Access this option by selecting Wire fabrics -> Display from the Job preferences dialog. The following dialog displays:
The following options are available in the Wire fabric shape field:
- Color - selection of a color that will be used to draw a wire fabric
- Line thickness - thickness of a line representing a wire fabric in a drawing
- If the Filled option is selected, the wire fabric contour being drawn will be completely filled with a selected color.
The End of straight bars option allows you to set the method of presenting bar ends in the drawing (presentation: without ends, with ends, with ends and description); the option only applies to straight bars without hooks.
The Wire fabric distribution field allows you to determine the style of lines applied to draw top / bottom reinforcement.
You can also select the type of wire mesh presentation in drawings (see reinforcement description styles - wire fabrics):
- Exact - All wire fabric panels are presented.
- Group - Wire fabric panels with the same dimension are grouped in the direction perpendicular to the main direction.
- Simplified - Wire fabric panels with the same main dimension are grouped in the direction perpendicular to the main direction.
- Two-way grouping - Wire fabric panels are grouped in two perpendicular directions but only when the surface distribution allows that.
If this option is selected, the additional Simplified description opition is available. Use this option to simplify the distribution description according to its syntax. Similar elements are grouped and different elements are ignored.
The options in the Wire fabric symbol field refer to reinforcement with a description placed outside the formwork contour.
You can select a color and thickness of a line that will be used to draw a wire fabric. Three buttons are used to determine the method of reinforcement presentation:
- The first button displays a schematic representation of a wire fabric - in the form of a broken line
- The second button displays a wire fabric with bend curvatures
- The third button displays a wire fabric with a real diameter and real dimensions.
If the third button is chosen, the Filled option becomes accessible. You can then fill the drawn shape of a wire fabric with a color. For the schematic presentation and the presentation including bend curvatures the list for selection of line thickness is available.
This field holds also the Added elements option; this a list of elements that will be appended to a wire fabric presented outside the formwork contour:
- Detailed table - a table including a detailed description of a wire fabric displays
- Chamfer dimensions / arc radius - dimension lines (horizontal and vertical) describing chamfered reinforcement segments and arcs
- Description of segment length - dimensions determining total length of every wire fabric segment
- Bent diameter - bar and wire fabric bent diameters between reinforcement segments and between a reinforcement segment and a hook. It is presented as a symbol of a mandrel diameter with its dimension
- Angle (bent) - an angle between the neighboring wire fabric segments is specified.
The options included in the drop-down Size list are used to determine the size of reinforcement symbols. The following sizes are available:
- 1 : 1 - it indicates that a symbol size equals the size of a wire fabric in an element formwork
- User-defined - once this option is selected, you indicate (graphically) the region in which the wire fabric symbol is to be contained
- Scale factor - once this option is selected, there appears an edit field. You then specify a scale factor that will decrease or increase the symbol with respect to the real size of a wire fabric included in a formwork. For example, entering a factor value of 0.5 results in the drawing being twice as small, whereas entering a value of 2 - results in the drawing being twice as large.