Structural steel
Plates, cleats and gussets with their bolt holes set out to the usual gauges, for the DSTV line.
Plates and fittings for steelwork connections: base plates, end plates, fin plates, gussets and cleats, with their bolt holes at the usual edge distances, gauges and pitches.
What you can design
9 parametric designs come in the library's Structural steel folder (File › Run Parametric…): open one, type your sizes and the drawing follows. Open any of them in the viewer to try it.
The trade's tools
For a drawing whose industry is Structural steel, the toolbar and Edit › Tool offer these tools beside the general drawing, editing and dimensioning tools. Each is parametric: change a size, or move a point it was drawn on, and what it made follows.
Hole Pattern
Holes on a bolt circle (PCD), in a row or in a grid, measured from an edge.
On the toolbar's Holes button
Slot
A slotted hole: between two points, or round a centre at a length and angle.
Gusset Plate
A gusset or stiffener plate in a corner, sniped, its toes cut square.
Base Plate
A column base plate with its bolt holes and a grout hole.
Part Mark
Numbered part marks, to etch rather than cut.
Beam Cope
A cope cut in a beam's end, top, bottom or both, its inside corner rounded.
Weld Preparation
The bevel line and a label marked on an edge to be bevelled for a butt weld.
Weld Number
Numbers each weld on the drawing, shop or field, with its type, size and WPS, for the weld map report.
Exports
File › Export › Export… lists these formats first for a Structural steel drawing:
And the formats every trade uses:
Machine profiles
File › Send Using Machine Profile sends the drawing to a machine in one click, with the format, options, layer names and pens it needs. These come with the app:
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Emulator: steel line (DSTV)
DSTV NC (Steel)
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Plasma nesting software (DXF)
DXF and DWG
Plasma / oxy-fuel tables through ProNest, SigmaNEST, FastCAM, Lantek or the table's own CAM
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Plasma table (G-code, arc lead-ins)
G-code
Plasma tables with a G-code control run directly (Hypertherm EDGE Connect, Mach / LinuxCNC / FireControl and similar)
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Steel fabrication line (DSTV NC)
DSTV NC (Steel)
Beam drilling and sawing lines, plate processing centres and punching lines that read DSTV (.nc1): Peddinghaus, Ficep, Voortman, Kaltenbach, Daito …
Reports
File › Reports… works these out from the drawing, to save as a web page or as CSV:
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Steel cutting list
Each steel piece (as the DSTV NC export finds them: its mark, profile, grade and quantity from the classification) with its length, width and thickness, weight per metre, weight each and in all, a plate's area (less its holes) and the surface to paint.
Read more
The help's page for the trade describes each tool, design, report and export in full.
Other trades
Get ParametrIQ CAD
Included in every plan. Install it, activate it, and start with File › New or File › Run Parametric…