Bar-Be-Que

Bar Bending Schedule & Quantity Estimation Rebar Steel

Preparation of Reinforcement Bar Bending Schedules for RCC work at construction sites is the most tedious and time-consuming task. The shape of each and every bar is to be derived exactly for cutting. With increasing cost of steel, it has become necessary to minimize the wastage.

Almost all possible of bar shapes are available in the library, with their formulae for calculating the bar lengths. Dimensions of the bars are entered in user-friendly dialog boxes. Various practices followed at sites can be selected with optional parameters.

Program stores the data in a MS-ACCESS and MS-EXCEL compatible file formats. Bar Bending Schedule Drawings are compatible with CAD package. A sample drawing is shown overleaf.

BarBeQue program can read CAD compatible RCC Detail Drawings showing Reinforcement Bar details. Shape of the Bars and the dimensions are read from the drawing without any user data entry. The associated text giving the information about each bar is also read. Number of bars, spacing of bars, diameter of bars and Member Name etc. are read as Text.

Original drawing read is first displayed in one window. Program will automatically give serial number to every bar read and processed bar details are shown in another windows for easier checking of data, as shown below.

BarBeQue is compatible with Formulator, a Revolutionary General purpose Object based Quantity Estimator software by Ensoft. Formulator software comes with a library of various RCC objects like Rectangular Beam, Tapered Beam, Curved Beam, L-shaped column, U-shaped column etc. Formulae for working out the dimensions of all the bars like, main bars, face bars, stirrups and links etc. are pre-defined for these objects. User can add new objects in the library. Bar dimensions required for BarBeQue are generated by Formulator with simple data entry of Object dimensions.