1. Understand how the 7cad Rebar Schedule manages files and folders

1.1 Working folder: Is the folder where the Rebar Schedule file are saved. Most often, this is the folder of your CAD drawings.

1.2 References folder: This folder contains ".shapecodes" and ".rebartypes" files, which are external reference files. Changing this folder location will affect all your rebar schedules in your PC. By default, the References folder is the app's content folder. If you have customized shape codes and customized rebar types files, you can save them to a shared folder and set it as References folder. Then all your users can use the shared reference files.

To change the references folder, click the "References ..." button at the bottom right corner of the 7cad Rebar Schedule window.

1.3 Project info: Project info first part is saved to a . projectinfo file in your working folder. Changes in project info's like company name, company logo, project name, etc. will populate to all rebar schedules within the working folder. On the other hand, Project info second part, like drawing number or drawing reference, revision, created by and checked by, etc., are saved to the rebar schedule document itself.

2. The 7CADREBARSCHEDULE spreadsheet

Adding, removing, and editing rebar schedule rows are made easy as described in the above Description section. Anytime, you can undo or redo changes by clicking the Undo/Redo button or simply pressing the Ctrl Z/Ctrl Y keys. The rebar schedule row can have errors, and if it has, cells will be marked up with pink color.

Common errors are: member not found, rebar type not found, shape code not found, Real CAD Dwg generator fails and/or duplicated marks.

Copy and Paste are supported in the 7cad Rebar Schedule spreadsheet. To copy the whole rebars and paste them to other schedule, select the whole rows then right click for Copy command.

Generate Marks command window: see in screenshots. You can renumber all marks with a click on the "Run Numbering" button.

Advanced command in this window is "Merge similar Rebars to one row". It is when there is more than one row of rebars that have the same member, rebar type, and shape, then they should be merged into one record, and the count fields should be summed up.

Publish commands: you can publish the rebar schedule to AutoCAD or Excel for print. If current view mode is showing Real CAD Dwg, then the publishing result will show real cad drawing. If current view mode is not Real CAD Dwg, publishing result will show the shape code definition images.

The installer that ran when you downloaded this app/plug-in from the Autodesk App Store will start installing the app/plug-in. OR, simply double-click the downloaded installer to install the app/plugin. You may need to restart the Autodesk product to activate the app/plug-in. To uninstall this plug-in, exit the Autodesk product if you are currently running it, simply rerun the installer, and select the "Uninstall" button. OR, click Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features (Windows 10/11) and uninstall as you would any other application from your system.

The software mainly supports BS 8666 shape codes. All dimensions are in metric. For other shape codes supports, please contact the developer.