Delivery when converting and matching elements

When you convert design entities to reinforcing bars using Convert, Match Elements, you can define whether bars cut to length will be delivered as straight bars or bent bars. If you select straight bars although the building site requires bent bars, the bars will be bent on site. Consider the reference values for prebending circular reinforcement.

Depending on the diameter, bars used for circular reinforcement should be pre-bent up to the following radii. Consider the restoring force near the limits.

d=6 --> r=1.00 m

d=8 --> r=1.50 m

d=10 --> r=3.00 m

d=12 --> r=5.00 m

d=14 --> r=7.00 m

d=16 --> r=15.00 m

d=18 and larger: always pre-bend the bars!

The program also takes the Delivery attribute into account when you create bar shapes by matching an existing mark. The new bar takes all its attributes from the original bar, including the attribute specifying whether the bar will be delivered as a straight bar or a bent bar to the building site.

Although you can use the new Delivery attribute to display schemas of bent bar as straight bars, it is not possible to deliver all bents bars as straight bars to the building site. Therefore, we improved the way the program creates and labels schemas of bent bars.

• The program no longer polygonizes the schema but creates it as a circle or segment of a circle.
• The label no longer displays the opening angle; so the schema takes up less space.