FF Reinforcement

Tools: Secondary Reinforcement

You can use this tool to automatically create and place secondary wall reinforcement in the Precast Wall task area.

To place secondary wall reinforcement

1. Select Edit Element (How) or Element Plan (How), select a precast wall element, and click Secondary Reinforcement.
   

   Activate Element Plan in one of the following ways

   • Actionbar:Role Precast Elements Task Precast Slab Task area Element Plan Slab

   • Menu bar: Create Precast Precast Slab/Precast Wall/Precast Element/Production Planning

   • Palette: Tools Create area in the following modules:

   Precast slab

   Precast Wall

   Precast Element

   Production Planning

   

   Activate Edit Element in one of the following ways

   • Actionbar:Role Precast Elements Task Precast Slab Task area Element Plan Slab

   • Menu bar: Create Precast Precast Slab/Precast Wall/Precast Element

   • Palette: Tools Create area in the following modules:

   Precast slab

   Precast Wall

   Precast Element

2. Click FF Reinforcement on the Secondary Reinforcement context toolbar.
3. Define the default settings for placing the secondary wall reinforcement by selecting the required buttons.
4. Click OK to confirm the settings.
5. Select the catalog and click the required component.
   

   Additional tools for selecting components

   All components are shown graphically. When you drag the cursor over a component, ToolTips with a description of the relevant component appear.

   Clicking the individual components with the right mouse button and selecting Enlarge View enlarges the display of the component clicked.
   In addition, you can use the slide bar at bottom left in the dialog box to enlarge the graphic preview in its entirety. But this is reset when you quit the tool.

   Before selecting the component, you can mirror all components by selecting the Mirror about y-axis option. Thus, you can adjust unsymmetrical components to the existing outline.
   This option also applies to all additional components, but you can change it every time you enter a component.

6. Click OK to confirm the dialog box.

   A preview of the component is attached to the crosshairs. Before placing it, you can define the placing parameters in the dialog box. By using the shortcut menu, you can mirror the entire component and specify how the bending shape looks.

7. Move the crosshairs across the workspace. The component expands as soon as it detects an appropriate component geometry,
8. Click on the workspace to place the component
   or
   right-click in the workspace to open the shortcut menu and choose Use handles to adjust component. Select the handles and the required edges. When you have finished, select the Esc key.
   In addition, you can fit in the geometric template by clicking on the shortcut menu. The dialog boxes open.
   

   Fit in geometric template

   By default, additional wall reinforcement is placed at existing shell edges, which are automatically detected by the FF reinforcement tool. This can be the end of a wall, for example.
   Using a geometric template, you can place additional reinforcement anywhere within a wall.

   1. As soon as the reinforcement expands or the desired shell edge is highlighted, click in the workspace with the right mouse button.
   2. Click Fit in geometric template.
   3. Place the two imaginary wall leaves where you require.
   4. If necessary, modify the reinforcement parameters.
      

   Note: This way, you can also create additional reinforcement in solid walls or slab elements.

9. Define the reinforcement parameters, such as the Diameter, Bar spacing, Bar length, and Concrete cover, in the dialog boxes. You can immediately see these settings on the screen.
   You can enter global values or bar-based values.
   You can have the program calculate the bar lengths.
   You can enter the stirrup width as a fixed value, or you can have the program calculate the width automatically. In addition, you can enter the Number of bars and the Spacing of the longitudinal reinforcement.
   

   Stirrup width as fixed value

   If you enter 0.00 for the stirrup width, the program automatically calculates the stirrup width based on the concrete covers set and the existing wall geometry.

   As an alternative, you can also enter a fixed value for the stirrup width and have the program calculate the concrete covers automatically. The stirrup width must not exceed the width of the wall.
   Depending on the concrete covers specified, the following placement options are available:

   • If both concrete covers are set to 0.00, the stirrup is centered in the wall.
   • If one of the two concrete covers is set to 0.00, this concrete cover is determined automatically based on the value set for the other concrete cover and the stirrup width.
   • If both concrete covers are not set to 0.00, the concrete cover on the selected wall side is taken into account. The value for the other concrete cover is determined automatically based on the stirrup width.

   Note: By using Record management, you can save the component parameters and retrieve them later.
   You can use the Replace option to globally replace individual parameters by entering the old and new values.
   Click to expand the dialog box so that you can make further precast-specific definitions. The Reports tool provides various reports for analyzing the reinforcement.

   

   Replacing component parameters globally

   This dialog box provides a convenient way of modifying selected parameters of entire components.

   1. Select the parameters you want to change.
   2. Enter the old and the new values for the parameter(s).
   3. Click OK to replace the parameters.

      The program scans all the parameters you have selected for the old value and replaces it with the new value.
      This way, for example, you can change the diameter of an entire stirrup reinforcement without changing the diameter of the longitudinal reinforcement.

   Note: Please bear in mind that the Bar Spacing, Placing Length and Segment Length parameters are mutually dependent. i.e., changing one setting may cause another to update accordingly.

10. Click OK to confirm the dialog box, define the parameters for automatic placement, and click Automatic Placement.