View cast-in-place concrete structures
When pour management is enabled, you can view cast-in-place concrete structures in model views either as parts or as pour objects.
Depending on your needs, you can switch between the different representation options for cast-in-place concrete structures. For example, working in a part view is useful when you want to reinforce individual parts or change their geometry. A pour view is useful when you want to find out the volume of concrete to be poured or check which objects belong to a pour unit, or when you want to reinforce continuous structures that span multiple parts.
Set the appearance of cast-in-place concrete structures
You can define how cast-in-place concrete structures appear in a model view.
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In the
Cast in place list, select either:
- Parts
- Pours
- Parts
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If you selected
Parts for the cast-in-place concrete structures, in the
Cast in place parts list, select either:
- Merged
Tekla Structures shows concrete parts as merged in the model if their cast unit type is Cast in place, if they have the same material grade and pour phase number, and if they touch or overlap one another. When these criteria are met, Tekla Structures removes the outlines of the individual parts within each continuous concrete structure.
- Separated
Tekla Structures shows concrete parts as individual parts and separated by their outlines.
- Merged
Tip:
To quickly change the representation of the active view from
Parts to
Pours, and the other way round, click
Pour view on the
Concrete tab.
You can also create two views, a pour view and a part view, and keep them both open side by side on your screen.
Part view vs. pour view
Continuous concrete structures cannot be selected or highlighted in part views. When you hold the mouse pointer over a concrete structure in a part view, Tekla Structures highlights the original parts belonging to it. You can select a part and modify it if needed:
Duplicates and overlapping parts are counted only once in the volume calculations for pour objects. Note that single part and cast-unit volumes are still calculated the same way as before, which means that the sum of single part and cast-unit volumes may be higher than the volume of pour objects that are defined from exactly the same part geometry.
When you reinforce a concrete structure, you need to reinforce the individual concrete parts within it in part views, or you can reinforce pour objects by using Reinforcing Bar Shape Catalog or rebar sets in pour views. Therefore, you can reinforce a part of a continuous concrete structure independently from the whole continuous concrete structure. All reinforcement are visible both in part views and in pour views.