Automatic grouping of rebar sets for drawings
2018
Tekla Structures
Automatic grouping of rebar sets for drawings
The rebars created by using the rebar set commands are automatically grouped for drawing marking and dimensioning purposes. The automatic grouping works both for simple, non-tapered groups as well as for tapered groups.
Preconditions for rebar group creation
Simple, non-tapered groups are created when:
- Rebars are created by the same rebar set
- Rebars are side by side
- Rebars have identical properties, including length
- Rebars have the same position number
Tapered rebars are grouped when:
- Rebars are created by the same rebar set
- Rebars are side by side
- Rebars have identical properties, except length
- Length of bars increases linearly
- There are minimum of 3 bars in a group
Spacing of bars is taken into account in grouping if the advanced option XS_REBARSET_ENABLE_BAR_GROUPING_WHEN_SPACING_DIFFERS is set to FALSE. Then only bars with same spacing are grouped, and each spacing zone of a rebar set automatically creates a separate group. If the advanced option is set to TRUE , spacing is ignored, and groups can contain bars from more than one adjacent spacing zones.
Work with rebar set groups in drawings
Automatically created groups behave in the drawing similarly as the old rebar groups:
- There is only one mark for the rebar group, and the reinforcement mark content comes from the content setting Group in Reinforcement mark properties.
Note that if XS_REBARSET_USE_GROUP_NUMBER_FOR_BARS_IN_TAPERED_GROUPS is set to FALSE , bars in tapered bar groups within rebar sets do not have a common position number ( GROUP_POS ), so position information is not included in reinforcement marks.
- You can adjust the rebar visibility in Reinforcement properties. For example, you can select to show bar in the middle of group.
- You can use the following rebar-group-specific interactive dimensioning and marking commands found in the pop-up menu for rebar groups:
- Create dimension line
- Associative notes can be created.
Below is an example of an automatically created rebar group in a drawing. The drawing uses rebar group visibility option bar in the middle of group , and reinforcement mark option One leader line to group , and the dimensions have been created with the command Create dimension line.
For more information about creating rebar sets, see Create a rebar set.
For more information about showing automatic bar groups in rebar sets in the model, see XS_REBARSET_COLOR_BARGROUPS.