Hi,
New to the community. I have come from Sketch Up and Fusion.
Really love the GUI and the flow and feel of Shapr and I am excited for my new CAD journey.
I have a small one man metal fabrication business. I draw and fabricate structural steel and other items like stairs and balustrades for houses in Australia.
I am after some advice on a work flow that I should work towards in Shapr.
See below my current job.
Sketch up model of current job
As you can see I draw a lot of repetitive elements but they do change a little bit here and there. Every job is different but the steel profiles are always similar.
Should I create a “3D library” of steel beams and columns and pull them in to shapr?
Am I best drawing everything from scratch on each job?
My workflow at the minute is to import a DXF plan from the architect and build a model on top of that.
I also need to export the base plates and cleat faces for laser cutting, what is the best way to go about this, do I make a copy of each one and creat a drawing and export the dxf?
I have seen some people on the forums talk about projecting a sketch. In fusion you can right click on a sketch export it pretty easily.
Would love to hear from some one doing similar work, or exporting to laser cutting to get steel cut and folded etc.
Cheers