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Add pull-out pictures in rebar marks

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Modified: 14 Nov 2024
2025
Tekla Structures

Add pull-out pictures in rebar marks

You can add a pull-out picture for a reinforcing bar in the rebar mark to illustrate the shape and dimensions of the bar in the drawing.

Pull-out pictures can be added in automatic and manual created rebar marks.
Note:

A pull-out picture is designed only for cases when a tapered group contains bars having the same number of legs. If you have a tapered group containing bars with a different number of legs, split the group to smaller groups using property modifier.

Tip:

To change the leader line length, color, line type, or representation of a pull-out picture, open the rebar_config.inp file located in the system folder defined by the advanced option XS_SYSTEM and edit the following lines: PullOutLeaderLineMinLength, PulloutColor, PulloutVisibleLinetype and PulloutRepresentation.

Add pull-out pictures in automatic rebar marks

  1. On the Drawings & reports tab, click Drawing properties and select the drawing type.
  2. Load drawing properties that are as close to the ones you need as possible.
  3. Cast unit drawings: Click View creation in the options tree on the left, select the view and the properties that you want to change, and click View properties.
  4. Click Reinforcement mark in the options tree.
  5. To add a pull-out picture in the rebar mark, double-click the Pullout picture element in the Available elements list.
  6. In the Pullout picture dialog, define the pull-out picture settings.

    For more information about the settings, see section "Pull-out picture settings" below.

  7. Click OK.
  8. Save the mark properties for future use with a unique name.
  9. Cast unit drawings: Click Save to save the changes in view properties and Close to return to drawing properties.

    General arrangement drawings: Click OK.

  10. Click Save to save the drawing properties, then click OK and create the drawing.

Add pull-out pictures in rebar marks manually

  1. In an open drawing containing reinforcement and rebar marks, double-click a rebar mark.

    The rebar mark properties are displayed in the property pane.

  2. In the mark editor preview, click a location the mark where you want to add the pull-out picture.
  3. To add a pull-out picture element in the mark, click the New element button in the editor and select Pullout picture.
  4. In the Pullout picture dialog, define the pull-out picture settings.

    For more information about the pull-out picture settings, see "Pull-out picture settings" below.

  5. Click OK.
  6. To apply the changes to the rebar mark, click Modify in the property pane.

Tekla Structures adds the pull-out picture in the mark.

Pull-out picture settings

Setting Description
Scale by

Select the scaling option:

  • Auto auto-scales the pull-out picture.
  • One factor and Two factors scale the pull-out picture according to the values that you enter.

    The scale of the pull-out picture is relative to the scale of the drawing view. For example, if the drawing view scale is 1/10 and the pull-out picture scaling is 2, the actual scale of the pull-out picture in the drawing view is 1/5.

Mirror

Mirror pull-out pictures horizontally or vertically. To mirror, click the mirroring button:

Mirroring is available only in object-level properties, in One factor and Two factors modes.
Rotation In , select the rotation of the pull-out picture: Automatic, Plane or 3D. If the pull-out picture is 3D, and you select Automatic, Tekla Structures automatically shows the pull-out picture in 3D.
End marks Select the desired shape of bar ends in the pull-out pictures.

Dimensions Select Dimensions to show bar dimensions in the pull-out picture.
Exaggeration Select Exaggeration to show reinforcing bar hooks more clearly in the pull-out picture.
Bending radius Select Bending radius to show the bending radius in form of diameter of the bending roll.
Bending angle Select Bending angle to show bar bending angles in the pull-out picture.
Coupler/end anchor symbols Select Coupler/end anchor symbols to show graphical symbols representing the rebar couplers and end anchors in pull-out pictures.
Placeholders Select Placeholders to show placeholders instead of dimensions in pull-out pictures.

In the Pullout picture dialog in object level rebar mark properties, the Placeholders option is only available if the XS_ENABLE_PULLOUT_PLACEHOLDERS advanced option is set to TRUE. In the Pullout picture dialog in the view-level rebar mark properties, this option is always available.

Examples

A 3D pull-out picture showing the bending radius:

Placeholders shown instead of dimensions:

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