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Reinforced Concrete Detailing and Scheduling


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One Do-It-All Solution

PowerRebar is a complete solution for reinforced concrete, integrating 2D detailing, 3D modeling, scheduling, charting, and drawing production. It can be applied to a diverse range of structure types, from buildings and foundations to bridges and marine structures.

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Integrated Drafting Flexibility

Powerful routines enable you to quickly create accurate 2D reinforcement layouts of any size, shape or complexity. Plan, section, and elevation details simultaneously update whenever a change is made to concrete arrangements. In fact, layouts, quantities, models, and schedules are all integrally linked so that the design is instantly, accurately updated throughout.

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Automatic Scheduling and Charting

When detailing is complete, so is scheduling. PowerRebar completely automates scheduling and chart creation, helping you save time in the detailing office. As you place or modify reinforcement details, the software automatically assigns bar marks, determines bar shapes, and calculates bar lengths and dimensions.

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Support for International Codes

PowerRebar delivers user-definable international design codes that ensure compliance with requirements. Lap lengths, concrete strengths, bar diameters, and steel designations, as well as standard hook and cog sizes, are all preset to the requirements of each code. You can modify or create new codes to suit special design conditions or suit lesser-known codes.

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Bar Shape Library

Choose from more than 1,000 customizable bar shapes, covering all major international codes, and a vast selection of non-standard shapes. As you detail each reinforcing bar, the Bar Shape Library pinpoints a matching shape. You have the flexibility to deactivate and reactivate shapes.

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3D Modeling and Conflict Management

PowerRebar automatically creates three-dimensional reinforcement models from your 2D layouts and maintains them as you work. Reduce problems during construction by using 3D models for easy investigation and resolution of reinforcement conflicts—or as a basis for creating rendered perspective views and fly-through movies.

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Parametric Detailing

Resize or make simple adjustments to concrete details using dynamic dimensioning—and eliminate tedious recalculations. The software automatically adjusts all the related concrete and reinforcement details accordingly. PowerRebar’s parametric detailing tools help the detailing office minimize mistakes and respond quickly to last-minute changes.

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Powerful Bar Editing

A suite of specialized reinforcement editing routines brings unlimited flexibility to the detailing and scheduling process. Draw full-size bars, instantly rescale details, and insert openings into a group of bar ranges. Special features include nudge buttons that let you increase or decrease the drawing value while retaining a constant schedule value.

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Eliminate Manual Entry and Save Time

Eliminate traditional detailing errors with custom labeling. Bar marks, bar quantities, spacings, and diameters are maintained automatically across multiple views and throughout the entire drawing. This brings efficiency to checking as well as detailing.

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Dynamic Object Library

PowerRebar improves efficiency by enabling reuse of intelligent, dynamic concrete objects, retrieved at new sizes and orientations. You can dynamically stretch or modify objects without any loss of integrity to detailing or scheduling data. Automate the detailing of stairways, beams, columns, slabs, walls, foundations, piers and footings, retaining walls, bridges, and more.

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