Designing your Report

This is about how to make you own report. When you design your own report you can choose from four different types of selections: Element Mark, Element ID, Reinforcement, Cast-In Material or Drawings.

I will show you how to make an Element Mark Report.

1. First I will make a template in Excel.



Line 1-4 is the 'Header Section', here I would like to have name in cell (10,1) and date in cell (10,2). Line 5- is the 'Selection Section'. I would like to have 11 columns in the report with the same data as the 'Element Mark' table in the 'Project Manager' (PM).

The template should be saved in the templates_reports folder e.g. '...\impact_1101\common\1100\1100\templates_reports\MyReport.xls'

2. Now I have to add and configure the new report in 'Administrative Tool' (AT)



Right click on the Reports node and select new.



Write Report Id and Name. Report Type should be 12.



File name should be the template file name e.g MyReport.xls. The continuous section starts at row 5 and has no end row (0). I have chosen to have no max page size (0,0) and no continuous header (0) or footer (0).

Now I have to tell AT where to put data in the Excel file.



Add the two fields to the Header Section



Add columns to the Continuous Section.

The configuration is done!

3. Update the Report in PM

All report templates are copied to the project once when the project is created.
If the report is new or changed I have to update my project template.




Right click and select 'Update Template'.

4. Generate the report in PM





Good Luck!

IMPACT Reinforcement 10

The IMPACT Reinforcement family has a new addition in version 10, whichs works on the 32-bit version of AutoCAD 2010.

New in this version is that, in addition to the traditional menu and toolbars, reinforcement commands can be found the ribbon interface.

Project Manager

Do you know that everyone in the team from Sales to Transportation can install and run Project Manager (PM).


With PM you can gather useful information like bills of quantities, statuses and drawing lists...

If you download 'DWG TrueView' from Autodesk (it's free) you can open, plot and take measures on drawings without changing anything. Just change 'Drawing Startup Configuration' to 'DWG TrueView'. You will find this setting under the Systems menu in PM.

Revit Add-In 1.1

There is a new version of the FEM-Design Revit Add-In (1.1.000) on the download center. Now with improved Material and Profile Mapping.

Concrete & Steel

Prekon i Syd AB is a design company specialized in IMPACT and prefabricated concrete and steel structures. Here is an IMPACT model I got from them recently.

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In this case the steel was originally modeled in Tekla. and then exported to IMPACT via dwg. All steel parts were saved to the IMPACT database as 'Linked Elements'.

With the help of the steel frame the concrete slabs were modeled in IMPACT,



In the end the complete IMPACT model can be viewed in a free 3D viewer.



By selecting an element you can read the element properties from the database.
The dwf viewer is good tool to distribute and analyze the IMPACT model.