Engineering Drawings
Modifying Profile Colour in Drawing Module
In Drawing module, users are able to adjust and change the colour of the all the elements before exporting the drawing. However the change of members' colour is only visible in drawing module. During exporting the drawing, there will be a layer ...
Visibility Settings and Selectability Settings
Visibility settings allows user to show and hide elements that wish to hide/show in the drawings, while selectability settings allows user to lock the elements and prevent from misclick or accidentally deleting the elements. Both Visibility and ...
DXF Export
User can easily export drawing as DXF in "Drawing Module" by going to "Edit" top menu> Export > Export DXF In DXF Export Dialogue, steps to export as below: Select export directory and enter file name. Adjust the settings such as scale, origin of ...
Engineering Drawings Overview
ProtaSteel provide powerful feature to generate Engineering Drawings, Quantity Takeoff and flexibility on modifying the drawings. List of topics below that will be covered under this categories: Diagnostic Tools Drawing Module Viewport Properties ...
Import Titleblock for General Drawing
User can simply import company standard titleblock as DXF in "Drawing Module" by going to "BIM" top menu > Import DXF (Make sure that the titleblock is not in block.) Select the company standard titleblock DXF directory. Titleblock annotation can be ...
Points, Construction Objects and Text
General In the drawing module, the drafting icons can be used to drawing lines, shape or create text. The "Points, Construction Objects and Text" toolbar are shown as below : Please take note that these drafting tools will only be presented on ...
Diagnostic Tools
General Diagnostic tools can assist user to aware of modelling error and mistakes when developing the connection and modifying the model. Thus, time saving for user to check on modelling problems exist in the model before generating drawings. The ...
Customization of Assembly and Part Drawings
Assembly and part drawings are created automatically in ProtaSteel. These drawings are prepared with the settings specified by the software. These settings can be customized by user. Changing the Drawing Properties Open the “Drawing Settings” from ...
Annotations
In the drawing module, the annotations icons can be used to annotate or label the profiles, plates, bolts and welding. The Annotations toolbar are shown as below : Place the mouse cursor over the icon to expose the Tooltip which will contain detail ...
Dimensioning
General In the Drawing Module (Ctrl+D), one can create dimension lines in any Viewport window using the dimensioning tools provided. Dimensioning commands works similar to the dimension commands of common CAD programs. Created dimension lines are ...
Viewport Properties
Double-click any place within the Viewport blue border to access the Viewport Properties The viewport properties mainly controls the final presentation of the drawings. There are several tabs in this dialog General tab Name : This will the name of ...
Drawing Module
ProtaSteel has a powerful tool to prepare engineering drawings – it’s simply called the “Drawing module”. The drawings are based on the views prepared in the modelling module. The steps are summarized as below : 1. Create the desired View in Model ...