Hi,
I am a former boilermaker/welder who has recently sat down behind a computer and is taking up the admin side of the business. We manufacture a lot of structural steel items for various clients throughout the telecommunications industry.
I have a basic understanding of fusion and can draw simple components. I haven't yet dipped my toe into trying anything to complicated at this point, but I am keen to give it a shot.
We have our own plasma cutter so a lot of the drawings we need to produce are just copying ''For Construction'' drawings that have been supplied by our clients - creating DXFs etc so we can then go and cut the flat plate, for us then to either weld members to the plates or fold and form them.
Is there a way to draw a folded plate that has been bent multiple times to form an arc with folded ends to form the collar below?
Every time I tray to draw this I run into errors because the arcs run into each other.
Also is there a database of steel member drawings or DXFs that I can import when trying to draw different designs? I.E RHS/SHS/CHS/PFC members in various sizes? I tried to draw a platform and thought there had to be an easier way, drawing up each different sized steel member became tiresome.
I guess I can make my own database of DXF drawings and locally save them and import as necessary? surely this already exists though.
What I am after are some resources that can help with the particular type of work we do, I haven't seen a lot of examples available on the internet or in the self learning section.
Any help is appreciated.
