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Go to Top Reinforcement under 1st Floor from tree view.

Click Design Summary and select Column Strip Reinforcement Tab.

Click “Generate Reinforcements” button.

Reinforcement rectangles and undesign Reinforcement spreadsheet have been created.

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AEC|BOLT Building Design Suite generates reinforcement regions for top rebar on columns, shear walls and spans. 3 different rectangles are created.

Yellow rectangle is the reinforcement intensity rectangle, white rectangle is the distribution rectangle and navy blue rectangle shows the length of rebar.

You will see intensity and distribution rectangles only on columns and shear walls.

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Click “Design Reinforcements” button.

Rebar, spacing, Count of rebar data can be edited this spreadsheet.

Required/Provided intensity cell of each reinforcement region will be green if capacity is enough for demand. If all colors on the spreadsheet are green, the design is complete.

AEC|BOLT Building Design Suite will automaticaly calculate Required/Provided reinforcement intensity ratio as you enter rebar information.

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When calculating Required Density, it takes the critical one among the AECBolt and Safe analysis results.


Click the "Compare Req Rebar Area" button to see which analysis result the critical value comes from.

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Go to “Middle Strip Reinforcement” tab at same spreadsheet.

Click “Generate Reinforcements” button and than Click “Design Reinforcement” button.

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Tip

The Top Reinforcement part is completed in this step.

You can proceed to the Bottom Reinforcement section.