Inserting a Building Component

You can insert a building component in your building project.

Before you begin: Open a building project containing a surface to host the components.
  1. From the Building section of the action bar, click Position Component .
  2. Click Select Component and select a component from the list.

    To see the component listing, expand the component type node.

    Tip: To re-import and update the list of components, Ctrl + select a component in the Insert Component list.

  3. Select a building face or a surface.

    Note: To insert a component on a specific story, double-click the story in the tree.

  4. To restrict the placement of a wall hosted component to the specified sill height above the story, select the Lock Sill Height check box.

    Note: You can click Sill Reference and select a horizontal plane or a building surface as the reference elevation for the sill height.

  5. Drag the component to a position and click to insert.
  6. To exit the edit mode for the last position component and to insert another component, click Insert Component .

    Note: To place a different component, you can also select a different component from the list of recently placed components.

  7. To insert copies of the component with same parameter values without pausing to edit each component, click Repeat Insert .

    Note: You need to click the command again to deactivate it.

  8. To modify the dimensions of the last inserted component, click Edit Component .
  9. Align the component with a surface.
    • To rotate a floor-hosted component by 90 degrees in counterclockwise direction, click Snap Rotate . If you move the component near a surface, it will align the component to that surface.
      Tip: You can also press the down arrow to rotate the component and align it to the surface.
    • To rotate a floor-hosted component by 90 degrees in clockwise direction, click Snap Rotate . If you move the component near a surface, it will align the component to that surface.
      Tip: You can also press the up arrow to rotate the component and align it to the surface.
  10. Click Sizing and specify the sizing values for the selected building component.
  11. To search and select a component from a Collaborative Space, click Search Component , select the component, and double-click to place it.

    Notes:
    • When you click Search Component, it searches for the components in a collaborative space named CCT Components Library, if it exists. To avoid unwanted matches with duplicates of components already inserted in buildings, create a collaborative space named CCT Components Library.
    • Use Import Building Components command to import the building components into CCT Components Library.
    • You can also search the components from the general search box. In this case, all the collaborative spaces accessible to you are searched.
    • You can refine the search results using 6W tags, bookmarks, and stored queries.

  12. To move the existing building components to a different parent product, perform the following steps:

    1. Ctrl + select the components that are to be moved to a different parent product.
    2. Click Multi-edit, and then click Parent Product .
    3. Select a node in the tree for the parent product.
      Note: You can also create a new node in the tree for the parent product.
    Note: In the tree, the added windows and doors on a mass are listed in Shell and Core, whereas elements confined to a specific story such as a door in a conference room or a furniture in a lobby are listed in the story on which they are placed.

  13. To place the wall components from top view, perform the following steps:

    1. From the Standard section of the action bar, click View Selector , and select top view.
    2. Select the edge of the wall to place the wall components at sill height.
    3. To place the same component on a different wall face, remove the selected wall face from the selection list and choose a different wall face without exiting the command.

  14. Click OK .