How To Read Structural Steel Drawings

It is important to know How to read Structural Steel Drawings, and it isn't something that is covered during university. When starting out reading structural drawings can seem overly complex, however, when you break down steel documentation the drawings are not that complex when you break them down.

I will also be going through how to push your steel drawings into the modern age of BIM that will not only simplify your structural steel drawings but also improve your QA and make your steel drawings easier to check.


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Chapter
00:00 Intro
00:25 Plan Drawings
05:08 Sections
05:28 Details
06:44 Elevations What are they
07:00 A better way