Reinforcement description

This option is used to define the final selection of reinforcement description and distribution. The way to access this option is to click Modify reinforcement description option .

The following dialog displays:

Note: Two additional options are available in the dialog as shown below: Description style (used to modify a description style of the reinforcement chosen) and the Details button, which when clicked, opens the dialog used for modifying a style of reinforcement description (shape).

The options provided in this dialog, enable final selection of reinforcement description and distribution by switching off active variables initialized based on the syntax defined.

The dialog contains the following options:

• The Active option is used to assign a description to a reinforcement which already has a description. This is used when the same reinforcement is included in multiple calculations when preparing a reinforcement table
• The following icons are used to define the manner of presenting the distribution:

  - all elements are presented in a drawing showing given reinforcement distribution

  - only the middle representative of the distribution in a given zone is presented (the remaining elements are not visible)

  - only the extreme elements of the distribution in a given zone are presented (the remaining elements are not visible)

  - indicate graphically distribution elements to be presented

• The fields: User description in the drawing and User description in the table allows you to add any text to a reinforcement description. The description will be presented in drawings (included in bar descriptions in the drawing) and in the table (included only in the reinforcement table). The added text is saved (on the selection list) and you will be able to use it later on; a form of the displayed description is closely connected with the appropriate and default style of reinforcement description. The user description displays on several lines; then the mechanisms accessible in AutoCAD^® are applied. A user description together with an extension line and label make up one object. Such an object may be edited (translation, rotation) using available grips - these are small squares that appear at characteristic points of indicated objects; by means of the Autodesk AutoCAD Structural Detailing Explode option, it is possible to increase a number of grips in descriptions
• A style of reinforcement description is chosen from the Style selection list; the list contains all description styles defined for that type of reinforcement (the first on the selection list is a default description style chosen in the Description of reinforcement shape dialog); before a reinforcement description is inserted in a drawing, parameters of the description style can be changed. Clicking Details, opens the Reinforcement description dialog where modifications of the style can be made (Note: modifications of the description style refer only to that one reinforcement description).

Note: To include a bar symbol in the bar description:

1. Open the Description of reinforcement shape dialog.
2. Select reinforcement description (e.g. Bar shape).
3. ClickModify.
4. Select the Reinforcement symbol option provided on the Description syntax tab.
5. Click the button with the arrow; the variable containing a bar symbol will be added in the Description edit field;
6. To end the operation, click Add.

Note: You may clear the active description components. The additional description allows entering an additional text. The comments entered are remembered and may be reused later on.