One document, wherever you work.
Use the full drafting workspace at your desk and pick the same project up on a tablet. Barform is built cross-platform, so the document travels with you.
REINFORCEMENT DETAILING · MAC & IPAD PRO
Reinforcementdetailing,drawn once.
Import the IFC formwork and draw the sheet you will issue. The reinforcement model and the bending schedule come off the same placements.
Your own detail. No purchase required.Founders Access · €399 once
WHY IT'S EASY
Focused and easy
to master.
Familiar 2D drawing stays on the surface while coordinated 3D responds underneath. The tools you need remain visible, and the same document moves with you between desk and tablet.
MACFull drafting workspace
IPAD PROThe same document, touch-native
FINAL OUTPUT
Ready
to issue.
A real basement reinforcement drawing, produced in Barform. Inspect the plan, check a joint detail and read the bending schedule. This is the work you can issue.
One real project. Every view comes from the same Barform sheet.
THE WORKFLOW
The drawing is the model.
Import the designed concrete. Compose the plan at print scale. Place steel in 2D while it stands up in 3D.
Use an IFC as formwork reference.
The designed formwork arrives with slabs, walls, beams and columns at their issued levels, and you detail straight onto it. When the model is not what you need, draw the linework yourself and snap to that.
Draw the sheet you will issue.
Plan, section, dimension and label, each view at the scale it prints. You compose the plan exactly as it lands.
The steel stands up as you place it.
Every bar appears in 3D the moment you draw it. Cover, laps and hooks are there to look at, and congestion at a joint shows up while the sheet is still on your desk.
Issue the sheet. Hand over the model.
Issue the PDF you composed. The coordinated model and schedule are already there when the project asks for them.
WHAT SHIPS
One act.The whole set.
Draw the placement once. Every deliverable below comes off it, and none of them asks you to redraw the work.
ONE PLACEMENT6 OUTCOMES · ONE SOURCE
PLACEMENT 1732 × Ø8 @ 100 / 200ONE COORDINATED SOURCE
A POWERFUL TOOLSET
Draw the bar.
Get the model.
Work in the precise 2D language reinforcement details demand. Behind every placement, Barform resolves the coordinated 3D geometry, cut lengths and quantities—without taking freeform control away from the engineer.
Every bar between gets its own cut length.
Interpolation between sections allows variable cross sections.
Mesh reinforcement, shaped to fit.
Place catalogue or custom meshes, bend them through corners and recesses, and keep panel quantities connected.
Draw the bar the detail needs.
Draw any bar shape you need, or use common ones like stirrups, L-shapes, or U-shapes.
Snap to the face, the axis, the last bar.
Smart snapping designed to accelerate the drawing process. Aligned to reinforcement detailing needs, including concrete cover offsets.
One placement, one count.
Change a diameter, spacing or shape and the affected counts, cut lengths and schedule rows recalculate from the placement itself.
Move one bar and the plan, section, label and schedule move with it.The engineer decides. Barform draws.
Barform does not prescribe a design code or hide assumptions behind automation. You choose the code, grade, cover, lap and geometry; Barform documents exactly what you decided.
Code · grade · cover · lap · geometryAN APPLICATION BY
Barform is designed and engineered by MADEP, a civil and structural engineering office based in Belgium. It draws on our own projects and runs on TRACE, our powerful proprietary geometry engine.
Visit madep.beFOUNDERS ACCESS
One payment.
Barform for life.
Founders Access is for the first detailers who want a faster, more direct way to work—and a say in where Barform goes next. Join while the product is still close to the people shaping it, with direct access to the MADEP team.
PROJECT DRAWING STANDARD
The office draws as one.
Set line weights, text, labels, dimensions and the title block once on the project. Share that standard so every detailer—and every issued sheet—speaks the same drawing language.
FOUNDERS PRICE€399PER SEAT · ONE-TIME PURCHASE
- Lifetime access. Founders never pay the subscription.
- Native on Mac and iPad Pro today, built cross-platform
- Input on the feature roadmap
- Direct contact with the MADEP team
Standard launch price: €79/month or €799/year, per seat.
BRING A REAL DETAIL
Try it on
your own work.
Bring a drawing you've already issued. We'll walk through the same detail in Barform so you can judge the workflow and output against work you know. No payment is taken now.