Context Toolbars

Context toolbars are smart toolbars that contain only those commands that can be applied to the current selection.

This page discusses:

General
Editing
Slabs, Walls, and Stories
Grid Labels
Catalog Beam Pattern, Bar Joist Pattern, and Cast Beam Pattern
Other Commands

General


	Activate Component Activates the selected component for editing.
	Show Shows the selected item.
	Hide Click to hide the selected item.

Editing


	Edit Feature Opens the relevant dialog box for editing the feature.
	Multiple Edit Opens the relevant member or footing dialog box, where you can edit the two or more selected element. See Editing Members and Footings.
	Edit Pile Feature Opens the Pile Feature dialog box, where you can edit the selected pile or piles. See Editing Individual Piles.

Slabs, Walls, and Stories


	Slab Thickness Provides access to thickness value box for specifying slab thickness for selected slabs.
	Wall Thickness Provides a handle and a value box to specify the wall thickness for the selected walls.
	Add Structure Walls Converts the selected walls into structure walls.
	Story Height Provides access to a story height handle and value box to change the story height for the selected story. See Changing Story Height.
	Insert Story Above Inserts a new story above the selected story. See Adding a Story Above.
	Insert Story Below Inserts a new story below a selected story. See Adding a Story Below.
	Insert Foundation Story Inserts a foundation story below the lowest story in the building. See Adding the Foundation.

Grid Labels


	Building Grid Labels In the 3D area, opens a grid label box, where you can enter a grid label. Also opens the Structure Grid Labels dialog box that reflects your gridline selections and allows you to complete the Structure Grid Labels command.
	Grid Label Popup On Turns on the Pop-up Grid Label feature that displays a pop-up grid label when hovering the pointer over a gridline. During column creation, whenever you hover over a vertical grid segment, the system displays the grid labels for the intersecting gridlines.
	Grid Label Popup Off Turns off the Pop-up Grid Label feature.
	Label Text Angle Displays a handle and callout that can be used to edit the text angle of the selected grid label.
	Reset Label Resets the selected grid label to default state.
	Hide Label Hides the selected grid label.
	Show All Labels Displays all hidden grid labels.

Catalog Beam Pattern, Bar Joist Pattern, and Cast Beam Pattern


	Dissolve Pattern Feature Dissolves the pattern feature into individual member features.

Other Commands


	Copy to Story Copies selected spaces, walls, or slabs from a non-active story to a specified location on an active story.
	Define In Work Object Sets the selected object as the in-work object.
	Wall Thickness Provides a handle and a value box to specify the wall thickness for the selected walls.
	Space Properties Opens the Space Properties dialog box.
	Extract Wall Converts walls from space features into wall features. In the 3D area, select multiple walls then select the Join walls when possible check box to convert connected walls into a single extracted wall.
	Replace Missing Walls Replaces missing or deleted walls from a mass or space.