rebar and AECOsim

Hi,

This is more of a general question.

Does anyone have any experience dealing with rebar in ABD? I know that using STAAD it’s possible to draw the rebar in ABD, but I’m using FEM programs outside of bentley. So far I didn’t find any way of drawing the rebar in ABD, is this possible? I've also looked at Power Rebar, but it doesn’t work very good with the Dynamic Views so I have to drop them to a normal drawing and lose the interactive part of it. 

Any ideas?

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  • What do you want to do? Simple 2D rebar drawings, or 3D?
  • Whatever can be considered best practice.

    I'm not entirely sure, but from what I've seen from programs like power rebar or autocad structural detailing, they are simple when it comes to drawing the 2D and have some tools to extract quantities and produce rebar reports. If that's the case the only advantage I see in having 3D is being able to use clash detection, which is only really useful in some more complicated detailing situations.

    I'm not sure about the update of the rebar if there is any geometry change to the concrete elements doe. From my experience, power rebar and DV don't go very well together. PR needs simple elements to work - the concrete faces have to be lines, arcs, etc. The DV's produce cells (or something like that) and I have to merge all the attaches and drop the geometry to simpler elements to be able to work with PR. This makes the drawing dumb and any update to geometry means repeating the process and making PR also dumb.
    If 3D would improve on this problems would be good, but I think that may be a little bit of a stretch to the ABD capacities. At least for now.
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  • Whatever can be considered best practice.

    I'm not entirely sure, but from what I've seen from programs like power rebar or autocad structural detailing, they are simple when it comes to drawing the 2D and have some tools to extract quantities and produce rebar reports. If that's the case the only advantage I see in having 3D is being able to use clash detection, which is only really useful in some more complicated detailing situations.

    I'm not sure about the update of the rebar if there is any geometry change to the concrete elements doe. From my experience, power rebar and DV don't go very well together. PR needs simple elements to work - the concrete faces have to be lines, arcs, etc. The DV's produce cells (or something like that) and I have to merge all the attaches and drop the geometry to simpler elements to be able to work with PR. This makes the drawing dumb and any update to geometry means repeating the process and making PR also dumb.
    If 3D would improve on this problems would be good, but I think that may be a little bit of a stretch to the ABD capacities. At least for now.
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