Design Training Guide

This training guide is designed to help you learn the skills and knowledge required for your role as a CAD designer. It consists of quite a few models, each covering a different topic and containing exercises, quizzes, and feedback. By following this guide, you will always know what you are doing during this training process, as well as what you need to do next. You will also be able to track your progress and achievements and get support from your trainer and peers. This guide will help you become a confident drafter in no time.

Welcome to Moddex Design Training

This training material will help you start drafting our products on Tekla 2023.

Latest material:

Moddex Plugin Update Guide

CADHS & Tracing Tool Properties

Inserting Fittings in Tekla

0.5 The Design process in a nutshell

1.Starting Tekla

3.AssistRail

4.TuffRail

5.Conectabal

Transitioning rail with the joiner tool

Exploding Rail

Reporting tool

Please follow these training videos exactly as shown.

It helps first to mimic these tutorials before you start doing your own design as they show the processes, we follow so we can draft as efficiently as possible.

In the training folders may also be a word document with notes on the lessons, please read them as there will usually be dot points on what you should have learnt from the video, as well as any changes, or extra tips.

In these tutorials there are voice overs and text on screen; please read any text on screen as it will provide more context to the tutorial. To watch these tutorials in order, make sure you organize the folders in SharePoint by tutorial number, smaller to larger. This will order the folders accordingly.

All training material can be found here.

Note: The first few tutorials are done in Tekla 2021 which has some differences in user interfaces. Please send a message to the person overseeing your training for any help.

Expectations

For the first 2 weeks of training, it is expected that the drafter should have finished tutorials 0 through to 17. From there the new drafter can move onto real jobs using what they have learnt in those tutorials.

The training captain or designated design co-ordinator will always be available for any questions the new drafter(s) may have and there are no stupid questions, everything is new so don't be shy!

Useful links

Right angled triangle calculator

Slope Percentage calculator

Stairway Compliance AS1657 (TR) and AS1428 (AR)

Tutorials 0.5 – 5.5

In these first few tutorials we’re going to go over the basics of CAD drafting at Moddex.

0.5 – The design process and how the workflows at the design academy

1 – How to create a new Tekla file and set-up the correct settings

2 – Going over the common prefab base structures in Tekla

3 – Common standards that we follow when designing in Tekla

4 – Explaining the CAD hand over sheet

5 – Designing your first base structure using site measurements

5.5 – 2D CAD Drawings goes over how to use TrueView

Tutorials 6 – 8.1

Using these tutorials, you will be creating railing on the base structure you just made.

6 – Goes through the 3 main types of selection modes we use and how we can properly use them when modelling

7 – Goes over how to design AR on a ramp using the tracing tool as well as the AR joiner tool.

7.4 – Using the current model, this tutorial will give a brief explanation on how to correctly layout/split your pipes

7.5 – Common pipe issues when using the split or joiner tool

8 – Goes over creating a DI drawing that can be presented to the customer

8.1 – A document explaining the fundamentals of creating a design intent

After you have finished the DI drawing, please send it to the training captain or a DC

Tutorial 8.5

8.5 – For this tutorial you will be creating your first job DI. Use the CADHS and site measures to create the base structure and design the correct product.

After you have finished the DI drawing, please send it to the training captain or a DC

Tutorials 9 – 11

In these few tutorials we will be focusing on stairs.

9 – Goes over designing stairs from a site measurement and different techniques that you may have to use if the prefab stairs are limiting

10 – Designing Assist Rail on a new stair, how to make sure the stair rails have the correct heights and where to place stanchions

11 – Creating DI drawings for stairs

After you have finished the DI drawing, please send it to the training captain or a DC

Tutorials 12 – 12.5

These tutorials will focus on creating production drawings and finalizing jobs

12 – You will be creating production drawings for your AR stair product you just made

12.1 – This shows you how to correct your stanchions/pipes if they’re not numbering correctly

12.5 – A quick document on how to fill out your Master CAD checklist which should be filled out after completing each process of a job (DI, PD’s)

After you have finished the PD, INS, and the pick and pack list, please send it to the training captain or a design co-ordinator.

Tutorials 13-15.1 These tutorials focus on TUFFRAIL

13 – A powerpoint presentation going over the fundamentals of TUFFRAIL

14 – A simple TR practice job for you to complete

After you have finished the DI drawing, please send it to the training captain or a DC

15 – Creating production drawings for the TR job you have just made

15.1 – Showing you how to correctly fudge stanchion heights for your production drawings

After you have finished the PD, INS, and the pick and pack list, please send it to the training captain or a design co-ordinator.

Tutorials 16 and 17

These tutorials focus on reference models and completing a second practice job for TR

16 – Goes over how to load reference models into Tekla as well as a tutorial on how to show reference models in your drawings

17 – TR reference model practice job

After you have finished the DI drawing, please send it to the training captain or a DC

Starting real jobs

Now that you have had training with AR and TR, you are ready for simple jobs. These jobs will test your skills from the tutorials. Once you finish one or two real jobs, you can move on to the next tutorials.

Please now talk to the training captain or DC about being assigned a real job

Tutorials 18 – 21

These tutorials focus on Conectabal

18 – A powerpoint presentation on the basics of CONECTABAL, how it’s designed, and how we create FAB production drawings.

19 – Following along with a video to understand how to create a CB DI and get it the job ready with powdercoating

After you have finished the DI drawing, please send it to the training captain or a DC

20 – Creating production drawings for that same job, applying correct powdercoating to the finishes in the pick and pack list

After you have finished the PD, INS, and the pick and pack list, please send it to the training captain or a design co-ordinator.

21 – CB Practice job in an industrial setting

After you have finished the DI drawing, please send it to the training captain or a DC

Tutorials 22 and 23

These tutorials focus on green and XYZ’s

22 – A powerpoint presentation to help you understand the concepts of green as well as bends

23 – Goes through how to create and layout XYZ pipes

Tutorials 24 and 25

These tutorials focus on rolled jobs

24 – Explaining how to create rolled pipe for silo and jobs that are a continuous circle, also explaining a few new tools in Tekla

25 – Going over how to create rolled pipe production drawings

Tutorial 26

26 – Covers how to create welded stanchions and custom BOM’s (currently no audio)

Tutorial 27

27 - Covers Mitered Pipe (currently no audio)

Tutorial 28

28 - Introduction to Bikesafe