It is possible to drawing Reinforced Concrete with ArchiCAD

[Anonymous]

There is beam tool in the ArchiCAD. I wonder if anyone draw the reinforcement bar inside the beam. May be some detail would be good.

[Barry Kelly]

You can if you create a complex profile that includes the reinforcing bars.
But this will only be good for the horizontal reinforcing members.
You can't include any ligatures or other vertial members at various spacings.

I am sure I have seen (a long time ago) an object or add-on somewhere that can do reinforcing.
I can't remember what it was though.

But unless you need to see the reinforcement skeleton in 3D I would think this could be a big waste of time and could potentially slow down your model due to all the polygons.

I would just suggest some simple line work or clever little overlay objects in the sections.

Barry.

[JaredBanks]

Layer intersection groups and beam/wall priorities could also handle this.

I need to write a dedicated blog post about this, but it's a version of this:

http://www.shoegnome.com/2011/06/26/invisible-beams-aka-rookie-mistake-aka-expert-trick/

Essentially if the rebar is on a layer with the same layer intersection group as the concrete, but a higher priority number, then the rebar will cut out the concrete. You could place each piece of rebar separately or create complex profiles so that each grouping on rebar is one element (vertical: column, horizontal/angled: beams). It'd look great in section.

With this technique, you wouldn't need to manage SEOs and the rebar would be on a dedicated layer. It'd be easy to quantify the rebar, concrete, etc.

But again the point is, why do you need to model the rebar? For sectional purposes, I often make a complex profile of the footings and include the rebar in section as a part of the CP.

[Anonymous]

Theres an impressive add on (expensive though) from Cadimage that makes easy to do reinforcement bar details in 2d.
See here
http://www.cadimageworld.com/tools/documentation/detailel-ements

[Anonymous]

I'm happy to inform you that Reinforcement solution is already available for ArchiCAD.
You can find it on the webpage:
http://www.eptar.hu/cadsupport.php?id=product_block&pID=9&Lang=ENG

If you want to check it, download the DEMO version. DEMO version works as the full one, just has some limitations...

[Achille Pavlidis]

Nice.
Can the reinforcement bars be generated by input from a structural calculation software, or do they have to be drawn in AC?

[Anonymous]

Hi,
This is a tool to design the Reinforcement model and documentation directly in ArchiCAD without any reinforcement modeling tool.

BUt we are open for any good ideas for the near future. To import TEKLA or other structures to our system is just a task, if more of our users need, we can support it in the near future.

Download the UserGuide and the DEMO version to try, how it works:
http://www.eptar.hu/cadsupport.php?id=product_block&pID=9&Lang=ENG
and check the training movies as well:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=[%C3%A9pt%C3%A1r]+reinforcement+archicad&oq=[%C3%A9pt%C3%A1r]+reinforcement+archicad&gs_l=youtube.3...8800.11832.0.12104.8.8.0.0.0.0.121.519.7j1.8.0...0.0...1ac.u9ij6CRlzh8

[Anonymous]

Just to reflect to your last sentence:
"Living for the day, when you can drag a copy in section"

Check out this:
http://simpleaddon.com/Eng/PM_SectionCopy.html

[Anonymous]

Try the curtain wall tool, you will get both vertical and horizontal rebar. Once you set it up this works for a variety of "lattice" situations.

[Steve Jepson]

I need to model some bent rebar and have it in an interactive schedule that will at least show length.

Are there some .gsm objects for this? If I use a curtain wall, can I get the lengths? For example a piece of #4, 2' vertical, with a bend on it 6" long.

EPTAR is too complicated for me to use on very small projects.