Steel Detailed To The Last Bolt.

A single numbered set containing assembly drawings for every fabricated member, single-part drawings, erection general arrangements, a complete material list and bolt list, and CNC data in NC1/DSTV format.

It's issued as PDF and DWG with a revision register, so your shop always knows which sheet is current and what changed on it.

Yes — that's the normal starting point. We need the structural drawings and specification, plus architectural drawings wherever cladding, openings or setout affect the steel.

Connection design stays with your engineer — we detail to their connection schedule and check it against the model. If a schedule isn't inside their scope, tell us at enquiry: that's a gap worth closing before the model is built, not after.

Your project's structural engineer. Frame Logic provides detailing and modelling — we are not an RPEQ practice and the package is not a professional engineering service, so every set is issued for your engineer's written approval before material is procured, cut or fabricated.

That isn't fine print buried in a title block. It's how the program is built: the approval hold point exists so the sign-off lands before your shop starts cutting, not after.

Where a detail needs a choice, a load or a calculation rather than a dimension, it goes back as an RFI with the source document attached — hand sketches included — so the decision is recorded against the engineer who made it.

It depends on tonnage and connection complexity, so the program comes with the quote — dates against stages, not a range you have to guess at.

A single-bay portal frame and a multi-level structural frame are different programs, and we won't quote you one number that covers both. The hold points are where the program is protected: work doesn't run ahead of a sign-off, so if an approval sits with your engineer the dates move and you hear it from us, not from your shop.

Approval turnaround and RFI response times are usually the biggest variables on a job — not modelling speed.

NC1/DSTV straight from the model, driving beam lines, drill lines, plate profiling and coping. IFC is issued for coordination with other trades.

If your machine expects something different, tell us at scope stage and we'll confirm before the model is built — not after.

Every issue carries a revision number and a register showing what changed and why, so nothing changes on a drawing silently.

Every RFI gets a reply within 48 hours — the answer where we have it, or an acknowledgement telling you who the question is with and when you'll have it. Business days only: a Friday afternoon RFI is back with you Tuesday, not Sunday.

What the 48 hours covers is the reply, not the resolution. A question that needs a decision from your engineer, a re-model or a re-quote takes as long as it takes — but you get a date inside the 48 hours instead of silence.

If a change falls outside the agreed scope, you see the variation and approve it before we do the work.

Yes. We're based on the Gold Coast and detail for fabricators Australia-wide.

The work is digital, so location doesn't change the program — the only thing that changes is which wind region and loading conditions your engineer has designed to.

Most jobs are quoted as a fixed price against a defined scope, from your drawings, and issued with a tonnage estimate and program. Where the scope genuinely can't be pinned down yet — early-stage work, or a package still moving — we say so and quote an hourly rate instead of guessing at a number.

If the scope changes, you get the variation in writing before the work starts. That's the whole point of the first hold point.

No. A structural engineer analyses loads, sizes members and holds design responsibility, usually under professional registration. A steel detailer produces the fabrication and erection documentation from that design.

The two disciplines, and the liabilities that go with them, stay distinct.

Any project where steel is fabricated off site needs fabrication-level information, even if the package is small. A single mezzanine, a stair, a lintel set or a canopy still requires accurate lengths, hole positions and connection details.

The scope of documentation scales down, but the need for accuracy does not.

Yes, provided the arrangement is set up properly. Define deliverable formats, drawing standards, model conventions, checking procedures, revision protocols and approval milestones before work starts.

Regular model reviews, rather than drawing-only reviews, give the design team far better visibility of progress and accuracy.