Preferences

Select this option to use the basic parameters of Autodesk AutoCAD Structural Detailing. There are several ways to access the option:

Menu: Reinforcement > Preferences
Ribbon: ASD - Reinforcement > Settings > Preferences
Toolbar: Tools > Preferences .

In the AutoCAD^® Options dialog, on the Structural Detailing > General Settings tab you can select a drawing template for Autodesk AutoCAD Structural Detailing modules and workspace names (such as ASD or ASD Classic).

Templates assigned to individual countries are shown in the following table:

Country	Available Templates - DWT files
Country	REINFORCEMENT	STEEL	FORMWORK DRAWINGS
Australia	RBCR-061
Austria	RBCR-043	RBCS-043
Belgium	RBCR-032
Denmark	RBCR-045
Finland	RBCR-058
France	RBCR-033	RBCS-033	RBCX-033
Germany	RBCR-049	RBCS-049
Iceland	RBCR-004
India	RBCR-091
Italy	RBCR-039	RBCS-039	RBCX-039
Netherlands	RBCR-031
New Zealand	RBCR-064
Norway	RBCR-047
Poland	RBCR-048	RBCS-048	RBCX-048
Portugal	RBCR-035
Romania	RBCR-040		RBCX-040
Russia	RBCR-070	RBCS-070
Singapore	RBCR-065
South Africa	RBCR-027
Spain	RBCR-034
Sweden	RBCR-046
Ukraine	RBCR-079	RBCS-079
United Kingdom	RBCR-044	RBCS-044	RBCX-044
United States	RBCR-001_metric RBCR-001	RBCS-001

The Structural Detailing tab in the Options dialog is divided into two main parts:

The left side of the dialog is a selection tree from which you select one of the program preference options
To the right of the selection tree are the parameters that correspond to the option selected from the selection tree; the dialog is updated after selecting an option.

After selecting Reinforcement in the selection tree, the dialog displays the following options:

Automatic table update - if this option is selected, then while working in the program reinforcement tables will be updated automatically after changes are made in a drawing
Reinforcement table for typical structures - enables you to select the method of generating a table for typical structures (column, beam, spread footing, pile cap, pile, etc.); the table may be generated for every element of an RC structure separately (separately for a beam, separately for a column, etc.) or an existing reinforcement table may be updated after adding another element of an RC structure
Display message warning about identical reinforcement in a drawing - if this option is selected, you will be informed about any identical reinforcement
Display warning about changes applied to identical reinforcement - if this option is selected, you will be informed about a possibility to transfer all changes to identical reinforcement elements without changing their position numbers.
Diameter of bent bars presented as - enables you to choose the method of presenting diameters of bent bars: they are expressed either in selected units (e.g. in mm) or as a multiple of a reinforcing bar diameter.

After selecting the Reinforcement > Descriptions parametrization option from the selection tree, the dialog displays the following options allowing default settings of the way descriptions of bars and bar distributions will work:

Bar description:

Description on the extension line option switched off - a bar description is inserted as shown in the drawing below
Description on the extension line option switched on - a bar description is inserted as shown in the drawing below
Extension line option switched off - a bar description is inserted as shown in the drawing below (without the line connecting the bar with the label of the position number)

Distribution description:

Description on the extension line option switched off
Description on the extension line option switched on
Extension line option switched off

Note: A change of default settings in the above dialog effects the way new descriptions are inserted; descriptions which were defined earlier do not change.