This product consists of a selection of Lisp routines designed to speed up the process of reinforcement detailing using AutoCAD^®. The aim has been to produce a tool which would be simple and intuitive to use, AutoCAD^® like in operation and free from all tedious manual calculations.

The bending codes supported are BS4466:1989, BS8666:2005 and SANS282:2004 (formerly SABS82)

Lwpolylines are used to represent bars, depicted in one of three views in a drawing. These are side, plan and end view. Side view is that used to display the shape in the various bending codes. Plan view is taken as looking down on side view and End view is taken as looking at side view from the left. Extended entity data is used to stored additional information such as, bar type, diameter, shape code and 3D points defining the dimensions A, B, C, D and E, of the bar. The width of the lwpolyline is set according to the bar diameter.
Note, stretching a bar will change it's length in the bending schedule.

Labels are text entities, assigned to a member reference number and linked to a particular bar. They are used to further assign and describe additional placement properties of the bar such as number, pitch, location etc, and also, the number of members.

When a schedule is to be compiled, the program searches the drawing database for all selected labels . Then starting with member number one, it groups together all those labels belonging to that member and sorts them in ascending order of their barmarks. During this sorting process, any bar found not to comply with the selected bending code is rejected along with it's label. Also all bars found to be similar, are merged together under one entry in the schedule by summing up their numbers in each. If no labels are found, then the member number is increased by one and the search resumed until all selected labels have been processed.
The whole process is fast, accurate and automatic, eliminating any potential source of user input errors.

Several modules are provides for the detailing of complete elements at the click of a button. These elements include, pad bases, beam spans, column lifts and stair flights. Detailing has never been this fast.

The program also includes routines for the design of certain concrete elements to BS8110 . This include the design of rectangular pad bases for axial load, moment and shear including punching shear analysis. The design of a rectangular column lift made easy including slenderness ratio calculations. Takes the head ache out of column design. The design of a beam span including span/depth ratio calculations. The design of a rectangular beam and slab section including shear and span/depth ratio calculations. Punching shear analysis for flat slabs .

Routines are also provided for the analysis of retaining walls. These include the standard stem-base type and the gravity retaining wall.

All design and analysis calculations can be saved as a text file so that a hard copy can be produced.

CadetRC^® is only available as a stand alone program.