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?
DV? Any ways I think pro structures seems to be the bentley rebar authoring app of choice at the moment. Perhaps if you try it out and give Bentley some feedback on what works and what doesn't, it might actually work for you. AecoSim needs to use ISM as a bridge. NB Andreas has NOT had very good experiences here, apparently. Bentley seems to like using Scrum as a development approach, which as I understand it tries to limit development to incremental 'small' projects based on specific goals. So, if the particular work flow or feature is not known to the product manager early enough, it won't be implemented and you will just get silly responses to your SRs from tech support.
ABD wasn't intended for modeling 3D rebar, but you can include it in drawing extractions via the Structural Drawing Center. Search for "reinforcement" in the delivered help to return a number of related topics.
Unknown said:programs like power rebar or autocad structural detailing, they are simple when it comes to drawing the 2D ... If that's the case the only advantage I see in having 3D is being able to use clash detection
It amazes me how readily everyone lets go of that ideal and resorts to doing important stuff as embelishment on the 2Ds. That way, it stays in sync with model changes only as long as someone is alert enough to comprehensively update all the 2Ds manually.
If that's good enough, why not just stick to 2D Acad?