AutoCad plug-ins and Flitch Beams
AutoCad plug-ins and Flitch Beams
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Can anyone recommend a good AutoCad 2000 plug in for architectural type drawings, floor plans, elevations, etc.
Something that lets you put in walls, doors and windows without always erasing lines to fit them in.
I know this is a structural engineering site. But I can't be the only PE out there who also does building and framing design.
On a structural engineering question. Flitch Beams...
(2 timber beams with a steel plate in between), exactly what is the maximum length you can design for. Is it a function of plate thickness. Regarding bolts, how is size and spacing figured. Structural bolts are never used, usually Carriage Bolts (not ASTM 325). I figure they are SAE Class 5's to Class 8's. Anybody know what is customary. Probably the bolts are the stuff sold at places like Home Depot.
Ok, these are my questions fo today
Something that lets you put in walls, doors and windows without always erasing lines to fit them in.
I know this is a structural engineering site. But I can't be the only PE out there who also does building and framing design.
On a structural engineering question. Flitch Beams...
(2 timber beams with a steel plate in between), exactly what is the maximum length you can design for. Is it a function of plate thickness. Regarding bolts, how is size and spacing figured. Structural bolts are never used, usually Carriage Bolts (not ASTM 325). I figure they are SAE Class 5's to Class 8's. Anybody know what is customary. Probably the bolts are the stuff sold at places like Home Depot.
Ok, these are my questions fo today






RE: AutoCad plug-ins and Flitch Beams
RE: AutoCad plug-ins and Flitch Beams
Hope this helps
RE: AutoCad plug-ins and Flitch Beams
For the bolts, I use the bolt design values in the NDS, I think they are for A307 bolt, not sure though. I take the moment and divide by the distance between the rows of bolts to get the shear force along the top and the bottom of the beam.
I have a spreadsheet I made up for flitch beams. Bug me about it and I will e-mail it to you. I'd like someone else to check it over anyway if you are up to it. It's probably still a little rough around the edges.
RE: AutoCad plug-ins and Flitch Beams
please see Flitch Plates thread
RE: AutoCad plug-ins and Flitch Beams