Arbitrary bar shape

After clicking , the following dialog displays:

This dialog allows you to define any reinforcement shape. You can select a hook type at the beginning and end of a defined reinforcement and define bar anchors on its both ends; a default value of the anchor for an arbitrary bar equals zero. 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. If you modify parameters (length or diameter) of a bar with locked hook length, the hook length does not change.

Successive characteristic points include the bars of point reinforcement or characteristic points.

Transversal reinforcement of arbitrary shape will be based on these points. You can specifiy the field with a shape code (a unique code of the bar shape). This code is presented in the reinforcement table; it will be also included in the information about the bar.

Four icons are active when defining this reinforcement type (the remaining icons are unavailable):

Select - is used to define reinforcement on an open polyline (arcs may be included there)
Pick point - is used to detect a contour (identically as for a polygon-shaped stirrup); a contour may include arc elements
Points - is used to indicate directly any points. After selecting, the dialog closes, and the cursor assumes the shape of a cross (see the ACAD command ‘line’). After defining the first point determining a bar position, the bar length changes dynamically depending on the cursor position. While indicating next bars, the defined bar is ‘wound’ around these points, whereas the condition of a bending diameter is maintained automatically.
Bars - is used to define a bar on the existing point reinforcement (point reinforcement, i.e. presentation of longitudinal reinforcement within a cross section). After selecting, the dialog closes, and the cursor assumes the shape of a square (see the ACAD command ‘select’). A bar definition is completed when another point reinforcement bar is indicated.