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List of Plugins
Column Steel Drawing
Column Steel Summary with Moments
Column Summary Excel
Beam Steel Drawing
Beam Steel Summary
Beam Moments Extraction
ETABS to ARC BDS Lite
STAAD to ARC BDS Lite
Editing the INTELLI-REIN SHEET
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Column
Generates
Column Elevation DWG at selected
section.
This plug-in will help the design engineer visualize the structure well, and is very useful when the
structure is very big and when columns are failing this diagram will help the design engineer
visualize the failure better by getting the data Grid wise
This drawing will have positions of columns along X & Z direction (as per STAAD
conventions)
Coordinate of 15490, there are certain number of columns, and the Grid plan
draws a line for all such positions extracted from the STAAD ANL file.
Using this Grid plan the Designer can select a specific Section location (along X or
Z) based on his requirements and view the section drawing by selecting Column
If the column fails the text will be shown as FAILED and color of column changes to RED
Helps the Design Engineer Group Columns and understand the behavior of the columns through the
forces given
Output sample of
Column Steel Summary with Moments (Extracted to an PDF sheet )
Output sample of
Column Steel Summary with Moments (Extracted to an XLS sheet )
Helps the Design Engineer Group Columns and understand the behavior of the columns especially
when there are floating columns in the structure
Output sample of
Column Steel Summary (Extracted to an XLS sheet )
This plug-in will help the design engineer to give the reinforcement of the beam from the areas printed
on the drawing.
Output Sample of
Beam Steel Area Drawing
Output Sample of
Beam Steel Area Single Line Drawing
Helps the Design Engineer Group Beams and the percentage of Steel sheet will help the design
engineer that the steel provided is as per standards
Output Given
The program automatically arranges the beams row wise irrespective of the beam numbers and
the start node & end node positions; this will be very helpful for the design engineer to visualize the
full beam.
Helps the Design Engineer Group Beams and understand the behavior of the beams through the
forces given.
Z-Axis
Have Engineered A Solution
ETABS
to
ARC BDS TM Lite
A Boon Tool To Generate RC Beam L.S
Details
In ARC BDSTM -> Add On Tools -> Plugins -> Etabs to Lite
Select Etabs MDB Intelli Rein Excel option and click Process
Button the dialog box below appears
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The Path of the XLS file is shown as Hint when the mouse is taken near
the Link.
That file is the BASE for generating the ARC BDSTM Lite file,
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It contains all the Beams extracted from ETABS file
b.
Each extracted beam has
Select Create ARC BDSTM Lite Input file and click Process button.
The dialog below appears
Click on OK
Click on Exit the ARC BDS Lite file is generated; it can be loaded by
ARC BDS Lite version.
Once Loaded
Once the file is opened by ARC
BDSTM
In the list of beams click right button
and click Sort By Row Name
It will sort all the beams row wise,
and that is how the output will come.
Ensure that you have the backup of the OLD reinforcement sheet if
required as by CLICKING YES in this dialog.
YOU WILL LOOSE OLD REINFORCEMENT DATA if any.
The xls file created when clicking Yes will contain the data that is
there in the Current *.ZBLD file
Row Grouping
Deleting of Beams
Adding of beams
If all the steps above are followed in perfect sequential manner the only
work the design engineer will have is to modify the xls file given by the
draftsmen.
Once the draftsmen receive the modified xls file.
Click on Open Reinforcement
Data Sheet
In the xls sheet opened, replace all
the reinforcement data given by
Design engineer using copy
/paste
Save the xls file
Click Load Reinforcement From
Data Sheet and save the ARC
BDS lite file
Warning: - if this process is NOT
done, the changed reinforcement
will NOT be saved.
If the process is done perfectly, in days time you can generate Beam
L.S for entire floor, the only thing left will be to put them in title block
and edit some clashes.
By Editing the Reinforcement in xls sheet instead of the final drawing,
the advantage is that the steel take off will be very accurate.
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Note: Only for the 1st beam Left and right Grids need to be
given for all the other beams in the row you can give only the Right Grid.
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Do a dry run of the file once it generates the layout, see the
important beams that require the cross section to be shown
note the numbers and go back to Detailed Edit of the
beams for which the section is required.
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For getting your title block in the paper space, where ever
the ARC BDS.exe is present normally C:\Program
Files\ZaxisES\ARC BDS Lite there will be a
Layouts.DWG file Open the dwg
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Salient Features
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b.
c.
Generates a Final xls SHEET using which the Table will be created,
and the engineers will be at liberty to change the reinforcement data
as per their requirements.
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The above form appears Select Staad data (ANL) Intelli rein Excel
Click process
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Some times (not necessarily always) the above form pops up, the
design engineer should decide the Main beam & secondary beam, the
program automatically & intelligently selects appropriate main beam
however the design engineer should check it once. And click OK.
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Once the Main Beams are selected the following form pop ups
Select STAAD Data (anl) Intelli Rein Excel and click process
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Initial Input XLS sheet Generated automatically by the program by extracting data from an STAAD file
The Engineer has to Only Populate an appropriate DIA of Rod & % of Increase of Area of Steel, in this Sheet and
RE-NAME rows if required.
Note :- the area of steel being shown in the xls columns is extracted from the STAAD automatically.
Please Note:- Even Extra Bars with different dia can be given separated by ,
For detailed help on editing the IntelliRein file see Editing the INTELLI-REIN SHEET help document
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Select Create ARC BDS Lite input file and click process
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Program Generated final XLS sheet from the Initial (in the above screen) Notice that the Number of Bars are
Automatically calculated and populated.
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The Engineer can choose to change the generated Reinforcement provided as per his/her requirement and also
change the stirrups spacing, Like the one below.
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The XLS sheet is the summary of the full Longitudinal Section Data of a Beam extracted from STAAD/ETABS, such as
reinforcement areas, the left & right parent (support) sizes etc.
This sheet is contains reinforcement of a Individual Beam (as per LEFT, MIDDLE, RIGHT parts of beam) & is grouped
ROW wise.
User Editable DATA Columns
A to G
Column
A
B
C
D
G
If user wants to have different Rod dia for extra bars they can give by
separating with , For Example 16,12 or 16,20
Remarks
Row Name, the Draftsmen can
change the name of the ROW here
Preferred Bar Dia to be used for
top reinforcement
Preferred Bar Dia to be used for
Bottom reinforcement
% of Area of steel to be increased
before calculating the number of
Rods for Top Straight bars
% of Area of steel to be increased
before calculating the number of
Rods for Top Extra bars
% of Area of steel to be increased
before calculating the number of
Rods for Bottom Straight bars
% of Area of steel to be increased
before calculating the number of
Rods for Bottom Extra bars
How the reinforcement is calculated by the program from the area of steel
For A Beam (600 x 600) with 3 spans and size
Note:-
All the reinforcement will automatically be calculated by the program based on the above
logic, the user has to edit the reinforcement given in ARC BDSTM (The provided
reinforcement can be edited by clicking Open Reinforcement Data Sheet in ARC BDSTM
see help file of ARC BDSTM for more details on how to edit the reinforcement of beam)
Normally giving proper Dia of rods is the only work to be done by the Engineer, however some times
If the data given in STAAD / ETABS is not accurate, the length can be modified
(Change the Length value in Column J)
If the Row Beam is to be split that can be done in this file,
Say for Eg:- a Beam has 8 spans and for some reason the Draftsman wants to
split the beam into 2 beams with spans of 5 & 3
A. Draftsman should insert a blank row in between 2 beams
B. The Row name should be Unique
C. The Columns B to G (Rod dias) should be singular
A draftsmen with a little practice can do all work below (a little guidance by the design engineer will be
helpful)
Note:-
He can give this XLS file to the draftsman and ask him to RE-Name the ROWS
Break Rows if required sometimes the Etabs /STAAD file generates a Big row of beam due to
drafting reasons we may need to split it as 2 or Many beams, in such a case the user can split
the beam right in this file (see Annexure II for more details)
Add additional beams if required that are not there in the Etabs / STAAD anl file
Delete Beams, if beams are given in the Etabs / STAAD ANL files but are not required in the
drafting output, they can be deleted here.
Group similar beams by keeping the main beam and the other beams in brackets ( .. ) and
deleting the beams
It is at this stage the Engineer SHOULD check discrepancies of the sizes between the
Design and Drawn Layout.