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Reinforcements
All analytical beams are have listed in the spreadsheet and beam sections are shown in the drawing space as illustrated in Figure 2.
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AEC | BOLT Building Design Suite enables user to create layered rebar templates or arbitrary rebar templates easily.
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Layered Rebar Templates
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First way;
→ Click Create New Template cell of Show Layered Rebar Templates column of desired analytical beamin the spreadsheet as illustrated in Figure 3.
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→ Click Back To Rebar Template button to go back to previous spreadsheet
Second way;
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Figure 6
→ Go to Layered Rebar Template spreadsheet
→ Click Add to create rebar template
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Figure 7
→ Select transverse reinforcement number in the spreadsheet
→ Enter clear cover to stirrup in the spreadsheet
→ Enter transverse spacing in the spreadsheet
→ Enter the leg number in y direction in the spreadsheet
→ Click Show cell of the rebar layers column in the spreadsheet
Show button will open longitudinal reinforcement spreadsheet.
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Figure 8
→ Click Add to add rebar layer
→ Select rebar of the layer in the spreadsheet
→ Enter rebar count along the layer in the spreadsheet
→ Enter distance to extreme fiber in the spreadsheet
→ Select the layer location in the spreadsheet
→ Click Back To Rebar Template button to go back to previous spreadsheet→ Go to Reinforcements spreadsheet and assign the created template to beams
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Arbitrary Rebar Templates
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First way;
→ Click Create New Template cell of Show Arbitrary Rebar Templates column of desired analytical beam in the spreadsheet as illustrated in Figure 96.
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Figure 96
This short cut will assign the template directly to selected analytical beam but user can assign the created template to other beams.
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→ Select the transverse reinforcement in the spreadsheet
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→ Click Reinforcements button shown in Figure 10 7 to go back to reinforcements spreadsheet
→ Click Draw Rebars button to add rebars
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Figure 117
→ Enter a value as shown in Figure 117
AEC|BOLT Building Design Suite will create reference lines for user to guide the reinforcement placement.
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→ Click on the point where rebar center will be located as illustrated in Figure 128
→ Click Show Rebars to add rebar layers
Show rebars button will open the longitudinal reinforcement spreadsheet as illustrated in Figure 139
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Figure 139
→ Select rebar number of added reinforcements
X&Y global local coordinates of the rebars are shown in the spreadsheet demonstrated in Figure 139
→ Click Back to Rebar Template to go back to previous spreadsheet.
Second way;
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→ Go to Arbitrary Rebar Template spreadsheet
You can edit the arbitrary rebar templates created by first method from this spreadsheet.
→ Click Draw Rebars to create arbitrary rebar template
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→ Enter a value as shown in Figure 15
AEC|BOLT Building Design Suite will create reference lines on each beam section for user to guide the reinforcement placement as demonstrated in Figure 16.