Anchor Bolt Detailing

[bjur]

What is the "Best Practices" way of handling anchor bolt detailing.  In the US, the detailer typically needs to provide drawings for the anchor bolts indicating the length, number of nuts, washers, and threaded length.  This is typically done for each anchorbolt setting.

My original plan was to create a camera view of the anchor bolt from the side that would show the anchor bolts, column and base plate.  I was then going to just add dimensions to this drawings indicating the bolt dimensions.  After trying it for awhile, it appears that this won't work as there is no way to snap dimensions to the anchor bolts.  They are drawn, but there are no snap points, either Advance Steel or standard Autocad snap points.  It appears there is no way to dimension these bolts.  Im curious how others have handled this.

[Anonymous]

hi,

i just still have my old Autocad library with anchor detail blocks in an attribute, insert like others and bingo.
Maybe not the way you want but fast and simple.

[bjur]

So do use autocad dynamic blocks in the details or do you use 3d blocks in the model and then dimension to those 3d solids in the detail?  Trying to figure out why the software won't let me dimension to the bolt objects.  Seams like a major oversite.  If we could dimension to those, I'd be much happier right now.

[Anonymous]

dynamic blocks in the details.
As far as i know dimension on the anchor not possible, but why shoud you?
The part flag in de details will tell the same.

good luck

[DumitruBerteanu]

Anchors  (and bolt) objects detailed with their solid presentation in Advance Steel drawings can't be indeed be dimensioned as none of the points will give you a snap. You can have a drawing with anchors exploded to lines, create a block out of those lines and insert it on drawings if you need to realise dimensions, but it won't allow you to use update drawings properly then.

[bjur]

Please developers, add snap points to the anchor bolt geometry so we can provide dimensions in the drawings. The idea of exploding a detail to dimension the bolts is counter intuitive. It's why we buy software like advance steel so we don't need to draft things like this. Once I explode I loose the main benefit of having the drawing update if it is changed.