Creating a working locomotive with BIM

Who would come up with an idea of using BIM software for building a working replica of a locomotive? An experienced steel detailer, naturally! Jason Flannery of Structural Detailing Solutions has been working with structural steel since leaving school in South Africa over 20 years ago. He worked as a welder/fabricator/rigger before moving to the UK first and then New Zealand 10 years ago. “As a rigger, I studied surveying and then drafting thus making the move from the workshop to doing site leveling and lining and then into the drawing office” says Jason. Jason has experience in several solutions: “As most do, the first step was learning AutoCAD but as I wanted to detail structural steel I had to source out the right kind of drawing office. Fortunately, the first drawing office I worked in was using Xsteel V6 and as they say, the rest is history.” ”Now it’s Tekla Structures 2018 and we have come a long way.”