Tag: steel detailing

  • Ferrules and bolt length

    Items to take care Refer Ferrule Catalogue – https://reid.com.au/upload/modules/document_loader/Anchoring_Solutions_Design_Guide_2011.pdf Check whether ferrule face is flush with concrete or rebated. Check Thread length in Ferrule Check total thickness of bolted items including washer. Make sure that the bolt specified is at least 5 mm less than (WASHER THICKNESS + Plate thicknesses + Rebate in concrete +…

  • Bolt to be used in Glazing location

    Bolt to be used in Glazing location

    Author: Pon Dhileepan While working in a project called Bateman Bay, TEK1 came across a situation where PFC members are provided to support glazing. PFCs are laid flat, a 50mm U channel is run along the PFC which supports the glass. The below image is the cross section across the glazing and it elucidate the…

  • RFI for additional support members required

    Does a detailer care about supporting the elements which are not available in the structural design, but it could affect the structure? You should care! See the below incident for an example. This structural plan has sections 1 & 2. Refer below snip for section views. If you see the above snap, Section 2 has…

  • 10.2 Create Beams

    This tutorial is about creating beams. The main take away here is 1. Manage UCS. 2.Manage Layers 3.Manage View Cube and Work Area 4.Manage Rotation and insertion point of Beam Section so that later on Advance copy can be used effectively 5. Us Construction Lines.

  • 08-01-Create Work Area

    Create work area in Advance Steel visit https://www.tek1.com.au for full list of Advance Steel and Tekla Tutorials Points to note Work area can be used to reduce clutter in the model Visibility of elements outside the work area can be set to desire level by controlling the level of details Only one work area is…

  • 07-02-Quick View Tools

    Advance steel Quick View Tool bar tools to show and hide elements. Also, deals with 2d snap which is very much like Tekla Workplane Viewplane switch.

  • 05-Trim Extend

    05-Trim Extend

    Advance Steel Tutorials for Tekla Users In this video we are going to look at trim/extend tool. I could not make the extend tool work. Could not find any documentation

  • Advance Steel Gaining Traction

    I have to suspect that advance steel is starting to gain traction in the market. Job posts in Job Portals show the following data Seek Tekla jobs -23 Advance steel Jobs -13 Naukri (India’s Job Portal) Tekla jobs – 108 Advance Steel Jobs – 8 An year before Advance steel jobs were much lower. There…

  • Rosella Bridge

    The Metalworks for this bridge was undertaken by Tek1 and has gone without a hitch. Here is a video of the installation. We are proud to be part of this project through JS Metal Engineering. Thank you Xavier for giving us an opportunity to work on this project. Thank you Ram and team for a…