and to make the client money. This might involve:
        1. Quick drawings.
        2. Accurate drawings.
        3. Timely feedback (i.e. what is the status of their project?)
        4. Pushing the job along.
        5. Solving problems with minimal noise
        6. If they client asks for something, we need to either: (i) deliver what they ask exactly, or (ii) give clear reasons why it can’t be delivered. If the client asks for an program schedule, it will not do to say: “yes sir” and completely forget what the client asked for.
        7. Delivering on your promise. If you say “5 minutes” then deliver in extra 300 seconds, and not, 6 hours later. (Why is this important? (the client might allocate an entire team to fabricate something in 5 minutes, and you will cost the client $10,000s of dollars if they are sitting around in the factory floor, without nothing to fabricate, because you didn’t deliver the drawings when promised)).
        8. Making things easy for the client to fabricate and/or manage their projects.
        9. Good grammar, good English, and clear communication.
        10. Extra material: to be immediately communicated to the client. (Why? So clients can recover their costs).
        11. Tender drawings vs for construction drawings to be compared and the differences reported to the client in a report. (Why? So the client can recover costs).

  • Erection Feasibility

    Study erection and fabrication issues from our Take off model.

    With our take off model it is easy to visualize erection problems and fabrication issues. It is a valuable tool for you when you quote for jobs.

  • Estimation Bridging List

    Here is a sample of bridging list we provide with Take off. We provide the length and the quantity for accurate estimation. The model also shows the bridging.