Advance Concrete - Free reinforcement

Reinforced concrete structures may contain nonstandard elements such as columns and beams with non-standard sections, planar elements like walls and slabs with curved edges or even with an irregular shape, and various openings. Reinforcing such elements involves distributing bars of certain shapes within various contours with or without openings and usually cannot be handled using only standard reinforcement cages. Bars and meshes are manually created which is a complex and time consuming task.

Advance Concrete provides a wide set of tools for easier creation of all kinds of reinforcement bars and meshes and allows distributing them in the views of the reinforcement drawing. Even if the reinforcement elements are manually created in a view, their representation in all other views is automatically managed, avoiding frequent distribution mistakes.

The result: High quality reinforcement drawings with great time and cost saving!

All shapes of bars and meshes in a user-friendly environment!

Advance Concrete accelerates the reinforcement drawing creation. It makes it intuitive, flexible and efficient!

No need to start the reinforcement drawing from scratch!

• Calculated views are created automatically, directly from an Advance Concrete model.

Simply draw the necessary reinforcement – any shape, no matter how complex!

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• A set of powerful and user-friendly tools allow fast and precise creation of any bar or mesh
  for any structure element, as simple as drawing lines, polylines, etc.
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Bar shape libraries according to various country standards
Select the desired standard when starting a new project! Only the libraries according to the selected standard will be available.

Complete control of the reinforcement properties
During the creation process, it is possible to access all bars and mesh parameters and get instant visual feedback of all the modifications.

Quickly distribute reinforcement in any structure element

Beams and columns of any section type, slabs and walls of any shape can be quickly reinforced.
Bars can be automatically distributed in any formwork contour using flexible and accurate automatic tools of Advance Concrete:

Rectangular frames distributed in polygonal area: corbel in elevation view

Rectangular frames distributed
in sloped and vertical columns

For walls and slabs reinforcement, not only bars, but also meshes are used.

Advance Concrete provides the corresponding tools for distributing meshes.

• Meshes can be distributed within a surface of any contour, with or without openings
• Mesh distribution within a surface of any contour
• Mesh distribution along a line (mesh row)
• Bent mesh distribution

Any opening contour in bar and mesh distribution

Openings and contours of any shape can be easily trimmed in just a few clicks!

• Draw closed polylines for the opening you want to cut
• Use the specific Advance Concrete command
• You only need to select the distribution and the previously drawn contour.

Efficient, accurate, interactive reinforcement drawings

In practice, during different stages of a project, various changes might be necessary.

Any change of the geometry or material, no matter how simple or complex, might need serious effort and additional costs to update the reinforcement drawing accordingly.

Even when the reinforcement is drawn manually, several changes can be handled automatically!

• Advance Concrete manages the link between bars and meshes and their distributions.
  Add segments of any shape, change their size and the shape using grips or change the bar bent angle.
  The distribution updates automatically!



Reinforcement drawing for a beam – several sections

• Starting from the reinforcement views, Advance Concrete creates the 3D reinforcement cage and manages the bar representation in all views.
  It is a key factor in time and cost management!


• It is enough to distribute a bar in a view of the reinforcement drawing! Advance Concrete displays it automatically in the corresponding views.


• New sections and elevations can be added at any time in the reinforcement drawing. The reinforcement elements are automatically represented.


• Thus you will get all necessary views while insuring the consistency between views, without having to create a single bar.

Reduced risk of errors

• Advance Concrete verifies if the reinforcement has been distributed in a logical way and the bars have the correct dimensions. It is especially useful for the correct distribution of polygonal bars in the variable areas.


• Advance Concrete includes a bar collision control tool for viewing bar collisions in 3D. Starting from the reinforcement views, the reinforcement cage can be displayed. Any collision can be easier detected as you benefit from visual feedback!


• The lists are automatically created and will update automatically to reflect any changes made to the reinforcement.

Suitable for simple and complex elements

Any structure (model), regardless of its complexity can be handled by detailing the bars and meshes freely, directly on the 2D drawings.

Stairs and ramps  
Polygonal bars used for the ramp and stair reinforcement




Columns with corbels

Variable distributions can be used to reinforce a corbel.




Columns with different sections



Sloped columns



Sloped beams




Elevator pits
Distributed polygonal bars in two directions



Footings





Reticular slabs


Walls of any shape, with or without openings
Bars can be distributed in a wall of any shape. Any contour can be cut from the created distributions.


Reinforcement drawing for a wall with a curved ridge



Retaining wall



Circular structures
Industrial buildings, such as concrete tanks, silos, grain storage tanks, etc. usually contain circular walls.

• Circular bars and polygonal bars with curved segments can be created
• Reinforcement bars can be distributed along a circular contour

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