Standard details
A library of seventeen ready-made details you can drop straight onto a sheet: fixings into masonry and concrete, purlin and truss connections, base plates bearing on concrete. They arrive as real vector drawing in millimetres, with every callout editable, and they land in the same frame as any other detail block.
These are drawings, not calculations
A standard detail is third-party drawing brought in whole. It is not sized against your loads, it is not checked, and it does not enter the bill of materials. The app says so the moment you insert one, and it says it once: the block itself lands clean, so what you print is the drawing and your own title. Use them for what they are, which is a good drawing of a common arrangement, and use the Connections tab when you need the numbers.
What is in the library
The library is three original detail sheets, cut into their individual framed details. Each detail keeps its own size in millimetres and a suggested enlargement, because the original callouts were lettered small.
Fixings into masonry and concrete
8How steel lands on what is already built: expansion bolts into blockwork, threaded rod into a ring beam, notches cut for a purlin.
- Bottom chord bolted to masonry with an expansion anchor
- Truss anchored to the ring beam with threaded rod
- Steel profile on masonry with a collaborating angle
- Purlin recessed into a notch in the masonry
- Hollow section embedded in concrete, welded
- Truss bearing on the parapet with an expansion anchor
- Fixing angle on the top chord of a truss
- Fixing to a concrete column with an expansion anchor
Purlins and truss
5The same purlin fixing drawn twice, in section and in perspective, plus two illustrative views of truss hardware.
- C500 purlin fixed with threaded rod, section
- C500 purlin fixed with threaded rod, perspective
- Bottom chord fixed with an expansion anchor
- Pinned insert, illustrative perspective
- Truss splice, illustrative perspective
Bearing on concrete
4Where the steel meets the concrete structure. These four are drawn at a larger enlargement, because they carry the most callouts.
- Top-hat profile fixed with an expansion anchor
- Column on a base plate over a concrete beam
- Steel beam over a concrete beam
- Column on an angle over a slab
The callouts are text, not strokes
Every label in the drawing was kept as a piece of text with an identity of its own, not baked into the linework. So you can rewrite any callout to say what your job actually says, and clearing one removes it from the drawing, which is how you drop a note that does not apply.
It stays text all the way out. The sheet goes to DXF through the drawing itself, and a label that is text arrives in the CAD as an editable text entity. Had the callouts been converted to outlines here, they would land in AutoCAD as a heap of polylines, which is exactly the complaint the export was fixed for.
Language, and what deliberately does not translate
These sheets were drawn in Brazil, so everything on them was born in Portuguese. The name of each detail and its factory callouts are translated, so the library does not sit as a Portuguese island in the middle of a translated drawing.
Translated
The detail name and the wording of the callouts: steel profile, continuous weld, concrete slab, cover.
Left alone
Dimensions, profile designations and bolt sizes. A section called U90X40X3.00 is called that in every language, and translating one would be inventing a profile that does not exist.
Anything you rewrote yourself outranks all of that. You wrote it in your language and it stays exactly as written, whatever language the app is switched to afterwards.
Why it takes a moment the first time
The three sheets are 576 KB of linework, and the heaviest single detail is more than a thousand strokes. Nobody who only opens a project should pay for that, so the library is fetched separately, only when you open the tab or open a sheet that already uses one of these details. The sheet draws first and the detail appears when it arrives.