Adding Cladding to a Panel Drawing

Framer

You add a cladding or a staggered cladding to a wall panel drawing.

  1. Open the panel drawing.
  2. Select Classic Wall Framing | Wall Panelizing | Special Framing Add Cladding.
  3. Select either of the following as the siding type:
    • Staggered cladding
    • Cladding
  4. Select the parameters of the cladding.

Note

  • Using this function requires that the wall panel settings be edited. Editing the settings is the system administrator’s task. In the automatic execution settings, the drawing of siding outline in the panel drawing is defined as follows:
    Description Exec Keyword Data
    Wall sidings to panel elev. 1 SIDINGS_TO_ELEV

    The siding outline can be disabled by setting the value in the Exec field to 0. In addition to the siding outline setting, the siding’s 3D volume must have a geometry property Transfer to panel drawing (TO_PANELDWG, see General Wall 3D Volume Properties.

  • If you want to add a cladding to panel drawings of projects created with the 10.2 or older version of the software, copy the databases d_CLADDING and d_CLADDING2 from the ../system/dbases folder to the project folder.
  • You can also display the staggered cladding in the section view of the panel, if the layer 240 has been set visible with the keyword elev_cross_sect_piecelayer in the WALLS keyword group. You can add a section view to the panel drawing by using the function Generating a Panel Cross Section. The distance of the siding from the wall frame has been defined in the wall library.