Automatic bar schedules

Advance Design Reinforced Concrete Modules automatically calculate and display rebar quantities in a bar schedule, which is created by using either one of the available templates or a customized one. Based on the selected country during the installation, the Rebar Modules will lay out different collections of bar schedule templates that are displaying different reinforcement properties in several manners. Moreover, the templates can be customized for every slightly different element.

Figure 1 - Bar Schedule Properties from Advance Design Reinforced Concrete Modules standalone version

Figure 2 – Examples of bar schedules

Working Standalone

The bar schedule is generated only after the user runs the “Calculate” command; after drawings generation, it will be displayed on the same sheet with the other views of the element.

Figure 3 – Bar schedule displayed on sheet

In Advance Design Rebar Modules, the Bar Schedule properties can be found in the dedicated zone from Drawings viewport, when selecting a certain bar schedule from Drawings tree (see Figure 1).

Each bar schedule template can contain many different types of structural rebar schedules along with the appropriate configurations.

Figure 4 - Example of a drop-down menu with available bar schedules templates in Reinforced Concrete Modules

Figure 5 - Example of a drop-down menu with available types of bar schedules templates in Reinforced Concrete Modules

Advance Design Reinforced Concrete Modules come with a different collection of templates for each country that can be selected during the installation. Users also have the possibility to choose, at any moment, another language for documents (like bar schedules) by clicking on the “Localization” icon which can be found on the “Options” panel, on the “Settings” Ribbon.

Figure 6 - Bar schedules templates edited in Report Designer tool

*Report Designer is a tool developed by Microsoft which provides a user-friendly interface for creating robust reports that include data from multiple types of data sources. The software is installed automatically with Advance Design Reinforced Concrete Modules. Find more details on the Microsoft website.

Undoubtedly, the Bar Schedules functionality - as included in all the Advance Design Reinforced Concrete Modules - can easily generate a fully-customized bar schedule in a very short time span. Also, the user has the possibility to generate, save, reuse, and share the template files.