Steel Project Index / Detailer Tools
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Detailer Tools

Field-and-office calculators for steel detailers, fabricators, and erectors. Every result prints its formula and assumptions — nothing is a black box.

AISC shape lookup (1,660 shapes), plate, round and rect bar. Totals in lb and tons.

Depth, flange, web and k for any AISC designation, with a section sketch.

Connections × bolts per connection, waste factor, rounded order quantity.

Surface area from tonnage and coverage rate — gallons per coat.

Rough load totals from up to four line items. lb and tons.

Decimal feet to ft-in-sixteenths and back. Detailing precision.

TOS at any point along a slope — elevation, slope in three formats, total rise.

X-Y coordinates for N bolts on a circle, chord lengths, start angle.

Frame diagonal in decimal and ft-in-sixteenths; out-of-square from a measured pull.

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