Single Shear Wall
The images identify controls in the exercised build. Read the version and run limitations below before applying the workflow. Proposed exercises are not verified results; no accepted result-model download is available for this tool.
BimSpeed.STR → Wall → Single Shear Wall opens a per-storey editor for selected walls/columns. This page covers SingleWallCmd; 2.0 uses a different editor and selection sequence.
- Select hosts and Finish. Hosts are ordered by bottom elevation. One readable host passes chain validation.
- For several hosts, avoid duplicate bottom elevations. The vertical gap check uses about 500 mm tolerance; the upper segment's thickness edges must fit within the lower segment, about 10 mm tolerance. These are software acceptance checks, not construction tolerances.
- Select the storey before editing Geometry, Longitudinal bars and Ties. Inspect both section and vertical chain.
- Copying all ties from a storey and copying one selected tie have different scopes. Choose target storeys and verify their values after copying.
- Create closes the editor and runs a transaction. Host design data and saving the RVT are separate operations.
Counts and laps
X/Y counts describe the section layout. A selected individual bar can have a different diameter or higher-end flag; the higher flag affects lap staggering. Inspect an elevation and individual sets after creation. Increase and then decrease one group on the same storey. A diagram is not proof of committed Rebar.
Result inspection
Use a Fine 3D view and a storey section. Select native Rebar to read diameter, Quantity, host and shape. Inspect storey transitions, changed sections, foundation and roof ends. Retain the pre-run copy; regeneration over manually edited reinforcement is not fully runtime verified here.
Settings
| Control | Unit / choices | Effect and verification |
|---|---|---|
| Storey / page | Selection | Choose the storey before editing; this list identifies the designed host. |
| Host geometry | mm | Thickness, length, height, slab and upper segment; compare with the model. |
| Cover | mm | Shared concrete cover; inspect concrete face to bar surface. |
| Diameter-based / fixed lap | Modes | Select one calculation mode. |
| NLap / NKc2LanNoi | × diameter | Overlap and staggering in diameter-based mode. |
| LengthLap / LengthKC2Lap | mm | Fixed overlap and staggering lengths. |
| DistanceBase / ELimited | mm | Base distance and offset threshold; inspect changed-section lap geometry. |
| Uniform / end zones; left/right lengths | Mode; mm | Defines regions; avoid overlapping end zones. |
| X/Y counts and diameter: uniform / left / middle / right | Integer; mm | Separate values per group; inspect corners and intermediate bars. |
| Selected-bar diameter / higher flag | mm; on/off | Individual bar size and lap staggering; inspect an elevation. |
| Array sole | Button | Toggles higher/lower flags for bars sharing the selected bar direction; inspect lap elevations. |
| O / C / U ties | Shapes | Select the tie shape before placement. |
| Wall / column tie; diameter | Mode; Ø6/8/10/12/14/16/18/20 mm | Rules and numeric diameter for the selected tie, not a family-name list. A matching project type is needed for creation. |
| EndSpacing / MidSpacing | mm | Separate end/middle pitches; inspect the corresponding sets. |
| Quantity | Read-only integer | Computed tie quantity, not host longitudinal-bar total. |
| Sort / Delete / Clear all | Buttons | Sort design items by name, remove selected, or clear configured ties; inspect before creation. |
| Copy to level / Copy element to level | Target storeys | Copies all ties or one tie to target storeys, appending to existing ties. Add confirms; Cancel closes without copying. |
| Roof / Lb; foundation / ties / H / L / foot shape | On/off; mm; shape | End treatments; inspect actual bends and foundation embedment. |
| Create / Close | Buttons | Create stores design data and creates bars; Close exits. Save the project separately. |
Observed dialog and locale
The actual three-page editor opened in Revit 2024. The focused UI was opened on a basement wall whose editor reports a 450 × 7700 mm section and 3900 mm height; its diagram was a proposal, not generated output. Use appropriate geometry for a reinforcement exercise rather than treating this UI example as a wall design.
EN selection still leaves fixed Vietnamese labels in lap and tie panels, so mixed-language windows are not presented as fully English UI screenshots. The detailed field/button reference below maps those controls. The educational R24 wall input is a separate starting host and is not project output. Committed/reopened creation is not established by this UI set.
Field scope and edit buttons
The selected storey owns its geometry and longitudinal/tie design. Cover, lap and foundation/roof inputs are shared editor data. Select the storey and verify its highlight before editing.
| Field/action | Units and availability | Effect and verification |
|---|---|---|
| Family/type and section width/length/height | Host readback | Confirm the native Wall/Column and section first. Do not compensate for wrong geometry with reinforcement values. |
| Floor thickness / upper segment | mm, interface geometry | Check storey-junction elevations; an empty value is not proof that no floor exists. |
| Cover | Shared; mm | Reduces usable section range when increased. Inspect both edges and corners after creation. |
| Diameter-based / fixed-length laps | One shared mode | Use either multipliers or mm, not their sum. |
| Lap length (mm) / lap separation (mm) | Fixed-length branch | The first controls overlap; the second offsets high/low laps. Inspect both independently in elevation. |
| Lap length (xD) / separation (xD) | Diameter-based branch | Separate multipliers. Diameter changes can change actual lengths; inspect the selected bar's high/low flag. |
| Base distance | Shared; mm | Offset at reinforcement/lap start, not the middle tie pitch. Inspect the first tie and lap elevation. |
| Allowed bend offset | Shared; mm | Software threshold at section transitions, not construction tolerance. Inspect the transition shape. |
| Even / left / right / both ends | Selected storey | Activates corresponding zones; inactive side fields are grey. |
| Left/right lengths | mm, active end zones | Move zone limits and change the remaining middle range. Check zones do not overlap. |
| X and Y in left/middle/right zones | Integers per zone | X follows wall length, Y thickness; do not multiply them to infer whole-stack quantity. Check corner sharing on the section. |
| Zone diameter | mm per active zone | Changes that zone; recheck individually edited bars. |
| Selected-bar diameter / upper-lap flag | One selected bar | Select a point on the section first; check that other bars are unchanged. |
| Reorder stagger | Selected direction | Reverses high/low order; inspect lap positions in elevation. |
| Roof/Lb | Toggle; mm | Controls the roof/slab end treatment. Disabled Lb is inactive and does not create a slab host. |
| Foundation/H/Lb/foot shape | Toggle; mm; shape | Controls lower depth, horizontal leg and shape. It does not create/delete a native foundation. |
| Closed/C/U tie | Type before picking | Pick its points in the section and select the resulting design item to edit; the radio choice alone creates no native tie. |
| Wall/column tie | Selected tie item | Column mode enables middle pitch; wall mode disables it. |
| Tie diameter | mm per item | Independent of longitudinal diameter. |
| End/middle pitch | mm per item | End pitch controls end zones; middle pitch is enabled only for column ties. Inspect those zones separately. |
| Quantity | Read-only | Computed tie quantity, not an input for total longitudinal bars. |
| Sort | Tie list | Sorts design items by name; it is not a model array operation. |
| Delete / Clear all | One/all tie design items | Edit the proposal; Clear all asks confirmation. This is not deletion of every project Rebar before OK. |
| Copy below list / Copy in tie details | Whole-storey list / one selected tie | Choose destination levels; check for appended duplicates. Add confirms and Cancel closes the copy dialog. |
| OK / Close | Whole design | OK closes the editor and creates in a transaction; Close exits. Stored project design and RVT Save As are separate. |
On a copy, compare middle X=5→7→4 while holding Y=2/diameter fixed. Change one selected bar's diameter and high-lap flag. In ties, compare column mode's middle pitch with the disabled wall-mode field. Use Undo or separate inputs between alternatives rather than counting overlaid runs.
The exercised EN setting still leaves fixed Vietnamese labels in lap and tie details. These mixed-language windows are not presented as fully English UI screenshots.
Saved design does not guarantee created bars
On an existing concrete wall approximately 300 mm thick, 1.2 m long and 3.9 m high, the exercised R24 Release build stored design data on the host but created no new Rebar. This is a limitation of the tested build, not a successful result. If the editor closes without visible bars, inspect Rebar by host and any messages before Save As; repeated creation is not a diagnosis. Use a compatible updated build and verify a copy before adopting it in a project. This run supplies no result model.