Straight Wall

A straight wall design element (STWALL) is a soft type element used as part of the building representation rather than for structural design. for further information on soft type elements, refer to Structural Specific Hierarchy.

The straight wall element is a type of a Section (SCTN), used to represent a wall created by extruding a 2D catalogue profile with a start and finish position.

Create a straight wall

1. From the main menu toolbar select Create > Wall > Straight.

   The Straight Wall window is displayed, the Positioning Control toolbar is activated and you are prompted to Define Straight wall start (Snap) Snap:.

   

   From the Straight Wall window there are three options by which walls are created available to you:

   • Single - Start and End points are individually defined for each section.

   • Continuous - Start point of subsequent walls is the end point of previous.

   • Radial - Start point for subsequent walls is the same as the first.

2. You must define the start of the wall explicitly by entering explicit X,Y and Z co-ordinates. From the Create Option pane of the Straight Wall window, select Define Start/End Explicitly.

   The Define straight wall start is displayed.

   

   

3. Enter the required XEast, YNorth and ZUp co-ordinates.

   The Start position is shown in the graphical view. The default wrt World defines the co-ordinate system by which the position is specified.

4. If the start position is not in the correct place click Redefine Start to start again.

5. Do one of the following:

   • Click OK to confirm the entered co-ordinates and activates all the functionality available from the Create Option display.

     You are also prompted to Define straight wall end (Snap) Snap:.

   • Click Cancel to discard any inputs and close the Define straight wall start window.

6. From the Create Option pane of the Straight wall window you can define the end position in one of the following ways:

   • Click Define Start/End Explicitly.

     The Define Straight Wall End window is displayed which is used in exactly the same way as the Define Straight Wall Start window.

     

     

   • Click Define and a given distance and direction from start to display a Define straight wall end window.

     Enter a direction with respect to the World or other co-ordinate system and the required distance from the wall start position.

     

7. Click OK to confirm the entered co-ordinates or click Cancel to discard any inputs and close the Define straight wall end window.

8. Click Perpendicular to create a wall perpendicular to the wall specified for the new wall start.

   You are prompted to ‘Pick straight Section/Wall to derive perpendicular from:’.

9. Click Perpendicular to create a wall perpendicular to a selected wall.

   You are prompted to ‘Pick straight Section/Wall to derive perpendicular end to:’.

   If the Confirm checkbox in the Verification window is selected, a line is drawn in the graphical view to show the position of the wall.

10. Click Accept to draw the new wall or Reject to start again.