OpenBuildings™ Station Designer Help

Structural Preferences

Used to complete settings and set preferences for Structural Snaps and AccuSnap Hints. By default, Structural snaps are always on in Structural discipline. Any tentative point near a Structural member will snap to a Structural snap point. Any command set up to locate Structural elements simply by moving the cursor over the elements will locate members at the Structural snap points.

The snaps are enabled when the (Structural Snaps) tool is activated and the tool icon turns highlighted. Toggling Structural Snaps activates the setting and clicking it again deactivates the setting.



SettingDescription
Name for Preferences Displays the preferences currently being used. Key in a unique name in this field to save custom settings.
Set Structural Snaps Preferences
  • Enable Structural keypoint snaps — When on, enables automatic snapping to structural members. You will see the Structural discipline Structural snap icon rather than the default snap icon.


    Enable Structural keypoint snaps is turned on. Note the Structural snap icon.

  • Apply Global Offset — When on, enables the shifting of the Structural Snap point by the values specified in the X, Y, and Z values.
    • X – Shifts the Structural Snap X-axis point by this value.
    • Y – Shifts the Structural Snap Y-axis point by this value.
    • Z – Shifts the Structural Snap Z-axis point by this value.
STRSNAPTENTATIVE < ENABLE | DISABLE | TOGGLE >
STFACCUSNAP < ENABLE | DISABLE | TOGGLE >
Note: If you want to use the Cope to Member Connected By AccuSnap setting, the Enable Structural keypoint snaps switch must be turned on.
Tip: See more on keyed-in Structural Snap modifiers.
Hints The settings in the display section enables viewing of Structural Hints as part of the Structural Snaps display.


Structural hints and hint labels are turned on. Each item displayed (Family, Part, and so forth) is turned on in the Preferences dialog.



Structural hints are turned off. The default pop-up info appears.

  • Display Structural Hints — When on, Structural Hints appear when the pointer is placed over a Structural member.
    • Position – When on, enables the display of the Position associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • Family Name – When on, enables the display of the Family Name associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • Part Name – When on, enables the display of the Part Name associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • Section Name – When on, enables the display of the Section Name associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • Placement Point – When on, enables the display of the Placement Point associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • Rotation – When on, enables the display of the Rotation associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • Grade – When on, enables the display of the Grade associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • Status – When on, enables the display of the Status associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • Class – When on, enables the display of the Class associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • Mark – When on, enables the display of the Mark associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • Type – When on, enables the display of the Type associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • Material – When on, enables the display of the Material associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • User1 – When on, enables the display of User1 data associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • User2 – When on, enables the display of User2 data associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • User3 – When on, enables the display of User3 data associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • User4 – When on, enables the display of User4 data associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • End Action 1 – When on, enables the display of End Action 1 data associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • End Action 2 – When on, enables the display of End Action 2 data associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • End Detail 1 – When on, enables the display of End Detail 1 data associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • End Detail 2 – When on, enables the display of End Detail 2 data associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • X Position – When on, enables the display of X-axis position data associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • Y Position – When on, enables the display of Y-axis position data associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
    • Z Position – When on, enables the display of Z-axis position data associated with members in AccuSnap Hints
  • Display hint labels — When on, the labels associated with hints in the Building Structural Preferences tab appear next to the selected hints.
Focus Item Description A short description of the item where the pointer's focus is locate appears in this region.
Dialog controls

These dialog controls are common to all preferences tabs.

  • Defaults — Applies settings as defined in the default preferences.
  • OK — Closes the dialog, implementing your changes on all tabs.
  • Cancel — Dismisses the dialog without saving changes on any tab.