Bar from database

Click , the following dialog displays:

Note: Bar shapes are used to define a bar and to assign an appropriate identification code to it.

In the Shape parameters field the following options are provided:

Schematic drawing of the reinforcement shape
Edit fields where hook parameters are determined (hooks are ascribed permanently to the shape from database).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
Selection list containing codes - they affect bending diameters (French code)
Two buttons: Shape database and Shape parameters.

On the right side of the dialog, only the Points icon is available. When selected, the definition of a bar from the database begins. The remaining icons are unavailable.

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

Note: The database of reinforcing bar shapes and corresponding shape codes depend on a selected code of RC structure design.

Structure of the shape database:

A shape from the database is selected both by indicating directly a schematic drawing from the list of available shapes or by selecting a shape code number
The database contains shapes only, thus allowing you to complete the fields with the code (the code is displayed in the Shape definition dialog)
The database contains the field with reference to the active code
The database comprises the basic shapes (repeated) which can be selected directly from the Shape definition dialog.

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

Once a bar is selected from the database, 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 most recently-defined bar.

A bar defined in the bar shape database remembers the shape of a selected bar type. You may replace this bar with a regular bar (which does not remember the bar geometrical shape) by applying the EXPLODE option.

There is also another method to define bars. Once the Shape parameters… button is clicked, the additional dialog appears on the screen in which (see the drawing below) a table containing dimensions of individual bar segments is available. After determining bar dimensions, a completed bar may be added to the formwork.

The above dialog contains a table that displays dimensions of bar segments. If the dialog is open while a bar is being defined, then dimensions that are not yet defined are assigned a zero value. You can change the bar segment lengths and to complete the missing dimensions.

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

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