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.
Insert 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.
Thickness
When placing reinforcement along the thickness of the part Sync can start by using the distance from the bottom, top, center or closest end in the design file.
Length
When placing reinforcement along the length of the part Sync can start by using the distance from the start, end, center or closest end in the design file.
Mirror Location
Each type of reinforcement can be mirrored about a specified centerline: width, thickness or length.
Rounding Options
Options for how to round calculated placement distances along the width, thickness and length can be set for all types of reinforcement. Sync will round calculated distances using the specified method to a set number of decimal places.
Rebar has an additional placement option for the length of the bars.
Each option has a selection for the method and an input for the precision to use. Precision is the value you want to round to (such as 0.125 if you want values rounded to an 8th of an inch).
None will do no rounding and use exact calculated values.
Round will use typical rules for rounding a value up or down.
Round down will always round down to the specified precision.
Round up will always round up to the specified precision.
Away from the nearest end will locate the nearest end and then round so the new location is further from it.
Towards the nearest end will locate the nearest end and then round so the new location is closer to it.