Dimensioning Wall or Slab Thickness

In the Floor Plan or Section windows, you can dimension wall or slab thickness in a single click by clicking its contour.

1.With the Linear Dimension tool active, move the cursor to the wall’s contour line.

2.Click once. Two dimension points appear.

3.Double-click to complete the dimension chain and place it with the Hammer cursor.

You can dimension Slab thickness the same way in the Section window.

If you place a series of wall-thickness dimension markers along a chained wall, only the dimension points located on walls perpendicular to the dimension chain will be displayed.

Dimension Skins of Composite Element

You can dimension the individual skins of a composite element.

1.With the Linear Dimension tool active, move the cursor to the skin’s contour line.

2.Click to place the dimension.

Note, however, that only the two sides of the Wall (the Wall’s full thickness) and the core are dimensioned associatively.

Dimension Core Only of Walls and Slabs

Check this box on the Dimension Details panel of Dimension Settings. This way, when you dimension Wall thickness (Floor Plan or Section) or Slab thickness (in Section), the single-click method will produce dimension points only on the core structure of a composite or profile element.

•On the Floor Plan, the core(s) of a profile element will be dimensioned along its cut part.

•In Section, the core(s) of a profile element will be dimensioned along its bounding box.

If you edit the composite or profile structure so that it no longer has a core, the core-only dimension will automatically change to dimension the full thickness of the Wall/Slab.

Note: The state of this checkbox will also affect how Walls will be dimensioned in Automatic Exterior Dimensioning and Automatic Interior Dimensioning.

See Automatic Interior Dimensioning and Automatic Exterior Dimensioning.