What is the ‘Steel Column Schedule Detection’ Feature?

• The feature enables automatic detection of lines representing steel beams and columns in a form of steel column schedules directly within Takeoff Mode.

How to Use It

1. Process the Document

• To detect steel columns in any Takeoff Zone of the document, the document needs to be processed at least once.
• So the first step is to add at least one Takeoff Zone and run processing.

2. Run Steel Column Detection

   • Now columns can be detected in any Takeoff Zone.
   • Navigate to the desired Takeoff Zone and press ‘Detect Steel Columns’ in either the Left Panel menu or the Properties Panel.

   

1. Review Detected Lines

• Once the detection is complete, all detected segmets of columns will be placed in Linear Measurements group named after the segments’ detected labels.
• You can select any group to highlight segments of the same type.

1. Organize Detected Segments

• From here, you can use Grouping Mode to move detected segments between existing or new groups to get precise results.

Steel Column Schedule Detection vs Line Detection

You can read the Line Detection article here.

The main difference between the two features is that in Steel Column Schedule Detection only vertical lines of a specific width get detected, as opposed to all kinds of lines in Line Detection.

Planned Improvements

Here are some improvements we are planning to implement in the following iterations:

1. Dedicated ‘Steel Columns’ Type – A specialized measurement type will be presented.
2. Steel Column Schedule Detection During Processing – detection will be integrated into processing, eliminating extra wait time.
3. Custom Length/Height Filters – Users will be able to define minimum line parameters for detection.