STEELbuilder’s major breakthrough is the
concept of SMARTypes, pre-defined design components based on your
building standard.
A SMARType is anything from a steel member to
an assembled component, such as a truss or flooring system.
These SMARTypes defines both how a design component is made but
also how it fits with other SMARType components. A major feature
of SMARTypes is the ability to include engineering data for later
analysis of any design components used.
These let you quickly and easily design a
steel-framed building with full engineering certification
document. SMARTypes complete integration in STEELbuilder makes the
entire design-make-build process much more efficient and
eliminates errors by using predefined building standards. As
a user of STEELbuilder you will discover how logical and
straightforward the SMARTypes are to implement and maintain.
SMARTypes help to make your business operate more efficiently.
Some of STEELbuilder’s SMARTypes cover the
following building components:
- Bracing (auto and manual) for floors,
roofs and wall frames;
- Brick type for automated positioning of
openings;
- Ceiling battens and frames for fixing of
ceilings and structural ceilings where roofs panels are used;
- Connections used within your design are
fully configurable with dimensional information, engineering
capacity and machine codes for automated production and
robotics;
- Floors including bearer/joist, web beams
or modular types systems can all be addressed (The Spantec
system is also available; see
www.spantec.com.au for
details);
- Openings such as doors, windows or free
form areas along with head types to manage the support structure
above the opening;
- Roof purlins follow automated layout
rules based on cladding materials;
- Roof panel system for complex roofing
shapes (non-truss system);
- Roof trusses for conventional triangular
roofing truss layouts;
- Roof type for cladding methods and roof
styles;
- Service holes layout in wall frames;
- Structural components for large openings
or extended unsupported spans;
- Sub structures (piers-bracing-footings)
for raised floors
- Internal roof support frames used with
roof panels (non truss system);
-
Roof trims to manage the insertion
of roof capping and water goods (guttering);
- Walls and wall frames layout.
