All of the examples shown here are of my work or someone I was working with. Just click the image and you will be able to see a larger view of the drawing, Enjoy!
Beam
Beams can be drawn sloping or flat (to the world). What many do not understand is that the top of steel beam is always worked, not the bottom, so don’t ever think the detailer is working the bottom of the beam.
Column
Columns are used in most industrial projects to support the main framing members and to provide support as needed in other areas. Columns can be very complicated and are very important to most jobs.
Guardrail
Guardrail is needed when there is a fall of two foot or so. With that said, most all stairs will need guardrails. If guardrails are not needed then the stair would have walls on both sides of the stair. There are many UBC (Universal Building Code) rules when drawing stairs.
Small Stairs
There are many different ways to draw stairs, that said, most every stair we draw is different from any others we have drawn. So when getting field dimensions for stairs, be careful and be accurate, because one bad dimension and the entire stair will need to be reworked!
Trash Gate
Believe it or not, we draw a lot of trash Gates on commercial jobs. For every commercial project being built, there is probably a drawing needed for the trash area. They are similar, but they are different.
Caged Ladder
Caged ladders are needed when going to the second floor by way of the outside of the building. A cage may also be needed to keep people from using the ladder to access the building roof, but the primary use for the cage is to keep you safe when climbing the ladder.
Large Erection Plan
This job was a very complicated project! Oregon School of Art, was very challenging, enough so that we hired an outside firm to crunch all of the elevations and numbers to ensure all steel would bolt seamlessly together! Not one flat beam, all members were sloping one direction or another!
Large Erection Elevation
Some projects are complicated and need to show several cuts through the building in order to show all the information needed to erect the steel efficiently and effectively!