SCADDS/RC-Slab Drafter™ Release 1.1

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SCADDS/RC-Slab Drafter™ is for Automatic Detailing of Single-Panel/Multi-Panel Rectangular/Square Reinforced Concrete Slabs in Multistorey Buildings through AutoCAD.

Presently, this is on MS-DOS® platform and controlled through a Windows® 95/98 User Interface.

You can download the Trial Version of RC-Drafting Suite! from the Downloads section.

Custom Features of SCADDS/RC-Slab Drafter 1.1

• Support for Detailing the entire floor having Multiple Slab Panels.
• Support for Panels, with continuous/discontinuous edges.
• Facility to generate Layouts for Slab Panels, Beams, Columns and Footings.
• Facility to input individual ID for each Panel.
• Automatic Generation of all Grid lines across X and Y directions.
• Automatic Generation of Grid IDs.
• Consistent and User friendly interface to provide Slab Corner Nodes, Column, Details, Footing Details and Beam Details.
• Support for Column Offsets and Footing Offsets in both directions on the Floor Grids.
• Facility for input of Ids for Columns, Footing and Beams.
• Facility to input Steel Grade Symbols for Rods in both directions of Slab Panels.
• Curtailment of Rods based on Span Ration Method and Fixed Length Method.
• Revolutionary and Innovative Notation Manager for Customizing spacing of Rods.
• Notation Preview Facility.
• Facility to generate Drawing Notes.
• Facility to view/print Input, Template and Report.
• A Utility for calculating Steel Area from Rod Spacing.
• A Utility for calculating Rod Spacing from Steel Area.
• Support for any Drawing Scale.
• Automatic Dimensioning of all Dimensional Parameters.
• Automatic Description of Steel Details.
• Automatic Dimensioning of all Curtailments/Extensions.
• Automatic Generation of Sub titles and Section IDs.
• Multiple Choice drawing generation for Slab Details and Layouts. (Top)

Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers!)

Q. What are the functions of SCADDS/RC-Slab Drafter?

A. SCADDS/RC-Slab Drafter is meant for automatic preparation of detailed floor plans showing reinforcement details based on IS codes and handbooks as well as on sound engineering practice.

Q. What are the additional functions of SCADDS/RC-Slab Drafter?

A. SCADDS/RC-Slab Drafter can also prepare different types of layouts such as, Grid layouts, Beam-Column layouts, Column-Footing Layouts and similar combinations.

Q. Will SCADDS/RC-Slab Drafter carry out detailing automatically?

A. Yes! You can obtain a truly professional detailed drawing for a typical floor having, say, 15 panels, in less than 25 minutes flat! That too, to any scale of your choice with your own custom drafting standards, using AutoCAD. Curtailment, extension and bending of rods are automatically taken care of as per Codal provisions and therefore, you do not have to provide any input for these parameters. Moreover, you can also control these parameters to meet your custom detailing requirements. All such extensions and curtailments will be fully dimensioned so that the site engineer can understand the drawings with absolute ease.

Q. What is the input required to be given for detailing a multipanel slab or floor?

A. You will have to provide the number of column nodes & their coordinates, no. of panels & their boundary conditions, reinforcement details and details for location of beams along edges. SCADDS/RC-Slab Drafter also provides you with utilities using which you can generate repeatedly used data for select parameters.

Q. What is the output generated by SCADDS/RC-Slab Drafter?

A. The output will be of multiple choice type. This means that with the same input data, you can generate different drawings for reinforcement details for the whole floor, Grid layouts, Beam-Column layouts, Column-Footing Layouts and similar combinations. (Top)

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