DesignSeries00003.pngDrawing Slabs Manually

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To draw a manual slab object that is not associated with any walls:

  1. Click the Slab tool from the Building Shell tool set.

  2. Click Polyline mode from the Tool bar, and select a polyline drawing mode. See Polyline Tool.

    3. A slab can also be created by drawing a polyline and then selecting the Create Objects from Shapes command (see Creating Objects from Shapes).

  3. Do one of the following:

    4. ●    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 4.

    ●    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.

  4. Similarly to drawing a polygon, create a closed slab shape.

Double-click while drawing to close the slab automatically.

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Concept: Automatically Bounded and Manual Slab Edges

Creating Automatically Bounded Slabs from Existing Walls

Creating Slabs with Both Automatically Bounded and Manual Edges

Converting Slab Boundary Associations

Setting Edge Offsets

Using Slab Styles

Creating Slab Components

Editing Slab Geometry

Creating Slabs

 

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