Editing element

Module(s): Precast Slab + Precast Wall + Structural Precast Elements

You can use the Edit Element tool to edit single elements in a special screen display and send output to the printer/plotter. This allows you to draw fixtures or additional reinforcement, create a table, generate element dimensions automatically, or make individual reinforcement elements visible or invisible.

To edit or print individual elements

1. Click Edit Element (How).
   

   Activate Edit Element in one of the following ways

   • Menu bar: Create Precast Factories Precast Floor/Precast Wall/Structural Precast Units

   • Palette: Tools Create area in the following module(s):

   Precast Floor

   Precast Wall

   Structural Precast Units

2. Click Delete elements edited on the Edit Element Context toolbar if you want to delete elements edited in earlier versions, which still saved manual additions.
3. Select the relevant elements or enter the mark number in the dialog line if the Selection with mark number option is enabled.
   

   • To select a single element, click it.
   • To select elements in a region, use the left mouse button to open a selection rectangle around the elements you want to select
   • To include all the elements in the current document, click All in the Input options or press CTRL+A. Please note that this option is not available for all tools.

   For more information on the options available for selecting elements in Allplan, see Selecting elements, overview.

   When selecting elements, you can use the Filter Assistant to apply a filter based on element types and/or properties. For more information, see Filter Assistant.

4. Click Delete elements edited again to finish deleting elements edited.
5. Click the relevant element in plan or enter the mark number in the dialog line if the Selection with mark number option is enabled.

   Now the workspace is divided into two windows. A view of the selected element is displayed in the window on the left.

6. On the Edit Element Context toolbar, select the elements to be displayed (see also: Configuration).

   You can add a table, generate element dimensions automatically and show or hide the following elements:
   Reinforcement at top or side of design identifier
   Reinforcement at bottom or side opposite design identifier
   Longitudinal bars
   Cross bars
   Additional bars
   Lattice girders
   Additional girders
   Shear girders
   Loose bars
   Assembly bars
   Basic meshes
   Additional meshes
   Bent-up meshes
   Stirrup cages
   Fixtures
   Panel components
   In addition, you can print the element plan, model precast elements and model connections.
   In the Precast Wall module, you can modify the bending shapes at any edges and use the tool to adjust the span direction to the bottom of an element.

   

   Clicking this icon displays the printed image of the selected element on screen. For output, click one of the buttons at the bottom of the dialog box.

   	You can zoom in on a section. This is possible when you are running Windows Vista or Windows XP (if Display Properties on the Control Panel is set to Windows XP style).
   	This displays the Schedule Output Options.
   Excel	You can save the schedule as an Excel-format file (.csv).
   	You can place the schedule in the drawing file.
   	You can print the schedule.
   Text Format	You can save the schedule as a text file (.txt).

   

   You can use this button to show and hide filling objects, sections, hollow blocks, balls (BubbleDeck) and bricks of floors.
   If you have selected the exact display of panel components, they are part of the 3D object and cannot be hidden.

   

   Click to show or hide all the fixtures.

   If you want to show or hide individual fixtures, use the Visibility of Fixtures tool in the Fixtures module. To show or hide all the fixtures in individual views, you can use the View or Section Display tool in the Shell module.

   

   Click to show or hide the stirrup cages.

   

   Click to show or hide the stirrup meshes.

   

   Click to show or hide secondary meshes.

   

   Click to show or hide the meshes of the basic reinforcement.

   

   Click to display assembly bars.

   

   Click to display free bars.

   

   Click to show or hide the shear girders of the basic reinforcement.

   

   Click to show or hide secondary girders.

   

   Click to show or hide the lattice girders of the basic reinforcement (main, intermediate and additional girders).

   

   Click to show or hide secondary bars.

   

   Click to show or hide the cross bars of the basic reinforcement.

   

   Click to show or hide the longitudinal bars of the basic reinforcement.

   

   You can use this button to switch the bottom reinforcement layer of slabs on and off.
   Applied to walls, this button switches all reinforcement units with the description 'invisible' or with the index 2 in all layers on and off.

   

   You can use this button to switch the top reinforcement layer of slabs on and off.
   Applied to walls, this button switches all reinforcement units with the description 'visible' or with the index 1 in all layers on and off. In addition, this button shows or hides the reinforcement placed in in-situ concrete.

7. You can edit the selected element as you need.
   Clicking Additional Reinforcement, Fixture, Fixture from Article Catalog, Methods for Placing Fixtures or Modify/Label Reinforcement selects these tools straight from the context toolbar.
   Click Mesh Welding System Editor to open the reinforcement editor for the selected element(s).
   You can carry out a Collision Check for thermal walls.
   

   This button is only available when you have defined at least one wall element of the thermal wall type.

   When you select this button, the program checks for collisions between ComBAR thermal anchors and bar reinforcement. This is done for the active element. The number of collisions found is displayed in a dialog box and the corresponding ComBAR thermal anchors are displayed in the selection color.

8. Click Delete elements edited if you want to delete any changes you have made.
9. To select another element, click it in plan or enter its mark number in the dialog line if the Selection with mark number option is enabled.
10. The viewing area remains open when you quit the tool. This way, you can quickly change to a different module. If you do not need this view any longer, click 1 Viewport. Any elements you have added manually to the layout (text, dimension lines, ...) or additional views and sections will be lost. Please note that these elements are irrecoverable.

    If you want to retain layout elements or views and sections added manually to elements, use the Element Plan tool.

Note:
You can also use a selection rectangle or the bracket feature to select several elements for editing. Click View in the input options to select the element you want to view.