Test the structural opening

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Let's begin by taking a look at our column

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on the structure ribbon. Go ahead and select structural column

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on the context ribbon.

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Let's select load family.

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We'll locate our column capital

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and then click open.

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If we now look at the options bar,

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we can see here that we're going to place the column from level one

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up to a height of level two.

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And also notice on the context ribbon here that we are placing a vertical column

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in the properties pad. Of course, we are now placing our, our cod capital

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and then in the projects, we can just place two of these down in arbitrary positions.

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Once we've placed out two columns,

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we can either press escape or select the modifier button to release the command.

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What I'd like to do first is check that it's

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going to increase in heat when I change the levels.

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So I've just rotated the model round and I can now see my levels here

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and we'll see that level two is presently set to 10 ft.

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I'll select level two

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and on the graphics window here, I'm going to change the value from 10 ft to 15 ft

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and of course, here we can now see that those columns have increased in height.

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Let's also change the capital size

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to do this. We'll select one of the columns

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in the properties pallet, we'll select edit type

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and here under dimensions,

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you can see that we have three parameters

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that we created to control the capital width,

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depth and height.

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So here I'm going to change these from 3 ft to 4 ft

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and I'll leave the depth at 2 ft

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and I'll click apply

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and I can now see that both of those columns have in fact updated.

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Let's now see how these columns are going to appear in a plain view.

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I'm going to begin by looking at the level two plan

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in the project browser, double click on level two.

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Now,

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I can see in the level two plan that I

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can display the walls but my columns are not showing.

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So there's a problem here.

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Let's edit the family and see if we can fix this problem.

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So I'm going to switch back into the 3d view.

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I'll select my column

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and on the context ribbon, I'll go ahead and select edit family.

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You may remember here that we joined the column and the capital together.

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So what I'm gonna do now is actually uno

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both of these elements.

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So I'm going to do this by selecting the modifier ribbon

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and then go into the pull down menu by join

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and selecting uno

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I can now select the element

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and you can now see the column and the capital are now separate entities.

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I'll go ahead here and select, modify,

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I'll select the 3d column.

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And what I'm gonna do now is change the shape handle

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and drag that down until it hits the bottom of the capital.

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Now, of course, you may remember that when we built this family,

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we constrained the top of the column to the top of the capital.

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So here I'm just going to remove the constraint

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and then lock this constraint here so that the

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column base sits at the bottom of the capital.

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Now I'm not gonna join these together. These now are separate solids.

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So now if I select the column at the bottom here

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and I come up to visibility settings,

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you can see here that this will not show in plain.

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But in fact, I do want this to show in plain view.

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So I'll make sure that that's switched on

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and then I'll select the capital itself

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going on the context ribbon, I'll select visibility settings

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and here you'll notice that this isn't going to show in the plan,

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which is what we want.

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So let's now test this so we can save the family

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will replace the fine on disc.

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And here on the context ribbon, I'll load into projects and close.

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In this case here, I will overwrite the existing version.

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And then we go back to our level two plan

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and notice here that we can now see our column as expected. In plain

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notice, we're not seeing the capital,

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we're just seeing the main footprint of the column.

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So you can see from this example that testing families is a very iterative process.

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You seamlessly go from project to the family

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and back into the project and keep testing.

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So now that we've tested our structural column,

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we'll go ahead and test our structural opening.

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Now, I'd like to start by placing this out in a 3D view.

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So we'll open up the 3D view again.

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We'll now go to the structure ribbon

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and here we'll load this in by selecting components

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by default on our cursor. You can see that we have a rectangular footing,

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but notice on the context ribbon, of course, we can load a new family

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here. We'll select our structural opening

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and then click open

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up on the context ribbon.

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You'll notice that the default function is the place on face.

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And of course, you'll notice that we can pick any face we like in the project,

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even our columns.

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So I'm just going to place down a couple of these openings at random.

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And we'll also put some openings on the wall

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and we'll do that on both flanks of the wall.

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And just to show you that we can do this,

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we'd also place this in the structural column as well.

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So let's now have a look at these in plain

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in the project browser under the structural plans folder. Let's open up level one.

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And as we zoom in here,

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we can see that we have the graphics currently being displayed to show a recess.

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What I'd like to do is click on this structural

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opening here and you'll notice that we have shape handles.

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That's because we set this up with instant parameters.

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If we take a look into our properties, pallet,

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you'll notice in the instance properties I can type in some dimensions for this.

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So for example, here, we might want to increase this from 2 ft to 3 ft in here.

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And of course,

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you can see the size is updated or I could just

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use the interactive shape handles here to resize my structural opening.

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Now, also you will note here that we have a check box by pocket.

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In fact, here, this might be a penetration right through the slab.

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So I'm going to take the pocket option off and

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you'll now notice it's showing me the full graphics.

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Then here I can change the depth and this is going to go down to 12 inches.

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If we open up the 3D view,

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we can now see that we have a partial recess or reboot in the slab here

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and we have our full opening here.

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I'm going to delete the structural opening out of the column,

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but just to show you that the graphics

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will also display for these elevations as well.

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If I open up the south elevation.

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Again, you can see here that we have those penetrations through the wall.

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And once again, here,

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if I wanted to show the graphics being in full penetrations rather than rebates,

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I could select them both and then remove the check from pocket.

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And you can now see we're displaying the full penetration.

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And again, here, I could change the depth

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to perhaps 12 inches. So this goes all the way through the wall.

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Again,

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if we open up the 3D view and we can now see

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that those are in fact going all the way through the wall.