Improved Producibility check

Changes have been made to the producibility check so it now gives more information to the user.

In the Project Properties is a new option called "Show Reinforecmenet production error tooltip" added. This allows for an easy display of the error to the user through a tooltip, this way the user doesn’t have to look in the producibility log file for the error. This tooltip can be turned on/off with a project property on the “Drawings” page, as default is the tooltip is turned on:

Sample of producibility error tooltip:

Note

The information shown in the tooltip is not “live” data, it is just showing the data that is a result of the last producibility check. This means that if you change the bar manually the error will remain until the next time a producibility check is executed.

Another improvement is that if any errors are found when running the command “Check Producibility” you can get an overview of the errors by answering “Yes” to the question “Some bars were rejected, view errors [Yes/No] <Yes>:”. This will show the following dialog.

The dialog displays a preview of the element including holes that cut the mesh, and the reinforcement bars, are shown to the right and a series of controls that allows you to filter out bars with specific properties or errors are shown to the left. The current reinforcement bars with errors are shown in red, bars with errors but not in the current selection are shown in gray, and bars without errors are shown in green. As default all bars with an error are included in the selection, you can make a new selection of bars with the “Select bars” button. For a sandwich wall or a double wall, you can filter the bars in the current selection by “Element part” (Inner panel/Outer panel or Panel 1/, Panel 2). Bars can also be filtered on the orientation (Vertical/Horizontal), the construction part (Bar mesh), and length. There’s also a possibility to filter the different errors by checking/unchecking them in the grid, note that the checkbox “Group projection errors” will group all projection errors with different measures into one row.

There’s also a checkbox “Show all bars” which allows you to show all bars or only those in the current selection. Note that preview can be altered by using the mouse-wheel button (pan) or by using shift + mouse-wheel button (orbit) or by the right-click menu (view and presentation).

Finally, there’s a checkbox “Create selection set” which allows you to make the current bars selected when closing the dialog with “Ok”, this can be useful if you want to deal with all bars with a specific error, for instance, let’s say you have some bars drawn with an incorrect dimension then you can invoke command “Edit Bars…” for the selected bars and change the dimension.

For dealing with bar projection errors, we’ve added some new commands that can be useful for correcting these bars, when the projection error is small.

The commands are found in the “Reinforcement” part of the “Element”, “Doublewall” and “Formslab” ribbons.

“Trim to Maximum Bar Projection” works on bars that have a bar projection exceeding the maximum allowed, and it simply shortens the bar with the difference between the maximum projection and the current projection. If both ends have this error, you’re asked which end of the bar (or both) to trim to the maximum allowed projection. After the command, the error is removed from the bar on the drawing, but to see if the bar is approved and to update the database, you’ll need to perform a new producibility check.

“Extend to Minimum Bar Projection” works on bars that have a bar projection less than the minimum allowed, and it works in the same way as “Trim to Maximum Bar Projection” except it extends the bar.

“Adjust to Minimum/Maximum Bar Projection” simply corrects all projection errors in the selected bars without asking any questions.

The sample below shows how you can use the command “Trim to Maximum Bar Projection” to shorten some bars that have a bar projection exceeding the maximum value by 2 mm.

Note

It’s important to know that the commands for trimming/extending bars so that the minimum/maximum bar projection is fulfilled are using the data stored in the bar from the last producibility check. In other words, the data isn’t “live” data, so if the user changes the bar mesh manually the data will remain until the next time a producibility check is executed.

To further improve the workflow when working with Unitechnik exports and producibility check we’ve also added an “Export” part of the “Element” ribbon.

This includes the existing commands “Check Producibility”, and “Export to Unitechnik, Slabs, Walls…” which were only found in the “Base” ribbon previously.

It also includes the new command “Export Current to Unitechnik” which exports the element of the active shop drawing to the specified export folder without any dialogs shown.