1. A Guide to Struwalker

2. A brief introduction. Steel Drafting Limited uses StruCad, the world’s leading 3D structural steel detailing software to produce shop drawings. One of the features of the program is the ability to provide free software to enable clients, engineers and architects to inspect the StruCad model and view and print the drawings for each formal issue on a project. The software is referred to as StruCad Drawing Viewer and Struwalker. The Struwalker program allows fully rendered 3D model of a project to be viewed in an interactive environment. A few of the main features of the Struwalker are: Full display control. Zoom in and out, choice of elevation, plan views. Find member and fitting marks, Display member,fitting and bolt information. Click on a member and bring up the associated fabrication, fitting, shaft and assembly drawings. Measure tool. Layers on and off. For instructions on installing the software see StruCad Drawing Viewer presentation. Click Next When Ready

3. Struwalker main menu functions. 1 – Fit Zoom to fit whole model on screen. 2 - Rotate Free rotate model 3 – Center View Center the rotate command around a member. 4 - View Select direction to view model from. 5 - Measure Measure between two points. 6 - Fly Free first person “flight” through model. Click Next When Ready FIG. 1 1 2 3 4 5 6

4. Struwalker ‘right click’ functions. 1 – Attribute Display Turn on and off Layers, Change entity colours and toggle dummy members. 2 – Find Mark Highlight and fit to screen the chosen member, plate or cleat. 3 – Find Assembly Highlight and fit to screen the chosen assembly. FIG. 2 123123 Click Next When Ready (To display listed function right click in a blank space)

5. Struwalker targeted ‘click’ functions. FIG. 3 1234512345 Click Next When Ready 1 – Hide Hide selected member, fitting or bolt. 2 – Highlight Shop Fittings Highlight all cleats shop welding to selected member. 3 – Highlight Assembly Highlight all members and cleats in labeled assembly (in this case A001). 4 - Enquire Displays grade, size etc of selected member, fitting or bolt. 5 - Drawings Display in StruCad Drawing Viewer desired drawing of selected member, fitting or assembly. (To display listed function right click on a member,fitting or bolt)

6. Should you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us. 69A Higgins Road P.O. Box 16001 Hamilton, 3245 Ph/Fax: (07) 847-4029 Email: info@steeldrafting.co.nz