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Many thanks to Patrick Warren of Steel Plus for his help with Nuts & Bolts and for these example drawings.

Steel buildings are assembled from standard rolled steel stock, typically wide-flange "I-beams" that are cut, drill and prepared to be bolted together at the job site.

Here's a typical beam drawing

This beam has additional pieces welded to each end.

Steel Plus, WildTools and Nuts & Bolts When I began work on the Nuts & Bolts palette, Steel Plus had already adopted PowerCADD and WildTools, but they were 'climbing the walls' with frustations encountered when producing steel detailing drawings, and they wanted a number of specialized drafting tools for steel detailing. I asked Steel Plus to give me a list of what they wanted, and I gave them everything they asked for, and I worked closely with Steel Plus and also Ed Cundy and Jim Lewis, who do a lot of this type of work. The tools that came out of this are the Welding Symbol, Hole Pattern, Shear Tab, Gusset Plate, Clip Angle, Cope, and, of course, all of the basic steel shapes in the Nuts & Bolts palette. The Steel Plus Network and our association with them is a very exciting development, and I hope everyone will take the time to visit the website for the Steel Plus Nework. Alfred Scott

This beam has a gusset plate welded to it. This is a simple gusset plate, with only four holes, but many have a large number of holes and often took twenty minutes to draw. The Gusset Plate tool in Nuts & Bolts reduced this to two clicks of the mouse. You can imagine how these steel detailers feel about Nuts & Bolts!

A beam coped at both ends, with a shear tab weled on the elft and hole patterns at the right and middle. Nuts & Bolts provides tools for each of these.

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