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MasterRC is an AutoCAD application providing a powerful yet easy to use set of tools for the accurate detailing of reinforced concrete. Generation of bars and labels requires minimal input and scheduling is an immediate, error-free operation.

Evolving designs are catered for by a range of editing tools and repetitive details can be saved for re-use in later drawings and projects.

MasterRC has been used for over fifteen years on a wide variety of civil and structural projects. Development continues to enhance the existing toolkit and to add new features that contribute to productivity, always listening to the wishes of our customers.

For anyone familiar with AutoCAD and RC detailing, MasterRC is rapidly learned with the aid of show-me-how videos, the on-line manual and our excellent telephone support line. An automated link to the MasterSeries Concrete Design program enables rapid overall production of RC frame details and a built-in staircase detail generator greatly reduces the work required for this structural item.

The drawn details are automatically scheduled at the press of a button using the included MasterRC Scheduler. The Schedule provides full revision

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tracking as amendments are made to your details and the schedule revision is incremented each time you issue the schedule.

MASTERRC DETAILING FEATURES

Fast, flexible and efficient input • Extensive use of dialog boxes and flyout toolbars • Simply load an outline drawing into • AutoCAD® and start detailing

On-line manual • Pre-processors including staircase detailing generator • Operates in model space or paper space • Detail at different drawing scales and MasterRC • will look after everything, including all text sizes.

BARS

No cover lines or pre-selection of bar orientation required • Full range of graphical bar development methods • including fitted, to an outline, from a point and centred

Quickly fit straight and cranked lapped • bars to and between existing bars

Option to define bars by input of schedule dimensions • Tolerances and laps are calculated automatically • Linear varying bar groups • Stepped varying bar groups • Fitted to profile varying bar groups • Review and select bars for re-use•

LABELS

Labelling to suit single, groups or runs of bars • Labelling of rectangular, skewed, circular, • uniform and variable bar sets

Labelling of series of isolated bars • Offset link labelling, with multiple • groups and automatic symmetry

For checking, indicate any bars not associated with a label •

IMPORTING

As well as working as a fully fledged RC detailing • application, MasterRC can import outlines and finished details from a variety of sources

Outlines can be imported from • MasterCAD General Frames

Designed RC details can be automatically • imported from MasterKey Concrete Sections, MasterKey Retaining Walls, MasterRC Pile Cap and MasterBeam Concrete Beam Designer

The MasterRC detail import scripting language is • available for users to create their own detail macros.

Standard drawing details can be saved • and re-used as required

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EDITING

Efficient modification tools allow details • to be quickly changed to suit evolving designs and non-standard situations

Edit, replace and re-define existing bars • Stretching of bars and labelled bar runs • Full editing of label text • Options to adjust, split and join label runs • Split and lap straight bars • Change bar marks • Copy, move, mirror and rotate details using AutoCAD, • then complete and modify with MasterRC

CUSTOMISATION

MasterRC can be Customised to suit • your drawing office requirements

Customisation titles, labelling text formats • and layering table to company standards

Customise pre-defined label end notes • to suit particular bar shapes

Customise steel diameters, grade letters, laps, bending • radii and hook dimensions for different countries

Built-in and user-definable shape 99 bars • Tailor ranges of bar shapes for BS 4466, BS 8666, • SABS 82 or other codes with similar conventions

Customise order of bar shapes for rapid selection •

ADVANCED FEATURES

Coupled bars placed with end preparation • allowances to suit proprietary connectors

Work at different scales • Out-of-plane bar placing and labelling for inclined elements • Bar matching facility to minimise • generation of new bar marks

Compress and renumber existing bar • marks to remove duplicate bars

Undo marker placed before each MasterRC command • to speed-up and improve control of the undo process

Wall and slab outline drawing routines as bonus installation • Use external reference (XREF) drawings to • build details on existing outlines and to lap bars with reinforcement detailed elsewhere

SCHEDULING

The MasterRC Scheduler is included with MasterRC • Simple and quick method to preview or print the • schedule from within the drawing editor

Optional use of a bar database for the • intelligent re-use of bar marks

Immediate, automatic and error-free scheduling • Full error checking and reporting • Bar weights by element or bar size • “99” shapes can be customised, placed and • scheduled just like any standard shape

Any inserted, deleted or amended bars are • automatically reflected in the schedule

Schedule pages to BS 4466, BS 8666 or SABS • 82 can also be placed on the drawing, with “99” shape sketches automatically included

For checking purposes, the free legs of • bars may be shown on the schedule

Revisions are flagged with the relevant revision letter •

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