Structural Drawings of

Reinforced Concrete Elements

BY: ER. SONIA VERMA

GOLD MEDALIST
(M.TECH, STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING)
95926-99627, SONEYAMITTU@GMAIL.COM
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 Structural drawing

A structural drawing, a type of engineering

drawing, is a plan or set of plans and details for
how a building or other structure will be built.
Structural drawings are generally prepared by
registered professional engineers, and based on
information provided by architectural drawings.
The structural drawings set has different
subsets: General Notes, Plans, Elevations, Sections,
and Details
General Notes are part of structural drawings
and they cover the codes used in design and the by-
laws of the building. Typically there are no details
on these drawings. Structural notes provide
information regarding general material properties
(steel or wood grade, concrete strength, etc) or
construction requirements (soil compaction, weld
procedures, etc). The structural notes also provide
information about design criteria (gravity , seismic,
and wind loading)
The structural plan drawings show the foundation, floor, and roof
plan of the building. These plans provide information like size and
location of the structural elements present in the respective plans.

Elevations show the exterior walls of a building or structure. In

elevation drawings you can find the height of building (floors and roof
elevations) and structural properties of elements present in the walls
and that cannot be seen in plan drawings.

Sections plans are referenced in the plan view drawings and provide
information about elements that cannot be see in plan drawings. The
sections usually are cut through walls or structural elements that are
not typical and the constructor needs to be aware off.

The details drawings provide particular information on how to

construct or connect the structural elements. The details can be
reference in plans, elevations and sections.
 Structural drawing

RCC Detailing is built on AutoCAD software

platform. It is used as Structural Detailing software.
Structural Engineers, Detailers, and Fabricators
typically use this software for detailing and
fabrication shop drawings.
 Structural drawing

RCC Detailing software will help one to make detailed RC structure

reinforcement drawings. It has a set of various drawing details options
for creating RC structure drawing, which are adjusted to the engineer-
designer’s needs and make it possible to draw objects in an intuitive
manner.

One can make use of country-specific structural detailing templates that

come with the software and make structural drawings suitable for local
and regional building codes promoted by almost all countries. One can
smoothly import structural steel models, and import Revit data with the
help of structural analysis module. Also user can use Revit data to make
2D reinforcement drawings. User can view concrete foundations as solid
objects, and use intelligent structural objects to automatically generate
shop drawings and improve data coordination in shop drawing sets.
 AutoCAD

Easily the most used program in the industry, Auto

CAD is a civil engineering drafting software with a
drafting tools for civil engineering design. If we're
talking high level, we use CAD to create sets of plans
known as construction documentation.
AutoCAD can be used in almost any civil
engineering field for design and detailing, and it is
the best for detailing structural drawings.
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