DesignSeries00008.pngCreating Automatically Bounded Slabs from Existing Walls

There are two ways to create automatically bounded slabs from existing walls: the Picked Walls mode and the Inner Boundary mode. Either mode can be used to create a slab from a closed set of connected walls; however, only Picked Walls mode can be used for Creating Slabs with Both Automatically Bounded and Manual Edges.

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To create an automatically bounded slab within a selected set of walls:

  1. Click the Slab tool from the Building Shell tool set, and click Picked Walls mode from the Tool bar.

  2. Do one of the following:

    3. ●    To use an existing slab style from the resource libraries, click Slab Style on the Tool bar. From the Resource Selector, double-click a resource to activate it. Or, to draw an unstyled slab, leave the <Unstyled> setting as is. Proceed to step 3.

    ●    To create a custom slab style, click Preferences from the Tool bar. From the Slab Preferences dialog box, set the default properties (see Creating Slab Styles) and click OK. The properties can be edited from the Object Info palette.

  3. Click each wall that forms the wall set and press Enter, or click the check mark button on the Tool bar.

The slab is created.

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To create a slab within a closed set of visible walls:

  1. Click the Slab tool from the Building Shell tool set, and click Inner Boundary mode from the Tool bar.

  2. Do one of the following:

    3. ●    To use an existing slab style from the resource libraries, click Slab Style on the Tool bar. From the Resource Selector, double-click a resource to activate it. Or, to draw an unstyled slab, leave the <Unstyled> setting as is. Proceed to step 3.

    ●    To create a custom slab style, click Preferences from the Tool bar. From the Slab Preferences dialog box, set the default properties (see Creating Slab Styles) and click OK. The properties can be edited from the Object Info palette.

  3. Click in an open area of the drawing that is bounded by walls; the walls must be visible, joined together, and on layers that have the same layer scale as the slab layer.

The slab is created.

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Concept: Automatically Bounded and Manual Slab Edges

Drawing Slabs Manually

Creating Slabs with Both Automatically Bounded and Manual Edges

Converting Slab Boundary Associations

Setting Edge Offsets

Creating Slab Styles

Using Slab Styles

Creating Slab Components

Editing Slab Geometry

Creating Slabs

 

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