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Create a drawing view for a reinforcement mesh

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Modified: 17 Jan 2025
2025
Tekla Structures

Create a drawing view for a reinforcement mesh

You can create drawing views each containing one reinforcement mesh by using the Rebar mesh view creator macro. The mesh view shows the overall mesh length and width dimensions, and dimension lines for wire spacing in horizontal and vertical directions. Also the wire sizes are displayed.

You can create mesh views from all view types in cast unit and general arrangement drawings.
  1. Open a drawing containing meshes.
  2. Select the meshes.

    If you want to create views for all meshes in the drawing, you do not need to select separately.

  3. Click the Applications & components button in the side pane to open the Applications & components catalog.
  4. Click the arrow next to Applications to open the applications list.
  5. Double-click Rebar mesh view creator.

  6. You have the following options for creating mesh views:

    • If you want to create a mesh view for each separate mesh in the current drawing, select Create mesh view for all meshes in the drawing.

    • If you want to create a view for the selected meshes only, select Create view for selected meshes. Here you must select the meshes before running the macro.

    • If you have already created the mesh views and just want to add dimension lines and diameters in the views, select Create annotations for selected meshes. Here you must select the meshes before running the macro.

  7. Select the view, dimension, text, line, and unbent wire line property files that you want to use in the new the mesh view.
  8. Select whether you want to add a Mesh label in the top-left corner of the view.
    The options are None and Mesh position. The mesh position consists of the mesh position number (ASSEMBLY.SERIAL_NUMBER) and the assembly name (ASSEMBLY.NAME).

  9. Select the wire annotation type in Text content type .

    The choices are and .

  10. Select the wire length unit in Unit of length in text.

    When you select Auto, with imperial units the text will be using the current units, and otherwise the text will use m.

  11. Define the desired rotation for the bent meshes in Bent mesh rotation. The options are Default, 90, 180, and 270. If you select Default, meshes are always oriented so that the bent rebars are on the horizontal axis.
  12. Click Create.

    Tekla Structures creates or updates the views based on your selections and the property files. The name of the mesh view comes from the CATALOG_NAME template attribute.

Below is an example of a mesh view.

The drawing below contains a 3D view of a wall with two bent meshes, and a separate unbent mesh view of both of the meshes.

Run Rebar mesh view creator from command line

You can also run Rebar mesh view creator programmatically, for example, through a command prompt or from within an extension.

Command name: RebarMeshViewCreator

The RebarMeshViewCreator.exe is located in the following folder: ..\<version>\bin\applications\Tekla\drawings\RebarMeshViewCreator

Parameters:

-create <mode>: Sets the creation mode. Allowed values 0 - 2, where 0=create mesh views for all meshes, 1=create mesh views for selected meshes, 2=create annotations for selected meshes

-standard <absolute file path>: Loads the specified standard file.

-attributes <attribute list>: Sets the specified attribute values, the format is <attribute_name>=<value>, entries are separated by a semicolon (;).

Example:

RebarMeshViewCreator -create 0 -standard "D:\path to\myStandardFile.xml" -attributes LengthUnit=0;LineAttributes=RebarMeshMark
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