Structural drafting tools

[masterfal]

Hi All,

 

I currently do structural drafting (mainly residential) and have been doing that for quite a number of years now and in that time i have noticed that there are not a great deal of tools available - built into autocad or otherwise. they have stuff for mechanical, architectural, electrical, plumbing etc but doesn't seem to be much for structural. would be cool if there was stuff to help with drawing footings or reinforcement in slabs or stuff to help with detailing. Anyway i was just wondering if anyone had anything specifically useful for structural drafting that they use that they would be happy to share?

Something i use all the time is this steel lisp routine (attached) which includes all the common steel member sizes used in australia which you can add in cross section view, top view or side view. Would be good if could add t-bars in there somehow too. had little look but couldn't work out exactly how to do it. i can edit the shapes that are currently in place but not sure how to add in new shapes and sizes..

 

edit - with this stl routine it was originally set up to also load a US version of the member sizes but i've tweaked it so STL only opens the aus version as i have no need for US sizes. i think the info for the US sizes are still there so if you want those you will need to amend the routine slightly

Stl.zip

Edited 2 hours ago by masterfal