Concrete Reinforcement Detailing and Barlist Automation

<body background="../images/IntelCADBack.jpg" topmargin="20" leftmargin="20" bgproperties="fixed">  <p>Rebar Detailing (IntelCAD-RC)</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p align="left"><a target="_top" style="color: rgb(128,128,128)" href="../../index.htm"><big><strong><font color="#FF0000">:-( Lost?  Click here to get back to IntelCAD Systems Home Page :-)</font></strong></big></a></p>   <p>IntelCAD-RC has been developed under the direction of Alex Januszkiewicz, former president and leading programmer at IntelCAD Systems. He was also the author of a custom rebar detailing system for the famous <a target="_blank" href="http://www.hibernia.ca/html/about_hibernia/construction.html">Hibernia Gravity Base Structure</a> project, the first offshore oil platform that was designed to withstand the impact of icebergs and 30 meter waves, in the most severe conditions of the North Atlantic, 300 km of the coast of Newfoundland.  The implementation of an automated rebar detailing system with a project-wide rebar database increased design and drafting speed tremendously and became one of the key elements in the success of the slipform construction method employed on this project. (Interesting pictures from Hibernia operating today can be found by following <a href="http://www.hibernia.ca/html/about_hibernia/gallery.html" target="_blank">this link</a>).</p> <p>The rapid growth in popularity of IntelcadRC in Europe started in the end of 1995, when Laurent Morisseau, Director of IntelCAD Systems France, introduced the software to Europe Etudes Gecti (EEG), a major French consulting company.  Since then the software has been successfully used for RC detailing drawings and bar lists on number of projects in Europe and Asia, greatly speeding up the production and minimizing mistakes.  EEG, with more then fifty CADD stations currently running our RC detailing program in Paris, Toulouse, Strasbourg, and Rennes offices, is leaving any reinforcement detailing competition far behind. It cooperates closely with IntelCAD Systems with the  intention to make IntelcadRC the world's leading CADD reinforced concrete detailing software.</p> <p><strong>Sample Project</strong></p> <p>Computer generated 3D images of <strong><a href="http://www.solo-photography.com/vascobrdg.htm" target="_blank">Vasco Da Gama</a></strong>, an 18 km long bridge in Lisbon, Portugal, designed by EEG for the Universal Exhibition. One of the outstanding European projects of the present day.  All concrete reinforcement drawings (160000 tonnes of reinforcing steel) were created with our program, the reinforcement ordered and produced using a rebar schedule generated by IntelcadRC.</p> <p>Clicking the images with the left mouse button will open a full size image in a new browser window.</p> <p><a href="../images/Vdegama1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="../images/thumb1.jpg" alt="Vdegama1_small.jpg (1577 bytes)" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="75"></a>    <a href="../images/Vdegama2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="../images/thumb2.jpg" alt="Vdegama2_small.jpg (1912 bytes)" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="75"></a>    <a href="../images/Vdegama3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="../images/thumb3.jpg" alt="Vdegama3_small.jpg (1287 bytes)" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="72"></a>    <a href="../images/Vdegama4.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="../images/thumb4.jpg" alt="Vdegama4_small.jpg (1444 bytes)" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="73"></a></p> <p>Pictures courtesy of EEG, created by B.Bressy.</p> <p><strong>Features</strong></p> <p>IntelCAD-RC is a system that, within AutoCAD, helps to generate high quality, reinforcement detailing drawings.  As the drawing is finished, a rebar list is automatically generated.  This barlist reflects precisely the geometry of rebars and the quantities of a particular barmark used in a drawing.  They can be used directly for ordering rebars from the rebar shop. </p> <p>The four major components of the system are: <ul> <li>Bar drawing and editing</li> <li>Bar marking</li> <li>Rebar list generation</li> <li>Customization tools</li> </ul> <p>This reinforcement detailing system is totally customizable in terms of shape code, bar diameters, steel grades, symbology, barlist layout, etc.  It can be adjusted to any standard used on a particular project.  It can be used on a project of any size or complexity, and is particularly well suited for concrete megaprojects such as a nuclear power plant, a water dam, an offshore oil rig concrete gravity base structure (GBS), etc.  It is possible to maintain multiple configurations allowing for parallel use of different standards for different projects. </p> <p>Customization can be easily performed by a user's CADD support personnel or, for a small fee, by IntelCAD Systems.  Free customization can be included as a part of the initial purchase arrangements. </p> <p>Through its unique shape recognition system, IntelcadRC can recognize shapes that are within prescribed tolerances and organize all rebars used in a project into a database, where each barmark designates a unique bar geometry. Wherever this bar occurs in a project, it is guaranteed to receive the same barmark. It is up to project management to decide if the project should be organized by having a rebar database per drawing or a common database for portions on the construction or the whole project.  A properly organized project can dramatically decrease the number of different shapes that have to be bent in a rebar shop and allow for better planning of the rebar delivery schedule - this issue is especially critical in slipform construction methods.</p> <p>IntelcadRC is programmed using ObjectARX and Microsoft VC++. This accounts for very fast processing, including rebar database searches (eg. near instantaneous matching of similar bar geometry out of thousands of bars in a project database). </p> <p>One of the unique tools of IntelcadRC is a rebar database browser. It allows for viewing of the properties of every bar used on the project, editing of the rebar data, and importing of rebars into the current drawing.</p> <p>The rebar schedule generated from the drawing can be summated by the system with other barlists in order to produce summation schedules of the whole construction parts or even the whole project. </p> <p>The system allows for the use of special types of bars such as t-bar, and connections such as coupled connections.  It's up to the user to define the type and graphical symbols for T-plate, coupler, thread, etc. </p> <p>IntelCAD-RC is a simple and intuitive system from the user's perspective.  It was designed by the users of AutoCAD and top CAD programmers - personnel who have been totally immersed in AutoCAD since its early days in 1985.  All commands are designed to have a similar look and feel as AutoCAD commands.  This program does not restrict the use of any AutoCAD command (as opposed to some RC-detailing packages, where using STRETCH or COPY on a rebar will mess up database links).  You are free to use all of your preferred CAD drafting methods. When you tag the bars, their geometry, steel grade, etc. are saved in a database and given a barmark number, and a rebar schedule can be generated next.  While the barlist is generated, multiple consistency checks are being performed to make sure that schedule records reflect the geometry shown on a drawing. Any inconsistencies can be fixed by updating the barmark. The schedule may include sketches of all or just certain shape bars.</p> <p>Once the reinforcing bars are drawn, they can be modified by special IntelCAD-RC commands (like ADD HOOK, ADD COUPLER, REMOVE END DEVICE) or by regular AutoCAD commands like BREAK, STRETCH, MOVE, etc. The regenerated schedule will reflect all the modifications done to the rebars.</p> <p><strong>Do what your competition is doing right now: automate your reinforced concrete detailing and barlist generation.</strong></p> <div align="center"><center> <table> <tr> <td><form NAME="Babelfish Translation" ACTION="http://www.intelcad.com/translate" target="_blank"> <p><input TYPE="submit" VALUE="Automatic Deutsche Übersetzung Traduction française Traduzione italiana Traducción española Tradução portugese"><br> </p> </form> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <hr> <p>Copyright (c) 1999-2004, IntelCAD Systems<br> The material on this page cannot be published in any form without written permission from IntelCAD Systems.</p> <hr> <blockquote> <p><a target="_top" href="../../index.htm">Home</a><br> <a target="_top" href="../about/index.htm">About IntelCAD Systems</a><br> <a target="_top" href="../contact/index.htm">Contacting IntelCAD Systems</a><br> <a href="../clients/index.htm" target="_top">Partial List Of IntelCAD Clients</a><br> <a target="_top" href="../ordering%20info/index.htm">Ordering Information</a><br> <a target="_top" href="index.htm">Rebar Detailing (IntelCAD-RC)</a><br> <a target="_top" href="../attext/index.htm">AttExt - Standalone Tool for Attribute Extraction</a><br> <a target="_top" href="../xrepath/index.htm">xRepath - Standalone Tool for Xref Re-Pathing</a><br> <a href="../auditdwg/index.htm" target="_top">Audit DWG Tool</a><br> <a target="_top" href="../dwfin/index.htm">DWF to DWG Converter</a><br> <a target="_top" href="../viewer/index.htm">3D DWG Viewer / Virtual Walkthrough Software</a><br> <a target="_top" href="../down/index.htm">Downloads</a><br> <a target="_top" href="../consult/index.htm">Programming Services</a><br> <a target="_top" href="../autocad/index.htm">Alex's CAD Articles</a><br> <a href="../../translate/index.htm" target="_blank">Free Real-time Automatic Translation: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portugese</a><br> <a href="../../websearch/index.htm" target="_blank">Web Search</a><br> <a href="../cadlinks/index.htm" target="_top">Links to Other CADD Related Sites</a></p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>Any problems (invalid links etc), comments regarding this site, please contact <a href="mailto:webmaster@intelcad.com">webmaster@intelcad.com</a></p> <p>This page was last updated on May 24, 2004</p> <p> <center><iframe src="http://leader.linkexchange.com/14/X1435512/showiframe?" width=468 height=60 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=no> <a href="http://leader.linkexchange.com/14/X1435512/clickle" target="_top"><img width=468 height=60 border=0 ismap alt="" src="http://leader.linkexchange.com/14/X1435512/showle?"></a></iframe><br><a href="http://leader.linkexchange.com/14/X1435512/clicklogo" target="_top"><img src="http://leader.linkexchange.com/14/X1435512/showlogo?" width=468 height=16 border=0 ismap alt=""></a><br></center>  </p>  </body>