LSGen: A Tool To Draw Beam Longitudinal Sections
- DETAILING IN A SNAP
A versatile tool for drawing elevations of RCC beams from framing drawing.
LSGen is a tool that helps you generate perfect working drawings as per your
office style. It automatically reads a typical floor plan including the dimensions,
scale and positions and draws L/S and C/S of beams in mere seconds. Once the floor
plan is read LSGen offers a plethora of options for incorporating steel, beam depths,
segment depths, top depressions, section locations, etc.
LSGen offers more than 200
options to customize the working drawing according to your office style. Our idea
is to cater to every office individually and therefore we have provided all the
options as customizable options so that each office could still follow their own
working drawing styles.
We believe that LSGen should adapt to your office styles rather than your office
adapting to the working drawing generated by LSGen.
Also to be noted is that the learning curve required for this software is almost
nil as this software is compatible with AutoCAD and ZWCAD. And therefore if you
know how to operate these software then you already know how to operate LSGen. The main two simple commands to generate
working drawings using LSGen are as follows:
Command 1: LSGen:
Reads the framing drawing and compiles it.
Command 2: DrawLS:
Generates the beam elevations from the compiled information.
Example:
A typical floor plan having around 80 continuous beams. LSGen would approximately
take
around 50 seconds to read and draw Longitudinal and Cross Sections for all
the beams, of course with a proper scale, exact dimensions and perfect placements
of all the structural entities like columns, beams, secondary beams, brackets, shear
walls, sunk slab and so on.
Further, LSGen offers two
different interfaces for specifying steel. One option to include steel is through an excel
format in which you could type in all the reinforcements and then attach/include
this file in LSGen. Also, LSGen prepares a list of beams from the floor plan; these
beams can be clicked to enter the steel details in windows displayed.
Difficult to believe that LSGen produces beam elevations
fast - real fast?
See for yourself...!!!
Or alternatively, you can
Download AVI file (1.267 MB)
Framing Drawing / Floor Plan (Input To LSGen)
LSGen Output
Click here to download the framing drawing
in .dwg (zipped) format - Download size 32KB.
Click here to download the LSGen output
in .dwg (zipped) format - Download size 144KB.
Sample output (The output can be largely
customized to suit office style):
(Right click on the image to save the file and preview 100%)
Salient Features:
Connects seamlessly with AutoCAD 2007 and above.Offers stand alone version for AutoCAD versions below AutoCAD 2007, all versions
of AutoCAD LT and all versions of ZWCAD.Automatically reads width and length of beams from the framing drawing.Automatically reads column sizes from the framing drawing.Considers sunk slabs, shear walls and grid beams.Generates cross-sections for user-specified section locations.Over 200 customization options tailor the output to your office drawing style.Save options to file for different client types.Capable of drawing the LS on separate layers.Computes steel quantity and reports it in a Microsoft Excel file.Checks the steel specified against IS:13920 requirements (except
clauses dependant on applied loads and clear spans considered in design)
Visit the "Downloads" section to download
a demo version of LSGen.
Mail us for the pricing, licensing
or any other related information.