Holding down the right mouse button will allow you to orbit around the drawing to give yourself a better view. Section three on the lower half of the dialog box is where you specify your components to be used for framing. Here you will see two tabs, one labeled “Walls,” which is a global setting for all walls you have selected. The other tab is for “Current Wall.” Figure 8: Specifying Studs and Blocking
This tab allows you to define specific rules that will apply to one wall selected.
Applying your settings
Section one in the dialog box allows you look at the geometry of the selected walls. As you can see in Figure 6, the Geometry section shows a unique name that identifies the selected wall. All other values are grayed out in the lower section of the dialog box. The grayed out values are the geometric properties of the wall. If you need to make any changes to the geometry of the wall, you need to exit out of the Wood Framing Walls dialog box to make your changes to the walls in the model. Once the geometry is changed,
Figure 5: Geometry
Figure 9: External Framing
Figure 6: Geometry of selected wall
Figure 7: Studs and Blocking
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Figure 12: Specifications for bottom plate Figure 10: Specifications for Left and Right Stud
Figure 11: Specifications for top plate
Figure 13: T-connections
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