Modifying Reinforcement Settings

Autodesk Video: 2013 Area and Path Reinforcement Enhancements

1. Click Structure tabReinforcement panel drop-down Reinforcement Settings.
2. In the Reinforcement Settings dialog, click General.
3. Select the Host Structural Rebar within Area and Path Reinforcement option.

The availability of this option depends on which file you use. When you:

• Open a new file - the option is set by default, but you can choose which area and path mode to use in the project. After creating area or path reinforcement, the possibility to change the mode is disabled.
• Open an existing file with the previously-defined area and path reinforcement - the option is available after you delete previously-defined reinforcement objects from the project.

When hosting rebar within an area and path reinforcement, you can:

• Display independent rebar elements in floors, walls and foundation slabs.

  Hosting of rebar is turned on (default)	Hosting of rebar is turned off
  You can specify the visibility of rebar elements in the Graphics section of Area or Path Reinforcement Properties palette.	Rebar elements are not visible unless you create a section view of the host element.

• Schedule every rebar in a project.

  Hosted Structural Rebar creates rebar sets if possible. This allows scheduling elements like rebar sets where adjacent bars of the same length are grouped in one row of the schedule.

• Remove the area or path system from a project and leave rebar or rebar sets in place. See Remove Area Reinforcement System or Remove Path Reinforcement System.

1. Click Structure tabReinforcement panel drop-down Reinforcement Settings.
2. In the Reinforcement Settings dialog, click either Area Reinforcement or Path Reinforcement.

   Along the left side of either dialog is a list of possible annotation abbreviations (Setting). Along the right side are the editable abbreviations (Value).

3. Select and highlight a value.
4. Edit the abbreviation as it should read in annotation.
5. Click OK to accept the abbreviation change.

   The following illustrations show the default abbreviations and modified examples as they display in a project.

   Default Abbreviations	Modified Abbreviations
   Area Reinforcement
   Path Reinforcement

For more information on tagging reinforcement, refer to Tagging Area Reinforcement and Tagging Path Reinforcement.