Product Description

Designed so that professionals can create the structural calculation package and the detailing as quickly and economically as possible. Contains 239 representative drawings, each one on a separate page that includes a description, a checklist summarizing the detail and a small plan view which suggests the location on the structural drawing where the detail can be applied. An accompanying disk in CAD format allows users to import the details and customize them to their needs. In addition, every drawing is saved in a separate file in .DXF format that can be loaded into most CAD software programs and modified, plotted or printed as needed.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1335165 in Books
• Published on: 1995-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

From the Publisher
Designed so that professionals can create the structural calculation package and the detailing as quickly and economically as possible. Contains 239 representative drawings, each one on a separate page that includes a description, a checklist summarizing the detail and a small plan view which suggests the location on the structural drawing where the detail can be applied. An accompanying disk in CAD format allows users to import the details and customize them to their needs. In addition, every drawing is saved in a separate file in .DXF format that can be loaded into most CAD software programs and modified, plotted or printed as needed.

Customer Reviews

Steel Detailing
I am a Steel Detailer. I draw steel beams, columns, braces and the like for a living. I thought from the title that this was a book about steel detailing. I am sure that I should have read beyond the title because although it is called "Steel Detailing in Cad Format", it is not a book about "Steel Detailing". It is a book of "Details" for "Steel Designers." I am sure that the author and publishers did not mean to mislead, but they could have come up with a more fitting title.

For my needs the book was a complete waste of money.

Can someone benefit from this book?
I was surprised to find out that the book does not offer any explanations of the context, the selection critera, the constraints facing the detailer, for a given detail. In fact the book does not include any explanation or calculations of any kind. Only sketches. I am a structural engineer, and I failed to find a way for benefiting from this book, professionaly or academicaly.

Seed files to develop steel detail CAD drawings
The author has organized the most commonly used steel details in CAD formats. I belive many engineers or enthusiast who do not have similar CAD details in their computer will appreciate Mr. Zayat's works, since the CAD files will reduce effort to develop details not form the scratch.
A nice collection of seed files are ready to be tansfered into Auto CAD or Microstation.
This book is not for steel detailers who want to see more rigorous detailing that normally shown in AISC's publications such as "Detailing for Steel Construction" and "Engineering for Steel Construction".
For students who want to use those details may need other references or somebody to find out the reason and mechanics behind those details.