Reinforce Part provides settings to configure how reinforcement information should be passed from the design file to parts in the model. The settings control which types of reinforcement to remove from the model, which types of reinforcement to insert into the model and how to place inserted reinforcement.

Removal Settings

Before reinforcement is read from a design file and inserted into a part in the model existing reinforcement can be removed or left in place. Whether reinforcement should be removed or not can be set individually for rebar, mesh, strand, and stirrups.

Insertion Settings

When reinforcing parts in the model options can be set for which types of reinforcement to insert and how each should be placed. Each type of reinforcement (strand, rebar, mesh, and stirrups) has its own settings available on its own page.

Include Reinforcement

At the top of each page is a checkbox that if checked will insert that type of reinforcement from the design file into the model when Reinforce Part is run. Removing the check mark ensure that Sync does not place that type of reinforcement into the model.

Placement Settings

There are three groups of settings that describe specifically how reinforcement is to be placed in the model. The settings help to account for differences between the concrete extents in the design file and the part in the model. If the concrete extents in the design file don’t exactly match those of the part in the model then the placement settings determine how to adjust for those differences. The settings are exactly the same for strand, mesh, and stirrups while rebar has an additional setting for rounding options.

Placement Datum

The placement datum relates the starting position of the reinforcement from the design file to the part in the model. There is a separate placement datum for the width, thickness, and length.

Width

When placing reinforcement along the width of the part Sync can start by using the distance from the left, right, center, or closest end in the design file.