Designing the building

Post-frame barn · part 2 of 7 · 1:12

The building model in 3D, drawings, materials, design loads and the permit set.

What the narrator says

Part two: designing the building.
Design starts the building model from the job record and the interview: the posts, trusses, girts and purlins, the doors and the windows.
You can turn it, walk through it, and watch it go up in the same order the schedule builds it. Owners love this part.
The same model draws the plan and the elevations, with every door, window and piece of equipment tagged.
And it counts the materials: the bill of materials and the cut list, from the concrete down to the bags of screws.
Design loads are worked out from the published tables, with the formula and the reference beside every number. Snow load and wind speed come from the township; until they're entered, Keystone says so instead of guessing.
Changes are made in the model editor. Each change becomes a new version for review, so you always know which drawing a price came from.
When the model is approved, the permit set draws itself: the cover sheet with the code notes, the floor plan, the elevations, and the framing sheets, ready to print.
Next, we price it and sell it.