Steelwork Detailing ADP

This Section describes the administration tasks which you will need to carry out for Steelwork Detailing Automatic Drawing Production (SDA), which allows the Draft User to produce dimensioned and annotated drawings of the most commonly used structural elements (straight Beams and Columns, and flat Plates) automatically.

The requirements for SDA are:

• A Sheet Library containing suitable backing sheets

• A Symbol Library containing suitable annotation symbols

• A Style Library containing suitable styles

• A Representation Rules Library containing rules defining which Styles are used for displaying the profiles.

• One or more SDAOPT elements, which set the SDA defaults that the SDA User will initially see displayed on the SDAOPT form.

The backing sheets and SDAOPT elements supplied with the product are in the Department Master_Libraries. The backing sheets in the Library DRA/MAS/BACKS can be used for SDA. The Library DRA/MAS/SDADP contains Libraries of Styles, Symbols and Representation Rules for SDA. It also contains two SDAOPT elements:

SDA-Default

SDA-Main-Views

The only difference is that the SDA-Main-Views file will not output detail views.

Note: Occasionally fabrication drawings produced by SDADP will be under-dimensioned, although it will always be at least 70% of that required for fabrication of the component. If a dimension is missing, it may be due to the way the catalogue component is defined.