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Keeping Framing Current

Roof and Floor Trusses Deleting Framing
Roof and floor trusses cannot be edited like Individual and group-selected framing
regular framing members can and are members can be deleted the way other
discussed in their own chapter. See “Editing objects in the program are. See “Deleting
Truss Envelopes” on page 881. Objects” on page 283.
Categories of framing, such as wall framing
or floor and ceiling framing, can also be
deleted in the Delete Objects dialog. See
“Delete Objects Dialog” on page 283.

Keeping Framing Current

When you modify your plan, move walls, • Select an Automatic check box to build
raise or lower platforms or redesign the roof, automatic framing every time a change is
any framing present in the plan will not made to that structural component in the
update to reflect your changes. In order for plan. For example, check Automatic
the framing to be updated, you must Wall Framing on the WALL panel to
regenerate automatically produced framing rebuild all wall framing any time a wall is
and either edit or delete and replace manual affected by changes to the model.
framing.
When floor, ceiling or roof framing is
For this reason, it is recommended that you regenerated, all automatically produced
wait until your model is finished, or nearly framing objects and any copies of them are
finished, before creating framing. See deleted and new framing is calculated. See
“Drawing a Plan” on page 46. “Rebuilding and Retaining Framing” on page
839.
Automatic Framing
Manual Framing
Automatically-generated framing can be
rebuilt using either of two checkboxes in the It is vital to remember that manually drawn
Build Framing dialog: framing objects and copies of them are not
• Select a Build check box to build auto- retained when automatic framing is rebuilt.
matic framing once. For example, check If a plan is not final, therefore, do not spend a
Build Wall Framing on the WALL panel lot of time altering or copying automatically
to build wall framing once based on the produced framing objects. It is best to wait
current state of the model. If the model is until your design is final before doing
changed later, you may need to do this manual framing work.
again.

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