STATIX 2D for AutoCAD

Reinforcement drawings, in the CAD you already use.

An AutoCAD add-in for reinforcement detailing. Bars are drawn as real SANS 282 shapes, labelled and scheduled from the same data, so the drawing and the bending schedule cannot disagree.

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STATIX 2D pad footing plan with bottom mats, starters and links

STATIX 2D · pad footing plan, drawn by the add-in

What it does

Draw the bar once. Everything else follows.

The bar in the drawing is the bar in the schedule.

One source of truth

Bar shapes and schedules to SANS 282:2011 or BS 8666:2020, chosen per drawing, with a live preview
Labels built from the bar's own data: mark, count, diameter, spacing
Bending schedule with cut lengths and mass, straight from the drawing
Change a bar and its label and schedule row change with it
One-window wizards for beams, rectangular and circular columns, bases, pile caps, strip footings, slabs, stairs, slab openings, corner bars, retaining walls, shear walls and house foundations from your wall lines, each with a live preview
Schedule to Excel, and a bending-machine file (BVBS) from the schedule: curved bars are listed, not exported, so check the first file on your machine
Laps and anchorage as a multiple of the diameter, in millimetres, or to EN 1992-1-1 (l0 and lbd)
Send to STATIX 2D: one file from the STATIX 3D model brings the bars of every saved element into AutoCAD, with the marks STATIX 3D gave them: beams and continuous beams, columns, pad and combined footings, slabs with trimmers at openings, stairs with their cross-sections, corbels and lintels

In development. Send to STATIX 2D is being built and tested with the STATIX 3D development build.

Wizards

Fill in one window. The drawing follows.

Each wizard updates its preview a moment after you stop typing: the plan, a section or the elevations, and most list the bars they will schedule. Create draws the views, labels the bar groups and adds the bars to the drawing's schedule. Modify opens the same window again.

STATIX 2D shear wall wizard window with the live section and schedule — **Shear wall: one window**Length, thickness, storey height, face bars written as Y12@200, U-bars round each end or a free end. The section and the schedule follow as you type.

STATIX 2D shear wall plan section drawn in AutoCAD with face bars, end U-bars and vertical bars — **Shear wall: plan section**Horizontal bars on both faces, end U-bars lapped with them, the vertical bars as dots, the dimensions and the title.

STATIX 2D retaining wall wizard window with the live section — **Retaining wall: one window**Height H1, stem thicknesses, base, toe, heel and shear key; twelve bar groups written as Y12@200, covers and laps.

STATIX 2D cantilever retaining wall section with every bar group labelled — **Retaining wall: section**Stem and base bars, starters lapped with the vertical bars (or vertical bars bent into the base), horizontal and lacing bars as dots, every group labelled, the wall dimensioned.

STATIX 2D pile cap wizard window with the live plan and both elevations — **Pile cap: plan and elevations, live**Up to 9 piles set out for you, or up to 16 pile centres you type; the cap size, bottom and top mats, side U-bars and column starters, with a filter for each bar group.

STATIX 2D four-pile cap plan and elevation with mats, side bars and starters — **Pile cap: plan and elevation**Four piles, mats both ways, side bars and the column starters, drawn and scheduled together.

STATIX 2D return-flight stair: plan and longitudinal section with every bar labelled — **Stair: plan and longitudinal section**Return flights and landings: main and distribution bars in plan and section, each group labelled with its face (T1, B1, T2, B2).

STATIX 2D stair wizard window with levels, flights and the live plan — **Stair: one window**Levels, flights and landings, with the bars shown in plan while you type. Create draws the concrete and the main bars; distribution bars and starters have their own commands.

STATIX 2D beam wizard window with the live elevation and section — **Beam: one window**Spans and supports picked or typed, main bars, links and support top bars; the elevation and section A-A follow as you type.

STATIX 2D column wizard window with the live section and elevation — **Column: one window**Size, covers, main bars and links, with the section and the elevation live; reads a saved column design file.

STATIX 2D house foundation window: walls found from the drawing, plan preview and wall list — **House foundations**Pick the wall lines once: STATIX finds the walls, corners and T-junctions and starts from SANS 10400-H values the engineer can change.

STATIX 2D slab opening detail with trimmers and four diagonals under one label — **Slab opening**Trimmers along every edge, diagonals across the corners, or both; all the corner diagonals share one label. Rectangles, L-, T- and U-shapes and circles.

STATIX 2D strip footing wizard window with plan, cross-section and longitudinal section — **Strip footing**Follows the wall line you pick, with the plan, the cross-section and the long section live.

STATIX 2D schedule window listing members with bars and mass — **Publish the schedule**Tick the members to publish: bars, mass and whether each table is placed.

STATIX 2D bar bending schedule sheet to SANS 282 with bend sketches and the title block — **Bar bending schedule sheet**Shape codes, bend sketches and a mass table by steel and diameter, worked out from the bars in the drawing, on your own title block.

Example values for the pictures, not a designed job. The engineer specifies the bars: the wizards detail them, they do not design them.

From the 3D model

Designed in STATIX 3D, drawn in AutoCAD.

These drawings were drawn by STATIX 2D for AutoCAD from a STATIX 3D model: the bars of each saved element, with their marks, straight onto the drawing and into the schedule.

STATIX 2D beam elevation and section A-A with bar marks, drawn in AutoCAD from a STATIX 3D model — **Beam: elevation and section**Drawn by STATIX 2D for AutoCAD from a STATIX 3D model, with the bar marks.

STATIX 2D pad footing with column starter bars, drawn in AutoCAD from a STATIX 3D model — **Pad footing and column starters**Drawn by STATIX 2D for AutoCAD from a STATIX 3D model.

STATIX 2D longitudinal section through a stair with every bar labelled, drawn in AutoCAD from a STATIX 3D model — **Stair: longitudinal section**Drawn by STATIX 2D for AutoCAD from a STATIX 3D model.

STATIX 2D bending schedule to SANS 282 with shape sketches and a mass summary — **Bending schedule to SANS 282**Shape sketches and the mass summary, drawn by STATIX 2D for AutoCAD from a STATIX 3D model.

STATIX 2D is released for paid accounts. Send to STATIX 2D works from STATIX 3D, which is still in development.

Drawings

Slabs, bases, beams and stairs.

Every picture here is a real screenshot of the add-in in AutoCAD.

STATIX 2D slab plan — **Slab plan with an opening**Bars both ways and trimmers around the opening.

STATIX 2D base mats dialog — **Base mats**Top and bottom mats both ways, with covers and quantities.

STATIX 2D slab on a downstand beam section — **Slab on a downstand beam**A section with every bar labelled.

Example values for the pictures. The reinforcement in them has not been structurally designed.

The main elements

Pad footing, column, beam and the schedule.

Drawn by the add-in in AutoCAD 2026 and plotted to PDF. No hand edits, only cropping.

STATIX 2D pad footing section with the steel — **Pad footing: section**The mats, starters and links in elevation, linked to the plan so nothing is scheduled twice.

STATIX 2D RC column elevation with link zones — **Column: elevation**400 x 400 column, 8Y16 main bars, links in three zones.

STATIX 2D RC column section with a hooked link — **Column: section**Main bars and the link with its hook, one label per link zone.

STATIX 2D continuous beam elevation — **Continuous beam: elevation**Three spans, top, bottom and support bars, links and section marks.

STATIX 2D beam section B-B — **Continuous beam: section**Section B-B at midspan.

STATIX 2D bending schedule to SANS 282 — **Bending schedule**Beam, column and footing on one schedule: SANS 282 shape codes, bend sketches, mass per diameter, title block filled.

These are example values for the pictures, not a designed job. Some labels still overlap the concrete in the column elevation, and the column is drawn on its own, without the base below it.

Also in the suite

Design first, then draw.

The concrete design modules decide the bars. STATIX 2D draws them.

RC beam and column designDesign the bars.STATIX 3DThe building they come from.Free calculatorsCheck an element today.

30-day trial

Try the full STATIX suite for 30 days.

The trial opens everything a paid plan opens: STATIX 2D for AutoCAD and every calculator pack. The Revit and Advance Steel add-ins join the trial on the day each one is released.

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