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AutoRebar
AutoRebar
Reinforced concrete detailing software and automatic bar bending schedules.
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Description
Reinforced concrete detailing software and automatic bar bending schedules.
Easy-to-use app for immediate productivity.

AutoRebar is an app that provides Autodesk® AutoCAD® (and all vertical products) with an extra toolbar with specific objects for
rebar detailing of reinforced concrete structures. With AutoRebar you can now easily produce high quality drawings quickly by
automating the repetitive tasks previously involved in rebar detailing. You can now focus on the conceptual part of the design rather
than deal with time-consuming traditional CAD editing work.

There are four types of dynamic objects: Rebars, Marks, Call-outs and the BBS.

The Rebar objects can be created and stretched like polylines and the bar size quickly edited with a double click. Since all AutoRebar
entities are graphically connected, the linked Marks and Call-outs update automatically.

The user can add a new Mark by selecting the Rebar to be linked, and double click it to edit data such as the bar grouping criteria,
the bar spacing and the size of the range. Alternatively, normal AutoCAD dimensions can be linked to the Mark and used to specify
the range of a bundle of bars in the concrete structure: AutoRebar calculates the total number of bars in that range. The great thing
is, whenever you modify the concrete shape and stretch the dimension, the total number of bars updates immediately.

The Bar Bending Schedule can be either inserted in the drawing or exported to Excel with a simple click. Meanwhile, the
EXPLODESEL and EXPLODEALL commands explode the AutoRebar objects into standard AutoCAD entities. This can be useful to
deliver your drawing to other users who want to open and edit the.dwg file without having to install AutoRebar on their computers.

Here are some short video tutorials to enable a quick start with AutoRebar:

  Video 1 – Rebars

  Video 2 – Curved Rebars

  Video 3 – Hooked Rebars

  Video 4 – Looped Rebars

  Video 5 – Polylines to Rebars

  Video 6 – Stirrups

  Video 7 – Crossties

  Video 8 – Crosshairs

  Video 9 – Marks and BBS’

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  Video 10 – Linked Dimensions

  Video 11 – More on Marks

  Video 12 – Calls

  Video 13 – Annotative scales

  Video 14 – Explode and deliver

  Video 15 – Variable Marks

  Video 16 – Export to Excel

AutoRebar fully implements both metric and imperial units.

Compatible with Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 (including all vertical products).

Purchase the app once and get free updates for future AutoCAD releases.

General Usage Instructions

Click the AutoRebar icon button to load the plugin and visualize dynamic AutoRebar objects.

Create your drawing using dynamic AutoRebar objects.

Use the BBS command to generate the Bar Bending Schedule.

Use either the EXPLODESEL command or the EXPLODEALL command to explode your dynamic AutoRebar objects into standard
AutoCAD objects and distribute your drawing to other users with no need to install AutoRebar on their computers.

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Commands
Ribbon/Toolbar Icon Command Command Description

AREDIT Edit AutoRebar entities. Select the autorebar object you want to edit and click the
command to access the edit form. This command is also triggered by a DOUBLE-
CLICK action on any AutoRebar object.

EXPLODEALL Explode all the AutoRebar entities present in the drawing into standard AutoCAD
entities. This is useful to distribute your drawing to users who don't have AutoRebar
installed on their computers. User defined blocks are not affected by the command.
You will be prompted to save a backup copy of the drawing containing the original
dynamic AutoRebar entities.

BBS Generate or update a Bar Bending Schedule taking into account all the Marks
present in the current drawing. Simply specify the insertion point.

AROPTIONS AutoRebar Options dialogue box. Define units, digits, annotation scale, bending
radius, font, display options and more.

SECBARS Insert a dynamic linear array of sectioned bars. Specify the diameter, the bar
spacing or the number of bars, the start point and the end point. When stretched,
the array of sectioned bars reacts in the following way: - if it's been defined by
SPACING, the number of sectioned bars changes to preserve the same spacing. - if
it's been defined by NUMBER OF BARS, the bar spacing is adjusted to keep the
number of bars unchanged.

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REMOVE Remove a section from an existing Rebar. Select the section of the Rebar you want
to cut.

SECBAR Insert a new sectioned bar. Specify the diameter and the insertion point.

EDITSCALE Edit the annotation scale of AutoRebar entities in multiple selections. This affects
the annotations in the object such as texts or symbols, not the dimension of the
object itself. Select the AutoRebar entities and enter the new value of the new
scale.

STIRRUP Quick draw command for a stirrup shaped Rebar. Specify the diameter, the
concrete cover, and the two opposite corners of the rectangular concrete section.

CHAIR Quick draw command for a chair shaped Rebar. Specify the diameter, the feet
length, the body height, the body width and the insertion point.

MARK Assign a new Mark number to the selected Rebar. Marks are always taken into
account by AutoRebar when preparing the Bar Bending Schedule. Select the Rebar
to be linked and specify the insertion points. A Mark can be assigned to a group of
bars whose geometry is linearly variable in the structure: 1. select one Rebar first
(for instance, this might be the shortest bar in the group of variable bars); 2. type V
for the VARIABLE option; 3. select the second Rebar (for instance, this might be
the longest bar in the group of variable bars); 4. specify the insertion points.

CROSSTIE Quick draw command for a crosstie shaped Rebar. Specify the diameter of the
crosstie, the diameters of the two bars which are hooked by the crosstie and their
center points.

REBAR Insert a new dynamic Rebar. The command behaves similarly to the standard
Polyline command. Just specify the diameter and follow the options at the command
line. Arcs and hooks and custom bends are also possible to shape a Rebar with
virtually any geometry.

AUTOREBAR Switch ON the AutoRebar engine to create or visualize dynamic objects.

PREBAR Convert a polyline into a Rebar. Select the polyline and specify the diameter.

BarList Export to Excel the content of the current quantity take-off.

APPEND Append a straight section to an existing Rebar. Select the Rebar you want to
append the section to, and specify the new vertex point.

CALL Calls can be useful to create annotations dynamically linked to Marks. Calls are not
considered by AutoRebar for scheduling. When a mark is modified (directly or
indirectly by modifying a Rebar) Calls gets updated on the fly.

EXPLODESEL Explode the selected AutoRebar objects into standard AutoCAD entities. AutoCAD
blocks and polylines included in the selection remain untouched.

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Installation/Uninstallation
The installer that ran when you downloaded this plug-in from Autodesk App Store has already installed the plug-in. You may need to
restart the Autodesk product to activate the plug-in. To uninstall this plug-in, click Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features
(Windows 7/8/8.1/10) or Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs (Windows XP), and uninstall as you would any other application
from your system.

Additional Information
Not suitable for AutoCAD LT.

Known Issues
Contact
Company Name: AutoRebar
Company URL: http://www.autorebar.com
Support Contact: info@autorebar.com

Author/Company Information
AutoRebar

Support Information
info@autorebar.com

Version History
Version Number Version Description
- New options for Mark Objects to automatically calculate the Rebar length by considering or not the actual
1.4.2 bending radius.
- Options for Secbar crosshair types now also apply to Rebar special ends.
- Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2018 support.
1.4.0 - Code signing Certificate by Comodo®.

No A360 sign-in required to use this plug-in. Just install and go.
1.3.1

1.3.0 New features in this release: Bar list export to Excel (CSV file). Options > Units > Use imperial bar sizes #2,
#3...#11, #14, #18. Options > Units > Display imperial format 0'-0⅛". Options > Units > Restore Defaults >
Metric/Imperial units. Options > Marks > Diameter symbol. Options > Marks > Spacing symbol.

1.2.3 - Improved file saving performance

- bug fixes

1.2.2 AutoCAD® 2016 compatibility.

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