Design/Prints?

[DieselDon16]

Hey Guys,

I have been doing alot of Custom Ornamental Gates and Railings Lately, and I have been Free-Hand Drawing alot of designs and Prints. Does anyone know where I can find, Ornamental Ironwork Templates? Like the ones Architect's use for Plans? Ones that have Scroll Templates and Spirals? Any Help or advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks Don.

[ZTFab]

Hey Don,

Do you have any experience using CAD programs?

Solidworks has a free 2D CAD program called Draftsight (basically AutoCAD) that you can download.

Or you can use Google Sketchup for 3d work.

King Architectural has DWG files of a lot of their ornamental iron on their website that you can download and use in your designs.

Hope that helps...

http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/overview/

http://www.kingmetals.com/Catalog/It...ogDetailId=109

[soutthpaw]

if you use sketchup and choose download 3d models icon from menu bar, then search for wrought iron , you will find lots of premade stuff you can modify...

[tapwelder]

http://www.ornamentalpro.com/
May not be what architects use, but simple and fast for designing rails and presenting to customers. You can import any most ornamental accessories to your sketches.

[DieselDon16]

Thanks Guys,

I have fooled around with the Google Sketchup, nothing serious... I like the concept of doing it on a drafting table... But I am considering modernizing to a CAD system... But I will check into the links you guys provided, Thanks alot, I really appreciate it.

Thanks Don.

[mwshaw]

Triple S Steel has a lot of books in their catalog and also a lot of different parts that can be used as patterns for your own work, although I suspect they are cheaper than doing it yourself.. www.sss-steel.com is their website.