Wall Panel Accessories
You can create joints and add joint components between wall
panels. The joint component data is also collected in the material
report. Before adding joint components, you must generate the panel
drawings.
- Select Classic Wall Panels > Wall Panel
Accessories.
- Select the joint type from the joint component library with the
Vertex Browser. The folders and joint components in the library and
the application development program determining how the joint is
formed are customer-specific. The following joint types are
included in the basic software delivery:
- Select Confirm. The browser reopens and you can select
another joint type.
Joint components for panel drawings
Joint components are added to the building's floor plan. You can
also make the joint components visible in the panel drawings by
setting the following keyword in the BDSXX keyword group:
wpnlconnmacmode= 1
If you move a joint component in a wall panel drawing, the
change will be automatically updated in the floor plan and the
connected wall panel's panel drawing, when you close and save the
wall panel drawing. In the same way, if you move a joint component
in the floor plan, the change is updated to the wall panel
drawing.
Note
- Depending on the selected joint type and customer fitting, you
have the following functions available when adding joint
components:
- Click the Connected button to have the codes of the wall
panels connected to the first wall panel displayed in a list.
Select the code of the wall panel to be connected from the
list.
- Click the Locate button to have the locations of the
joint components automatically determined by the application
development program.
- If necessary, you can change the locating point by clicking the
Loc.Point button.
Vertex Browser
Wall Panel
Seams
You can create the following joint types:
- Wall panel parallel seam
- Wall panel corner seam
- Wall panel tee seam
- Wall panel free end
When you have selected the joint type in the browser, do as
follows:
- Select the end of the first wall panel.
- Do either of the following
- Select the end of the second wall panel.
- Click the Connected button to have the codes of the wall
panels connected to the first wall panel displayed in a list.
Select the code of the wall panel to be connected from the
list.
- If you chose the Free End joint type, select the Confirm
function.
- Depending on the customer fitting, you can define parameters
for the joint components.
- If you have already added joint components to the selected wall
panels, the program will query you: 'Delete old connectors?'
- Select Delete, when you want to delete the old joint
components and add new ones.
- Select Ignore, when you want to retain the old joint
components and add new ones. If you have moved old joint components
in the wall panel drawing, their locations will remain
unchanged.
- Quit by pressing the Esc key.
- Update the panel drawing by selecting Yes in the message
box.
Wall Panel
Stacks
Creation of these joint types requires that there be a wall
panel with a wall panel drawing on the floor above or below the
selected wall panel. The center lines of the wall panels must be
coincident. You can create the following joint types:
- Wall panel stacked bolts (A)
- Wall panel stacked holes (B)
When you have selected the joint type in the browser, do as
follows:
- Select a wall panel.
- Click the Connected button to have the code of the wall
panel above or below the first wall panel displayed on a list.
Select the code of the wall panel to be connected from the
list.
- Do either of the following:
- Click locations for the joint components one by one in the
floor plan and select the Confirm function.
- Click the Locate button to have the locations of the
joint components automatically determined by the application
development program. Requires a customer-specific
customization.
- If you have already added joint components to the selected wall
panels, the program will query you: 'Delete old connectors?'
- Select Delete, when you want to delete the old joint
components and add new ones.
- Select Ignore, when you want to retain the old joint
components and add new ones. If you have moved old joint components
in the wall panel drawing, their locations will remain
unchanged.
- Quit by pressing the Esc key.
- Update the panel drawing by selecting Yes in the message
box.
Wall Panel
Anchors
When you have selected the joint type in the browser, do as
follows:
- Select a wall panel.
- Click a location for the joint component. As a default, the
locating point of the joint component is in its center point and
the joint component is locked for movement along the wall panel's
center line. If necessary, you can change the locating point by
clicking the Loc.Point button or pressing the F8 key. This
will change the locating point by turns to one of the four corners
of the joint component's 2D presentation.
- Select Confirm.
- Quit by pressing the Esc key.
- Update the panel drawing by selecting Yes in the message
box.
Classic Wall
Panels
Editing
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