Creating 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.

Creating a Slab Based On a Set of Walls

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

1. Click the tool and mode.

2. Do one of the following:

●        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 Slab Preferences dialog box, set the default properties (see Creating Slab Styles). 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.

Creating a Slab Based On a Closed Set of Walls

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

1. Click the tool and mode.

2. Do one of the following:

●        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 Slab Preferences dialog box, set the default properties (see Creating Slab Styles). 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.

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Slab Properties

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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