Bar from database

After clicking , the following dialog displays:

Note: Bar shapes define a bar and assign an appropriate identification code.

The Parameters of reinforcing bar shape field include the following options:

Schematic drawing of a reinforcement shape
Edit fields where hook parameters are specified; you can lock a hook length by selecting the option next to the edit field for defining a hook length ( appears). The edit field becomes inaccessible, and if you modify parameters (length or diameter) of a bar with locked hook length, the hook length does not change
Selection list containing codes - they affect bending diameters (French code)
Two buttons: Shape database and Shape parameters.

In the dialog, only the Insert and Points icons are available. When clicked, a definition of a bar is created from the database. The remaining icons are unavailable.

After clicking Shape database…, the Bar database dialog opens.

Note: The databases of reinforcing bar shapes together with corresponding shape codes depend on a selected code of RC structure design.

Structure of the shape database:

A shape can be selected from the database both by indicating directly a schematic drawing from the list of available shapes or by selecting a shape code number
The database includes the field with a reference to the active code
The database comprises the basic shapes repeated which can be selected directly from the Shape definition dialog (closed and open stirrups, pin, shackle - it allows a different manner of definition by means of dimensions).

To define bars from the database, select a bar from the available shape list, then define the next bar segments by indicating next bar characteristic points presented in a schematic drawing (you may also enter dimensions of individual segments from the keyboard).

Once a bar is selected from the database, the bar segments are defined individually based on the indicated points (there apply rigid rules of defining successive segments so that the bar shape is maintained). While defining, the bar length is calculated automatically. The bar dimensions proposed by default in the dialog are the dimensions of the recently-defined bar.

A bar defined in the bar shape database remembers the shape of a selected bar type. You can replace the bar with a regular bar which does not remember the bar geometrical shape - to do that, use the EXPLODE option.

There is also another method for defining bars. Once the Shape parameters… button is clicked, the additional dialog displays, and a table containing dimensions of individual bar segments is available. After determining bar dimensions, a completed bar may be added to a formwork.

The above dialog contains a table that displays dimensions of bar segments.

The field with a shape code is filled out automatically depending on a typical shape selected.

Both modes of reinforcement definition are synchronized with each other; both definition modes can be used alternately.