Slab Rebar Plans — plans, tags and sheets

Open Slab Rebar Plans after creating recognized Slab Rebar 2.0 reinforcement. Select the Floor hosts and Finish. Each populated level/layer yields a plan; floor, plan and sheet counts differ.

Slab Rebar 2.0 · Tag the current view

Create a drawing set that can be inspected again

1. Select Floors with recognized v 2 D/T/A roles and open Slab Rebar Plans; otherwise pick Floors and Finish when prompted. Arbitrary Rebar does not automatically carry v 2 layer metadata. Read host/Rebar/plan counts before running.
2. Enable data-bearing Bottom/Top/Hat-Reinforce layers. Choose a View template or No template for a clear trial. Auto scale disables manual entry; turn it off and enter 50 for 1:50, not 1/50.
3. Choose Middle/First and last/All presentation. This changes visible positions rather than physical Quantity. Enable tags/dimensions as needed; Tag gap is in paper millimetres and overlap avoidance still requires inspection.
4. For sheets, enable Create sheets and choose an existing Title block. For managed drawings, enable Update existing and consider Preserve existing layout/Rebuild managed tags. Disable Update existing for a separate comparison branch. Managed identity is not merely a matching view name.
5. Run Create/Update plans and read progress/summary/review notes. Progress Cancel rolls back that operation's transaction. Inspect each plan/sheet in Project Browser: roles/layers, template/VG, scale, viewport, tags, distribution graphics and dimensions. A completed operation does not approve the drawing layout for release.

Change presentation without changing steel

Middle→All shows more positions without changing the set's Quantity. Scale 50→100 makes the drawing smaller on paper without shortening bars. A larger Tag gap asks for more separation and may increase review requirements; inspect the actual annotation rather than only the summary.

On a copy, move a managed tag and Update with Preserve to inspect retained placement; try Rebuild for managed-tag reconstruction. These exercises do not imply rewriting all manual annotations or eliminating every overlap. Ctrl+S saves views/sheets in the RVT; reopen the model and verify the intended drawing set.

Scope and options

Control / setting	Unit, condition, effect and verification
Bottom / Top / Hat-Reinforce	Choose layers identified by Slab Rebar 2.0 metadata. Arbitrary Rebar may lack recognized roles. At least one populated layer is required.
View template	Choose a template or usable project reference view. Templates can control visibility/presentation; inspect tag resources.
Auto scale / 1 :	Auto disables the manual denominator. Manual range is 1–10000; enter 50 rather than 1/50. Scale changes drawing layout, not steel geometry.
Rebar presentation	Middle, First and last, or All changes set presentation, not actual Quantity.
Add tags / Avoid tag overlaps / Tag gap	Enable annotations/overlap avoidance and paper gap (0.5–10 mm). ReviewRequired needs manual inspection.
Add dimensions	Enable drawing dimensions; inspect actual references and displayed values.
Create sheets / Title block	Enable sheets and select the title-block family/type. The selector is disabled when sheets are off.
Update existing	Reuse managed drawing identities rather than names alone; turning it off follows the tool’s new-output naming behavior.
Preserve existing layout / Rebuild managed tags	Available with Update. Preserve retains existing manual layout/presentation; Rebuild regenerates managed annotations and needs review.
Cancel / Create-Update plans / progress Cancel	Dialog Cancel makes no drawing change. Run validates numbers/domain; progress cancellation rolls changes back. Read completion and review reports.

Inspect output

Open each plan/sheet in Project Browser and check D/T/A layers, visible bars, distribution lines, diameter/pitch tags, dimensions and viewport/title-block layout. Successful creation is not drawing-layout approval. Moving an existing tag and updating with Preserve, then comparing Rebuild on a copy, are suggested exercises unless an explicit report below confirms them.

Save the RVT and reopen the sheet; steel settings JSON does not save drawings.

Additional controls and visibility

Control	Condition and effect
Add tags dependency	Overlap avoidance and gap affect tag creation. Turning Add tags off does not delete steel or user annotations; review existing template/view content.