Adding a Wall

You can add a wall that is entirely internal or external to the building or is both inside and outside the building. To create walls, you can use closed horizontal sketches, open horizontal sketches, closed vertical sketches, sketch output features, or sketch output profiles. You can also use bodies, surfaces, volumes, or horizontal wireframes as inputs.

See Also
Activating a Story
  1. To create a wall that is either inside or partially inside the building, activate the story where you want to locate the wall.
  2. To create an external wall that is disassociated with the building, in the tree, activate Shell and Core.
  3. To sketch the wall:
    1. From the Building section of the action bar, click Positioned Sketch .

      Note: You can create a sketch using Sketcher.

    2. In the 3D area, sketch the wall.
    3. In the Sketcher app, in the Sketch section of the action bar, click Exit App .

      Note: The system converts each line or arc segment into a separate wall.

  4. From the Building section of the action bar, click Wall .
  5. In the 3D area, click the closed horizontal sketch of the wall.

    Alternatively, you can select one of the following objects as an input.

    • Body
    • Open Horizontal Sketch
    • Closed Vertical Sketch
    • Sketch Output Feature
    • Sketch Output Profile
    • Surface
    • Volume
    • Horizontal Wireframe

  6. To automatically make any necessary trim to the wall, in the Wall dialog box, from Added , click one the following:
    OptionDescription
    Added to create the wall both inside and outside the building.
    Interior to create the wall only inside the building.
    Exterior to create the wall only outside the building.

    Based on your selection and the location of the wall sketch, the system trims the final wall as necessary to accommodate the building mass. For example, if the wall sketch is half inside and half outside the building and you select Exterior, the system trims half the wall to make the wall exterior to the building.

  7. To determine the wall direction, from Side 1 , click one of the following:
    OptionDescription
    Side 1 to begin the wall thickness on one side of the sketch.


    		 Side 2 to begin the wall thickness on the other side of the sketch.


    		 Both to center the wall thickness on the sketch. For example, for a wall thickness of 3000mm, the thickness is 1500mm on each side of the sketch.

    Note: The Side 1 option list only appears for spaces you create from a sketch, a rectangle profile, or from an imported Space Requirements spreadsheet. The list is not included for extracted walls.

  8. From the 3D area:
    1. Drag the Height handle to the desired wall height.

      Alternatively, enter the height in the height value box. The default value is the story height for the building.

    2. Drag the width handle to the desired wall thickness.

      Alternatively, enter the width in the width value box.

  9. In the dialog box, click .