Advance Steel improves accuracy and efficiency for JP Engineering

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Cadpro

17 January 2024

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Autodesk Advance Steel software, supplied and supported by Cadpro, boosts accuracy and efficiency for Auckland fabricators JP Engineering.

Autodesk Advance Steel software, supplied and supported by Cadpro, boosts accuracy and efficiency for Auckland fabricators JP Engineering.

Project location:
Auckland, New Zealand

Software used:
Autodesk Advance Steel®

Founded by John Power in 2015, JP Engineering provides general and structural steel fabrication services for light commercial and residential projects across the Auckland region.

Steel fabrication demands absolute precision, and JP required a new CAD drafting software solution to improve the efficiency of their processes and to maximise communication and collaboration with project consultants.

Oscar Mahy is a Lead Structural Draftsman at JP, and his work involves acquiring plans from architects and engineers, optimising steel use, and drafting plans for fabrication and installation. He explains some of the issues that can crop up when documenting structural steel: ‘Human input can give rise to small mistakes, such as the wrong plate size, or a wrong bolt spec, all of which we have to find and fix.’

Added to that, the drafting team were spending too long on simple, repetitive tasks.

Before changing platforms, we were spending too long on repetitive tasks. Advance Steel has minimised many of those processes to speed things up and make work more interesting.

Conclusion

JP has found Advance Steel intuitive to learn – especially with the training course offered by Cadpro – and it is compatible with other software packages used across the industry. By enabling the customisation of JP’s drawing styles, Cadpro has helped the company improve workflows and reduce production time.

Oscar adds that the Cadpro team have been friendly and helpful in setting up his base skills in Advance Steel. ‘They’ve been easy to deal with, and it’s useful having them both as a training resource and as a software supplier.’

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