Reinforcement groups in Production Planning

Previously, only Reinforcement groups for which the MWS entry option had been set for the selection in Production Data, NC Generator could be selected and sent to Production. Previously, you could select the options Standard and Expanded for the Bend definition for transfer to production under Catalogs, Site facilities, NC generator driver catalog on the Filter tab when selecting Bar type = Reinforcement groups.

If unfolded was selected, the reinforcement group was then unfolded in the longitudinal direction and any crossbars attached to the segments were unfolded as well. However, bent crossbars were never unfolded.

This behavior has now been completely revised and enhanced.

• The tool can now be applied both to Reinforcement groups for which either the Precast·elements entry option or the MWS entry option is set for the selection in Production Data, NC Generator.
• Furthermore, 4 variants for the Bend definition are now available for selection, bend, rolled out, rolled out Longit and rolled out Cross.
• Furthermore, Reinforcement groups in a precast element can now optionally be redirected to a separate file. To do this, select the new Separate file option under Catalogs, Site facilities, NC Generator Driver Catalog on the Filter tab under Redirect. In this case, a File name/Templ. dialog (File name/Template) dialog will be displayed. By activating the sub-dialog, you can define a template for the file name of the reinforcement cage file, analogous to the production file name on the Data creation tab.
  
  Clicking the button behind the input field opens a sub-dialog where you can define the Template and the Variable for the creation of the file name. For this purpose, the new variable GrpNr = Number of the reinforcement group has been added to the other variables. You can select the component name (name of the reinforcement group) via the variable BTName.

Note: For Unitechnik, you can rotate the meshes to their base position if necessary. Base layer refers to the plane in which the defined base section is located. However, this only applies to groups that are in a precast element, since freely transferred groups are rotated to their base position anyway. To activate the option, under Catalogs, Site facilities, NC-Generator Driver Catalog on the Reinforcement tab, select the Rotate mesh in base layer option, for the two variants Stapl.reinf. + leveling + cutting or Stapled reinforcement. The option is always active and grayed out for Leveling + cutting system.