Reinforcement

Use reinforcement tools to add reinforcement, such as rebar, reinforcement bars, or fabric to valid hosts, such as concrete columns, beams, walls, foundations, and structural floors.

Structure tabReinforcement panel
- (Rebar)
- (Area)
- (Path)
- (Fabric)

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About Reinforcement
Use reinforcing tools to add reinforcement elements, such as rebar, reinforcing bars, or fabric, to valid hosts, such as a concrete beam, column, structural floor, or foundation.
About Reinforcing Concrete Parts
Concrete parts created from surface elements (such as walls and floors) possess rebar cover and can host rebar, rebar sets, area reinforcement, path reinforcement, and fabric reinforcement.
Modify Reinforcement Settings
Adjust the general settings of reinforcement modeling with the Reinforcement Settings Dialog.
Rebar Constraints and Cover
Rebar constraints set and lock the geometry of each rebar instance with respect to a concrete host element. Rebar cover is the internal offset of a concrete host to which rebar parametrically extends.
Place Rebar
Place individual rebar instances in section views of valid hosts.
Place a Rebar Set
Add a linear set of rebar in a section view of a host.
Default Bar Presentation for Rebar Sets
Specify the default bar presentation for rebar sets in the Reinforcement Settings dialog.
Change Bar Presentation in Rebar Sets
Specify how rebar sets are shown in a view. Bar presentation schemes simplify the view while maintaining an identifiable footprint in which the rebar set is placed.
About Rebar Shapes
Rebar shapes consist of stirrups, ties, and straight bars that may be assigned fillets and hooks. You can manipulate each shape to facilitate the reinforcement needs in your model.
Modify a Rebar Shape
Manually adjust the shape of a rebar element in respect to the snapping behaviors of the host cover references.
About Modifying Spiral Rebar
Unlike other rebar families, spiral rebar is multi-planar and cannot be edited at the family level. However, you can scale and rotate individual instances.
Sketch Planar Rebar
Use common sketch tools for manual placement of rebar shapes within a valid host.
Sketch Multi-planar Rebar
Use common sketch tools to define rebar shapes that are bent in two planes.
Add a Rebar Hook
After placing rebar in a host, you can modify rebar properties to assign hooks.
Adjust the Visibility for Rebar in a View
Rebar elements in a model are contained within host elements. In hidden line view they are obscured by the host. You can set overrides for each view in a project, so the rebar design can be documented.
Specify a Rebar Schedule Mark
You assign rebar schedule marks to rebar instances for the scheduling and organization of logically grouped reinforcement.
Reinforcement Rounding
Allow rounding of bar and bar segment lengths.
Reinforcement Numbering
Reinforcement elements are numbered on placement. Numbering allows identical reinforcement elements to be matched for schedules and tags.
About Editing Rebar Shape Families
You can edit rebar shape families to specify various constraints, bars, and enable multi-planar placement.
Rebar Instance Properties
View and modify the parameters that define the instance properties of rebar.
Rebar Type Properties
View and modify the parameters that define the type properties of rebar elements.
Area Reinforcement
Use the Structural Area Reinforcement tools to place large amounts of evenly spaced rebar in floors, walls, foundation slabs, and other concrete hosts.
Path Reinforcement
Use the Structural Path Reinforcement tools to layout a large amount of rebar along a path.
Fabric Reinforcement
Place lap spliced fabric sheets in floors, walls and foundation slabs. A fabric reinforcement element is made up of 2 element types: fabric wire and fabric sheets.

Parent topic: Structural Modeling

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