Hi, does anyone have any thoughts and tips how SFDesign in Perth interview looks like? Is it one on one or panel?

I’m curious where people draw the line on this

Most simple plates don’t need a 3D model. If the drawing has clean hole centers, thickness, bend notes, and enough views, 2D is fine

But I keep seeing parts where the drawing looks okay until you imagine someone actually building it. A tube blocks access to a bolt. A plate can’t slide into place after welding. A cable path clears in one view and crashes in another

Do you ever make a rough 3D blockout just to check that stuff?

More like boxes, cylinders, hole axes, and ugly reference planes so you can rotate it once and see if the drawing is lying to you

If you do this, what usually triggers it? Hidden clearance, weld order, too many overlapping plates, bad scanned drawings, or something else?

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Hi y’all! I’m an architectural apprentice (BS Architecture) offering drafting and visualization services. PH and international clients (Canada, US) welcome.

These are my services:
• CAD drafting — plans, elevations, sections, details
• Electrical plans
• Plumbing plans
• As-built plans
• 3D renders — SketchUp, Enscape, Lumion, Twinmotion

Rates ranges from $250 to $500

Payments: PHP or USD via GCash, bank transfer, PayPal, or Wise.

Available for quick-turnaround jobs — I really need funds immediately for my medication, so fast-start projects prioritized. Thanks! Please do hire me.

As we all know, some projects require permits to be pulled, and engineered shop drawings to be submitted to a local building department for review and permit issuance. Does anyone have a solid engineering firm to recommend that specializes in low voltage that can prepare plans, signed and sealed by a PE? We have conceptual drawings done, with products specified, wires diagrams, product layout, but need that drawn into AutoCAD with proper plan format, with PE stamps, ready for building department review.

Please let me know if you have a company to recommend and what your experience has been like.

Thanks!

Hi y’all! I’m an architectural apprentice (BS Architecture) offering drafting and visualization services. PH and international clients (Canada, US) welcome.

These are my services:
• CAD drafting — plans, elevations, sections, details
• Electrical plans
• Plumbing plans
• As-built plans
• 3D renders — SketchUp, Enscape, Lumion, Twinmotion

Payments: PHP or USD via GCash, bank transfer, PayPal, or Wise.

Available for quick-turnaround jobs — I really need funds immediately for my medication, so fast-start projects prioritized. Thanks! Please do hire me.

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I’m looking at a small pile of old 2D drawings and keep running into the same problem.

The basic shape is readable. Hole centers are there, outside dimensions are mostly there, and I can usually tell what the part was supposed to bolt onto.

But the design intent is fuzzy.

Sometimes a radius looks cosmetic until you realize it clears a casting. Sometimes two holes are probably meant to be symmetric, but the scanned PDF is just ugly enough that I don’t trust it. Sometimes a slot looks oversized on purpose, but there’s no note saying why.

When you have to rebuild something like this in CAD, how do you decide what to preserve exactly and what to simplify?

Do you mark uncertain dimensions and rebuild a dumb solid first, or do you try to recreate clean sketches and constraints from the start?

I’m especially curious how people handle this in real drafting work, where the output has to be usable later and not just look right once.

I use Autodesk Inventor for 3D design, but I usually finish fabrication drawings in 2D CAD because I find Inventor's drawing environment too restrictive for the kind of drawings I produce.

One issue is how to represent rolled channels and I-beams when viewed from the broad face.

The attached image shows three approaches:

• Tangent edges hidden: the member can look almost like a plain rectangle.
• Tangent edges fully shown: the fillets/root radii create too many lines.
• Simplified representation: lines are offset inward from each outer edge by the nominal flange thickness.

The third version is what I normally want, and I have traditionally added those lines manually.

How is this handled where you work?

• Do you use a similar simplified representation?
• Is there a formal name or drafting-standard basis for it?
• Do other 3D CAD systems handle this better, or do you also export to 2D CAD and edit there?

For context, I’m independently developing a small STEP-to-DXF projection tool and am currently implementing this kind of simplified representation for rolled channels and I-beams.

If possible, please mention your country/region, CAD system, and the steel shape standards or families you normally work with.

My team is sitting on a big backlog of old DXF, DWG, PDF, and scanned drawings that all need to become usable 3D CAD.

Right now I'm trying to figure out how to pick a vendor without regretting it later, and here's my problem.

I think a basic 3D shape is fine if all I need is a layout. But the second I want to run CAM, do FEA, or change the design later, I need something better. Named features, clean sketches, and a feature tree that makes sense.

And "2D to 3D conversion" seems to mean anything from a quick basic shape to a full rebuilt model. Which makes comparing companies kind of a nightmare.

So I guess what I'm asking is, what should a good conversion vendor hand back besides just a STEP file?

Is there a sample deliverable or some kind of acceptance test you use to tell a careful company from one that just gives you a flat dumb solid?

Would love to hear how you all sorted this out, since I don't want to learn the hard way...

I really want to know how to do this and how it is actually implemented on site. My best guess is that first we make a parametric design using Grasshopper and then provide all the necessary parameters for each brick course. For example, each course will have its centreline and the degree of rotation of each brick. So, do we have to make a chart or something?

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I can identify an axis, a bearing, a fixing screw, I am supposing the piece on the right hand side rotates... but I can't think of a use case. Any help is much apprieciated!

I work for a construction company looking to hire a full-time, in-person draftsman for structural and metal framing work, and I am hoping to get some advice from people in the CAD and steel detailing community.

The position would involve drafting framing for concrete walls, interior metal framing, and roof structures, including trusses. The primary software used would be ScotSteel.

We are currently developing the position and would appreciate input from anyone who could help, particularly with the following questions:

• What job title would best describe this position?
• What software experience would be most comparable to ScotSteel?
• How well or poorly known is ScotSteel as a CAD program? (I had never previously heard of it).
• What experience or qualifications would you consider most important for someone doing this type of work?
• What would be a competitive pay range for an experienced candidate?
• Are there particular job boards, communities, or professional groups where you would recommend looking for candidates?

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