Performing General Transformations

To create rebar layer features, defined as Geometric (Volume) features, click Rebar Creation and select a rebar layer in the tree or the 3D area.

To perform geometric transformations on the Rebar Layer features, click Rebar Transformations

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The Rebar Transformations dialog box displays the list of the possible transformations.

Expand the General transformations section to have access to the Generative Shape Design commands: Translate, Rotate, Symmetry, Axis To Axis, Split (geometry), Rectangular Pattern, Circular Pattern, User Pattern.

Select a rebar layer in the tree or in the 3D area to perform modifications on it.

Click the desired transformation button, select the changes and click OK to validate the transformation.

A transformation option, Set selected element as construction element, is displayed. If the option is selected, the input rebar layer feature switches to the No Show space when the Rebar transformation is validated.

Moreover, when a layer is considered as a construction element, a mask is added to it to describe its status.

This construction property is managed through a new attribute set on the Rebar layer feature and can be set/unset in the Rebar Creation command as well. If it is set to construction element, this feature will not be managed in the Bar Mark, Interference and Report processes.

To associate the related bar marks to the new result layers, the Bar Mark command must be run aside.

Click OK to validate the result layers or Apply to see the transformation results.

If you click Apply, 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 and the feature returns to the state before this computation.

Any modification of the initial layer is affecting and is reported in the result layer. The Rebar transformations command generates:

A Geometrical Set named Geometrical transformation Set.X: it is created along with a new rebar transformation feature.
A Rebar transformation feature named Reinforcing bars transformation.X under this new Geometrical Set (where X is a number).
N Rebar Layer features: The number of new features depends on how the transformation has been defined in the command.

The rebar transformation feature carries the transformation specifications. If you double-click it in the tree, the edition of this feature is launched.

By default, the initial layer and the result layers are synchronized, it means that:

If a GSD command is used, they share the same wires but also all the parameters (diameter) and pattern (result Layers are in share pattern).
If the Rebar Split command is used, they share the same reinforcing bar Object Type, the same inputs (limiting surfaces in Template mode, support bars in Strap/Mesh mode…), and the same Pattern (result Layers are in share pattern).

After general or engineering transformations, to modify the result layer for local design change, desynchronize the input layer and the result layer by clicking the Rebar Split desynchronization

, appearing when the result feature is selected in the tree.

After desynchronization, double-click the result layer in the tree to edit it and the Rebar Creation command is launched for local modifications.

To synchronize it back, click the Rebar Split synchronization

contextual command on the result layer in the tree. All the modifications done during desynchronization of the result feature are canceled. You cannot modify the result layer independently from the input layer anymore.