Wall Components on different classes. Walls allow you to assign the components to different classes. This allows you to create more complex drawings without re-drawing the walls. These images show the same viewport with different classes visible and with class overrides. This greatly reduces your drawing time.
This can be a fast way to draw walls, as it will automatically join the walls as you draw them. This can save several clicks. As well as that, it will automatically join the wall cores together, saving you several clicks with the Component Join tool, but you have to…
Auto-Join Walls – This can be a fast way to draw walls as it will automatically join the walls as you draw them. This can save several clicks. As well as that, it will automatically join the wall cores together, saving you several clicks with the Component Join tool.
I find the easiest way to create a new wall style is to duplicate an existing Wall Style. Then I just have to edit a few settings to get the new Wall Style.
You can use wall styles to control the textures. If you do this, you’ll find that you can change all of the textures on the walls easily by editing the wall style. You can assign the texture to the Wall Component, or you can use the Class settings of the…
Wall Core – Setting the Wall Core Component is important because it works with the Auto Join Walls, the Slab settings and the Core Component Control Line Mode. Ignore this and you will have to put in a lot more work, control this and you will be much more efficient.
When you use wall styles, you can use the Object Info palette to replace the wall style. When you replace the wall, you can choose how the new wall style aligns with the old wall. This means that you can duplicate walls and replace them with the new style, making…
Some users question my use of Wall Styles. They tell me “surely it’s quicker to make walls unstyled; it saves all that messing around with the dialog box.” Wall styles are for making sure that your walls are created consistently, ensuring that wall thickness, wall height and classes are consistently…
A lot of people don’t use this mode for placing walls, but it is extremely useful as it allows you to place the wall by using structural component of the wall rather than using the exterior or interior cladding of the wall. Many architects and designers like to place the…
It’s important to use Wall Styles. You can store Wall styles in your library, making them easy to use from the pop-up menu from the Tool bar. Once you have saved the wall style in your library, you can use them on all your projects, saving you a lot of…