Create a New Building Based on Selected Options

With this function, you can create a new regular building by solving the selected options of an existing option building. After solving the options, the option information is cleared from the new building and the option model can no longer be restored. The option information is stored with the original building you used as a base building.

1. Select Options | Solve | Solve Create And Solve Job.
2. If a building is open when you select the function, the Close building dialog box appears. Save and close the active building.

   Close Building Dialog Box

3. Type a name for the new building in the New Building dialog box. Select the checkbox Based on existing building and select a building with option definitions from the list.

   The New Building Dialog Box

4. Fill in the building information in the building data card.
5. Select the options to be solved from the Select Options list.

   Select Options List

6. Do either of the following:
   • Click Yes in a message box to create the job specific drawings.
   • Click No in a message box to solve the model but not to create the job specific drawings.
7. If necessary, select a detail collecting directory or a detail book in the Generate Detail Sheets dialog box.

   Generate Detail Sheets

   (This feature is available, when the BDSXX keyword group contains the keyword detail_collect_mode = 1.)

The program solves the options, creates the model and drawing files of the new building and opens the 1st Floor Walls drawing-model pair. The label Solved Building disappears from the title bar of the working window.

After this, you can go on with the designing process in the usual way.