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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

Manual vs. Automatic Framing

Platform, roof, and wall framing can be • Select the Automatic check box, then
produced manually or automatically. In most click OK to build automatic framing
cases, automatically-generated framing is every time a change is made to that struc-
preferable because it is faster than manually tural component in the plan. For example,
placing, replicating and editing numerous check Automatic Wall Framing on the
individual framing members. WALL panel to rebuild all wall framing
any time a wall is affected by changes to
In many plans, though, framing is drawn the model.
using both approaches. For example, a
combination of automatically generated
rafters and manually drawn trusses can be Note: When Automatic framing of a particular
used to model a roof framing plan. See type is enabled, framing of that type cannot
“Mixing Trusses with Stick Framing” on be manually edited or deleted.
page 883.
By default, joists automatically generate in
Regardless of how it is created, individual the direction that results in the shortest span;
framing members can be selected and edited. however, you can produce different results
See “Editing Framing” on page 865.
using Bearing Lines , Floor/Ceiling
Automatic Framing Beams , a n d / o r Joist Direction lines.
See “Bearing Lines” on page 861 and “Joist
Automatic framing of floor and ceiling Direction Lines” on page 860.
platforms, walls and roofs can be generated
using the Build Framing dialog. The settings Manual Framing
in this dialog control the size, spacing, and
type of framing drawn in a plan, and related Framing objects can also be drawn manually.
structural information for the major With the exception of Posts, framing objects
components of the 3D model. See “Build are drawn by clicking and dragging in a
Framing Dialog” on page 844. straight line, the way other line-based objects
are. See “Draw Line” on page 296.
Automatic framing of a particular structural
component is not generated until the Build The manual framing tools are organized into
Framing dialog is opened to the appropriate families: general framing, floor and ceiling
panel and one of two check boxes selected: framing and roof framing. The family that a
• Select the Build check box to build auto- drawing tool belongs to determines where it
matic framing once. For example, check can be used:
Build Wall Framing on the WALL panel, • Roof framing objects can only be drawn
then click OK to build wall framing once within the area of one or more roof
based on the current state of the model. planes.

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