What Is The Role of Steel Detailer? What Techniques Do They Use?
A steel detailer is a person responsible for producing detailed drawings that are required by steel fabricators. The detailer produces detailed plans and documents for the fabrication and erection of the steel members like trusses, beams, columns, handrails, and joists. A steel detailer mainly produces two types of drawings including shop drawings and erection drawings for steel members. What are shop drawings? Shop Drawings are the engineering drawings that are used for specifying exact detailing specification to fabricate individual steel member. It contains vital information like material lists, its size, and specification, dimension, welding, bolting, welding, etc. These drawings are then used by fabricators to manufacture components with precision. The drawings do not contain information on the erection or installation of the steel members. What are erection drawings? Erection drawings are the drawings used by installation crew to erect steel members o