Use this option to enable final selection of the reinforcement description. Selections can be performed by switching off active variables based on the syntax defined. Once you define the reinforcement shape, the following dialog displays:
REMARKS:
- A reinforcement shape is described only for a single position. Two or more bars cannot be described simultaneously.
- In the Number edit field, enter the number of reinforcing bars used directly in the reinforcement summary tables. The number of bars are represented as an equation, e.g. 5*(3+7).
- In the Spacing edit field, enter spacing values (despite reinforcement distribution not being defined yet). This field is editable on condition that the "%spa" variable is contained in the style of reinforcement description. It is only a static parameter used for informative purposes. It can be applied in reinforcement tables which include the spacing parameter.However, if you entered a spacing value in this field, then regardless of real values of bar spacing in the structure element, the value provided in the dialog will be assumed in the table.
- Select the Active option to include the reinforcement being described in the reinforcement table. This option will be active by default for reinforcement that is described for the first time. When the same reinforcement is described twice, the option will be cleared on its own. It is possible to prevent (when describing the same reinforcement twice) the number of reinforcing bars calculated when preparing a bar table to be doubled; description of active and not active reinforcement may differ in a generated drawing - the options used for that purpose are located in the Description of reinforcement shape dialog.
- The User description in the drawing and User description in the table fields enable adding any text to a reinforcement description; the description is presented in drawings (included in bar descriptions in the drawing) and in the table (included only in the reinforcement table); the added text will be remembered (on the selection list) and you will be able to use it later on; a text taken from the library of standard descriptions may also be applied. These descriptions assume the style of the text describing the reinforcement. The user description may be presented on the screen in 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 Explodeoption. A number of grips in descriptions may be increased
- A style of reinforcement description is chosen from the Description 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; click Details... to open 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: Whether any of the options listed above are selected, depends on the defined description syntax available in Description of reinforcement shape.If for example, a bar symbol is to be included in the bar description, you should open the Description of reinforcement shape dialog, select reinforcement description (e.g. Bar shape), click Modify, switch on the Reinforcement symbol option provided on the Description syntax tab, click the arrow button; the variable containing a bar symbol is added in the Description edit field; to end the operation, click Add.