OpenBuildings™ Station Designer Help

Match Form Properties

Changes the thickness, direction, and/or top shape of a selected form to match another form.

Accessed from:


  • Ribbon: Building Design > [Discipline] > Common Tools > Attributes split button > Match Properties
  • Ribbon: Building Design > [Varies] > Common Tools > Attributes split button > Match Properties
  • Ribbon: Modeling > Forms > Common Tools > Attributes split button > Match Properties
  • Ribbon: Modeling > Forms > Modify Forms > Match Properties


SettingDescription
Match Controls which aspect of the form to match and change:
  • Thickness — The form being changed takes the thickness or width of the selected matching form. The thickness setting can be applied to linear and line string forms only.
  • (Extrusion) Direction — The form being changed takes the height and direction of the selected matching form. The extrusion direction setting cannot be applied to slab forms.
  • Top — The form being changed is extended so that the top matches the top shape of the selected matching form. The top setting cannot be applied to slab forms.
Key-in: TFMATCH FORM
If the first form has a uniform height, the second form will be modified to the same height. If the first form has one top face that is not parallel with its bottom face, the top face of the second form will be located in the same plane as the first form.

Note: If the first form has more than one top face, the second form is extruded against the same shapes that defined the first form top.

To match a form thickness to another form’s
To match a form’s extrusion direction to another form’s
To match a form’s top to another form’s
Parent topic: Modify Forms