Massive FREE Structural Steel Library for SketchUp!

In this video, we check out the Engineering Toolbox extension for Sketchup - an excellent collection of structural steel shapes that you can use to make structural models in SketchUp!
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Introduction
0:11 - What is the Engineering Toolbox?
0:42 - Engineering Toolbox extension
1:34 - Importing steel shapes with Engineering Toolbox
2:33 - How I use the Engineering Toolbox profiles

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Hi everyone! Let me know what you think about the Engineering Toolbox in the comments below! :)

[@apodsim]

I use this extension for the basic outline of steel shapes however, the shapes are NOT modeled to reference the actual steel product profile. The various dimensions of a steel shape are not in accordance with ASTM standards for structural steel. This difference is applicable when the steel profile is used to bolt steel to a mating surface requiring use of square spacer washers.

[@engineerkr5321]

Hi Justin!
Always a fan of your tutorial videos 🙋🏽‍♂️
Can you make videos for TEKLA?

[@blacktopas8686]

Found a construction system for steel structures, which works really fine together with Sketchup. You don‘t even have to buy it, because there is a free trial which includes all features for connections and staircases and the BoM, and is running without time limitation. It is still running on my PC in combination with Sketchup.

[@dillonbartlett-ky8pp]

how did you delete the beam and leave the profile behind? thank you for all the great videos

[@johnjlopez]

This can nicely tie in with your prior video on profile builder. Separately, PB also which also has a lot of metal and wood beam profiles in it's own library but likely not as comprehensive as this.

[@_Breakdown]

Cool - very useful - - thanks for sharing!
PS - - I like that stormtrooper helmet on the shelf 👍🏼

[@falconlara]

Great find! thanks for this one...

[@Randor10]

Wow. What a handy tool! Thanks!

[@N0AGI]

great idea and tip! Thanks for sharing.

[@mullinstech]

Excellent Find!!!!

[@S.Zandi23]

Thank you for sharing this. They now have the 2023 compatible version and so far works nicely with SU Pro 2023.

[@solomonsackey7775]

is not working in my 2023

[@ScottRSmith-nu8dp]

Excellent

[@rebokahawaki6591]

Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
You are the best

[@praveenkumar8360]

Too good👍

[@Structure-Dubai]

Awesome

[@havenisse2009]

It's nice of them to provide the extension for free, but the way to add is old fashioned: a browser window, with an html table. It should be a simple slick interface with type-to-search so you can quickly add things. But - looking at how they did it, it could serve as inspiration for parametric driven extensions based on local storage.

Nice tool, can the units be change from imperial to decimal?

[@Mortenmo]

is it possible to count steel profiles lenght?

[@matiasrivero1964]

Good morning Justin i just start using sketch up for work and this structural library will help a lot ., can you provide a link fort it ?or what type of subscription to SketchUp do i need ?..

[@gizzyguy2]

Hi, I love this but unfortunately I cannot get the models to drop in, using 2022 Pro, any help appreciated

[@niss1960]

On the original Profit of H Beam, how do to delete height of beam, remain only base.

[@Skans-Gustav]

This apparently doesn´t work with SU2021 unfortunately. The insert option seems inactive.

[@dawn4833]

Does this work with the free version

[@user-jc7tp7zs7h]

how did you delete the beam and leave the profile behind? thank you for all the great videos

[@kizane21]

I was wondering the same thing?.. Anyone know how to do this?

[@shilpakr7916]

Sir can you please make vedios related to Photoshop and V-Ray

[@rebokahawaki6591]

Justin, why the tool is not inserting in my system?
I tried re installing sketchup, re installing the tools and nothing happened, Kindly help me

[@Thesketchupessentials]

No idea, sorry

[@dawn4833]

I cannot figure out for the life of me how to delete all but the profile. I keep deleting the whole thing.

[@michaelvollrath3192]

Make sure you are in group edit mode. Try double clicking the group to access the geometry that makes up the group. Once you double-click into a group you should be able to select individual lines/faces or drag/box select many and delete as needed. Alternatively you can right click on the group and choose “explode”. Hope that helps. If you know all that and its still not working it may be a soften edges issue. Sometimes if edges are “softened” you cannot select individual faces or lines. To change this right click on the item and choose “soften edges” navigate to the small menu slider that it took you to and drag the slider to the left to reduce the amount of softened faces and show all lines. Then when you go back to drag select over everything and delete it should leave the only face (section profile) that you didn’t want to delete. Cheers, hope that helps!