Everything the shop
needs to cut steel.
Shop drawings, erection drawings and the SDS/2 model behind them, delivered by sequence. Every sheet is read back against the model by software and signed by a detailer. You see every step while it happens.
- Shop drawingsmain steel and miscellaneous, by sequence
- Erection drawingsplans, elevations, sections, piece marks
- SDS/2 modelthe model itself, plus IFC for your coordination
- Advance bill of materialby sequence, for mill orders before drawings are complete
- CNC and DSTV filesstraight to the shop's lines
- Connection design inputreactions, geometry and our proposed connections for your engineer
- Anchor rod plans, embedsissued first, so the foundations contractor is never waiting
- Field bolt listsby sequence and by connection
- Revisions, change orders, as-builtsevery revision logged with its reason; change orders tracked, not absorbed
- The check recordwhich dimension was read, against what, and who signed
Three kinds
of work
Most packages are main steel. The rest is the miscellaneous steel around it and the model work a fabricator needs before a sheet exists.
Beams · columns · braces · trusses · crane runwaysMain steel
Framed buildings, mill and plant structures, heavy industrial, stadiums and hangars. Connections to the engineer's design and your shop practice. Sequenced the way the erector will stand it.
Stairs · handrail · platforms · ladders · gratingMiscellaneous steel
Stair towers, mezzanines, pipe racks and supports, equipment platforms, monorails, lintels and embeds. Detailed in the same model as the main steel, so nothing clashes on site.
Model · ABM · takeoff · IFCModel work
An SDS/2 model from contract drawings before detailing starts: the advance bill of material for mill orders, piece counts and weights from the model, an IFC for the design team's coordination.
Your standards.
Set once, kept.
A fabricator's shop has a way of doing things. We write it down at the start of the first job and every sheet after follows it.
- 01Connection preferences.Bolted or welded, single plate or double angle, bolt grades and diameters, weld sizes, the engineer's criteria.
- 02Shop practice.Copes, clearances, cambers, how you like your ends cut, what your lines can and cannot do.
- 03Sheet layout.Your title block, your sheet size, your mark scheme, the order of views you are used to reading.
- 04Sequence and schedule.Packages follow the erector's sequence and the dates you give us, with anchor rods and the ABM first.
Checked before
you see it
The difference between us and the shop down the road is not the drawing. It is what happens to the drawing before it leaves.
Read
Software reads every dimension on the sheet back against the SDS/2 model. 258,808 dimensions and marks on one project, in twenty minutes.
Sort
Agreements go green. A dimension that reads a sixteenth off goes amber. A mismatch with the model goes red and names the grid.
Judge
A checker with years on steel looks only at amber and red, decides, and signs. Their name is on the sheet.
Issue
Under drawing control, with revision, date and reason. Your approver signs on screen. The record stays with the job.
Questions
about the work
Straight answers.
Do you detail in SDS/2 or Tekla?
SDS/2. Our jobs run on SDS/2 2024, 2025 and 2026 servers. We hand over the model, IFC and CNC files with the drawings, so your shop keeps everything, not just the paper.
What is in a package when it comes back?
Shop drawings by sequence, erection drawings, the advance bill of material, CNC and DSTV files, anchor rod plans, field bolt lists, and the check record showing every dimension that was read against the model.
How are revisions handled?
Every sheet is under drawing control. A revision gets a new revision mark, a cloud, a date and a reason, and the approval screen shows which sheets changed and why. Nothing is reissued silently.
Do you work to our shop standards?
Yes. Shop practice, connection preferences, bolt and weld standards, sheet layout and title block are set per fabricator at the start and kept for every job after.
Send us one package.
One set of drawings, one phase, one sequence. You get it back checked, with the check visible, and a live screen showing every step.
Start a package— contract drawings and specs
— your shop standards
— the sequence or phase
— the date you need it