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Manual vs. Automatic Framing

• Floor and ceiling framing objects can When automatic framing associated with a
only be drawn within one or more floor or particular panel in the Build Framing dialog
ceiling platforms. is generated, any existing automatically
produced framing of that type is deleted and
• General Framing objects and replaced. You can prevent this from
Posts can be drawn anywhere in a happening to a selected wall or roof plane by
model. checking Retain Wall Framing or Retain
Roof Framing in the object’s specification
• General Framing objects can also be dialog. See “Structure Panel” on page 392 or
drawn in CAD Details. See “CAD “Structure Panel” on page 801.
Details” on page 333.
Mixing Manual and Automatic
• Wall Bridging can only be drawn in a
Wall Detail window. See “In Wall Detail Framing
Views” on page 864. Floor and ceiling platforms can be can be
framed with a combination of manually-
Rebuilding and Retaining drawn and automatically generated joists.
Framing Similarly, roof planes can be framed with a
combination of manually drawn and
It is important to remember that by default, automatic rafters.
framing does not update automatically when
changes are made to the model. For example, If you plan to use this approach, bear in mind
if a door is moved or resized, wall framing that automatically generated joists and rafters
must be rebuilt. If the footprint is enlarged, will not be created in the same location as an
the wall framing and any roof or platform existing, manually drawn joist or rafter; but,
framing that is affected must be rebuilt. they will not necessarily use the same layout.
For consistent layout, consider using a
You can direct the program to rebuild the
automatic framing of floors/ceilings, walls Framing Reference Marker . S e e
and/or roofs every time a change to the “Framing Reference Markers” on page 858.
model affects one of these components. To Manually drawn floor, ceiling, and roof
do this, select the Automatic checkbox on framing is unaffected when automatic
the FLOOR, WALL, and/or ROOF panels of the framing is rebuilt and remains along with the
Build Framing dialog. newly produced automatic framing. In
You can also rebuild the framing of a single contrast, manually drawn wall framing is
wall, roof plane, or ceiling plane by clicking deleted when automatic framing is rebuilt.
You can, however, prevent this from
the Build Framing for Selected Object happening by checking Retain Wall
edit button.
Framing in the Wall Specification dialog.
To learn more, see “Keeping Framing
Current” on page 867.

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