Side Bars and labelling

Up to 2020 version

From 2021 version

Side Bars

At supports the sidebars may be curtailed in one of 3 ways. You may also set the side bar diameter and the depth above which side bars are required. 

Bar Layers 

Bar labelling may be tailored to suit your own drawing style. 

In the UK users would normally only be concerned with how layered reinforcement is labelled.  i.e. T1, T2 and B1, B2 or the T, TT and B, BB methods.  This is only important if you will be using layered steel.

Normally you have 1 or 2 groups of bars on 2 layers. (max of 4 groups).   The T1-T4 layer switch allows you to have 4 layers of reinforcement but only 1 bar group per layer.

Bar Marks

Bar marks can have a prefix or suffix e.g. 4-T16-A03 or 4-T16-03A and the bar mark can be placed before the bar size e.g. 4-A03-T16.

Label Beam bars in Section

In beam cross-sections you can label either All Bars, Alternate bars or just the External bars.

Pad Label Zone

In Wide Pad foundations with zoned reinforcement you can either annotate the call-up lines on the Call-up line or on the end-note.