About Creating a Mass

To create a building, you create one or more masses.

Whether you use a single mass or create several masses merged together to create a building, the mass provides a container for space. A mass contains the exterior walls, the stories, and the slabs for each story.

You use one or more masses for both renovation projects and new building construction.

While you create the first mass for a building, you set the:

  • Number of stories in the building.
  • Default value for the slab thickness.
  • Default value for story height.
  • Remove or add walls to the building.
You can later make changes at a story level with commands from the context toolbar. From the context toolbar, use:
  • Insert Story Above to add a story above a selected story.
  • Insert Story Below to add a story below the ground story.
  • Story Height to change the height of the selected story.
  • Slab Thickness to change the slab thickness for the selected story.