Working with reinforcement tools Part 2

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After completing this lesson, you will be able to understand reinforcement settings and understand reinforcement numbers.

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The objective remains covered are 1.1h work with reinforcement tools.

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The reinforcement settings controlled a general presentation of rebar,

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how annotations were abbreviated and how rounding can be applied for scheduling purposes.

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Within the Reinforcement Settings dialog box, you can control the bar length,

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whether it rounds up, down or to the nearest, and also the bar segment lengths.

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Reinforcement presentation defaults to sharing all the bars, but we can show just the first and last bars or perhaps just the middle bar.

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Go ahead and open up the model 014-Work with Reinforcement Tools.

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The model opens up in the 03-Third Floor Column Detail plane.

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Let's begin by having a look at the process of how rebar numbers are assigned to each element.

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For example, here, if I select this stirrup and then we take a look at the Properties palette,

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you'll notice here that we have a rebar number, currently read-only of 25.

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If I go ahead and select one of these L bars, once again here, you'll notice that we have rebar number 10.

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The rebar numbers are controlled with something called partition.

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So, what I'm going to do here is now add the stirrups to a partition.

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So, you can see I've selected the stirrups.

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And in the Properties palette, you'll note here, we have an area where we can type a partition.

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So, here I'm simply going to type "C1", which is going to represent Column 1.

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If we now go ahead and select the stirrup again, you'll now notice that the rebar number is 1.

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So, let's take a look at these settings in more detail.

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On the Structure ribbon, select the Reinforcement panel dropdown.

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And then go ahead and select Reinforcement Numbers.

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In the Reinforcement Numbers dialog box, you now note here that I have two partitions.

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The partition we just created was C1.

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And you'll note here that the starting number is 1, and here we have 1 bar in use.

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However, if we look at the next partition, you can see here we have DWG01.

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It's again starts in a bar mark "1".

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We have six bars in the partition.

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For example, here, if I wanted this to starts at rebar 100, I could type in 100 here, click "Apply" and then "OK".

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And now if I select the same stirrup, you'll now note that the Rebar Number is set to 100.

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We'll now go ahead and place the main reinforcement bars into the column.

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Select the Structure ribbon and then pick Rebar.

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On the context ribbon, let's ensure that we're working on current plane,

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and for the placement orientation, we want to ensure that we have Parallel to Cover set.

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The rebar shape we're going to be using is "00".

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So, once again, I can set that here, or from the Rebar Shape Browser.

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We want to just check that we have the #8 Bar selected in the Properties palette.

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And then we can go ahead and start to place out these bars.

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You'll notice that it will snap to the stirrup.

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And here in the corners, we should now go to snap to the center of the bend.

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So, we'll now place out those four bars.

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We'll then go ahead and select those bars.

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And we'd ensure that it is placed in the same partition, which is C1.

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Notice now that the rebar number is 101.

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Once again, if we go to the Reinforcement panel dropdown and we select Reinforcement Numbers,

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we'll now notice here that we have 2 bars in use from 100 to 101.

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Go ahead and select "OK".

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Let's now take a look at some of the reinforcement settings.

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In the Reinforcement panel dropdown, select Reinforcement Settings.

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In the general Reinforcement Settings, you will notice that most of these options are grayed out.

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If you wanted to include hooks in the rebar shape definition, then this would have to be set prior to modeling any reinforcement bar.

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We can also set the Reinforcement Rounding when we're scheduling.

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So, notice here, we're rounding to the nearest inch.

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But, of course, here we could round up or down.

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We can do that both for the Bar Length and the Bar Segment Length.

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And we can also do that for Fabric Sheets as well.

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Let's then select reinforcement presentation.

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Now the default here is to show all the bar in the Rebar Set, as well as in Section.

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What we might want to do here, for example, is to show the middle bar in the Set in a View.

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So, the View might refer to something like a plane view or an elevation.

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But then in section, we can still show all of the reinforcement bars.

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We then have settings for the Area Reinforcement.

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So, here we can set abbreviations.

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The same thing for our Path Reinforcement, and finally for our Varying Rebar Set.

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So, here we can set Number Bars Individually or Number Bars as a Whole.

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And perhaps set this to "a".

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For example, we might have bar mark 5 and then the varying bars might be 5A, 5b, 5c, and so on.

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Let's take a look at the reinforcement presentation in another plane view.

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In the project browser, open the 04-Fourth Floor Plan.

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Here, you'll notice that we have a number of rebar sets.

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In this example here, I'm going to use a crossing window to ensure I get all of the rebar.

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And on the context ribbon, you'll note here we can Show All, Show First and Last, or perhaps to Show Middle.

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So, here, I'm going to say Show Middle.

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And of course, you'll notice here now that Revit is just showing the middle bar from each of those sets.

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If I wanted to adjust this, I could select the bar, click the "Select" button.

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Here, I might want to start by selecting None.

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And then I can decide which bar I'd like to show; perhaps this one here.

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Select "Finish".

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And our rebar presentation is complete.