Electrical diagram symbols, power symbols, lighting and grounding symbols. All symbols are drawn in left, right and top isoplane views. Also includes pumps, tanks, gauges, hoses and more. Take note of the scale you printed for later. This Draftsight block library contains over 800 isometric piping symbols in several different categories: flanged, buttweld, socket, threaded and Victaulic. Rinse and repeat 100 times…įirst thing we need to do is print out to scale all the sections we want in our library from whatever CAD program we use. Essentially repeating some boring process over and over sums up structural engineering some days/weeks/months, but I don’t have to like it. This post will go over the basics of how to do this, and finally force me to actually do it myself whilst maintaining some will to live through the exercise. Not particularly intelligent like something that could actually be provided by the developers, but obviously better than the nothing, nada, zip provided by the out-of-the-box experience! The best thing we can do here is to create our own Toolset populated with standard sections and use the built in Toolset functionality to make our own installation of Bluebeam just that tiny bit more awesome. Seriously there must be some opportunity here to make an excellent product more awesome (and useful in the process) by adding more features like this out-of-the-box…. Hopefully, the interface gets nicer looking though, I like that. Nothing is probably coming on the horizon either. Make things a little more intelligent please, is that too hard to do? Well, I can only imply that apparently it is because no tools of this type exist as far as I’m aware in the pdf world. Would it be too hard for example to have a tool or libraries that could replicate common structural steel shapes from around the world, or concrete beam cross sections generated based on entering some defined cross section parameters like width and height. Well I do appreciate a slick user interface, but on the other hand there are no built-in out-of-the-box mark-up tools (Toolsets in Bluebeam lingo) supplied specifically for structural engineers. Sometimes I wonder what goes on at the developers table… “ how about we create this awesome tool engineers can use, but it would be better if we didn’t help them out too much, actually let’s just concentrate on making the interface prettier…. As far as I can tell, Bluebeam has all but become the defacto standard for electronically marking up PDF’s in structural engineering consultancies.īy default, it basically comes with nothing to make your job easier as a structural engineer when it comes to structural specific mark-ups.
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