Reinforcement shape recognition
Tekla Structures recognizes different reinforcing bar bending shapes and assigns shape codes to them. Tekla Structures then uses the shape and dimension information in bending schedules, pull-out pictures, templates and reports.
Tekla Structures includes two methods for shape recognition.
| User-defined bending shape definitions. |
These definitions are created with Rebar shape manager and saved in the RebarShapeRules.xml file. The file is located in the environment folder under ..\ProgramData\Trimble\Tekla Structures\<version>\Environments\. The exact file location may vary depending on the folder structure of your environment files. |
| Tekla Structures internal, hard-coded bending type definitions.
Only used if the advanced option XS_USE_USER_DEFINED_REBARSHAPERULES is set to |
These internal bending types of reinforcing bars are mapped to area-specific reinforcing bar bending type codes in the rebar_schedule_config.inp file. The file is located in ..\ProgramData\Trimble\Tekla Structures\<version>\environments\common\system folder. |