Anchor Rod ( Modeling > F2 >   Miscellaneous Steel > " Anchor Rod" )

Tool summary :

Intermediate and bottom fasteners have the same options at the Top Nut and the Top Washer options shown here. The difference is their position in the anchor rod. A bottom nut and washer can only be placed on a straight anchor rod.
  • Warning! Most changes that you make to anchor-rod materials ( round bar or material bolt ) outside of this window will cause this member to be made " Graphical ," and those changes will be lost, when you press " OK " if you make this member not graphical (" Graphical "). For this reason, you should clean up the anchor rod using Model > Material tools only after you are certain that you will make no more changes on this window. You can change a material's steel grade, color or surface finish without making its member graphical.
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To add an anchor rod (an inferior method to Anchor Rod Tool )

Anchor rods may be added in Modeling by locating two points at different elevations in an elevation view. Or you can locate twice at the same location in a plan view to add a perfectly vertical anchor rod whose bottom end ( origin ) is at the elevation of the points. A better method to use for adding anchor rods is the Anchor Rod Tool .

1 . In Modeling , invoke Add Anchor Rod using any one (1) of the following methods:

Add Anchor Rod
Prompt for Member Type

Method 1 : Click the " Add Anchor Rod " icon (if it has been placed on your toolbar), or use a keyboard shortcut . The " Add Anchor Rod " icon can also be found on the " Drawer of Add Tools ."

Method 2 : Click the " Prompt for Member Type " icon (if it has been placed on your toolbar), then choose " Anchor Rod " as the member type to be added.

Method 3 : On the menu bar , choose Model > Member > Add > Prompt for Member Type , then choose " Anchor Rod " as the member type to be added. Or you can use a keyboard shortcut ( F2 is the default), then choose " Anchor Rod " as the member type to be added.

2 . The status line prompts, " Locate left end ." Locate - Repeat - Return mouse bindings become active. Select the appropriate Locate option, then do one (1) the following:

bindings

Alternative 1 : Place your mouse pointer ( ) and left-click ( Locate ) to place a point where the point location target ( ) is at. Then, when the status line prompts, " Locate second point ," left-click ( Locate ) a second point. The lower of these two points is the bottom end ( origin ) of the anchor bolt member. Go to step 3.

Alternative 2 : Left-click ( Locate ) twice at the same location to define a cross section of the anchor rod member whose bottom end ( origin ) is at the elevation of the points. The distance that an anchor rod's top end is above this origin point is its " Overall length ." Go to step 3.

Alternative 3 : Place your mouse pointer ( ) and middle-click ( Repeat ) to lay out an anchor rod just like the one you last added or edited in your current session of Modeling . The anchor rod will be placed beginning at the point where the point location target ( ) is at. Warning : If you have not pressed " OK " on an Anchor Rod Member window in your current Modeling session, Repeat will generate an anchor rod, but it will be the default anchor rod, which may not be what you want. Skip step 3 and go to step 4.

3 : The Anchor Rod Member window opens. Choose the " Anchor rod type " and make appropriate choices to the settings that become available for that selected type. These settings are generally arranged in the same order as the characteristics that they control on the anchor rod -- that is, they are arranged from top to bottom -- with top settings first and bottom settings last.

Alternative 1 : Press the " OK " button to continue. Go to step 4.

Alternative 2 : Press the " Cancel " button to end the Add Anchor Rod operation. Do not continue.

4 . The anchor rod is generated in the model. Locate - Repeat - Return mouse bindings become active. The status line prompts you to locate points for placement of another anchor rod.

bindings

Alternative 1 : Right-click ( Return ) if you are done adding anchor rods.

Alternative 2 : Follow these instructions beginning with step 2 to add another anchor rod, using either Locate (two clicks, followed by entries to the edit window) or Repeat (one middle-click). In the case of Repeat , the new anchor rod will be an exact duplicate of the one you just added.

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------ General Information ------

These settings apply to any anchor rod, regardless of whether the " Anchor rod type " is ' Straight ' or ' Hook ' or ' Stud '.

Anchor rod type: Straight or Hook or Stud .

' Straight '
' Hook '
' Stud '

' Straight ' anchor rods can have ' Threaded ends ' or ' Full threads ' along their entire length. Being the only type of anchor rod that can have a " Bottom thread length ," they are also the only type that can have a " Bottom Washer " and " Bottom Nut ."

' Hook ' anchor rods are bent 90 degrees into a hooked shape. You can set the " Hook radius " of the 90 degree bend as well as the " Hook length ."

' Stud ' anchor rods have a stud head at the bottom of their shaft. You can set its " Stud head thickness " and " Stud head diameter ." The " Overall length " of a stud anchor rod is equal to its " Projection above concrete " and " Embed " length.

Anchor rod diameter: The diameter (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) of any cross section taken perpendicular to the length of the anchor rod. Such a cross section is circular since the shaft of an anchor rod is a round bar . The diameter of a circle is measured from one edge of the circle, through its center, to its opposite edge.

Piecemark prefix: Any characters that you want to begin the member piecemark that will be assigned to the anchor rod that you are adding. The piecemark will be assigned when the anchor bar materials are generated (or regenerated), after you press the " OK " button.

This applies to Add Anchor Rod operations. For example, if you were to type in AR_ here, and this is the 89th member you have added, Add Anchor Rod may add 89 after this prefix, thus assigning your new anchor rod member the piecemark AR_89 .

If you edit an anchor rod and change its piecemark prefix, the old piecemark will continue to be used.

The prefix entered here will not be used if the anchor rod you are adding is exactly like another anchor rod with a different prefix; Add Anchor Rod will instead assign the new anchor rod the same piecemark that was assigned to the previously added anchor rod member.

Steel grade: A36 or A572 or etc. This is the grade of steel for the round bar that is the anchor rod.

Setup: This " Steel grade " list box ( ) is populated from Home > Project Settings > Job > Round and Square Bar Grades .

Sequence: Any sequence name from the Sequence Names setup list can be selected on the list box ( ).

Tip: If you want to add a new sequence so that it can be selected here, you should first increase the number of " Maximum sequences " that are available.

Graphical : Click here for more information.

Default Finish : Click here for more information.

Model complete date: Read-only . The " Model completed " status of this member can be set using Update Attributes . You cannot set the " Model complete date " here, on this window.

' **NOT SET** ' indicates that this window is fully editable.

' month day year ' indicates that all fields on this window are in a disabled , read-only state due to the " Model completed " date having been set on this member, using Update Attributes , not necessarily on the reported date.

Also see: " Model complete date "

Overall length ( tl ): The distance (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) from the top of the anchor rod to the bottom of the anchor rod. For a ' Hooked ' anchor rod, the distance is measured to the bottom of the anchor rod's "hook." The distance is measured parallel with the anchor rod shaft.

Note: " Overall length " = " Projection above concrete " ( pc ) + " Embed " ( em ).

Thread length ( tt ): The distance (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) from the top of the anchor rod to where the unthreaded portion of the straight anchor rod begins. This distance is measured parallel with the anchor rod shaft.

Note: If the " Rod type " is ' Full thread ', there is no unthreaded portion of the anchor rod.

Projection above base plate ( pt ): The distance (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) from the top nut to the top of the anchor rod.

Note 1: The " Projection above base plate " ( pt ) positions the top nut.

Note 2: " Projection above base plate " ( pt ) + " Baseplate thickness " ( tk ) + " Grout thickness " ( gt ) = " Projection above concrete " ( pc ).

Projection above concrete ( pc ): The distance (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) from the bottom of the grout to the top of the anchor rod.

Note: " Projection above concrete " ( pc ) = " Projection above base plate " ( pt ) + " Baseplate thickness " ( tk ) + " Grout thickness " ( gt ).

Baseplate thickness ( tk ): The thickness of the baseplate (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ).

Note 1: The " Baseplate thickness " ( tk ) positions the intermediate nut with respect to The " Projection above base plate " ( pt ).

Note 2: " Baseplate thickness " ( tk ) + " Grout thickness " ( gt ) + " Projection above base plate " ( pt ) = " Projection above concrete " ( pc ).

Grout thickness ( gt ): The grout thickness (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ).

Note: " Grout thickness " ( gt ) + " Baseplate thickness " ( tk ) + " Projection above base plate " ( pt ) = " Projection above concrete " ( pc ).

Embed ( em ): The vertical distance (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) from where the embedded portion of the anchor rod's shaft begins to the bottom of the stud. This distance is measured parallel with the anchor rod shaft.

em = embed length. This distance plus the " Projection above concrete " ( pc ) equals the " Overall length " of the anchor rod.

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------Straight ------

These settings apply when ' Straight ' is selected as the " Anchor rod type ." " Bottom Washer " and " Bottom Nut " settings are also unique to ' Straight ' anchor rods

Rod type: Threaded ends or Full thread .

' Threaded ends '
' Full thread '

' Threaded ends ' permits you to designate a " Thread length " and the " Bottom thread length " for the two ends.

' Full thread ' specifies an anchor rod that is threaded along its entire " Overall length ."

Bottom thread length ( bt ): The distance (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) from where the unthreaded portion of the straight anchor rod ends to the bottom of the straight anchor rod. This distance is measured parallel with the anchor rod shaft.

bt = bottom thread length. The location of the bottom nut does not depend on the bottom thread length.

Projection below material ( pb ): The distance (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) from the bottom nut to the bottom of the straight anchor rod.

pb = projection below material. This sets the distance that the bottom nut is from the bottom end of the straight anchor rod.

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------ Hooked ------

These settings apply when ' Hook ' is selected as the " Anchor rod type ."

Rotation: A positive or negative (-) number of degrees. This sets the orientation of the "hook." Assuming that the shaft of the hooked anchor rod is perfectly vertical, its hook is horizontal (90 degrees from vertical).

Plan Views
' 0 '
' 90 '
' 180 '
' 270 '

' 0 ' degrees orients the hook horizontally, pointed right in a plan view (assuming that the rod's shaft is perfectly vertical).

A ' positive number ' of degrees rotates the hook counterclockwise that number of degrees from the 0 position.

A ' negative number ' of degrees rotates the hook clockwise that number of degrees from the 0 position.

Hook length ( h ): The distance (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) from the center of the shaft of the hooked anchor rod to the end of the hook. Since the hook is bent at 90 degrees, this distance is measured perpendicular to the anchor rod shaft. For a vertical anchor rod, this distance is measured horizontally.

h = hook length. Note that this distance is measured from the center of the vertical shaft of the rod.

Hook radius ( r ): The distance (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) that defines the amount of curvature in the bend that forms the 90 degree "hook" of the hooked anchor rod. Increasing this radius makes the curve more gradual.

r = hook radius. Note that this distance is measured to the center of the rod.

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------ Stud ------

These settings apply when ' Stud ' is selected as the " Anchor rod type ."

Stud head thickness: The thickness of the stud in the primary dimension " Units " or other units . This distance is measured parallel with the anchor rod shaft.

t = stud head thickness .

Stud head diameter: The diameter (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) of the base of the stud, which is circular. A diameter is measured from one edge of a circle, through its center, to its opposite edge.

d = stud head diameter.

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------ Top Nut ------

These settings apply when ' Straight ' or ' Hook ' or ' Stud ' is selected as the " Anchor rod type ." The " Projection above base plate " ( pt ) positions the top nut.

Quantity: None or One or Two .

' None '
' One '
' Two '

' None ' still gives you a top washer unless ' None ' is selected as the top washer " Type ." The top of this washer is positioned 1 inch below the top of the anchor rod.

' One ' places a top nut 1 inch below the top of the anchor rod.

' Two ' places two nuts together, with the top nut 1 inch below the top of the anchor rod.

Nut: A563, Heavy hex or A563-C, Heavy hex or A563-DH, Heavy hex or A194, Heavy hex .

heavy hex nut

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------ Top Washer ------

Top washer settings apply when ' Straight ' or ' Hook ' or ' Stud ' is selected as the " Anchor rod type ."

Washer: None or F436, Hardened or F436, Flat or F436, Bevel or F959, Direct tension indicator or A36, Square plate or A36, Round plate or A-536-84, Hillside .

type shape BOM setup thickness   related settings
Hardened HD " Hardened washers "  
Flat FL  " Flat washers "  
Bevel BVL " Bevel washers "  
Square plate PL " Plate washers "  " Thickness "
" Width "
Direct tension indicator LD " Direct tension indicator "  
Round plate   RPL " Plate washers "  " Thickness "
" Width "
Hillside HLS -  

Thickness: The thickness (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) of the square plate washer or round plate washer.

t = thickness

Width: The length or width of a square washer, or the diameter of a round plate washer.

w = width

Rotation: A positive or negative (-) number of degrees. This applies when ' Square plate ' or ' Bevel ' or ' Hillside ' or ' Heavy plate ' is the selected " Type " of washer. Other types of washers can be rotated, but there is no point to your doing so since they are radially symmetrical and therefore will look exactly the same.

0 degrees
  10 degrees
  25 degrees
  45 degrees

' 0 ' degrees makes the edges of the washer parallel with the edges of your computer screen (assuming that the head of the bolt is shown flat on your computer screen).

A ' positive number ' rotates the washer counterclockwise when you are looking at the head of the bolt.

A ' negative number ' rotates the washer clockwise when you are looking at the head of the bolt.

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------ Intermediate Washer ------

These settings apply when ' Straight ' or ' Hook ' or ' Stud ' is selected as the " Anchor rod type ."

Washer: Same as " Washer " for the top washer, except that this applies to the intermediate washer.

Thickness: Same as " Thickness " for the top washer, except that this applies to the intermediate washer.

Width: Same as " Width " for the top washer, except that this applies to the intermediate washer.

Rotation: Same as " Rotation " for the top washer, except that this applies to the intermediate washer.

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------ Intermediate Nut ------

These settings apply when ' Straight ' or ' Hook ' or ' Stud ' is selected as the " Anchor rod type ." The intermediate nut is placed the " Baseplate thickness " ( tk ) below the " Projection above base plate " ( pt ).

Quantity: None or One or Two .

' None '
' One '
  		' Two '
 

' None ' still gives you an intermediate washer unless ' None ' is selected as the washer " Type ."

' One ' gives you an intermediate nut placed the " Baseplate thickness " ( tk ) below the " Projection above base plate " ( pt ).

' Two ' gives you two nuts, with the top intermediate nut placed the " Baseplate thickness " ( tk ) below the " Projection above base plate " ( pt ).

Nut: A563, Heavy hex or A563-C, Heavy hex or A563-DH, Heavy hex or A194, Heavy hex .

heavy hex nut

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------ Bottom Washer ------

These settings apply when ' Straight ' is selected as the " Anchor rod type ."

Washer: Same as " Washer " for the top washer, except that this applies to the bottom washer.

Thickness: Same as " Thickness " for the top washer, except that this applies to the bottom washer.

Width: Same as " Width " for the top washer, except that this applies to the bottom washer.

Rotation: Same as " Rotation " for the top washer, except that this applies to the bottom washer.

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------ Bottom Nut ------

These settings apply when ' Straight ' is selected as the " Anchor rod type ." The bottom nut is placed the " Projection below material " ( pb ) distance above the bottom end of the straight anchor rod.

Quantity: None or One or Two .

' None '
' One '
' Two '

' None ' still gives you a bottom washer unless ' None ' is selected as the bottom washer " Type ." The bottom of this washer is positioned 1 inch above the bottom of the ' Straight ' anchor rod.

' One ' places a bottom nut 1 inch above the bottom of the ' Straight ' anchor rod.

' Two ' places two nuts together, with the bottom nut 1 inch above the bottom of the ' Straight ' anchor rod.

Nut: A563, Heavy hex or A563-C, Heavy hex or A563-DH, Heavy hex or A194, Heavy hex .

heavy hex nut

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"Properties" opens the Edit Properties window, on which you can make entries to custom properties . If, at the time it was created, your current Job was set to use a legacy flavor, the window that opens is named Custom Properties , not Edit Properties .

The Edit Properties window can also be used to read " Log " entries or review or type " Notes ."

The " Properties " button is disabled ( grayed out ) when a new custom member is being added.

Tip: Model > Member > Properties is an alternative to this button. It opens the Edit Properties window directly, without your first having to open a member edit window.

" Status " opens the Member Status Review window, which can give you additional information about this anchor rod, and which you can use to enter status information.

"OK" (or the Enter key) generates the anchor rod per the settings entered on this window.

If the " OK " button is disabled (grayed out), click here for more information. If you are adding a new anchor rod, go to step 4 .

"Cancel" (or the Esc key) closes this window and ends the Add Anchor Rod or Edit Anchor Rod operation used to open it. If you were adding an anchor rod, no anchor rod will be added. If you were editing an anchor rod, the anchor rod will remain unchanged.

"Reset" undoes any changes made since you first opened this window.

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