Concrete Quantities

The Concrete Quantities functionality allows the user to create accurate and detailed reports of civil engineering concrete design practices.

The user will be able to view the following results:

• Calculation of the volume of civil engineering concrete objects.

• Calculation of formwork surface areas for civil engineering concrete objects.

• Calculation of slab usable surface areas.

The user will be able to view results in a variety of ways and also save them to a text file.

To carry out the concrete quantities calculations for a structural element, on the Buildings tab, in the Tools group, click Concrete Quantities to display the Concrete Quantities window.

The Concrete Quantities window allows the user to select the material type and the element types that the calculations will be applied to.

By default All the material types will be selected but the user can select an alternative material type from the Material drop-down list.

Note:

All is the default value that provides no limitations with regard to material when concrete take off is calculated.

The limitation defined will apply to the concrete take off as a function of the MATREF attribute content.

After selecting the material type, the user can select the element type that the concrete quantities calculations will be applied to. By default all of the elements are selected. Click to deselect the element type checkboxes which are not required for the take off calculations.

• Floor

• Wall

• Column

• Beam

• Base

• Stair

Each element type is linked to a element that works as follows:

Click OK to begin the concrete quantities calculations.

A progress window is displayed showing how the concrete quantities calculations are progressing.

The user can interrupt the concrete quantities calculations process at any time by clicking Cancel.

While the take off calculations are being carried out, the Concrete Quantities application automatically manages the procedure and displays all execution messages and errors (if there are any) in the Execution window at the end of procedure.

Note:

The messages displayed in the Execution window are also displayed on the Results window and will also be saved at the end of the savework file.

After the concrete quantities calculations have been completed the basic results are displayed in the Results List pane of the Concrete Quantities window.

To display more detailed results of the concrete quantities required, click Output to display the Result window. Refer to Results for further information.