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Pours in drawings

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Pours in drawings

Tekla Structures general arrangement drawings can present pour object geometry, and pour breaks. Pour drawings can be used for communicating the sequencing of the pours, and the properties of the pours and pour breaks. You can add marks to pour objects, and associative notes to pour breaks.

How to enable pours

Options and functionality related to pours are only available if pours are enabled in the model. Pours can be enabled in a model by setting the XS_​ENABLE_​POUR_​MANAGEMENT advanced option to TRUE. In the default environment, pours are only enabled in the (Concrete) Contractor role.

Warning:

If the pours are enabled in the model, do not disable the pours using XS_ENABLE_POUR_MANAGEMENT , especially in the middle of the project. This may cause problems if you have drawings containing pours, and if you are sharing your model. The pours and pour breaks in the model and in the drawings may get invalid, and you may lose all pour-related modeling work.

Pour objects

The geometry of the pour objects is presented as monolithic concrete. The pour objects can be presented in plan, section and 3D drawings. Tekla Structures shows the pour object geometry in general arrangement drawings exactly like it has been modeled: overlaps and extra outlines vanish if the parts collide, have the same concrete material grade, have Cast in place as the Cast unit type , and have the same pour phase.

You can select whether you want to show pour objects or not. You can use different colors, line types and fills in different pour objects. You can also modify the pour object properties in an open drawing on object, view and drawing level. For more information about showing the pour objects, see Show pour objects, pour marks and pour breaks in drawings.

Pour object marks

Using pour object marks, you can show information related to pour objects, for example, pour number, pour type, material grade, planned pour start date and the name of the pour team. You can add automatic pour marks before creating the pour drawing, and add and modify pour object marks also in an open drawing.

Pour breaks

Pour breaks are shown in general arrangement drawings as they have been modeled. The pour breaks are represented by a symbol. You can change the symbol using the advanced option XS_​POUR_​BREAK_​SYMBOL. The symbol scale and the spacing between the symbols follows the drawing view scale automatically.

You can show pour breaks automatically, and modify the pour break properties and add associative notes to the pour breaks in an open drawing.

Predefined pour drawing properties and templates

In the default environment, the Concrete Contractor role contains some predefined drawing properties, a couple of traditional report templates, and an organizer report template for pours. Your own environment may also contain some predefined drawing properties, and templates for pours. For examples of pour drawings and pour reports, see Examples of pour drawings and pour reports.

Examples

In the image below, you can see two pour objects colored differently, each having a pour object mark. The pour break can be seen between the pour objects, it is represented by a symbol. The pour break is marked with an associative note.

Modify pour objects, pour marks and pour breaks in a drawing

After you have created a pour drawing, you can open it and modify the pour objects, pour marks and pour breaks.

  1. Open a pour drawing and double-click the drawing background to go to the drawing properties.
  2. If you want so show the pours in the drawing, click the View button, check that Show pours in drawing is set to Yes , and click OK.
  3. Click the Pour object... button to modify the properties:
    • Content tab: Select whether you want to see the hidden lines and own hidden lines, and the edge chamfers by selecting On or Off.
    • Appearance tab: Set the color and type for visible lines and hidden lines.
    • Fill tab: Select the fill for the pour object face and/or pour object section face.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Click the Pour object mark... button, select the contents and appearance of the mark, and click OK.
  6. Click the Pour breaks... button and check that Visibility is set to Visible and click OK.

    You can also select whether you want to show pour break hidden lines on the Content tab. On the Appearance tab you can change the color and type of the visible and hidden lines in pour breaks.

  7. Modify the other properties as required. For example, click Reinforcement... and set the Visibility of all reinforcing bars to Visible to show the reinforcement in the pour drawing.
  8. Click Modify to apply the changes in your pour drawing.

Change the pour break symbol

If you want to change the pour break symbol, you can do that using the advanced option XS_POUR_BREAK_SYMBOL.

  1. On the File menu , click Settings > Advanced options and go to the Drawing Properties category.
  2. Set a new value for the advanced option XS_POUR_BREAK_SYMBOL.

    The default value is PourBreaks@0. The value refers to the PourBreaks.sym file where the symbol is defined. The symbol value starts with the symbol library file name ( PourBreaks ) and ends with the number of the symbol ( 0 ). The default symbol file is located in ..\ProgramData\Trimble\Tekla Structures\<version>\environments\common\symbols.

    You can also create a new symbol file containing a new symbol, and save it. Then define the new .sym file for XS_POUR_BREAK_SYMBOL. If you wish to use a symbol file that is not located under your environment folders, enter the complete path to the symbol file location, the symbol file name and symbol number as the value for this advanced option.

  3. Click Apply and OK.

Example

Examples of pour drawings and pour reports

The Concrete Contractor role in the default environment contains some predefined templates and settings for pour drawings and reports.

Examples of drawing properties predefined for pours

The Concrete Contractor role in the default environment contains predefined general arrangement drawing properties CIP_Pour_3D , CIP_Pour_Plan , and CIP_Pour_Plan_with_Pour_List. These drawing properties use detailed object level settings to color pour objects with different colors based on pour number. In addition, the drawing properties file CIP_Pour_3D does not render hidden lines, and CIP_Pour_Plan_with_Pour_List adds a pour list to the drawing.

The following example drawing is created by using the CIP_Pour_Plan_with_Pour_List drawing properties, and applying CIP_Pour_3D view level properties to 3D views. Click the following link to open the drawing:

Pour Drawing

Examples of reports predefined for pours

The Concrete Contractor role in the default environment contains predefined report templates for pour information:

  • There are two traditional types or report templates that can be created using the Create reports command: Pour_List and Pour_Schedule.csv.
  • The Pour Organizer report can be exported to excel format.

Click the links below to see example reports created using these report templates:

Pour list

Pour schedule

Pour Organizer report exported to Excel

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