General Steel Detailing
A horizontal or sloping steel member to support loads.
What is a beam?
The minimum distance from the centre of a bolt to the edge of the material.
What is edge distance?
The tab used to create 2D drawings on the template.
What is the layout tab?
We add this to the left if the long form callout on a shop drawing. It is the main identifier for the beam or column.
What is the Shipping Mark?
It's the second Star Wars movie made.
What is the Empire Strikes Back?
A vertical steel member to carry loads in compression.
What is a column?
The distance from the centre of a beam, or back of a channel or angle, to a hole.
What is the gauge?
The tool to draw a line at a specific distance parallel to another line.
What is offset?
We add this note when there is a part welded to the end of a beam or column ie. a beam end plate or column base plate.
What is Cut Square?
The name of Vancouver's first and only NBA team.
What is the Vancouver Grizzles?
The party responsible for assembling the steel structure in the field.
What is the erector?
The most common weld in steel detailing.
What is a fillet weld?
The tool used to group multiple objects as one entity to use over and over again.
What is a block?
The bolts listed on the shop drawing that are installed for connections on site.
What are field bolts?
It's the street VCC is located on in Downtown Vancouver.
What is Pender Street?
The party responsible for manufacturing of the steel assemblies and parts.
What is the fabricator?
FB is the prefix for this type of plate.
What is a flat bar?
It's the white bar at the bottom of the screen where commands are typed in.
What is the command line?
The dimensions that are taken from the left end of a beam or the bottom of a column, that locate parts or holes along the member.
What are Running Dimensions?
This VCC department is located on the 7th floor of the Downtown campus.
What is the CAD and BIM department?
The party responsible for accuracy of the BIM model and shop drawing.
What is the Steel Detailer?
CS2E is the abbreviation for this Bill of Material remark.
What is Cut Square 2 Ends?
After using AutoCAD to detail, we will use this 3D BIM software to model and detail for the remainder of the program.
What is Tekla Structures?
The part of the drawing that lists all the pieces required for the assemblies on a shop drawing.
What is the Bill of Material?
The company where Ron used to work.
What is DBM Vircon or Candraft?