Show pours in drawings

You can show pour object geometry and pour breaks in general arrangement drawings. Pour drawings can be used for communicating the sequencing of the pours, and the properties of the pours and pour breaks. You can add marks and associative notes to pour objects, and associative notes to pour breaks.

How to enable pours

Options and functionality related to pours are only available if pours are enabled in the model. You can enable pours in a model by setting the XS_ENABLE_POUR_MANAGEMENT advanced option to TRUE. In the default environment, pours are only enabled in the (Concrete) Contractor role.

Warning:

If the pours are enabled in the model, do not disable the pours using XS_ENABLE_POUR_MANAGEMENT, especially in the middle of the project. This may cause problems if you have drawings containing pours, and if you are sharing your model. The pours and pour breaks in the model and in the drawings may get invalid, and you may lose all pour-related modeling work.

Pour objects

The geometry of the pour objects is presented as monolithic concrete. The pour objects can be presented in plan, section and 3D drawings. Tekla Structures shows the pour object geometry in general arrangement drawings exactly like it has been modeled: overlaps and extra outlines vanish if the parts collide, have the same concrete material grade, have Cast in place as the Cast unit type, and have the same pour phase.

You can select whether you want to show pour objects or not. You can use different colors, line types and fills in different pour objects. You can also modify the pour object properties in an open drawing on object, view and drawing level. For more information about showing the pour objects, see Show pour objects, pour marks, and pour breaks in drawings.

Pour object marks

In pour object marks, you can show information related to pour objects, for example, pour number, pour type, material grade, planned pour start date, and the name of the pour team. You can add automatic pour marks before creating the pour drawing, and add and modify pour object marks in an open drawing. You can also add associative notes to pour objects.

Pour breaks

Pour breaks are shown in general arrangement drawings as they have been modeled. The pour breaks are represented by a symbol, which you can change by using the advanced option XS_POUR_BREAK_SYMBOL. The symbol scale and the spacing between the symbols follows the drawing view scale automatically.

You can modify the pour break properties, and add associative notes to the pour breaks in an open drawing.

Predefined pour drawing properties and templates

In the default environment, the Concrete Contractor role contains some predefined drawing properties, a couple of traditional report templates, and an organizer report template for pours. Your own environment may also contain some predefined drawing properties, and templates for pours. For examples of pour drawings and pour reports, see examples below.

Examples

In the image below, you can see two pour objects colored differently, each having a pour object mark. The pour break can be seen between the pour objects, it is represented by a symbol. The pour break is marked with an associative note.

Modify pour objects, pour marks and pour breaks for the whole drawing

After you have created a pour drawing, you can open it and modify the pour objects, pour marks and pour breaks.

In an open pour drawing, double-click the drawing background to go to the drawing properties.
To show the pours in the drawing, click the View button, ensure that Show pours in drawing is set to Yes, and click OK.
To modify the pour object properties, click the Pour object... button.
1. Content tab: Select whether you want to see hidden lines, own hidden lines, edge chamfers, or fillet edges by selecting On or Off.
2. Appearance tab: Set the color and type for visible lines and hidden lines.
  You can use a standard color or a custom RGB color.
3. Fill tab: Select a fill for the pour object face and pour object section face.
4. Click OK.
Click the Pour object mark... button, select the contents and appearance of the mark, and click OK.
To modify the pour break properties, click the Pour breaks... button.
1. Content tab: Ensure that Visibility is set to Visible, and select whether you want to show pour break hidden lines.
2. Appearance tab: change the color and type of the visible and hidden lines in pour breaks.
  You can use a standard color or a custom RGB color.
3. Click OK.
Modify other properties as required. For example, to show the reinforcement in the pour drawing, click Reinforcement... and set Visibility of all reinforcing bars to Visible.
Click Modify to apply the changes in your pour drawing.
The changes are applied to all pour objects, pour marks, and pour breaks in the drawing.

Modify pour object properties in an open drawing

In an open pour drawing, click the pour objects that you want to modify.
If the drawing property pane is not open, you need to double-click the pour object.
Modify the Visibility settings: click the eye button to show or hide hidden lines, own hidden lines, edge chamfers, or fillet edges.
In the Representation settings, select the line color and type for visible lines, section lines, hidden lines, and own hidden lines.
In the Fill settings, select the type, color, background, and scale for part faces or sections.
Click Modify to apply the changes in your pour drawing.

The changes are applied to the selected pour object.

You can also modify the pour breaks and pour marks in a drawing in the same way by clicking them and modifying their properties in the property pane.

For more information about pour object and pour break properties in drawings, see Pour object and pour break properties in drawings.

Change the pour break symbol

If you want to use another pour break symbol, you change the symbol by using the advanced option XS_POUR_BREAK_SYMBOL.

On the File menu, click Settings > Advanced options and go to the Drawing properties category.
Set a new value for the advanced option XS_POUR_BREAK_SYMBOL.

The default value is PourBreaks@0. The value refers to the PourBreaks.sym file where the symbol is defined. The symbol value starts with the symbol library file name (PourBreaks) and ends with the number of the symbol (0). The default symbol file is located in ..\ProgramData\Trimble\Tekla Structures\<version>\environments\common\symbols.

You can also create a new symbol file containing a new symbol, and save it. Then define the new .sym file for XS_POUR_BREAK_SYMBOL. If you wish to use a symbol file that is not located under your environment folders, enter the complete path to the symbol file location, the symbol file name and symbol number as the value for this advanced option.
Click OK.

Example

Examples of pour drawings and pour reports

The Concrete Contractor role in the default environment contains some predefined templates and settings for pour drawings and reports.

Examples of drawing properties predefined for pours

The Concrete Contractor role in the default environment contains predefined general arrangement drawing properties CIP_Pour_3D, CIP_Pour_Plan, and CIP_Pour_Plan_with_Pour_List. These drawing properties use detailed object level settings to color pour objects with different colors based on pour number. In addition, the drawing properties file CIP_Pour_3D does not render hidden lines, and CIP_Pour_Plan_with_Pour_List adds a pour list to the drawing.

The following example drawing is created by using the CIP_Pour_Plan_with_Pour_List drawing properties, and applying CIP_Pour_3D view level properties to 3D views.

Click the following link to open the drawing:

Pour drawing

Examples of reports predefined for pours

The Concrete Contractor role in the default environment contains predefined report templates for pour information:

There are two traditional types or report templates that can be created using the Create reports command: Pour_List and Pour_Schedule.csv.
The Pour Organizer report can be exported to excel format.

Click the links below to see example reports created using these report templates:

Pour list

Pour schedule

Pour Organizer report exported to Excel