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Time Waits for Nobody: Steward your resources effectively
Massive Investment With Little Return? There are a million things out there in the world. Are you going to learn/master it all? Here’s how the typical educational program works – a monumental waste of resources in my opinion: 12 years in basic secondary and higher ‘education’. Another 3-6 years in tetiary ‘education’. Learning…
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First rule of Building and Construction: Make sure it can be built!
“A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.” So it is the case also in building and construction. Here is a primer of how and why and where things go wrong – if they do go wrong. As with most things, problems start in the…
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Should you cast in a Reckli Groove in a precast concrete panel?
There are situations where you may prefer to cast in a Reckli groove. If the Reckli is contained within one panel, then you must surely cast it in. However, if the flashing groove runs past several panels, it may be better to saw cut the groove at site.
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Detailing cleats to connect to beams
Detailing cleats to connect to beams. The main principle is the work points of the beam to the column must intersect. To achieve this the cleat should be offset to onside by half the Beam web thickness. This is usually done when you layout the main members. Make sure the layout is good Here is…
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Bevel Cutting Beam End for Fabrication
How to Detail bevel cut Beam Ends for Fabrication Given here is an image of how do the bevel cut in a beam to beam shear plate connection where the beam does not connect perpendicular. There is no benefit in creating full width bevel cut since it will only add material. All you have to…
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Skew Cutting Col end to match Inclined End Plate
How to detail Column end when end plates are skewed Here is a picture of an included end plate. Fabricators and easily weld and fill up upto 2mm. Hence there is no need to skew cut end plate. Will save a heap of time and cost in the fabrication shop.
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Ignore White Lines in Selection Filter (AutoCAD .net API)
We want a selection filter which simply ignores certain types of colors. Here is the ‘simple’ result I came up with:
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Bubble Deck
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We’ve been detailing Bubble Deck for around 5 years now. We’ve learned the Bubble Deck standards and we’ve developed some very efficient tooling and processes that allow us to get our drawings out to clients quickly and without errors. As in everything we do, the primary focus is error trapping and productivity. Our Resources: 1…
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Markup Model with Tekla BIMSight
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Tekla BIMSight is a free tool provided by Tekla to view and markup up Tekla model. We use this too extensively for highlighting and resolving model issues. It will be very convenient if you can download and install this software on your machine and have some basic skills on using the tool Where to download…