About the Rebar Creation Assistant

The Rebar Creation dialog box is the primary tool to create quickly and easily reinforcing bar layers with respect to standard business rules. This dialog box guides you through the process of rebar creation when you click Rebar Creation in the Reinforcement section of the action bar.

This page discusses:

Rebar Creation Dialog Box

Where the number identifies the following:

  • : Object type
  • : Current status
  • : Display options
  • : 3D Tag
  • : Rebar creation tabs
  • : Template parameters (user defined features that are included in the predfined rebar profile)
  • : Property set (Pset) parameters of the reinforcing bar object type
  • : Quantity takeoff (Qto) parameters (reinforcing element base quantities)

This dialog box contains controls for:

Creation Modes

Template
Selects a predefined rebar profile.
Wire selection
Defines a rebar layer based on wires. Such a wire can be an existing one, a wire created on the fly in Sketcher or by selecting the Picking Point option (CATIA Rebar Routing 3D Design app).
Strap
Creates a rebar layer around an existing rebar layer.
Mesh
Creates a rebar layer on another layer.

Object Type Options

Configuration Table
Displays the configuration table if any.
Documentation
Opens the documentation associated with the reinforcing object type if it exists.
Undefine Object Type
Clears the object type.
Search for a new Object Type
Searches for a new object type. Opens the Search window.
Configuration Box
Selects a designation of a configuration table (HA6 in our example).

Display Options

Hides or shows the geometry and the manipulators in the 3D area.
Switches to ghost mode. All the geometry elements contained in the current component-- except the rebar layer being created are displayed in low light.
Displays a color picker panel and changes the color of current the rebar layer. By default a color is applied to the layer randomly or retrieved from the configuration table.
Hides or shows the user feature in the 3D area.

3D Tag

The following options are available:

3D Tag
Hides or shows the 3D Tag on the rebar layer being created. You can customize the 3D Tag label by adding in the text rebar layer properties prefixed by the string %. Default 3D tag editor string:%nRebars Diameter %d spacing %s.
Lock
% strings are translated from the related parameters.
Unlock
% strings are not translated.

Rebar Creation Tabs

Input
The physical diameter of the bars is available on top of this tab.
  • Wire selection to create a rebar layer by selecting an existing wire, by creating a wire using the Sketcher or by selecting the Picking Point option .
  • The Template parameters area contains all the published parameters of the embedded user defined feature.
  • The Ifc Reinforcing bar area retrieves all the Property Set (Pset) attributes of the reinforcing object type.
  • PSet_ReinforcingBarCommon, the set of attributes present in IFC4 is also an extension added to Rebar layer features. Reference and BarSpacing attributes are directly valuated by the Concrete Structures 3D Design App.
  • The Ifc Reinforcing element base quantities area exposes the rebar layer quantity takeoff, abbreviated as Qto.

Notes:
  • All the parameters in this tab that have been overloaded in the configuration table are set to read only mode (except for the Ifc Reinforcing bar predefined type).
  • Quantity takeoff (Qto) parameters cannot be edited as they are output parameters.
  • Those parameters can also be modified directly by selecting them in the tree.

Pattern
By default, a linear pattern is proposed to replicate the bars. The pattern properties (count, spacing) can be changed through the flags or directly in the 3D area by manipulating the bar representations: lines for a linear pattern, and axis systems for a curvilinear pattern.
Extremities
Bends
Interference