ProConcrete THE NEXT GENERATION OF REBAR DETAILING. ProConcrete is an advanced 3D CAD software tool used to model, detail, and schedule reinforced concrete structures. In addition to improving project turn-around time, the system allows concrete and rebar to be fully realized components of each project’s vision via Building Information Modeling (BIM). • Use your current Developed jointly by CAD engineering leader Bentley Systems, Inc., CAD platform and aSa, the world’s leading rebar software provider, ProConcrete brings ProConcrete is the together many years of industry experience and technical innovation. only concrete modeling product designed to ProConcrete tools allow you to quickly and accurately model all work with leading CAD components of your structure, including concrete, rebar, mesh, connectors, packages MicroStation and AutoCAD, maximizing and other accessories. The system handles cast-in-place and precast your investment in CAD concrete elements. software and training. Integration and Intelligence • Eliminate tedious drawing tasks ProConcrete is the only concrete modeling package that integrates with Built-in tools and templates leading CAD tools MicroStation® and AutoCAD®. This allows you to allow you to model leverage your existing investment in drafting software and employee concrete and rebar quickly and accurately. Even training. Additionally, Bentley’s Integrated Structural Model (ISM) complex shapes can be technology lets ProConcrete share model data with other 3D tools, such as easily reinforced without the need to draw individual Revit®, STAAD®, and RAM®. Better than a simple import-export process, bars. ISM allows for a true two-way data exchange. For example, if you change the dimensions of a footing in a Revit model, the concrete footing object • Connect to aSa downstream — and even the rebar inside the footing — are automatically updated in operations the corresponding ProConcrete model. As part of the Bentley ProStructures ProConcrete has package, ProConcrete shares a powerful graphics engine and many utilities unparalleled connections to aSa’s suite of rebar with ProSteel — a structural steel modeling product — allowing engineers applications, giving and fabricators to design and document composite structures with a single detailers access to key information — such as integrated tool. takeoff, fabricating, and mill cert data — for all the Each model you create with ProConcrete has unparalleled connections to downstream aSa rebar reinforcing contained in the applications, including shop scheduling, tagging, equipment automation, fabrication, material model. tracking, and load tracking. These connections give rebar detailers access to key data, such as heat/mill cert information and the production status of bundles currently in fabrication. The Complete Rebar Solution • Easily detect The BIM Advantage such as length, width, height, number of floors, congestion problems In addition to saving many hours of drafting time, and distance between gridlines; then, you click a View modeled concrete and point on the drawing. The program automatically rebar from any angle or developing a 3D model has several advantages distance to find and correct over creating 2D placing drawings. For example, draws a “work frame” — a 3D wireframe view of congestion problems or your floors and grids. For more complex structures, design flaws before they with Building Information Modeling (BIM), you can become issues at the easily rotate and zoom to view any portion of your you can draw shapes and boundaries in 2D, then jobsite. structure from any angle or distance. This allows incorporate them into your 3D work frame. you to visually detect congestion issues long before • Generate multiple If concrete members on all floors are similar, you they become a problem at the jobsite. Additionally, placing drawings can define dimensions once, then add concrete for and schedules from the model gives all project stakeholders (including all of the structures’ beams, columns, footings, and a single model architects, engineers, and general contractors) a From your 3D model, walls in seconds by simply checking the appropriate realistic view of the concrete and rebar relative ProConcrete automatically boxes in the Work Frame tool. If concrete generates 2D placing to other construction elements, such as HVAC, drawings and schedules dimensions differ throughout the structure, special structural steel, and masonry. Having a real-world, based on customizable tools allow you to define dimensions, then easily options you set. big-picture view of the structure helps eliminate place individual concrete objects based on points, design flaws, break down communication barriers, • Collaborate with grid line intersections, or drawn paths. and improve project planning at all levels of the engineers and Adding reinforcing to the concrete is easy, too. You others infrastructure lifecycle. ProConcrete allows you set up parameters such as clearances, spacings, laps, to share model data with Easy Modeling and hooks, then place the bars inside your concrete other 3D tools such as Revit, STAAD, and RAM. Starting your ProConcrete project is easy. You simply shapes. Later, if you change concrete dimensions, enter some basic information about your structure, the associated reinforcing automatically updates. In addition to tools for specific structure types, such as beams, columns, and panels, the system includes a wide variety of utilities for adding and editing single bars and runs of bars, giving you complete control over the placement of all reinforcement. In areas where bars from different concrete objects overlap, you can use “Joggle” tools to automatically create offsets and shift bars, avoiding the need for tedious manual manipulations. Flexibility to Handle All of Your Projects Environment data, such as bar sizes and hook lengths, are stored in files that can be easily modified, allowing the system to handle any On your 3D model, you can view your structure from any angle or distance, allowing you to detect building code or special situation. Virtually any design flaws or congestion problems before they become issues at the jobsite Through direct support of 3D ACIS® Modeler • Fine-tune drawings (ACIS), ProConcrete gives you the ability to develop with countless Create Elements Create External Columns display options Create Internal Columns Create External Beams reinforcing for any three-dimensional structure, even Create Internal Beams Create Floors Detail styles let you Create Walls Create Pad Footings highly irregular shapes that other interfaces cannot Create Strip Footings control how concrete, rebar, callouts, and other handle. Additionally, this feature allows you to take objects appear on your models from other 3D software, such as Revit or ProConcrete-generated placing drawings. Tekla®, and reinforce them with ProConcrete. With ProConcrete’s simple-to-use tools and re-usable templates, you can • Customize One Model — Unlimited Drawings, add concrete members such as footings, slabs, beams, columns, and environment data to Schedules, and Reports walls to your structure in seconds. meet your needs From a single ProConcrete model, you can A flexible framework allows ProConcrete to automatically generate 2D rebar placing drawings, handle any building code, bar bending schedules, and parts lists. Changes rebar shape, or environment settings you need for your to the 3D model update all related drawings and projects. documents. • Develop 3D On your model, you simply draw a box around composite the area you want to include in a 2D drawing — or structures ProConcrete shares tools optionally select views or objects based on other and functionality with criteria — and ProConcrete’s Detail Manager ProSteel, a structural steel modeling application. From a single 3D model, you can easily generate multiple 2D placing automatically generates 2D drawings for you. Collectively known as drawings, bar bend schedules, and other reports. “Detailing styles” that you define determine how ProStructures, this single integrated framework concrete, rebar, callouts, and other objects appear allows you to design and on the 2D drawings. Unlike traditional 2D rebar document projects that include concrete and detailing, creating drawings that show rebar from product you supply or need to document can be structural steel. included in your ProConcrete model, including top, side, and other views does not require you to mesh, high chairs, and even structural steel manually draw bars in each respective view. Instead, • Communicate more effectively components. Tools to develop pre-cast panels and you simply select the views you want to detail, and A variety of file formats ProConcrete automatically creates the drawings you slabs, along with hoisting sleeves and inserts, are and tools allow all those built into the system. need. Numerous options allow you to control title involved in a project to review ProConcrete models blocks, scaling, the number of drawings that appear without complicated import Additional flexibility comes from tight integration on each printed sheet, and other settings. and export processes. with your CAD platform and other modeling tools. Options include: AutoCAD, A similar process is used to automatically generate MicroStation, Bentley For example, you can draw a 2D shape such as a ProjectWise, Luxology® “T” or hollow core using MicroStation or AutoCAD schedules, reports, and material takeoffs. Reports Nexus rendering, and 3D PDF. tools, then use that shape