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:
   • Use the frame center line (CENTER) as the reference line.
   • 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.

   Adding a Wall

2. Select Confirm.
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).
4. Add the interior walls. Use the Room-creating wall auxiliary function in the contextual toolbar. 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.
• If you use another line than CENTER as a reference line, you can later fix the location of the walls connected to the origin by selecting the constraint Position Fixed for the walls.
• 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.

Automatic Floors
Automatic Rooms
Automatically Created Constraints
Adding Constraints
Adding Macro Components
Designing Other Floors
Roof Design
Parametric Building Model