Place a Construction Element

Note for MEP Designer users: While you can create, edit, or access many construction elements, these elements are intended as a reference for your MEP model and are displayed with an override.

Use the Toolbox

The typical steps in element creation using the Toolbox are:

  1. Select the element’s tool in the Toolbox and open its settings dialog box.
  2. Adjust the settings offered by default to suit your particular situation or purpose. You can choose a Favorite - a predefined element configuration - using the button on top of the Tool Settings dialog box, or from the Toolbox.

    See Favorites.

  3. Use the panels of the element Settings dialog box (or Info Box) to assign parameters.
  4. Where applicable, choose a Geometry Method from the Info Box allowing you to create plain, curved, chained, rotated or polygonal variations of the elements.
  5. Draw or place the element in the Floor Plan or 3D window.

Other Ways to Create an Element

Other methods of element creation include:

  • Use the Favorites Palette: Double-click on stored Favorite settings for the relevant tool, then click to place an element with those settings.
  • Use the Magic Wand to create new elements that automatically match the shape of an existing element (e.g. create a Roof that fits exactly over your exterior Walls).

    See Magic Wand.

  • Create duplicates of existing elements.

    See Basic Editing Operations.

Gravitate Elements onto a Slab, Roof, Shell or Mesh

To make placement more accurate, you can use the Gravity function to place Wall, Column, Beam and Object type elements directly onto a Slab, Roof, Shell or Mesh.

See Gravity.