Working with reinforcement tools Part 4

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After completing this lesson, you'll be able to add area reinforcement and add fabric reinforcement.

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

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Area reinforcement is useful when you want to create two or more layers of reinforcement in elements such as floors, foundation slabs or walls.

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You can specify the bar type, layout rules, and spacing for each layer.

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The area system can be removed, which leaves standard rebar sets that can be edited independently.

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Fabric reinforcement can be placed by area, by sheets, or can be bent by sketching a bend profile.

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When placing fabric reinforcement by area, various slabs and spaces can be automatically added.

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Go ahead and open up the model 016-Work with Reinforcement Tools.

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The model opens up in the 00-Ground Floor Plan.

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We begin by creating some area reinforcements.

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On the Structure ribbon, select Area.

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We only either require to pick a structural floor or wall for the area reinforcement.

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Let's go ahead and select this slab here.

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We can then create our rebar line.

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Essentially, this is the boundary of our reinforcement.

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I'm going to go ahead here and use Pick Lines.

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I can then pick the boundary from my area reinforcement.

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I'm also going to pick around the core.

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The major direction of the area reinforcement is represented with this symbol here.

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I'm quite happy with that.

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But if I wanted to change it, I could select Major Direction and I could then select another boundary line.

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In the Properties palette, you'll notice here that we can set out our layout rules.

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Currently, we have Maximum Spacing set, but we could also set Fixed Number.

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In this case, I'm going to go ahead and use Maximum Spacing.

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We are then permitted to create four layers of reinforcement.

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You can see here that we have the Top Major Direction, the Top Minor Direction, the Bottom Major Direction, and the Bottom Minor Direction.

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In this case, I'm just going to go ahead and select the two bottom layers.

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For my bottom layers, I'm going to use bar #3.

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And you can see here we have a bottom major spacing of 10 inches.

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And we've got the same for our minor direction.

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I'm quite happy with this.

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So, we'll go ahead and select Finish Edit Mode.

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To view our reinforcement in 3D, we'll open up the 3D View-Area and Fabric rebar.

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I'll temporarily change the visual style to wireframe.

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And you can now see our area reinforcement added.

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If I went to make edits and changes to this, I can go ahead and select the area reinforcement, and you'll notice in a Properties palette,

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I could then amend or add additional layers and change things like the bar type, and of course, the major and minor spacing.

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However, if I wanted to remove the area system and create separate rebar sets, on the ribbon here, I could select Remove Area System.

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Next, you create a fabric area on the curved slab.

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Let's open up the ground floor plan.

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On the Structure ribbon, select Fabric Area.

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The Fabric Area can be placed on a structural floor, a wall or a foundation slab.

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Go ahead and select the floor.

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Once again, on the context ribbon, you're required to create a boundary line.

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In this example, we'll use Pick Lines.

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We can then go ahead and pick the lines.

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And here, we'll finish this with the Line command.

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You can see here that this is representing our major direction.

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And once again, if I wanted to rotate that, I could click Major Direction and pick another line.

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However, I do want it traveling this way.

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And if we take a look at the Properties palette,

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you can see here that we can select our Fabric Sheet, the Location, the Lap Splice Position we want to use.

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And in this example, we're using minor half-way staggered.

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And then our Lap, which in this case, is 12 inches.

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Let's go ahead and select Finish Edit Mode.

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We'll switch into our 3D view and you can now see our fabric area is placed.