What is the purpose of utilizing fabrication drawings and erection drawings? Steel shop drawings and erection drawings are utilized for very serious and highly consequential purposes, the former is optimized for manufacturing distinct steel parts and the latter is used by steel erectors for installing the structural framework. For fabricators, fabrication drawings are the most legitimate source of error- free information related to the design of steel parts, and that the reason they are blindly trusted by them. Since fabricators are aware that these drawings are developed by competent detailers who have years of detailing experience, they totally believe in the information provided into these drawings.
Steel detailers try to provide most accurate information to fabricators through these drawings after doing detailed study of the specifications that are made available to them and which are developed by structural engineers and architects. Fabrication process
which eventually results into the manufacturing of steel parts is truly important step in structural design process. Improper fabrication of steel parts can have extremely serious consequences for the health of the building in question. In other words slight mistakes made by detailers in fabrication drawings and erection drawings can lead to enormous loss of time increasing project cost. Mistake in detailing are dealt seriously when they are spotted which definitely demand the implementation of more time and money. Hence, when a service providing partner provides steel detailing services to clients, CAD drawings generated by detailers are checked numerous times by structural engineers and architects for pinpointing errors in them. In those cases when errors are identified by structural engineers in the output of detailing process they provide effective feedbacks to steel detailers for correcting the problems. Feedback sent by them has to be taken high seriousness by detailers as errors in the drawings are effectively highlighted by them. When errors are effectively sorted out from the drawings they can be delivered to fabricators and steel erectors who can now effectively use them for the purpose they are generated. High end steel parts are manufactured by fabricators since inclusive information is contained about them in shop drawings. Similarly, installation of the structure is also carried out effectively as complete details are given about it in erection drawings.