Creating a Standard Sill

You can create a sill of a standard section to connect a wall to the floor.


Before you begin: Open an accommodation system containing walls and coverings.
See Also
Creating a Wall
  1. From the Authoring section of the action bar, click Standard Sill .
  2. From the Category list, select a sill category.

    If no project dictionary is set in Data Setup, only the default category is available.

  3. In the Name box, enter a name for the sill object or keep the system-generated name.
  4. Under Wall Edge Expander,
    1. Under the Wall column, select a wall.
      The edges of the wall are highlighted in the 3D area and a new row is added to select another wall. In this way, you can create sills on several walls in one go.
    2. Under the Edges column, select the edges that are to be connected using the sill.
  5. Optional: In the Start Offset and End Offset boxes, specify the offset for sill limits from the start and end extremities.

    You can also apply the offsets using the handles on the sill curve in the 3D area.

  6. Optional: Select the Consider cutouts check box to take into account the cutouts available on the selected wall edges.
  7. Under the Parameters area, specify the values for various parameters of the sill as shown in the reference image.
    1. Select the Use sill height (H Value) check box to use the sill height parameter, and specify its value in the H box.
    2. Specify the values for other parameters.

      You can click:

      • Copy to Right : to copy values of the left-hand boxes to the right-hand boxes.
      • Copy to Left : to copy values of the right-hand boxes to the left-hand boxes
      • Swap : to swap the values between the left-hand and right-hand boxes.

  8. From the Material list, select a material for the sill.
    The material list is retrieved from the material table assigned in Data Setup. If no material table is set in Data Setup, you can click More... to search and select the material from database.

    A color mask is available in the material list. It indicates the color computed by the Color ID business rule for the current feature.

  9. Click OK.
    The sill is created.

  10. To edit the sill, select the sill feature in the 3D area or in the tree, and click Edit Standard Sill on the context toolbar.