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CADS RC 2024
CADS has established an enviable reputation for providing expertise as well as expert software for reinforced concrete detailers. Running in AutoCAD, CADS RC has been the market leading reinforced concrete detailing software in the UK and around the world for more than 20 years. CADS RC’s success is due to its advanced detailing features and technical excellence, which include integration with design and fabrication software. The automatic bar bending schedule is updated in real time which means errors are eliminated and time is saved. CADS RC can detail anything and has been successfully used on all sorts of building, transportation, water, process and power projects including precast concrete elements.
CADS RC’s success is due to its advanced detailing features and technical excellence, which includes integration with fabrication software. CADS RC can detail any structure (including those with irregular geometry) and has been successfully used on all sorts of building, transportation, water, process and power projects including many precast concrete elements.
Principle benefits
- Easy to use and fully integrated with AutoCAD to make importing outlines simple and detailing vastly more efficient
- As the world’s number one detailing software your bar bending schedules can be simply shared with steel fabricators in Excel or as a pdf
- Industry standard solution with a large user base in LinkedIn, making recruitment easier
- Powerful editing and revision features save you valuable time when duplicating, editing or correcting
- Reduced checking required and virtual elimination of errors since the BBS is continuously updated automatically
- International versions for UK, North America, India and South Africa
- The automated BBS reduces waste from off-cuts
- Automatic RC detailing macros for stair flights, pile caps, pad footings, octagonal bases, simple beams, simple columns, slab panels, pad bases, panels and circular bar arrangements
- BBS and the AutoCAD working environment are easily customisable
- Bar Mark project management matches bar marks across multiple drawings
- Support for Over Stock Length Bars (OSL)
- CADS RC supports most leading coupler manufacturers
- Revisions are marked and updated automatically
- The “combine and compact” feature groups identical bars so they have the same label to save time on site
- The bar bending schedule links directly to production software and machinery such as PEDAX and Schnell
- CADS offer a combination of training, support and software maintenance: CADScover
CADS RC hardware requirements
Minimum requirements
AutoCAD® and AutoCAD Architecture® 2023, 2022 and 2021 are supported. Older versions of AutoCAD® and AutoCAD Architecture® are supported by older versions of CADS RC.
Operating system: 64-bit Microsoft® Windows® 11, and Windows® 10.
Minimum hardware requirement
- 2.9 GHz or faster processor
- 8 GB RAM (Recommended 16 GB RAM)
- 7 GB free disk space for installation
- 1,920 x 1,080 display resolution
- 1 GB GPU or higher graphics device