SDS/2 is the first and only all-in-one steel detailing software designed to automate and streamline your operations from the office, shop and field.
SDS/2 Detailing offers the highest level of automation and design available in 3D steel detailing. With unparalleled connection design intelligence and high-quality drawing production, SDS/2 provides innovative solutions that will increase profitability and shorten project timelines.
No one does connection design like SDS/2. Learn how the world's most automated and complete connection design solution—with built-in intelligence for structural integrity, constructability, and erectability— can streamline project workflows from engineer to erector, delivering time and cost savings for every stakeholder.
With a live multi-user environment, SDS/2 is available from any location and any device – whether your team is in the field, the office, or working from home. This allows for open collaboration between steel detailers, fabricators and even engineers that value competitive advantages like scalability and accelerated project timelines.
We're in the business to help your business succeed, which is why we partner with the same brands you use every day. SDS/2 is packed with powerful features and integrations that help streamline your processes and operations so that you can build a top performing team.
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Meow Wolf is a combination of a jungle gym, haunted house, children’s museum, and immersive art exhibit.
The structure consists of five stories of steel-framed museum space intermixed with catwalks, platforms, spiral and rolled stairs, and steel art structures. The main egress stairs are an innovative, pre-fabricated modular steel form system known as RediCor. The unique site in the heart of Denver, Colorado, helped define the odd shape of the building.
This project centered on the addition of the bypass duct and seal duct systems to the Cope Station energy plant, which was originally established in 1996.
Cartee-Berry’s innovative process featured the use of SDS/2’s weld plate box material file type for the creation of the small rectangular duct layout.
The bypass duct ranged in size from 13 feet by 25 feet to 13 feet by 36 feet. The seal duct varied in size from 4 feet by 2 feet to 4 feet by 4 feet.
With the existing Fulton State Hospital in Fulton, Missouri, in disrepair, the State of Missouri constructed a new, state-of-the-art mental hospital to replace the aging structure originally built in 1851.
The $211-million, 423,000-square-foot hospital — which opened in 2019 — includes six living units and an administration building.
DGS Technical Services of Elgin, Illinois, detailed the 1,800-ton structure, which included members in dual slope (both slope and skew) in the winged living units. Connections proved critical due to the slope and skew bearing on CMU walls.
Steel detailers spend a great deal of time cleaning up drawings that do not match specific detailing and fabrication standards out of the box. This leads to decreased efficiency and increased cost for detailing a project.
SDS/2's detailing templates customization service creates customized files specific to individual standards. These templates are used to help intelligently automate the generation of detail drawings.
SDS/2 has a savings with each connection, but shows its strength when that saving is applied to all connections throughout a project. Based on this study, a typical structure utilizing SDS/2 connection design on 10,000 members has an average savings of 13 minutes per connection, resulting in an estimated savings of $433,333.
"Everything was accurately detailed using SDS/2 software, allowing the team to meet the Fabricator’s expectations and the owner’s aggressive timeline."
Project by Techflow Engineers: Redstone Gateway is a 470-acre multiuse office park development in Huntsville, Alabama. Techflow created around 1,470 shop drawings and over 160 quality erection drawings for this project. Techflow was awarded ‘building 100’ for steel detailing.
New Jersey Iron is a 4th generation owned family business with 5th generation now here. My brother and I are each over the 30-year mark in the business, having started in high school as summer jobs and each could run the first CNC punchline we installed in 1990. We do projects as large as 1,100 tons, but medium projects are mostly what we do so our tonnage comes in around 3,500 tons a year. We have (4) SDS/2 stations for detailing, fabrication is all done with CNC equipment, including stairs and rails. We also do our own shipping, erection, shear stud install, and small crane work (rent
