Place a saved stirrup on the foundation drawing
Pull out the run the stirrup repeats along and type the centres — the number is worked out for you.
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Switch to the plan
Click the foundation drawing in the strip Drawings (“Ritningar”). Stirrups are placed on the plan, because that is where the lengths are.
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Pick the stirrup under Saved measurements (“Sparade mått”)
The panel on the right lists everything you have measured on the sections, under the headings Stirrups (“Byglar”) and Cross-sections (“Tvärsnitt”). Every row shows the name and the dimensions. Click the row — the tool jumps to Stirrups (“Byglar”) on its own.
Worth knowing. The panel writes “Rita sträckan på ritningen. Tryck på samma rad igen för att avbryta.” (draw the run on the drawing; press the same row again to cancel). Esc only throws away the run you are in the middle of drawing — the stirrup stays selected until you press the row again.
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Click out the run it repeats along
Click along the beam or the footing, just as when you draw a pipe run, and double-click or press Enter when the run is done.
Worth knowing. It is the run you draw, not a single stirrup. The dimensions are already measured on the section and are not asked for again — only how tightly the stirrup repeats.
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Type the centres in the box Centres (“Centrumavstånd”)
The box says which stirrup it is about and how long the run came out. Fill in cc (mm) — how tightly the stirrups sit, 200 is common — and press Done (“Klar”).
Worth knowing. The centres are what turn a length into a number. Type 300 where the drawing says 150 and the whole stirrup order is halved, and nothing on screen looks wrong.
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Read off the number before you press Done (“Klar”)
Under the box it says “Ger X st byglar” (gives X stirrups) and it is recalculated as you type. The number is the run divided by the centres, so 3 000 mm at 250 centres gives 12 stirrups.
Worth knowing. Centres typed in metres instead of millimetres is a thousand times wrong. That line is where it shows, before anything lands in the bill of quantities.
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Check it against the drawing
The stirrups are drawn as lines across the run, one per centre, so the spacing can be compared with the section. The run lands in Drawn and measured (“Ritat och mätt”) and the steel in the bill of quantities.
Worth knowing. Press Cancel (“Avbryt”) instead of Done (“Klar”) and the run you have just drawn is thrown away. No half-finished stirrup is left behind in the list.
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Place the same stirrup on more runs
The stirrup stays selected, so the next run you click out gets the same stirrup. Every run has its own centres — a tighter zone at a corner is drawn as a run of its own.
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Change the centres afterwards
Click the row in Drawn and measured (“Ritat och mätt”). The box Stirrups along the run (“Byglar längs sträckan”) opens and says “Sätt centrumavståndet.” (set the centres) — stirrup type, size and dimensions stand locked, because they come from the saved stirrup.
Worth knowing. The box writes out which stirrup it is and where the dimensions are changed. The fields are locked deliberately: a box that takes a figure and then throws it away is worse than one that says no.
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Correct the dimensions on the section, not here
If the stirrup itself is measured wrong, you go back to the section drawing and correct it there. Every run it has been laid out on comes along — that is the whole point of measuring it once.
Next steps
- Measure a stirrup on the section drawingTrace the legs of the stirrup on the section and save it with a name — the dimensions are taken once and hold for the whole job.7 min
- Sweep a cross-section into a volumeMeasure the shape on the section, pull it out along the plan and get the cubic metres — width and height from there, the length from here.6 min
- Read the bill of quantitiesYou know what every row and column stands for, and what the waste allowance does to the total.5 min
Do the steps on a real drawing
Open the tool and follow the walkthrough on the sample drawing that is already there. No login needed.
Open the toolStuck on a step? Get in touch — we are happy to take a look at your drawing.