Structural Steel Drafting

From Drawings to Digital Engineering How LiDAR Scanning, Point Clouds, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twins Are Changing Structural Steel Projects For decades, structural steel drafting was primarily focused on producing drawings. The role of the structural steel drafter was clear: Create general arrangement drawings. Produce fabrication drawings. Develop shop drawings. Prepare bolt schedules. Detail welds and connections. These drawings were then issued to fabricators and construction teams who transformed engineering concepts into physical structures. Today, the profession is changing rapidly. Structural steel drafting is no longer simply about creating drawings. Modern structural steel drafting now involves reality capture, point cloud modelling, digital twins, cloud collaboration, automated fabrication and increasingly artificial intelligence. The future of structural steel drafting is not about creating more drawings. It is about creating better informati...