Features

3D Reinforcement Enhancements
AutoCAD Structural Detailing displays reinforcement and reinforced concrete element geometry in 3D views. This 3D visualisation enables structural engineers and drafters to check whether reinforcement is properly defined. It also helps engineers and drafters to identify reinforcement bar collisions and errors in the placement of steel reinforcement.

Bolt, Nut & Washer Positioning
Structural engineers and drafters can create, modify and update bolt connections with ease and position bolts, nuts and washers to help streamline the design process.

Intelligent Structural Objects
Structural engineers and drafters can create structural steel models or rebar drawings using intelligent objects such as beams, plates, columns, walls and reinforcement bars, rather than lines and curves. Engineers and drafters can cut, lengthen, bend, split and merge objects virtually as well as update material takeoffs automatically.

Automatic Generation of Views & Details
AutoCAD Structural Detailing enables structural engineers and drafters to prepare shop drawings by generating sections and elevations automatically, complete with dimensions and descriptions.

Automatic Generation of Shop Drawings
Generate comprehensive workshop drawings with single parts and assemblies. AutoCAD Structural Detailing software also generates schedules and material takeoffs. When design changes are made, the software enables structural engineers and drafters to streamline time-consuming updates of descriptions and dimensions, providing better data co-ordination throughout shop drawing sets.

Customisable Detailing & Shop Drawing Styles
Customisable styles enable engineers and drafters to adjust the look of final shop drawings more freely. You can change almost any aspect of the drawing, including descriptions, symbols, dimensions and tables, adding greater flexibility. Create new styles or modify existing ones to make drawings look exactly how you want them to.

Automatic Drawing Creation
The method of arranging, grouping and justifying the elements in automatically generated drawings enables structural engineers and drafters to produce higher quality drawings with better overall organisation. Automatic drawing generation also creates lists of elements that are not subject to machining, as well as elements that have vertical and flat cuts at their ends.

Steel Connections Enhancements
The Steel Connections feature can provide additional parameters that help strucutral engineers and drafters to define the size of undercuts to the upper/lower plane of the adjoining element in beam-to-beam connections. For beam-to-beam connections with rib plates, you can modify the location of the connecting rib on the right or left side of the adjoining element.