The Orientation fields on the form enable the orientation of a single or compound fitting relative to its owning panel, or a sub-compound fitting relative to its owning compound fitting.
Sub-Fitting Direction (‘Z’) specifies the direction of the Z-axis of the fitting.
Rotation Angle (‘Z’ axis) specifies the angle of rotation of the fitting about its Z-axis (its beta angle).
Modifying a Wall Fitting
With the floor fitting (PFIT element) to be modified set as the CE, selecting
Modify>Floor Fitting… from the main menu displays the Floor Fittings form. This is the same form used to create the floor fitting, however, the pull-down at the top left of the form is set to Modify CE.
Any required changes can be made via this form, including re-selection of the fitting.
This is achieved by clicking on an entry in the Current Selection pane, which
effectively de-selects the entries from that level and below. Re-selection can then be made by clicking the required item in the lower pane
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Exercise 4
In this exercise you will complete the basic building design by inserting some doors and windows into the walls which you have created so far. They will be positioned as follows:
1. Navigate to (Wall 5–6) and select Create>Wall Fitting>Standard… from the main men to display the Wall Fittings form.
Select Standard Door form the Specification pull-down
From the Door Type list, click on “ANY” Doors for any wall (this is the only option at this stage). Notice how this selection is copied to the Current Selection list, while the lower list now shows four Sub Type options.
Select External Escape Door.
Now select in turn:
• “EE-D” Double Door
• “EE-DOO-NS” Opening outwards (no step)
• “1710” 1710mm Wide
• 2045 EE-DOO-NS/1710x2045
Note that the lower list title now says Selection complete and that this list is now empty.
The Current Selection list shows the fully-specified door:
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2. Before you create the door, you will specify its position both along the wall and within the wall thickness. The door will be positioned at the mid-point of the wall.
In the Positioning area of the form, click the Explicit button and set the Positioning Control to Element/ Mid-Point and pick (Wall 5–6).
The Dist along wall setting displays 15000 (always measured from the wall start) and the Elevation 0.0.
The wrt field shows the datum from which this elevation is referenced, in this case the wall which will own the fitting. Note how the Inside/Outside of Wall labels in the 3D View have moved to the current position.
Set the Dist offset from option to Outside of Wall and leave the offset at the default of 0.0. This positions the fitting flush with the outer face of the wall; you will adjust this to inset the door into the wall in the next operation.
Click the Properties button to display the Modify Properties form which lets you set those parameters which do not have fixed values in the catalogue definition.
Set Inset from wall face to 50 (this adjusts the position within the wall
thickness) and set Open Angle to 45 (this defines how the door will be shown open in the 3D View). Click OK on the Modify Properties form, then Apply on the Wall Fittings form to create the door.
3. Navigate to the North/South internal wall and re-select Create Standard on the Wall Fittings form to reset the form for the next door.
Insert a standard single door in the centre of this wall (internal door 1 in the diagram above). Remember that the face of the wall from which this door is to open is the inside face so the full specification will be:
• Door Type – Doors for any wall
• SubType – Internal Standard Door
• Single/Double – Single Door
• Inwards/Outwards –Left hinged, opening outwards, (no step)
• Width – 900mm Wide
• Height – IS-SLO-NS/900x2045
Note: The Positioning: Dist offset from option should be set to Inside of wall and the inward/outward opening is therefore defined relative to the inside face;
that is, you must select an outward opening door to make it open towards the inside face of the wall. The concepts of inside and outside applied to an internal wall simply refer to the catalogue profile definitions as viewed in the wall start to end direction.
4. Insert another standard single door, this time at the centre of the internal wall running East/West (internal door 2 in the diagram above).
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5. Navigate to (Wall 5–6) again and insert a window approximately midway between the double door and Vertex 6.
On the Wall Fittings form change Specification Data to Standard Window, select any type of opening window you like and set Dist offset from to Outside of Wall.
To pick the position, click the Explicit button, set the Positioning Control to Element/Fraction, and enter 4 in the text-box next to the Fraction option. This means that the fitting will be position at the nearest quarter subdivision of the wall length. Pick the position on the wall close to the required window position.
Enter the Elevation as 2000, so that the lower edge of the window frame (one end of which is defined as its origin in the catalogue) is halfway up the wall.
Check the appearance of the window in the 3D View and use the Modify CE option on the Wall Fittings form if you want to change it in any way.
6. Insert the next window in (Wall 6–1), midway between Vertex 1 and the end of the internal wall.
7. To complete Level 01, insert a window midway along (Wall 3–4), plus other windows elsewhere if you want to experiment with the positioning options.
Your design should look like this:
8. Save work.