Creating Reports

Generating a Rebar Report

You can export rebar layer information in a report to the format of your choice.

  1. From the Reinforcement section of the action bar, click Export Rebar Report .
  2. In the tree or in the work area, select a Geometrical Set containing either:
    • A concrete part (3D shape) with rebar layers.
    • Or the rebar layer elements directly.
  3. If you selected a concrete part containing n rebar layers, click the three dot button next to the Selection box to display the Element list, and select a single element or all the elements in the Export Rebar dialog box.

    When layers are detected with bar marks, the Options field appears in the Export Rebar report dialog box accompanied by a check box and the bar mark names.

  4. In Options, select the bar marks you need in the report.
    A Bar Mark column will appear in the report indicating the bar mark reference for each layer.
  5. To specify the destination folder of the report, click .
    A panel indicates the path of your directory. You can change it by clicking .
  6. Click Apply after any modification.

    A progress bar at the bottom of the dialog box indicates the progression of an action. It is accompanied by a textual information, for instance: 30/50 rebars, to know the time needed for rebar creation.

    To stop the computation, press the Escape, then computation is stopped. You obtain an incomplete report file and a warning in the panel informs you that the report generation has been interrupted.

  7. To export the rebar information, click the format icon:
    • , then select Open the file with the following stylesheet applied option.
    • to open an html report.
  8. Optional: To simplify the report and create a single line in it by grouping all the adaptive rebar layers with similar shapes, do the following:
    1. Modify the delivered ConcreteDesign.xml file in the ...\startup\Civil\ConcreteDesign directory. To activate the single line mode, set this parameter to true: <GroupSimilarBars value="true"/> (default is false). To indicate when sections vary, add the separator "-" between sections.
    2. Add it in the Data Setup in Building & Civil Resources table by selecting the resource name, Concrete Design Customization, and by choosing the assigned resource (.xml).

    The report displays:

    • In the Lengths column, the average length of the bars is displayed.
    • In the column related to the dimension with the variable length, the minimum length and the maximum length of the straight section are displayed and separated with the separator specified in the .xml file.
    • In the thumbnail picture of the layer, the shape of the bar is displayed with the dimensions of each straight bar section. Depending on how the dimensions are requested to appear in the picture, the dimension display is slightly changed in the picture for the variable section:
      • If the DimensionLetters id is set, then the separator is added before the dimension letter.
      • If the DimensionValues id is set, then the minimum length and the maximum length of the section with the separator between those values is displayed (the same as in the related dimension column).
    • If the separator value is changed to be different from "-", then this string is used and inserted between the minimum and maximum length values of the variable bars section.

    If the GroupSimilarBars value is false and the separator value is "-", then the behavior remains the same.

    If the value of the already existing option AdaptiveLayersIndividually is true (default value), the GroupSimilarBars and Separator values are not taken into account because numbering bars individually and grouping similar bars are not compatible.

    Note: If a rebar layer is made of bars that do not have the same number of straight sections, the line simplification in the report is not processed.
  9. The report is created and saved at the selected location.