Improvements in reinforcement in drawings

You can now include rebar marks within rebar dimension marks by adjusting the rebar dimension mark properties. The rebar-config.inp file has new settings for bending radius, and you can drag associativity points of merged rebar mark leader lines. Improvements have been made in pull-out pictures to display bending radius symbols and labels, to include cross bars in the pull-out pictures of rebar meshes, and to include longitudinal bars in bent mesh dimensions.

Include rebar marks in rebar dimension marks

You can now include rebar marks directly within rebar dimension marks by adjusting the rebar dimension mark properties, streamlining the production of rebar drawings and ensuring compliance with industry standards.

In this new feature, rebar marks are associated with the rebar dimension marks. Consequently, the rebar marks will automatically adjust their position whenever the rebar dimension mark is moved.

Previously, rebar marks and rebar dimension marks had to be created and modified separately, which was time consuming.

New settings for rebar marks have been added to the Rebar dimension mark property pane, allowing you to include rebar marks when creating or modifying a rebar dimension mark.

To include rebar marks in rebar dimension marks, select the Include rebar mark checkbox and select the rebar mark property file that you want to use for creating the marks.
You can position rebar marks in relation to the rebar dimension mark by selecting an option from the Position list. The options are:

Manual

Top-left

Middle-left

Bottom-left

Top-center

Bottom-center

Top-right

Middle-right

Bottom-right
You can manually drag the mark to any location, and it will retain its association with the rebar dimension mark. When you do this, the Position option changes automatically to Manual, indicating that the rebar mark is no longer restricted to a fixed position.

Below is an example where the Top-left Position option has been selected.

Notes and limitations

If the rebars in the drawing already have separately created rebar marks, the Include rebar mark option does not work. You must first delete the existing rebar marks before creating new rebar marks using the Include rebar mark option in the Rebar dimension mark properties.
If you move the rebar dimension mark outside the bar solid, the rebar mark loses its adaptivity with the related rebar dimension mark. When you move the rebar dimension mark back inside the bar solid, the rebar mark will get back its adaptivity with the rebar dimension mark again.

For more information, see Add dimensions to reinforcement manually.

TTSD-69109, TTSD-72569, TTSD-72568

Drag merged rebar mark leader line associativity point

For merged rebar marks with a single leader line, you can now drag the mark leader line associativity point to another location. Previously, dragging was disabled.

This improvement was already introduced in Tekla Structures 2025 SP1.

TTSD-24079

New settings for bending radius in rebar_config.inp

There are two new parameters, PullOutBendingRadiusDimensionUnit and PullOutBendingRadiusPrefix, in rebar_config.inp:

PullOutBendingRadiusDimensionUnit: PullOutBendingRadiusDimensionUnit defines the unit to be used in the bending radius text in the pull-out. The options are:

0 = auto

1 = mm

2 = cm

3 = m

4 = inch

5 = foot and inch

6 = cm or m

If PullOutBendingRadiusDimensionUnit is not set, mm is by default used for metric and inch for imperial. If PullOutBendingRadiusAsMultiplier is set to 1, it takes precedence, and PullOutBendingRadiusDimensionUnit has no impact.
PullOutBendingRadiusPrefix: PullOutBendingRadiusPrefix defines the prefix to be used in the bending radius text in the pull-out. If it is not set, it will be defaulted to dBR=. If it is set to be empty, no prefix will be output.

The format and precision of the radius dimensions are defined by the existing settings in PullOutDimensionFormat and PullOutDimensionPrecision.

For more information about the reinforcement-related settings in drawings, see Reinforcement settings for drawings (rebar_config.inp).

TTSD-71870

Improvements in rebar pull-out pictures

Include cross bars in pull-out pictures

Rebar pull-out picture and marking: A new setting, Create cross bar marks, has been added in Presentation options on the Rebar tab to include cross bars in the pull-out pictures of rebar meshes. The options are Yes and No.

Draw rebar pull-outs: The new setting Create cross bar marks will also be used in pull-out pictures created with the Draw rebar pull-outs tool if you have selected to create the bending shapes on the basis of the saved Rebar pull-out picture and marking configuration file and have set Create cross bar marks to Yes in the selected configuration file.

In the example drawing below, the upper drawing view shows the rebar with the new Create cross bar marks option set to No. The lower drawing view shows the rebar with the new option set to Yes, and you can see the crossing rebars as small circles.

For more information, see Draw rebar pull-out pictures with Rebar pull-out picture and marking application and Draw rebar pull-out pictures with Draw rebar pull-outs application.

TSAC-9238, TSAC-7315

Include longitudinal bars in bent mesh dimensions in pull-out pictures

A new advanced option, XS_REBAR_BENT_MESH_PULLOUT_DIMENSIONS_INCLUDE_LONGITUDINAL_BARS, has been added to control whether longitudinal bars are taken into account in the dimensions shown in a rebar pull-out picture for a bent mesh. Set this advanced option to TRUE to take into account the longitudinal bars, and FALSE to ignore them. TRUE is the default value. This advanced option affects pull-out pictures in marks and templates.

Below is an example of a bent mesh, which has longitudinal bars outside of crossing bars. Now the longitudinal bars are taken into account in pull-out picture dimensions.

In the example below, longitudinal bars are taken into account in dimensions.

In the example below, longitudinal bars are not taken into account in dimensions.

TTSD-74429

Showing bending radius symbol and label in pull-out pictures

Rebar pull-out pictures now use the standard tie/stirrup bending radii from the rebar catalog to determine if the bending radius symbol and label should be shown: When the bending radius equals the tie/stirrup radius value, the symbol and label are not shown. For all other radius values, the symbol and label are shown. Previously, hard-coded values were used instead of the values from the rebar catalog.

TTSD-72954