Discover how structural drawings are used to communicate intricate details and enable seamless collaboration among various teams working on a building project. Learn how different elements such as structural grid systems, detail references, legends, and publication schedules are incorporated in structural drawings to depict a clear picture of the building's design.
Key Insights
- Structural drawings effectively illustrate the building's design using a structural grid system, which runs from 1 to 8 along the top and from A to H along the side. This system allows easy communication about the location of information within the building.
- Different elements such as legends, roof structure notes and publication schedules are incorporated in the drawings. Legends give more information on specific details within the structure notes whereas publication schedules guide on how to build certain structures within the building.
- The method of presenting information in structural drawings is quite common and involves detailing that often refers to other details within the set of drawings. This approach makes it easy to trace information and understand the design better.
If we continue to the next page, we are in the plan of the roof structure. When you look at the drawing once again, you see the structural grid system—from 1 to 8 along the top, and from A to H along the side. Again, this allows us to easily communicate with other people regarding the location of information within the building. Look again and you will see that we have the references in detail.
If I zoom in on this area, you can see Detail 1 on sheet S5.1, which represents the section right here in the building. The first time we see it is on page S3.1. You will notice that some of this information includes a hatch or pattern.
If you remember, the roof of this house uses a cherry armor roof system. This indicates that we have a frame filler. So again, we have standard trusses used in the building, but we fill in between the trusses
To allow the roof to present itself appropriately. In the upper right portion of the sheet, I see that I have legends. I have my roof structure notes, and as before, instead of including all the text within the notes themselves, I direct the reader to check a related detail for more information.
I also have a publication schedule. You will see that it is labeled P1, P2, P3. For example, if I look at this area and here, I am seeing different types of posts and structural components. In the list itself, we are informing people how to build the posts properly.
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Not all posts are considered 4×4 or 6×6—sometimes we need to customize them. On the next page, I am showing details of the foundation.
If I zoom in on this detail, you can see a referenced detail. But this detail also refers to other details within the drawing set. If I look to the left, I see that in this image I am showing a section.
I have a section cut labeled A–A. If I look down in the detail, I get a clearer presentation of what that sliced section looks like. So again, this is a detail that refers to another detail within the same drawing. In the image below, the same is happening.
I have a section cut. For more information about this specific frame, I refer to Section A–A. This method of communicating information within a set of drawings is relatively common. On the next page, I’m once again looking at the ceiling framing.
If I zoom in here, you can again see details that refer to other details. Once again, we have a note. I follow the reference line and it points exactly to where that information is located. This method of presenting information is very common within structural drawings.
Nuestra siguiente página es información adicional de enmarcado. Esto es relativamente sencillo, de nuevo, detalles con otros detalles a los que se hace referencia en ellos. Y nuestra última página es de nuevo información de enmarcado más estructural.
Espero que esta descripción general de los dibujos estructurales haya sido útil. Espero trabajar contigo en nuestros dibujos MEP. Nos vemos en el siguiente video.