Structural Drafting: The Essential Structural Engineering Service
Structural Engineering is a field within Engineering that deals with the analysis of structures
, and especially with the support and resistance of loads on those structures. Structural Drafting is a process via which the structural engineers convey their ideas to contractors and such other people who are actually constructing them. Structural Drafting is, therefore, a very essential and important part of Structural Engineering.
Structural Drafting is defined as a process of converting the buildings design calculations and structure drawings into detailed and descriptive drawings. Accurate and high quality renderings of the drawings are required to be created so that the people who are actually involved in the construction of those buildings can easily understand what they have to do. Naturally, this is a very highly skilled discipline and very much in demand.
A typical Structural Drawing includes detailed descriptions of the building using a variety of design symbols and information about the dimensions and structures along with detailed working drawings for the concrete and steel structures used in that building.
There are many other benefits of structural drawings and drafts. Chiefly, this helps people estimate how much materials are required during the process of construction. One can also estimate which materials are required in which part of the construction.
In todays highly evolved and fast paced world, structural drafting services have greatly increased in demand. Use of several software programs (like CAD software) to render these detailed structural drawings has also been on a rise. These computer aided design software have created a high level of accuracy within the process of rendering the plans and structural drawings. Along with these high quality drawings, one can also use these software programs for getting more detailed information using their built-in documentation and reporting functions.
All of this adds together to create a niche segment of Structural Drafting professionals who use these software programs to render very high quality drawings and drafts, and provide a greatly enhanced data report for those who require the information while on the actual job.
It is with the help of Structural Drafting that the Structural Engineers are able to convey their detailed calculations and ideas to the rest of the world. Structural Drafting has therefore become a very important and essential part of Structural Engineering services.