Adding Walls to a Parametric Building Model

Use parametric walls in the design. A binding is then created between the walls and height levels. Add the walls and other building components to their approximately correct locations and position them accurately at a later time using geometric constraints.

When you are adding walls, the wall center lines (A) in the floor plan indicate that the Associative Walls setting is enabled.

  1. Add the exterior walls. Note the following:
    • Begin adding the wall from the drawing's origin.

    • Add the walls in approximately their correct places. You can later define the accurate locations by adding geometric constraints between the walls.
    • Click the wall corner points by going clockwise around the building.

    The Position Fixed constraint is automatically created for the walls connected to the origin. When you later edit the floor plan by defining dimension constraints, the walls in question will always remain in place while the other walls move.

    Add a Wall

  2. Do either of the following:
    • When you are adding an open wall chain, select the Confirm function.
    • When you are adding a closed wall chain, click the last point to the start point. The wall chain is closed automatically.
  3. Select a floor structure. The program will automatically add it to its own drawing-model pair based on the walls, while also adding the room label (B) and floor area (C). The structure defined in the height levels is the default structure on the list.

    If you close the dialog box by clicking Cancel, the automatic floor is not added and the setting Automatic floor will be disabled from now on.

  4. Add the interior walls. Use the Room-creating wall function in the auxiliary menu. The program will automatically create a new room in the floor plan based on the added wall. Joint constraints are automatically created between the walls.

    Room-Creating Wall

  5. Add windows, doors and other building components as usual.

When you have created a floor plan, you can define geometric constraints to define the relations between building components and dimension them. You can view the wall constraints in the drawing or model by selecting the Constraints function from the context-sensitive menu.

Note

  • The wall center line is on layer 218, Construction Line.
  • When Automatic Floors and Automatic Rooms are enabled, you cannot delete floors or rooms. The program will automatically generate them every time you edit or update the floor plan.
  • When you add windows and doors using the Enter Distance from Point auxiliary function, a dimension constraint is automatically created. The constraint is added on the layer 92 Dimension Constraints.
  • When adding walls, the free ends of the walls are presented in the floor plan with the following symbol: