The Prefabricated Slab - Drawing parameter is used to define parameters used to automatically generate drawings of prefabricated slabs, ready for printing, as well as parameters of the reinforcement table for prefabricated slabs.
After defining the prefabricated slab distribution and reinforcement parameters, click Next. The following dialog displays:
To genereate drawings of all the prefabricated slabs included in a slab distribution, select Printouts. The following options become accessible:
- Print scale (definition of a scale for drawings of slabs)
- Template - selection of a drawing template in which individual drawings of prefabricated slabs will be generated.
If the Add table option is activated, then the reinforcement table (according to the default style for reinforcement tables) is added to the drawings. A list of available styles of reinforcement tables varies depending on a selected reinforcement type (reinforcing bars or wire fabrics).
The lower part of the dialog includes the description of elements placed in drawings of individual slabs. The following descriptions can be added: element name, element number (count), area of prefabricated slab distribution, concrete volume, concrete weight, concrete class and thickness of prefabricated slabs.
Units used to define the distribution and reinforcement of prefabricated slabs are set in the Job preferences dialog.
The bottom part of the dialog includes a selection lists for defining a hierarchy of defined projects and templates; the following rules apply while creating the hierarchy:
- a project is a component superior to a group in the hierarchy
- several different groups may be defined in a project
- each group may include many templates.
Such hierarchy makes it easier to manage structure elements included in a project. It is also simpler to copy a project between two users (computers used by users), by copying a whole folder with the project name for the entire project hierarchy with all groups and templates.
You can define an arbitrary hierarchy; the following hierarchy can be used as an example:
- Project - High-rise building
- Group - Story 3
- Template - Prefabricated slab 01.
The Template list includes user-defined templates (schemes) of prefabricated slabs and their reinforcement. After defining the prefabricated slabs geometry and reinforcement, it is possible to save these settings by specifying a name in the Template field and clicking the Save button (Note: a template is saved in a selected group and a selected project). After defining the prefabricated slabs reinforcement and selecting the name of a saved template (in a selected project and a selected group), all parameters in the dialog are set exactly as they are defined in the template.
To open a template saved in a selected project and a selected group, click Load. To delete a selected template assigned to a selected project and a selected group, click Delete.
Templates saved in the macros for formworks of structure elements are available and can be loaded to the corresponding reinforcement macros. Once such a template is loaded, the Geometrytab sets parameters of the structure element geometry saved in the template.
The following buttons are located at the bottom of the dialog:
- Preview - Click to display the defined prefabricated slabs
- Back < / Next > - Click to open the dialog on the previous / next tab
- Insert - Click to place the defined prefabricated slabs in a drawing. The number of reinforcement positions and locations for the defined prefabricated slabs in a drawing should be defined; together with a drawing of a prefabricated slab. A reinforcement table compliant with the settings specifed in the Job preferences dialog is inserted.