Reinforcement shape recognition

Tekla Structures
2018i
Tekla Structures

Reinforcement shape recognition

Tekla Structures recognizes different reinforcing bar bending shapes and assigns shape codes to them. Tekla Structures then uses the shape and dimension information in bending schedules, pull-out pictures, templates and reports.

Tekla Structures includes two methods for shape recognition.

User-defined bending shape definitions.

These definitions are created with Rebar shape manager and saved in the RebarShapeRules.xml file.

The file is located in ..\ProgramData\Tekla Structures\<version>\environments\<environment>\system folder.

Tekla Structures internal, hard-coded bending type definitions.

These internal bending types of reinforcing bars are mapped to area-specific reinforcing bar bending type codes in the rebar_schedule_config.inp file.

The file is located in ..\ProgramData\Tekla Structures\<version>\environments\common\system folder.

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