Protastructure Building Design and Drawings for Beginners

Name: Protastructure Building Design and Drawings for Beginners
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Complete 3 Storey Residential Building Modeling, Loading, Analysis, Design and Drawings with Protastructure and AutoCAD

Created byZachariah, Icherene Friday

Last updated 7/2023

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English [Auto],

What you'll learn

How to prepare building plan for structural design
How to cut building plan into panels for structural design
How to export cut panels from AutoCAD to Protastructure software for modeling
Understanding Grid Lines relabeling in Protastructure
How to add all the structural element such as Beam, Column and Slab
How to Generate multiple storeys in Protastructure
how to load the building and apply loadings combination to the structural elements
How to set building material and soil bearing capacity
How to run zero error check for the building model stability
How to run static analysis and design of the whole building
How to do interactive design of each of the structural element
Checking analysis and design results
Foundation design of the Building
How to export drawing to prota details and to AutoCAD
How to edits and details foundation layout and footings to standard working drawings
How to edits and details columns, beams, slab and parapet to standard working drawing
Understanding how to scale drawings to scale 1:100,1:50,1:25,1:10 etc.
How to set title block to scale and add details drawings as well as printing

Course content

2 sections • 19 lectures • 4h 50m total length

Introduction4:16
Learn to design a three-story residential building with an overhead tank and parapet, import AutoCAD drawings, set millimeter units, and align columns and grids using Json and dsf workflows.
MODELING ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS IN PROTASTRUCTURE45:20
Learn modeling, analysis, and design of structural elements in Protastructure, building and detailing a six-story frame with beams, columns, slabs, vaults, parapets, and BIM-driven drawing outputs.
PARAPET AND SLAB DESIGN IN PROTASTRUCTURE37:18
Design reinforced slabs and parapets in protastructure using analytical and finite element strips, set slab thickness, and generate reinforcement contours to validate final designs.
EXPORT DRAWINGS TO PROTA DETAILS AND TO AUTOCAD9:47
Learn to export drawings from proto details to AutoCAD by auto-generating details, assigning beams by story elevations, saving as a named file, and transferring to presentation sheets.

FOUNDATION EDITING FOR WORKING DRAWING29:59
Bring proto structure drawings into AutoCAD and edit the foundation layout with alignment, trimming, and layer management to produce a clean, print-ready working drawing.
FIRST FLOOR BEAMs EDITING FOR WORKING DRAWING13:19
Edit the first floor beams to form a continuous beam for a working drawing. Align with columns and grid lines, and adjust text height and dimensions.
FIRST FLOOR BEAM EDITING 2 FOR WORKING DRAWING16:34
Learn first floor beam editing for a working drawing by copying and arranging beams, removing slab content, renaming beams, and aligning grid lines for a clean beam arrangement.
2ND FLOOR BEAMS EDITING FOR WORKING DRAWINGS8:24
Edit the second floor beam for working drawings by copying, naming, and positioning on grid lines, removing unwanted lines, and applying the same process to subsequent beams and reinforcement details.
2ND FLOOR BEAMS EDITING 2 FOR WORKING DRAWINGS3:22
Compare your second-floor beam arrangement and roof beam labeling with the instructor's example for consistent working drawings. Prepare to explore parapet details in the next lesson, continuing the labeling approach.
EDITING PARAPET DETAILS WORKING DRAWING 116:35
Master parapet detailing by editing beams, assigning rebar layers, and detailing longitudinal and transverse reinforcement for the concrete fascia, including spacing, labeling, and center-to-center calculations.
PARAPET DETAILS WORKING DRAWING EDITING 24:01
Explore parapet reinforced concrete details by examining rebar marks, benchmarks such as zero two, and center-to-center spacing to edit and complete working drawings.
HOW TO DETAILS SLAB WORKING DRAWINGS EDITING 19:31
Copy and adapt the first floor beam arrangement to detail the reinforced concrete slab, align bottom and top reinforcement, apply lap lengths and returns, and prepare clear working drawings.
HOW TO DETAILS SLAB WORKING DRAWINGS EDITING 217:13
Master how to detail slab working drawings by labeling rebars, setting cycles and terminators, and aligning top and bottom bars with layer properties.
HOW TO DETAILSSLAB WORKING DRAWINGS EDITING 314:48
Detail slab working drawings by labeling rebars and editing bar marks, setting top and bottom bar spans with center-to-center spacing, and reuse the column template for the second floor slab.
HOW TO DETAILS COLUMN EDITING WORKING DRAWINGS9:37
Differentiate two column types for the water tank stand, label them, set heights for first and second floors and the roof, then copy and edit details for readable drawings.
FOOTINGS DETAILS EDITING WORKING DRAWING 113:22
Edit foundation footings in AutoCAD by detailing each footing, adjusting thickness and text height, exploding dimensions for clean labels, and aligning sizes like 1.4 by 1.4 with match properties.
FOOTINGS DETAILS EDITING WORKING DRAWING 27:29
Arrange and label footings in the foundation drawing, verify 1.2–1.4 dimensions, and transfer labels, while noting optional sizes like 1.7 or 2.2 to reflect varying loads.
SCALING DETAILS DRAWINGS11:32
Learn to identify and set the scale of measurement for beam, foundation, and column drawings in AutoCAD, adjust dimension styles, and prepare plots with proper title blocks.
SETTING TITLE BLOCKS TO SCALE, ADDING DRAWINGS AND PLOTING17:56
Configure AutoCAD drawing board with millimeter units, model space, and paper space at 1:200 on an A3 paper, then plot the title blocks onto sheets to PDF.

Requirements

You need a computer, AutoCAD and Protastructure Suite Software
You do not need any prior knowledge about Protastructure design software
You need a little knowledge about AutoCAD Software

Description

You will learn how to use the most easiest and accurate software for building structural analysis, design and details drawing of all structural members using BS 8110 and BS6399 code of practice.

Also, in this course we will learn how to make building plan editing into structural panels. We will learn how to export drawings from AutoCAD software to Protastructure Suite(Structural Analysis and Design Software).

We will carry out full modeling, loading, analysis and design of 3 Storey Building Project considering the fastest way to model building in protastructure Suite.

We will export the design result to prota details and further more to AutoCAD and this will be explaining properly for ease of understanding.

We will produce a working drawings by detailing and editing all the structural elements such as slab, beams, column and foundation layout / footings.

We will consider drawing to scale 1:100, 1:50. 1:25 etc.

We will learn how to create title block to scales, arrange all drawings there in and plot.

These course is for both beginners and pro in the following area

· Civil Engineering

· Structural Engineering

· Building Designers

· Architects

· People who want to become structural draftsman

· People who wants to become structural designers

· Building technologist

Residential buildings are those in which at least a sleeping facility is provided for normal residential purposes, with or without cooking and dining facilities (except institutional buildings).

It includes single or multi-family dwellings, apartment houses (flats), lodgings or rooming houses, restaurants, hostels, dormitories, and residential hotels.

All the training material are uploaded for smooth flows of learning. The code of practice to be use is the British code for the use of structure and the loading of structure as well which is BS 8110 and BS6399

Who this course is for:

People who have no experience of Protastructure analysis and design software but want to learn it
People who want to learn Building analysis, design and details structural drawings
People who want to advance in the use of Protastructure building analysis and design software
The Civil Engineers
The Structural Engineers
The Building Technologist
The Building Construction Engineers
The Building Architects

Protastructure Building Design and Drawings for Beginners

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Course content

Introduction to Complete Building Analysis and Design Using Protastructure4 lectures • 1hr 37min

Detailing of Foundation Layout and Footings, Column, Beams and Slab with AutoCAD15 lectures • 3hr 14min

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