Structural Steel Shop Drawings

[bjur]

I'm curious if any one has used Inventor for the production of structural steel shop drawings.  I know there are other programs out there like Tekla or SDS2 for this purpose, however, it seams that inventor should be more than capable to do the work.  I attached a couple samples of drawings we did with Revit.  There's lots of bugs and problems doing this with Revit, hense the desire to do this using Inventor.

[rhasell]

Hi

Not sure what you are looking for, but yes, I use inventor for Structural steel, that is our primary industry.

70% of our work is Hollow steel sections.

20% is UB's and UC's

5% is Aluminium Extrusions.

5% is Rigging.

We are now have to prove our worth against Rhino, Grasshopper and Tekla.

I can help if needed.

[bjur]

Thanks.  I just wanted to know i'm not using a chain saw to cut butter.  I need to learn more about Inventor and how "stuff gets done".

[cadman777]

rhasell,

Please send me information on how you automate your structural modeling, joint creation, platform/handrail/ladder/stairs detailing, etc.

Thanx ...

[rhasell]

Chris

Appologies mate, I did not see the question.

We don't do any automation, it is all manual. I don't even use Frame Generator for my Shop models, because, if something changes, the headache of changing the BOM, and drawings is a real pain.

Our industry does not do any platform/handrail/ladder/stairs detailing, as we are focused on Tension membrane structures. So most of it is trusses, columns and beams.

I have a lot of iLogic to set up the BOM and assist with mundaine detaing tasks. I also have a few iLogic parts and assemblies of commonly used components.

Regards

[cadman777]

Reg,

Thanx for getting back to me. I hear ya w/the FG. I do it like you too most of the time.

Do you have a good resource for learning iLogic for people like me who are weak in the area of programming?

I want to fix the weak parts of my drawings, drawing views, boms and other things, but can't do it w/out-of-the-box functionality. It's possible iLogic will do the trick, but there's a lotta different things to do w/it, so I need help discovering how to do them.

Thanx

[rhasell]

HI

The biggest thing with iLogic it time.

PM me with some of your issues, hopefully I can help. If there is something that we can post/share with the community, we will.

Most of my rules are done to improve the BOM and detailing functionality. (Also the adhere to company standards)

I am pretty good  at copy and paste. Though I must admit I have become a lot better at iLogic than I used to be.  I get an idea of what I want to do and I will then find small bits of code all over the web and then stitch them together to make a working rule.

My hero is Curtis, he has helped me is so many ways, I have stolen/borrowed so many snippets from him.

My difficult/challenging rules are documented, for future applications, and the best debugging tool is message box, with a sequential number.

Look forward to solving a few issues.

Regards

[BarryZA]

Check this blog out https://cadtipstricks.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/frame-generator-parts-list-sorted-by-both-part-number...