SDS Detailing System – The Most Useful Program for Steel Detailers

SDS Detailing System is the only product with the built-in intelligence to automatically design connections using a 3D model with a multitude of options for beams, columns, bracing and joists. A full station of SDS gives you the power to get the job done.

Connections are designed based on parameters that you define for each job. Designate material, edge distance, cope criteria and other connection specifications, and SDS will automatically generate connections that meet your requirements.

Then you can model all the minor pieces of steel - ladders, handrails, stairs, hoppers, bins, checkered plates, etc. - with SDS’s parametric modeling feature. You’ll save a phenomenal amount of time by creating a 3D model with every piece of material, bolt and hole in the right place.

Among many innovations, Design Data was the first software company to provide:

• Automatic connection design
• Detailing with a framing plan approach
• Multi-site capabilities with one model
• Multi-user capabilities with one model
• True 3D model for producing details
• Automated shop equipment support
• Capability to import engineering data into detailing system
• Project status tracking
• 3D model review
• Customizable drawing presentation

When the model is complete, SDS automatic detailing feature creates a comprehensive set of 2D drawings, unlike what other software systems generate.

Plus, the drawings require few modifications, because you create adaptive detailing rules that work in conjunction with the system’s automated detailing routines.

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Nikunj Patel is an Engineering Consultant at Outsourcing Steel Detailing (OSD). The OSD is an India based Structural Steel Detailing Service Provider firm. Nikunj is expert in steel Detailing Design, Structural Designing and Auto CAD 3D Modeling.