To Define a Building and its Floors
The below steps illustrates a task of defining floors of desired elevations for a building in Structural discipline.
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From Floor Selector, select
(Floor Manager).
The Floor Manager dialog appears. It is populated with a default building template. You can modify this building or create a new one.
- Rename the site from Site 1 to Structural and the default building name to Structural Building.
- The new building you are about to design is to have a single floor and two roof levels. So, rename the three default floors accordingly:
- Alter the Floor-to-Floor values, by entering:
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Select the Ground floor definition, and click in its
Discipline property (right panel) field.
A drop-down appears listing the OpenBuildings Designer disciplines.
- Select the Structural discipline.
- Repeat steps 5 and 6 for the other two floors. When done, click Save.